PREDECESSORS AND SHORT
HISTORY:
Founder
of the family was Shri Valabhasinh Cholaraj Ghorpade, the
second son of
Raja Cholaraj Ghorpade of Mudhol.
The estate was recognized by the British Government as a
saranjam and
had been
declared by the Bombay High Court in 1868 to be partible,
the issue was
re-examined in 1891 and the Government passed a Resolution
in 1891 stating that "the whole of the Gajendragad estate
was a
saranjam continuable as hereditary in the fullest sense of
the
word".
- Shrimant Sardar
Bahirojirao Ghorpade Hindurao, Saranjamdar
of
Gajendragad, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao Bahirojirao [Appasaheb]
Ghorpade Hindurao (qv)
- Shrimant Sardar
Bhujangrao
Bahirojirao [Appasaheb] Ghorpade
Hindurao,
Saranjamdar of
Gajendragad -/1844, recognised by the British
Government as the
Saranjamdar of the
Gajendragad estate, married and had issue. He died
1844.
- Shrimant Sardar Daulatrao Bhujangrao Ghorpade
Hindurao
(qv)
- Shrimant Sardar
Daulatrao
I Bhujangrao Ghorpade Hindurao,
Saranjamdar of
Gajendragad 1844/1864, married and had
issue. He died 24th
July 1864.
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao Daulatrao Ghorpade
Hindurao
(qv)
- Shrimant Malojirao Daulatrao Ghorpade, he
inherited 7
villages as
his share of the patrimony; married and had issue.
- Shrimant Daulatrao III Malojirao Ghorpade,
married and
had issue.
- Shrimant Malojirao Daulatrao Ghorpade, married
and
had issue. He died after 1952.
- Shrimant Murarrao Malojirao Ghorpade,
married and
had
issue.
- Shrimant Daulatrao Murarrao Ghorpade,
adopted by
his
uncle (see below).
- Shrimant Shambhu Malojirao Ghorpade, adopted
his
nephew,
married and
had
adopted issue.
- Shrimant Daulatrao Shambu Ghorpade (born
as
Shrimant
Daulatrao Murarrao
Ghorpade), adopted by his uncle (see above),
married and has issue.
- Shrimant Shambhusinhrao Daulatrao
Ghorpade
- Shrimant Vijaysinhrao Malojirao Ghorpade,
married
and had
issue.
- Kumari Sunila Raje Ghorpade, married
Shrimant
Rane of
Sangli (Sankli?).
- Kumari Harshala Raje Ghorpade
- Kumari Methila Raje Ghorpade
- Shrimant Yeshwantrao Daulatrao [alias Annasaheb]
Ghorpade,
married
and had issue.
- Shrimant Bhujangrao II Yeshwantrao Ghorpade
- Shrimant Sardar
Bhujangrao
I Daulatrao Ghorpade Hindurao,
Saranjamdar of
Gajendragad 1864/1881, married Shrimant
Rani
Krishnabai, she adopted a relative on 3rd February
1882 who was
recognised as the heir in respect of that portion of
the estate which
lay within the Principality of Kolhapur; the adoption
was later
recognized by the Bombay Government, regarding
the property in
British India, and a resolution was passed on the 26th
of April 1882,
embodying the above decision.
He died sp
1881.
- (A) Shrimant
Sardar
Daulatrao II Bhujangrao Ghorpade
Hindurao (qv)
- Shrimant Sardar
Daulatrao
II Bhujangrao Ghorpade Hindurao,
Saranjamdar of
Gajendragad 1881/1931, married and had
issue.
He died 8th May 1931.
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao III Daulatrao Ghorpade
Hindurao (qv)
- Shrimant Babasaheb Bahirojirao Daulatrao Ghorpade,
married Bai
Abayabai, she
adopted her nephew, Shrimant Vijaysinhrao Dattajirao
on 10th July 1941.
He died 14th May 1940.
- Shrimant Dattajirao Bahirojirao
- Shrimant Dattajirao Daulatrao Ghorpade, married
and had
issue.
- Shrimant Vijaysinhrao Dattajirao Ghorpade,
adopted by
Bai
Abayabai, widow of Shrimant Babasaheb Bahirojirao
Ghorpade on 10th July
1941.
- Shrimant Sardar
Bhujangrao
III Daulatrao Ghorpade Hindurao,
Saranjamdar of
Gajendragad 1932/-, he was granted
the
Saranjam of Gajendragad by order of the Government of
Bombay on 7th
June 1932. He died after 1952.
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