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This province belongs to Maratha Caste.

Dynasty

Scindia

State

Madhya Pradesh

Gun Salutes

21 Agency

Gwalior Residency

Accession

15^th June 1948

Area

68,291 Square Kilometers km²

Privy Purse

INR 2,500,000

Hindi Name

ग्वालियर

Last Updated

18^th Jan, 2023

Website

Link to Gwalior (Princely State) website https://jaivilasmuseum.org

Wikipedia

Wikipedia link to Gwalior (Princely State) Gwalior State

Present Head

Gwalior (Princely State) flag — Flag of Gwalior

HH Maharaja Scindia JYOTIRADITYA RAO SCINDIA, 11^th Maharaja of Gwalior, since 30^th September 2001 (Jai Vilas Palace, Gwalior-470 004, Madhya Pradesh, India). Born 1^st January 1971 in Mumbai, B.A., M.B.A., educated at Doon School, Dehradun; Harvard University, Cambridge (UK) and Stanford University, California (USA), elected to the 13^th Lok Sabha in 2002, Union minister for civil aviation and steel in government of India. Member of Rajya Sabha since 2020. Member of the Committee on Finance 2002/2004, re-elected to the 14^th Lok Sabha in 2004, Member of the Committees on Estimates, Petitions and Finance; on 10^th March 2020 he resigned from Indian National Congress and joined the Bhartiya Janata Party; interests include: cricket, swimming, reading and wild life conservation, Member of the Delhi Gymkhana; the India International Centre; and the India Habitat Centre, as well as several golf clubs in India, married 12^th December 1994, HH Maharani Priyadarshini Raje Scindia, daughter of Maharaj Kumar Sangramsingh Gaekwad of Baroda, and his wife, Rani Asharaje Gaekwad, and has issue, one son and one daughter.

Yuvaraj Mahanaryaman Scindia, born 1995.
Maharajkumari Ananya Raje Scindia, born 5^th March 2002.

History

Gwalior was ruled by Scindia dynasty which was founded by the famous Ranoji Scindia, whose ancestors were the hereditary Patels of Kanherkhed in Satara. His Highness the Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior maintains a military force of 5504 cavalry, 11,040 infantry, and 48 guns. His Highness is entitled to a salute of 21-guns.

Genealogy

The state was founded in 1731. Rulers were...

