PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1674. Rulers were....
- Babaji Bhonsle, Patil of Verul, married and had issue. He
died 1597.
- Shrimant Vithoji Bhonsle, Jagirdar of Supa, married and
had issue,
8 sons,
ancestor
of the Patils of Wavi.
- Unknown Generations.
- Shrimant Trimbakji Bhonsle, Patil of Wavi, adopted by
Maharaja
Chhatrapati
RAJARAM
RAO BHONSLE II (see below), married and had issue.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAHUJI RAO BHONSLE II (qv)
- Shrimant Charatsinghraje Bhonsle, born 1773, died
1818.
- Shrimant Bambuji Bhonsle
- Shrimant Maloji Bhonsle, born 1552, Jagirdar of Pune,
Raja
[cr.1595], married
(amongst
others) Rani Saheba Dipa Bai Nimbalkar [Uma Bai], sister of Vanangpal
Jagpalrao
Nimbalkar, Deshmukh of Phaltan, and had issue. He died 1620 at Indapur.
- Raja Saheb Shahaji Bhonsle, born 1594, married (amongst
others) 1605
Rani
Saheba Jijabai Jadhav, born 1594, daughter of Sardar Lakhuji Jadhav of
Sindhkhed, died 1674, and had issue. He died 1664.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI RAO BHONSLE I (qv)
- Shrimant Sambhuji Bhonsle, born 1619 (1623), married
and had
issue. He died 1654
(1653).
- Shrimant Suratsingh Bhonsle
- Shrimant Umaji Bhonsle (adopted son)
- Raja Chhatrapati VENKAJI BHONSLE of Tanjore.
- Shrimant Santaji Bhonsle (natural son)
- Shrimant Pratapji Bhonsle (natural son)
- Shrimant Raibhanji Bhonsle (natural son), died 1709.
- Shrimant Bhivji Bhonsle (natural son)
- Shrimant Sharifji Bhonsle, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Trimbakji Bhonsle, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Vyankaji Bhonsle, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Mankaji Bhonsle, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Shahaji Bhonsle of Khanvatkar, married
and had issue.
- Shrimant Mankaji Bhonsle
- Shrimant Sambhaji Bhonsle, married and had
issue.
- Shrimant Ramchandrarao Bhonsle, married and
had issue.
- Shrimant Narayanrao Bhonsle, married and
had issue.
- Shrimant Dinkarrao Bhonsle, married and
had issue.
- Shrimant Narayanrao Bhonsle,
succeeded as Raja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI V BHONSLE of Kolhapur.
- Shrimant Piraaji Bhonsle
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI RAO BHONSLE I 1674/1680, born
19th
February
1627 in Shivneri near Pune, Jagirdar of Pune and Supa, married (amongst
others), Maharani Sai Bai, sister of Naik BAJAJI I NIMBALKAR of Phaltan,
died 6th June 1674, and had issue. He died 5th April 1680 in Rajgarh.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati RAJARAM RAO BHONSLE I (qv)
- Shrimant Sakhu Bai, married Mahadji Nimbalkar, son of
Naik BAJAJIRAO
NIMBALKAR
of Phaltan.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAMBHUJI RAO BHONSLE I (qv)
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAMBHUJI RAO BHONSLE I 1680/1689,
born 4th May
1657,
married and had issue. He died 11th March 1689.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAHUJI RAO BHONSLE I (qv)
- Shrimant Madhosinghraje Bhonsle (natural son)
- Shrimant Madansinghraje Bhonsle (natural son)
- Maharaja Chhatrapati RAJARAM RAO BHONSLE I 1689/1700, born
24th
February
1670, married (amongst others), 1stly 1679, Maharani Shrimant Janka Bai
Raje Saheb, married 2ndly, 1683 Maharani Shrimant Tara Bai Raje Saheb,
born 1675, daughter of Hansaji Mohite [Hambir Rao], died 9th December
1761,
married 3rdly, Maharani Shrimant Rajas Bai Raje Saheb, married 4thly,
Maharani
Shrimant Ambika Bai Raje Saheb, and had issue. He died 3rd March 1700.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI RAO BHONSLE II (by Tarabai)
(qv)
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAMBHUJI RAO BHONSLE II (by
Rajasbai) (qv)
- Shrimant Karansinghraje Bhonsle, died 24th March 1700.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI RAO BHONSLE II 1700/1714, born
9th June
1696,
married and had issue. He died 14th March 1726.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati RAJARAM RAO BHONSLE II (qv)
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAMBHUJI RAO BHONSLE II 1714/1731,
born 1698, 1st
Chhatrapati of Kolhapur, married
(amongst
others) Jiji Bai, died 1772, and had issue. He died 1760.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAHUJI RAO BHONSLE I 1731/1749, born
December
1680,
died spl 15th December 1749.
