PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
state
was founded in 1728, when the two sons of Raja Kaloji
received from Baji Rao Peshwa the grant of the Dewas State
in common. The Raja maintains a military force of 70
cavalry, 594 infantry, and 14 guns, and is entitled to a
salute of 15 guns (in 1893). Rulers were....
- Raja Kaloji, married and had issue.
- Raja Tukojirao I Kaloji Puar, Raja of Dewas Senior
(qv)
- Raja Jivajirao I Kaloji Puar, Raja of Dewas Junior
(qv)
- Raja TUKOJIRAO I
PUAR, 1st Raja of Dewas-Senior 1728/1753, he
died 1753
- Raja KRISHNAJIRAO I
PUAR, 2nd Raja of Dewas-Senior 1753/1789
- Raja TUKOJIRAO II
PUAR, 3rd Raja of Dewas-Senior 1789/1824,
married and had adoptive issue.
- (A) Raja
Rukmangadrao Tukojirao [Khasi Saheb] Puar
(qv)
- Raja RUKMANGADRAO
TUKOJIRAO [KHASI SAHEB] PUAR, 4th Raja of
Dewas-Senior 1824/1860, he succeeded by adoption in
1824, married and had adoptive issue. He died 1860.
- (A) HH Raja
Krishnajirao II Rukmangadrao Puar (qv)
- HH Raja
KRISHNAJIRAO II RUKMANGADRAO [BABA SAHEB] PUAR,
5th Raja of Dewas-Senior 1860/1899, born in November
1849, he succeeded to the gadi on 18th March 1861 (#1),
married and had issue.
- HH Maharaja Sir Tukojirao III Krishnajirao Puar
(qv)
- HH Maharaja Sir
TUKOJIRAO III KRISHNAJIRAO PUAR, 6th Maharaja
of Dewas-Senior 1899/1937, born 1st January 1888,
Maharaja [cr.1918], K.C.S.I. [cr.1911], educated at
Daly College, Indore and at Mayo College, Ajmer;
married 1908, HH Maharani Radhabai Akka Sahib of Kolhapur, and had
issue. He died 21st December 1937.
- HH Maharaja Vikramsinharao Tukojirao [Nana Saheb]
Puar (qv)
- HH Maharaja
VIKRAMSINHARAO TUKOJIRAO [NANA SAHEB] PUAR,
7th Maharaja of Dewas-Senior 1937/1948, born 4th April
1910, Maharaja of Kolhapur
1948/1983 as HH Sir Maharajah Shahaji II Chhatrapati,
married 1926, and had issue. He died 9th May1983
- HH Maharaja Puar Krishnajirao III Vikramsinhrao
Puar (qv)
- Maharajkumari Shaliniraje Puar, married Shrimant
Rajaramsinhrao Bhonsle of Nagpur, and had issue.
- HH Maharaja Shahu II Chhatrapati Rao of Kolhapur.
- HH Maharaja Puar
KRISHNAJIRAO III VIKRAMSINHRAO PUAR, 8th
Maharaja of Dewas-Senior 1948/1999, born 1932, married
and had issue. He died 1999.
- HH Maharaja Puar Tukojirao IV Krishnajirao Puar
(qv)
- HH Maharaja Puar
TUKOJIRAO IV KRISHNAJIRAO PUAR, 9th Maharaja
of Dewas-Senior (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Maj. Sardar Shankarrao [Appasaheb] Gambhirrao Puar,
great grandson of Bhagwantrao fl.1792, Home Member of
Council of State in Dewas-Snr, Premier Jagirdar of
Dewas-Snr.
- Marriage at Dewas on 25 Jun 1830
between Fara Bai, sister of the Raja
of Dewas Senior [Rukmangad Rao] and the son of
Rustan Rao, Desmukh of Kumbari. FILE: - ref. IOR/F/4/1370/54498 -
date: Jul-Dec 1830
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