Maharaja Scindia RANOJIRAO SCINDIA, 1^st Maharaja of Gwalior 1731/1745, died 19^th July 1745.
Maharaja Scindia JAYAPPARAO SCINDIA, 2^nd Maharaja of Gwalior 1745/1755, died 25^th July 1755.
Maharaja Scindia JANKOJIRAO I SCINDIA, 3^rd Maharaja of Gwalior 1755/1761, died 15^th January 1761.
Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO I SCINDIA, 4^th Maharaja of Gwalior 1761/1794, born 1730, died 12^th February 1794 at Poona.
Maharaja Scindia DAULATRAO SCINDIA, 5^th Maharaja of Gwalior 1794/1827 , born 1779/1780, died 20^th March 1827
Maharani Scindia Baija Bai 1827/1833 (Maharani Regent)
Maharaja Scindia JANKOJIRAO II SCINDIA, 6^th Maharaja of Gwalior 1827/1843, died 7^th February 1843.
HH Maharaja Scindia JAYAJIRAO SCINDIA, 7^th Maharaja of Gwalior 1843/1886, born 1834 as Bhagirath Shinde, married and had issue. He died 20^th June 1886.
- HH Maharaja Scindia Madhavrao II Scindia (qv)
- Shrimant Balwant Rao [Bhaiya Sahib Scindia] (natural son), born 1854, ADC to his father in 1872.
- Shrimant Ganpat Rao [Bhaiya Saheb Scindia] (natural son, by Chandrabhaga Bai, a famous dancer in Gwalior), born 1852, was a highly talented musician, an unparalleled Dhrupada and Dhamar singer, a well-known Harmonium player and a fine composer of thumris. He composed many thumris under his nickname "Sugharapiya," and gave a new dimension to the thumri style. He was a court musician of Rampur for some time. Later, he settled in Calcutta. Several first-rate musicians of India are said to have studied under him. He died 1920.
- Shrimant Maharajkumari Gunvantabai Raje Saheb Scindia [Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Gunvantaraje Saheb Shitole], married Sardar Raj Rajendra Raja Ramchandrarao Shitole Deshmukh, born 1849, died 1902, and had issue.
  - Sardar Raj Rajendra Maloji Narsinghrao Shitole Deshmukh
- Shrimant Maharajkumari (name unknown) Raje Saheb Scindia, married Lieut.-Col. Amir-ul-umra Sardar Appajirao Shitole Anklekar, C.I.E., born 1874, appointed Private Secretary to HH the Maharaja of Gwalior.
HH Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO II SCINDIA, 8^th Maharaja of Gwalior 1886/1925 , born 20^th October 1876, married 1^stly, 1891, HH Maharani Chinkuraje, awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1900 and the Order of the Crown of India in 1928, died 23^rd November 1931 at Bombay, married 2^ndly, 8^th August 1913, HH Maharani Gajraje Sahiba, daughter of the Sar Desai of Sankli, died 1943, and had issue. He died 5^th June 1925 in Paris.
- HH Maharaja Scindia Sir Jivajirao Scindia (qv)
- Rani Kamalaraje Scindia, 11^th November 1914, married 1933, Meherban Shrimant Raja Vijaisinghrao Bhonsle of Akalkot.
HH Maharaja Scindia Sir JIVAJIRAO SCINDIA, 9^th Maharaja of Gwalior 1925/1961, born 26^th June 1916, married 21^st February 1941 Maharani Vijaya Raje, born 12^th October 1919, as Lekha Divyeshwari Devi, dau of Thakur Mahendra Singh of Kotla, Member of the Lok Sabha 1957/1967 and 1971/1977, Member of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 1967/1971 and the Rajya Sabha 1978/1989; Vice-President of the Jana Sangh 1973 and the B.J.P., died 25^th January 2001, and had issue. He died 1961.
- Maharani Padma Raje Scindia, born 23^rd February 1942, married 6^th March 1960 HH Maharaja Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Burman of Tripura, and had issue, two daughters. She died 26^th April 1969.
- Maharajkumari Usharaje Scindia, born 31^st October 1943, married June 1967 Shri Pashupati Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal and has issue.
- HH Maharaja Scindia Madhavrao III Scindia (qv)
- HH Maharani Vasundhara Scindia, born 8^th March 1953 in Bombay, B.A. (Hons.) (Economics and Political Science), educated at Sophia College, Bombay University, Mumbai. Currently the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. Member of the National Executive of the BJP 1984/-, Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly 1985/89, Vice-President of Yuva Morcha B.J.P. for two years. Vice President of the BJP, Rajasthan 1987/- , Member of the 9^th, 10^th, 11^th and 12^th Lok Sabha. Member of the following committees... Library Committee 1990/91; Consultative Committees, Ministries of Commerce and Tourism 1990/91; Consultative Committees, Ministries of Power, Science and Technology, Environment and Tourism 1991/96; Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests 1996/97; Consultative Committees, Ministries of Power, Science and Technology and Tourism 1996/97; Joint Secretary, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party 1997/-, Union Minister of State, External Affairs 1998/99; Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Small Scale Industries and Agro & Rural Industries; Department of Personnel and Training; Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space 1999/2001; Union Minister of State, Small Scale Industries; Personnel, Training, Pensions, Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances; Planning; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space (Independent Charge). In November 2003, she resigned her cabinet post to run as BJP candidate for Chief Minister of Rajasthan; she married 17^th November 1972, HH Maharaj Rana Hemant Singh of Dholpur, and has issue.
- Shrimant Maharajkumari Yashodhara Scindia, born 19^th June 1954 in London, educated at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay, then the Presentation Convent, Kodaikanal, and her final 2 years at the Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya Gwalior; moved to New Orleans, USA after her marriage and was appointed board member of the Delta Festival Ballet, an Advisory Board Member of the Contemporary Art Center, and a Fellow of the New Orleans Museum of Art; she returned to India in 1994 and went into formal politics, contesting the Madhya Pradesh State Assembly Elections in 1998 and then being re-elected 5 years later, for a second term in 2003 in the State Assembly elections. She is an active member of her State Legislative Party; presently serving in the Madhya Pradesh Government as a Cabinet Minister for Tourism, Sports and Youth Welfare; she married Dr. Sidharth Bhansali, cardiologist, and has issue, three children.
  - Akshay Bhansali, born 1981, a producer at MTV Desi in New York
  - Abhishek Bhansali, born 1985, a student at the NYU Stern School of Business
  - Trishala Bhansali, born 1988, a student at NYU
HH Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO III SCINDIA, 10^th Maharaja of Gwalior 1961/2001, born 10^th May 1945 in Bombay, married 9^th May 1966, HH Maharani Pratima Rajya Laxmi Devi [Madhavi Devi, born as Kiran Rajya Laxmi Devi], daughter of General Shri Yuvraj Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and his wife, Rani Indira Kumari, and had issue. He died in a plane crash near Motta, 30^th September 2001 and was cremated at Amma Maharaj Ki Chhatri, Gwalior on the 4^th October 2001.
- Yuvrani Chitrangada Scindia, born 14^th February 1967, married 11^th December 1987, Yuvraj Vikramaditya Singh of Jammu and Kashmir and has issue.
- HH Maharaja Scindia Jyotiradityrao Scindia (qv)
HH Maharaja Scindia JYOTIRADITYARAO SCINDIA, 11^th Maharaja of Gwalior (see above)