PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A
small estate lying 47 kilometres east of Kolhapur.
- Shrimant NARO MAHADEO JOSHI 1698/1720, adopted by Santaji
Ghorpade
and given the inam of Ichalkaranji. He died 1720
- Shrimant VENKATRAO NARAYANRAO GHORPADE 1720/1745, born
1701, married Shrimant
Anubai Sahiba, daughter of the first Maratha Peshwa,
Balaji Vishwanath
of Poona. He died 1745.
- Shrimant NARAYANRAO VENKATRAO GHORPADE 1745/1770, died 1770.
- Shrimant VENKATRAO NARAYANRAO II GHORPADE 1770/1795
- Shrimant NARAYANRAO [Babasaheb] GHORPADE 1795/1827
- Shrimant VENKATRAO NARAYANRAO III GHORPADE 1827/1838
- Shrimant KESHAVRAO VENKATRAO [Tatyasaheb] GHORPADE 1838/1852
- Shrimant NARAYANRAO GOVINDRAO [Babasaheb] GHORPADE
1852/1864, led the
industrial revolution
in Ichalkaranji, which was considered to be the "Manchester of Western
India". Ichalkaranji became an industrial super state with an income
almost
half as much as that of Kolhapur despite being just 10th its size.
- Shrimant GOVINDRAO [Abasaheb] GHORPADE 1864/1876, Chief of
Ichalkaranji, born 1853, adopted the son of Laxman Joshi (descendant of
Naro
Mahadeo Joshi, early
17th century) in
1876, who assumed the name of Shrimant NARAYANRAO GOVINDRAO
[Babasaheb]
GHORPADE (qv). He died 1876.
- (A) Shrimant NARAYANRAO GOVINDRAO [Babasaheb] GHORPADE
(qv)
- Shrimant NARAYANRAO GOVINDRAO [Babasaheb] GHORPADE
1876/1943, born 1870
in Karkamb, Sholapur District, educated at Rajaram College, Kolhapur
and
Elphinstone and Law Colleges, Bombay, installed 1892, Member of the
Bombay
Legislative Council for 12 years; married in 1885, Shrimant Rani
Gangabai
[Maisaheb], daughter of Mohaniraj Paranjpe of Ahmednagar. They had no
issue
so he adopted his nephew Venkatrao in 1919.
He died 21st October 1943 (#1).
- (A) Shri Laxman Vishnu Joshi M.A. [After adoption he
was known as Yuvaraj Venkatrao
Narayanrao
Ghorpade], nephew and adopted son, Professor of History at Kayastha
Pathshala College in Allahabad 1915/1917, adopted by his uncle in 1919,
Private Secretary to the Chief of Ichalkaranji, married May 1914, Smt.
Soubhagyavati Anubai Vahinisaheb
Ghorpade [née Vimalatai Kanitkar], born 19th October 1900 at
Alibaug, daughter of Shri Govindrao Wasudeo Kanitkar, District Court
Judge at Alibaug, and his wife, Smt Kashitai, she was educated at Yeola
Primary School, Girl's High School at Hujoorpaga, Pune and matriculated
from the Theosophical School in Banares, Member of the Theosophical
Society in Kolhapur, President of the Shree Krishna Theosophical Lodge
in Kolhapur; and had issue, one son and two daughters. He died 1924.
- Shri Keshavrao Venkatrao
Ghorpade, born 1920, died 1929.
- Shrimati Shailajabai
Ghorpade, married Shrimant TRIMBAKRAO BHAWANRAO [APPASAHEB] Pant
Pratinidhi, Chief of Vishalgadh,
and had issue.
- Shrimati Nirmaladevi
Taisaheb Sohoni (née Ghorpade), married Shri Shridhar Vasudeo
Sohoni, M.A., I.C.S., and had issue, two sons.
- Dr. Venkatrao Sohoni, educated at the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, with a degree in electronics
engineering (1963) and at IIT, Mumbai in 1972 with a Ph.D. in
information systems; worked with IBM
World Trade Corporation Mumbai 1963/1970and later with Sandoz India
1971/1985; President and C.E.O. of Wander 1985/1988; President, C.E.O.
and Vice Chairman with Biosys, U.S.A. 1988/1995; Managing Director of
Hindustan Ciba
Geigy / Novartis, Mumbai, India 1996/1999; President and Managing
Director of
Pharmacia India, Gurgaon 1999/2003; Vice President of the Organisation
of Pharmaceutical
Producers of India (O.P.P.I.); Managing Director of Rallis India
2003/-; married Neera Kuckreja
Sohoni, and has issue.
- Shrinivasrao Sohoni
- Shrimant VINAYAK GHORPADE 1943/1944, appointed by the
Maharaja of Kolhapur, he claimed to be a descendant of Naro Mahadeo,
and held the gaddi for a few
months.
INTERREGNUM
1944/1946, after Shrimant Narayanrao Babasaheb Ghorpade passed away in
October 1943, there was a lot of confusion about the succession. A
member of the Kolhapur court was appointed for a short while, but
appeals made by Shrimant Rani Gangabai Maisaheb, the widow of Shrimant
Narayanrao Babasaheb to the Government (all the way to the Privy
Council in London), finally resulted in her getting permission to adopt
the successor. Even after that, there was some confusion because she
wanted to adopt the son of Shrimati Nirmaladevi Taisaheb Sohoni
(daughter of Venkatrao Narayanrao Ghorpade, see above). This was
resisted by Smt. Anubai Vahinisaheb Ghorpade, the widow of Venkatrao
Ghorpade. Eventually, this dispute was resolved and Smt. Gangabai
Maisaheb adopted Govindrao Abasaheb Ghorpade in 1946. (#2)
- Shrimant GOVINDRAO [Abasaheb] GHORPADE (see above)
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