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DEWAS

(Junior)

The Puar Dynasty

GENEALOGY

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1864 - 1892 H.H. Meherban Shrimant Raja Narayanrao Haibatrao Pawar [Dada Sahib], Raja of Dewas (Junior). b. at Dewas 20^th December 1860, son of H.H. Raja Shrimant Haibatrao [Rao Sahib] Puar, Raja of Dewas (Junior), by his second wife, the sister of Shrimant Sardar Khanderao Dabhade Sahib, Senapati, of Talegaon, educ. the Residency Coll, Indore. Succeeded on the death of his father, 12^th May 1864. Installed on the gadi, at Dewas, 8^th August 1864. Reigned under a Council of Regency until he came of age and was invested with full ruling powers, at Dewas, 1877. Rcvd: Prince of Wales’s gold medal (1876) and KIH gold medal (1877). m. (first) at Dewas, before 1883, H.H. Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Rani Yeshodabai Raje Sahib Puar (d. at Dewas, November 1918), daughter of Meherban Shrimant Sardar Amritrao Ghatge, of Rupakhedi, in Dewas, a Sardar of the second class. m. (second) H.H. Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Rani Krishnabai Raje Sahib Puar (b. ca. 1879), a daughter of the Piscal family in the Deccan. m. (third) H.H. Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Rani … bai Raje Sahib Puar. He d.s.p. at Dewas, 19^th January 1892 (succ. by his adopted son).

1892 - 1934 H.H. Meherban Shrimant Maharaja Sir Malharrao Narayanrao Maharaj Pawar [Baba Sahib], Maharaja of Dewas (Junior), KCSI (1.1.1917), KIH gold medal (14.6.1912). b. 10^th August 1877, elder son of Shrimant Jivajirao Haibatrao Maharaj Pawar [Khase Sahib], of Kothi Savasthan, sometime Heir Apparent of Dewas (Junior), educ. Daly Coll, Indore, and with Imperial Cadet Corps, Dehra Dun. Adopted by his paternal uncle, 18^th January 1892 and succeeded him when he died the following day. Installed on the gadi, 22^nd September 1892 and reigned under a Council of Regency until he came of age. Attended the Coronation Durbar at Delhi in 1903. Invested with full ruling powers, 10th August 1913. Granted the hereditary title of Maharaja, 1^st January 1918. Rcvd: Delhi Durbar gold medals (1903 and 1911). m. (first) at Poona, 16^th March 1895, H.H. Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Maharani Mhalsa Bai Maharaje Sahib Pawar (b. ca. 1881; d.s.p. at Dewas, 8^th November 1908), daughter of Meherban Shrimant Sardar Shahajirao Bhonsle, a first class sardar of Sawantwadi State. m. (second) (morganatic) at Dewas, 1912, Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Prabhavati Bai Maharaje Sahib Pawar (b. at Goa, Portuguese India), née Indira Bai, daughter of Krishna Bai Salgaonkar, of Bombay, a Saraswati Brahmin originally from Goa in Portuguese India. He d. at Dewas, from heart failure, 4^th February 1934 having had issue, one son and one daughter by his second wife:

1) Shrimant Maharaj Martandrao Malharrao [Dada Sahib] Bal Raje Puar. b. at Dewas, 19^th February 1919 (excluded from the succession on account of the morganatic nature of his parents' marriage), educ. He was k. in a house fire at Colinton, Darjeeling, 1951.
1) Shrimant Maharajkumari Shashiprabha Raje Sahib Puar [Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Shashiprabha Raje Sahib Walia]. b. at Dewas, 1^st December 1921. m. Sardar Kamaljit Singh Wallia, from Indore. She had issue, one son and two daughters.

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