SAVANTVADI (Princely State)

(9 gun salute)

 
AREA: 2,409 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 107,500Rs  ACCESSION: 8th March 1948
STATE: Bombay  DYNASTY: Bhonsle  RELIGION: Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER: HH Raja Bahadur KHEM SAVANT BHONSLE VI, present Sar Desai of Savantvadi
married and has issue, two daughters.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The state was founded in 1627. Rulers were.....
  • Sar Desai KHEM SAVANT BHONSLE I, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1627/1640, married and had issue.
    • Shrimant Som Savant Bhonsle
    • Sar Desai Lakham Savant Bhonsle (qv)
    • Sar Desai Phond Savant Bhonsle I (qv)
  • Sar Desai LAKHAM SAVANT BHONSLE, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1640/1665 
  • Sar Desai PHOND SAVANT BHONSLE I, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1665/1675, married and had issue.
    • Sar Desai Khem Savant Bhonsle II (qv)
    • Shrimant (name unknown) Savant Bhonsle, married and had issue.
      • Sar Desai Phond Savant Bhonsle II (qv)
  • Sar Desai KHEM SAVANT BHONSLE II, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1675/1709, he made Savantvadi as the capital of the state in 1692.
  • Sar Desai PHOND SAVANT BHONSLE II, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1709/1738, married and had issue.
    • Sar Desai Ramkhander Savant Bhonsle I (qv)
  • Sar Desai RAMKHANDER SAVANT BHONSLE I, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1738/1755, married and had issue.
    • Raja Bahadur Khem Savant Bhonsle III (qv)
  • Raja Bahadur KHEM SAVANT BHONSLE III, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1755/1803, Raja Bahadur [cr.1763], married Rani Lakshmi Bai (qv), and had adoptive issue. He died 1803.
    • (A) Raja Bahadur Ramkhander Savant Bhonsle II (qv)
    Rani Lakshmi Bai, Regent of Savantvadi 1803/1805
  • Raja Bahadur RAMKHANDER SAVANT BHONSLE II, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1805/1807, he succeeded by adoption in 1805.
    Rani Durga Bai, Regent of Savantvadi 1807/1818
  • Raja Bahadur PHOND SAVANT BHONSLE III, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1807/1812, married and had issue. He died 1812.
    • Raja Bahadur Khem Savant Bhonsle IV (qv)
  • Raja Bahadur KHEM SAVANT BHONSLE IV, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1812/1867, born 1804, married and had issue. He died 1867.
    • Raja Bahadur Phond Savant Bhonsle IV (qv)
  • Raja Bahadur PHOND SAVANT BHONSLE IV, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1867/1869, married and had issue. He died 1869.
    • Raja Bahadur Raghunath Savant Bhonsle (qv)
  • Raja Bahadur RAGHUNATH SAVANT BHONSLE Raje Bahadur, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1869/1899, born 20th September 1862, succeeded 29th August 1870 (#1), married 21st December 1879, Rani Tara Bai Sahib, daughter of Maharaja Gaekwad Khanderao Gaekwad Shamsher Bahadur of Baroda, and his wife, Maharani Jamna Bai Sahiba.
  • HH Raja Bahadur RAM SAVANT BHONSLE, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1899/1913 
  • HH Raja Bahadur KHEM SAVANT BHONSLE V, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1913/1937, born 1897, married, 1922, HH Rani Lakshmi Devi, daughter of  Yuvaraj Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad of Baroda, and his wife, Yuvarani Padmavati Bai Saheba, and had issue. He died 1937.
    • Rajkumari Satyavatiraje Bhonsle, married Meherban Shrimant Rajamanya Rajashri Ajitsinh Yeshwantrao Ghatge Sarjerao of Kagal-Junior, and has issue.
  • HH Raja Bahadur SHIVRAM SAVANT BHONSLE, Sar Desai of Savantvadi 1937/- , born 1927 in Poonch, married, HH Rani Satwashiladevi Sahib, born about 1935, daughter of HH Maharaja Sir Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad of Baroda, and his first wife, HH Maharani Sita Devi Sahib.
  • HH Raja Bahadur KHEM SAVANT BHONSLE VI, Sar Desai of Savantvadi (see above)
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 487