- Shrimant Yesajiraje Bhonsle (natural son), married nad
had issue.
- Shrimant Balgopaljiraje Bhonsle of Shirol.
- Shrimant Kusajiraje Bhonsle (natural son)
- Maharaja Chhatrapati RAJARAM RAO BHONSLE II 1749/1777, born
June 1726,
died 1777.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAHUJI RAO BHONSLE II 1777/1808, born
1763 as
Vithoji
Bhonsle, son of Trimbakji Bhonsle, Patil of Wavi, married and had
issue.
He died 3rd May 1808.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati PRATAPSINHA RAO BHONSLE (qv)
- Shrimant Ramchandra [alias Bhausaheb] Bhonsle, born 1795.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAHUJI RAO BHONSLE III (qv)
- Maharaja Chhatrapati PRATAPSINHA RAO BHONSLE 1808/1839,
born 1793, died sp
1847.
- Maharaja Chhatrapati SHAHUJI RAO [alias Appa Saheb] BHONSLE
III
1839/1848,
born 1802, married 16 wives, leaving issue, two daughters and six sons
by concubines. He died 5th April 1848 [?October 1855].
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- Chhatrapati Shrimant SHAHUMAHARAJ BHONSLE, born 28th
October
1918, in the 11th
generation descended from Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI RAO BHONSLE I,
married
7th May 1939 in Dhar, Rani Urmila Devi [Sumitraraje] of Dhar,
and had issue.
- Chhatrapati Shrimant PRATAPSINHRAJE SHAHUMAHARAJ BHONSLE
[Dada Maharaj] (qv)
-
 Shrimant
Abhaysinhraje Shahumaharaj Bhonsle, born 16th May 1944 in Dhar, Madhya
Pradesh; educated at Satara College, Satara, Maharashtra (B.A.); M.L.A.
(Maharashtra) 1978/1980; Minister of State, Home,
Irrigation,
Command Area Development Authority and Agriculture, Maharashtra
1980/1982; Minister of State, Co-operation, Maharashtra 1983/85;
Minister of
State,
General Administration and Public Works, Maharashtra 1985/1986;
Minister
of State, Home and Prisons, Maharashtra 1985/- ; Minister of State,
General
Administration and Public Works Department, Maharashtra 1985/1986;
Cabinet
Minister, Cooperation, Maharashtra 1988/1990; Cabinet Minister, Rural
Development,
Maharashtra 1991/-; Cabinet Minister, Cooperation, Maharashtra
1993/1995; Member of 12th Lok Sabha 1998/-; Member, Committee on Food,
Civil
Supplies
and Public Distribution and its Sub-Committee-B on Department of Sugar
and Edible Oils 1998/1999; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Food
and Consumer Affairs; Member of the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research
Society 1998/1999; he married 26th February
1970,
Arunaraje A. Bhonsle, and had issue, one son and one daughter.
He
died
February 2004. ("Suruchi" 118 Shukrawar, Peth, Satara - 415002,
Maharashtra, India)
- Shrimant Shivendraraje Abhaysinhraje Bhonsle, married
Vedantikaraje S. Bhonsle, and has issue, one daughter and one son.
- Runaliraje Bhonsle
- Shrimant Rudranilraje Bhonsle.
- Ojaswitharaje Bhonsle, married to Shrimant Satyajitsinh
Gaekwad of Baroda, former M.P.
(Baroda), and has issue.
- Shrimant Vijaysinh Shahumaharaj Bhonsle, presently
working for British
Telecom, married
1stly, a lady of the Sardar Jadhav family (sister of the Maharani of
Baroda),
married 2ndly, Shrimant Margaret (Raje Bhonsle), and has issue. (London,
UK)
- SON (by 1st wife), married 2003.
- Daughter (by 1st wife)
- Anna Raje Bhonsle (by Margaret)
- Shrimant Shivajirao Shahumaharaj Bhonsle
- Shrimant Satwashilaraje Shahumaharaj Bhonsle, married
Kanwar
Akshob Singh, son of Rajkumar Chandra Bhan Singh of Kashipur, and his wife, Rajkumar Rani
Rashal Manjari Devi, and has issue, one son and two daughters.
- Chhatrapati Shri PRATAPSINHRAJE SHAHUMAHARAJ BHONSLE, born
18th April
1940,
married Shrimant Kalpanaraje Pawar of Surgana,
and had issue. He died 1970's in Jaslok Hospital.
- Chhatrapati Shri UDAYSINHRAJE PRATAPSINHRAJE BHONSLE (qv)
- Chhatrapati Shri UDAYSINHRAJE PRATAPSINHRAJE BHONSLE (see
above)
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