Dewas Junior

Dewas Junior was established by Jivaji Rao I Puar in 1728 during the Maratha conquest of Central India. It was a 15-gun salute Maratha princely state. On 12 December 1818, it became a British protectorate.[1]

Dewas State (Junior Branch)
देवास (छोटी पाती राज्य / धाकटी पाती संस्थान)
Princely State of British India
1728–1948
Flag of Dewas
Flag

Dewas Sr and Dewas Jr. states in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
Area 
 1901
1,100 km2 (420 sq mi)
Population 
 1901
54,904
History
History 
 Established
1728
1948
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Maratha Empire
India
Today part ofIndia

History

The original state was founded in 1728 by Jivaji Rao, from the Puar clan of Marathas who together with his older brother (Tukoji) had advanced into Malwa with Peshwa Baji Rao, as part of the Maratha conquest.[2]

The brothers divided the territory among themselves; their descendants ruled as the junior and senior branches of the family. After 1841, each branch ruled his own portion as a separate state, though the lands belonging to each were intimately entangled; in Dewas, the capital town, the two sides of the main street were under different administrations and had different arrangements for water supply and lighting.[3]

The Junior branch had an area of 440 sq mi (1,100 km2) and had a population of 54,904 in 1901.[4] Both Dewas states were in the Malwa Agency of the Central India Agency. After India's independence in 1947, the Maharajas of Dewas acceded to India, and their states were integrated into Madhya Bharat, which became a state of India in 1950. In 1956, Madhya Bharat was merged into Madhya Pradesh state.

Dewas Junior Darbar (Court) was composed of Sardars, Mankaris, Istamuradars, Thakurs and Jagirdars.[5][6]

Rulers

HH Raja Narayan Rao Puar (first from left) in front of the Rajwada of Dewas Junior.
A rare photograph of the 3 successive Maharajas of Dewas Junior State. (L to R - HH Maharaja Sadashiv Rao Puar, HH Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Puar and HH Maharaja Malhar Rao Puar)
HH Raja Narayan Rao Puar with Dewas Junior Nobility
HH Maharaja Malhar Rao Puar, Royal family, Sardars, Mankaris, Jagirdars and Thakurs in front of the Dewas Junior Rajwada.
Title Part of Start of reign End of reign Name
Raja Maratha Empire 172815 Aug 1774Jivaji Rao Puar "Dada Sahib" (d. 1774)
15 Aug 17742 Dec 1790Sadashiv Rao I Puar (d. 1790)
2 Dec 17901817Rukmangad Rao Puar (b. 17.. – d. 1817)
18171818Anand Rao Puar "Rao Sahib" (d. 1840)
British protectorate 18181840
184012 May 1864Haibat Rao Puar (d. 1864)
12 May 186419 Jan 1892Narayan Rao Puar "Dada Sahib" (b. 1860 – d. 1892)
12 May 18641877Yamuna Bai Sahib -Regent + Rao Bahadur R.J. Bhide (Superintendent)
9 Jan 18921 Jan 1918Malhar Rao Puar "Bhava Sahib" (b. 1877 – d. 1934) (from 1 Jan 1917, Sir Malhar Rao Puar)
19 Jan 189210 Aug 1913Lala Bisheshas Nath – Regent
Maharaja 1 Jan 19184 Feb 1934Sir Malhar Rao Puar "Bhava Sahib" (s.a.)
4 Feb 19342 Dec 1943Sadashiv Rao II Puar "Khase Sahib" (b. 1887 – d. 1943)
2 Dec 194315 Aug 1947Yeshwant Rao Puar "Bhau Sahib" (b. 1905 – d. 1965) (from 14 Aug 1947, Sir Yeshwant Rao Puar)

Colonel HH Maharaja Sir Yeshwant Rao Puar had two daughters, 'Durgaraje' (d/o Padmaraje) who married into the Sardar Phalke family of Gwalior and 'Udayaraje' (d/o Maneka Raje) who married the Raja of Prayagpur.

See also

References

  1. Meyer, William Stevenson, Sir; Burn, Richard, Sir; Cotton, James Sutherland; Risley, Sir Herbert Hope. Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 11. p. 278.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Mayer, Adrian C. (1960). Caste and Kinship in Central India: A Village and Its Region: International library of sociology and social reconstruction. University of California Press. p. 13. ISBN 9780520017474. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  3. Lethbridge, Sir Roper (1893). The golden book of India: a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire. Macmillan. p. 116. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  4. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dewas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 137.
  5. Madan, T.N. (1988). Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 129. ISBN 9788120805279. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  6. Russell, Robert Vane (1916). "Pt. II. Descriptive articles on the principal castes and tribes of the Central Provinces".

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