DEWAS Jnr (Princely State)

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AREA: 1,085 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 180,000R  ACCESSION: 15th June 1948
STATE: Madhya Pradesh  DYNASTY: Puar RELIGION: Hindu 
POPULATION: 68,222 (1892)    
     
Present Ruler:  Vacant since 1965
   
Predecessors and Short History: Founded in 1728. Rulers were....
  1. Raja JIVAJIRAO PUAR 1728/1774, died 15th August 1774.

  2. Raja SADASHIVRAO I PUAR 1774/1790, died 2nd December 1790.

  3. Raja RUKMANGADRAO PUAR 1790/1817

  4. Raja ANANDRAO PUAR 1817/1840

  5. Raja HAIBATRAO PUAR 1840/1864

  6. HH Raja NARAYANRAO DADA SAHEB PUAR 1864/1892, born 20th December 1860, succeeded 8th August 1864 (#1), educated at Daly College, Indore. He died 19th January 1892.

  7. HH Maharaja Sir MALHARRAO BABA SAHEB PUAR 1892/1934, Maharaja [cr.1918], K.C.S.I. [cr.1917], born 1877, married (unequally) and had issue. He died 4th February 1934.
    • Maharajkumar Martand Rao Puar, died 1951 in Darjeeling.
    • Maharajkumari Shashiprabha (Wallia)

  8. HH Maharaja SADASHIVRAO II KHASE SAHEB PUAR 1934/1943, born 1887, died 2nd December 1943

  9. HH Maharaja Sir YESHWANTRAO BHAU SAHEB PUAR 1943/1965, born 2nd March 1905, married 1942, HH Maharani Menaka Devi of Cooch Behar, and had issue, 2 daughters. He died 1965.
    • Maharajkumari Udaya Raje Puar [Princess Pixie], born 1950, married Raja RUDENDRA BIKRAM SINGH of Payagpur.
    • Maharajkumari Durga Raje Puar
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.117