PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
state
was founded
in 1811 by Shrimant Gopalrao Patwardhan, a descendant of
Bramhibhoot
Harbhat Buva
Patwardhan (see Kurundwad).
The
state maintained a military force of 52 cavalry, 943
infantry and 1
gun (in 1893). Rulers were...
- Shrimant GOPAL RAO
RAMCHANDRA RAO PATWARDHAN, 1st Chief of
Jamkhandi 1811/1840,
born 1799,
married
Radha Bai Fadnis, daughter of Shri Fadnis of Pune, and
had adoptive
issue. He died sp 1840.
- (A) Shrimant Ramchandra Rao Gopal Rao
[Appasaheb]
Patwardhan (qv)
- Shrimant RAMCHANDRA
RAO
GOPAL RAO [APPASAHEB] PATWARDHAN, 2nd Chief
of Jamkhandi
1840/1897,
born
7th November 1833, son of Antaji Madhavrao
[Tatyasaheb] Yadhwadkar,
adopted
18th November 1840 by the widow of his predecessor,
succeeded
18th
November 1840 (#1),
installed
on the gaddi on 7th January 1853, married
1stly Laxmibai,
daughter
of Hari Mahadev Godbole of Tasganv, married 2ndly,
Janaki Bai, daughter
of Manohar Joshi of Sangli, married 3rdly, 6th March
1861, Sita Bai,
daughter
of Nene of Shedbal, married 4thly, Parvati Bai,
daughter of Apte of
Pali,
she died 30th January 1874, and had issue, 1 son and 1
daughter, as
well as an adoptive son. He
died
12th January 1897.
- Gopalrao Ramchandra Rao Patwardhan (by Janaki
Bai), born
30th December
1853, died 13th February 1854.
- (A) Capt.(Hon). Sir Shrimant Parashuram Rao
Ramchandra
Rao I
[Dhajisaheb]
Patwardhan,
adopted from the Chinchanikar branch of the
Patwardhan family (see
below).
- Manu Bai, married 14th May 1861, Vinayakrao
Narayan Joshi
of Satara,
died
13th September 1892, and had issue, 1 son and 3
daughters.
- Bhalchandrarao
- Aau Bai
- Ganga Bai
- Valu Bai
- Capt.(Hon). Sir
Shrimant
PARASHURAM RAO RAMCHANDRA RAO I
[DHAJISAHEB]
PATWARDHAN,
3rd Chief of Jamkhandi 1897/1924, adopted from the
Chinchanikar branch
of the Patwardhan
family,
Chief of Jamkhandi, born 9th May 1883, succeeded 13th
January 1897,
installed 4th June 1903,
K.C.I.E. [cr. Jan-1913] (#2),
took active
part
in
France in 1915, during WW1, in 1918 he was granted a
9-gun salute and
made
Hon. Captain in the British Army, he as a supervisor
of Red Cross in
the
Mesopotamia, married 1stly, 1900, Rama Bai Raste,
daughter of Bala
Sahib
Raste, from the village of Vai, died 1st October 1907,
married 2ndly,
12th
June 1913, Damle, daughter of Damle of Pune and
had issue, one
son
and one daughter. He died 25th February 1924 (by being
crushed under
the
feet of an angry elephant).
- Raja Saheb Shrimant Shankarrao Parashuramrao
[Appasaheb]
Patwardhan (qv)
- Gajara Bai, married Parashuram alias Bhau Sahib
Amatya,
chief of Bavda,
1925.
- Indumati Raje, born 9th February 1919, died
unmarried 2001.
- Raja Saheb Shrimant
SHANKARRAO PARASHURAMRAO [APPASAHEB]
PATWARDHAN K.B.E., 4th Raja of Jamkhandi
1924/1947, K.B.E. [cr.1947], Raja [cr.1935], born 5th
November 1906 and
succeeded
25th February 1924 (#2),
installed 1926, married March 1925, Shrimant
Soubhagyavati
Lady Lilavatibai Sahib, Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal,
daughter of Shrimant
Madhavrao Moreshwarrao Pandit, Pant Amatya, Chief
Saheb of Bavda
Ramchandra,
and had issue, one son. He died 22nd August
1947.
- Raja Saheb Shrimant Parashuram Rao II Patwardhan
(qv)
- Dr.
Indu Patwardhan,
born 14th May 1926, educated at P.B. High School,
Jamkhandi and Rajaram
College, Kolhapur; achieved diplomas in Occupational
Therapy,
Homeopathy,
Ayurvedic Visharad and Sangeet Visharad, awarded
"Dalit Mitra" in
Maharashtra
State and "Tamra Patraprashasti" from Karnataka
State. Dr Indu
Patwardhan
left home to join Gandhi's movement of Sabarmati in
1942, later was
trained
as a school teacher by Madam Maria Montessory, and
was working at St.
Columbia
High School, Bombay for two months before being
selected to join the
then
British India Red Cross and St. John Ambulance.
After intensive
training
she was posted to Burma under active service during
World War II and
was
the first Indian lady working actively in South East
Asia and
thereafter
worked in military hospital, Poona. She was the
joint lady camp
commandant
with lady Martten and was responsible for the
rehabilitation of
refugees
and women abductees in Pakistan. Later she studied
Homeopathy and
started
her own clinic in rural areas of Poona, worked with
the Poona Women's
Council,
the troops aid committee. She was a founder member
of Poona Blindmen's
Association. In 1965 she started worked with leprosy
sufferers and in
1970
established Anandgam for their benefit. She died 8th
February 1999.
- Raja Saheb Shrimant
PARSHURAM RAO II PATWARDHAN, 5th Raja of
Jamkhandi
1947/1952,
born 1926,
last ruling Prince of Jamkhandi, having merged his
state in the Indian
Union on 19th February 1948, married and had issue,
two sons. He died
18th
December 1953.
- Raja Saheb Shrimant Pranay Rao Parashuram Rao
Patwardhan
(qv)
- Pratik Rao Parshuram Rao Patwardhan, born 9th
August
1954, married
Sumita,
daughter of Trivedi of Lucknow.
- Raja Saheb Shrimant
PRANAY
RAO PARASHURAM RAO PATWARDHAN, 6th Raja of
Jamkhandi
(see above)
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