AUNDH

AUNDH (Princely State)

PRESENT RULER: The Chief of Aundh, ranks as a 1st Class Sardar of the Deccan (Pant Niwas, Bhandarkar Road, Deccan Gymkhana, Poona, India)

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Maratha State founded in 1699. Rulers were....

Pratinidhi PARUSHARAM TRIMBAK Shamsher Bahadur, 1st Chief of Aundh 1699/1718, born 1660, he was ranted the title of Pratinidhi in 1697, married and had issue. He died 27th May 1718.

Shrimant Krishnaji Parusharam Trimbak, Chief of Vishalgad, married and had issue.

Meherban Shrimant SHRINAWAS RAO PARUSHARAM [SHRIPAT RAO], 2nd Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1718/1746. He died 25th November 1746.

Meherban Shrimant JAGJIVAN RAO [DADOBHA] PARUSHARAM, 3rd Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1746/1754.

Meherban Shrimant SHRINAWAS RAO GANGADHAR [BHAGWANT RAO], 4th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1754/1776, married and had issue. He died 5th April 1776.

Meherban Shrimant BHAVAN RAO, 5th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1776/1777, married and had issue, an only son. He died 30th August 1777.

Meherban Shrimant PARUSHARAM RAO SHRINAWAS [THOTO PANT], 6th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1777/1848, born 30th August 1777 (on the same day as his father's death), he adopted the title of Pant in 1846, on which occasion he paid a nazar of 25,000Rs to the Raja of Satara, married two wives, from whom he later separated, adopted his successor in 1843. He died sp on 11th June 1848.

Meherban Shrimant Shrimant SHRINIVASRAO PARUSHARAM [ANNA SAHIB], 7th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1848/1901, adopted from Hibarekar family at the age of 10, born 27th November 1833, educated privately, succeeded to the gaddi on 11th June 1848, Member of the Bombay Legislative Council 1866/1868, married 1stly, 1850, Radha Bai, born 1845, daughter of Mutalik, married 2ndly, Thaku Bai, daughter of Narayan Daji Sabnis of Bhushangarh, and had issue, four sons and four daughters. He died 1901.

Meherban Shrimant Parusharam Rao Shrinivas [Dada Sahib] (qv).
Shrimant Gangadhar Rao Shrinivas [Tatya Sahib] Pant, married and had issue, two sons.

Meherban Shrimant PARUSHARAM RAO SHRINIVAS [DADA SAHIB], 8th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1901/1905, born 17th February 1858, Succeeded on the death of his father in 1901, installed on the gaddi 20th February 1902, married and had issue, two sons. He died 1905.

Meherban Shrimant Gopal Krishna Rao Parushuram [Nana Sahib] (qv).
Shrimant Vithal Rao Parushuram [Bhau Sahib], born 1890, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot and New English School, Poona. Disowned by his father and grandfather due to doubt about his legitimacy.

Meherban Shrimant GOPAL KRISHNA RAO PARUSHARAM [NANA SAHIB], 9th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1905/1909, succeeded on the death of his father in 1905, installed on the gaddi 3rd November 1905, temperorily deposed by British Authorities for the investigation of his involvement in a conspiracy to murder his state Karbhari, Mr Jacob Bapuji Israel, deposed permanantly by the British government, in favour of his uncle, 4th November 1909.

HH Meherban Shrimant Raja BHAVAN RAO SHRINIVAS [BALA SAHIB], 10th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1909/1951, born 24th October 1868, educated at Satara High School and Deccan College, Poona (B.A.); Chief Secretary 1896/1901, C.B.E. [cr.1946], married 1stly, Rani Amba Bai Sahib, married 2ndly, 1906, (name unknown), born 1890, died 1915, married 3rdly, 1913, Shrimati Soubhagyavati Rani Rama Bai Sahib [Mai Sahib] of the Rode family, born 1898, and had issue, seven sons and seven daughters. He died 13th April 1951 ^{( #1 )}.

Shrimant Trimbakrao Pant [Raje Sahib] B.A., LL.B., born 1888, married and had issue, 3 children. He died 1923.

Parshuram Rao Pant [Appa Sahib], Padma Shri 1954, born 11th September 1912, educated at University of Bombay (BA) and Oxford University (MA); Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn; Education Minister and Prime Minister of Aundh State 1944/48; Member of AICC 1948; Commissioner for the Government of India in British East Africa 1948/54; appointed Consul General for Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi in November 1950 and Commissioner for Central Africa and Nyasaland in December 1950; Officer on Special Duty, Ministry of External Affairs 1954/55; Political Officer in Sikkim and Bhutan with control over Indian Missions in Tibet 1955/61; Indian Ambassador to Indonesia 1961/64, to Norway 1964/66, to the UAR 1966/69, to Italy 1972/75 and High Commissioner in London 1969/72; author of "Tensions and Tolerance" 1965, "Aggression and Violence: Gandhian Experiments to fight them" 1968; "Yoga" 1968 (Arabic edition); "Surya Namaskar" 1969 (Italian edition); "Mahatma Gandhi: A Moment in Time" 1973; "Mandala, An Awakening" 1976; "Progress, Power, Peace and India" 1978; "Survival of the Individual" 1981; interests include.. photography, yoga, tennis, ski-ing and gliding, married 1942, Shrimant Nalini Raje, MB, BS, FRCS, and had issue. He died 5th October 1992.

Meherban Shrimant BHAGWANT RAO TRIMBAK [BAPU SAHIB], 11th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1951/1962, born 1919, married Shrimant Lalita Gauri Raje Sahiba, died 8th April 2007 aged 87, daughter of G.V. Mavalankar, the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, and had issue, one son.

Meherban Shrimant SHRIPAT RAO BHAGWANT RAO, 12th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1962/1997, born 1947, married, and had issue, one son. He died 28th September 1997.

Meherban Shrimant BHAGWANT RAO SHRIPAT RAO, 13th Pant Pratinidhi of Aundh 1997/1999, born 1972, ascended the gaddi 29th September 1997, married Rani Gayatri Devi, a parsi lady who converted to the Hindu religion, she was elected to Zilla Parishad from Audh constituency in November 1999; and had issue, two daughters. He died 2nd March 1999 in a motor cycle accident in Pune.

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1. "Dictionary of National Biography" ; Sen,S.P. (Ed.) Calcutta 1972 Vols.1-4 ; Institute of Historical Studies, vol 3, p.307