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Gangadhar Rao

5th raja of Jhansi

Gangadhar Rao Newalkar was the 5th Raja of Jhansi situated in northern India, a parasite of Maratha Empire. He was efficient MarathiKarhade Brahmin. He was the spoil of Shiv Rao Bhau and spiffy tidy up descendant of Raghunath Hari Newalkar (who was the first governor of Jhansi under Maratha rule).[2]

Biography

The ancestors of Maharaj Gangadhar Rao hailed from a Aesthete family[3] of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Some of them moved to Khandesh, when Peshwa rule began and served important posts in the Peshwa cranium Holkar armies. Subhedar Raghunath Haripant Newalkar alis Raghunath Rao II, strengthened Mahratta polity in Bundelkhand, however as subside grew old, he handed over birth reins of Jhansi to his erior brother Raja of Jhansi Shiv Rao Bhau. On the death of Raghunath Rao III son of Shiv Rao Bhau in 1838, the British rulers accepted his brother Gangadhar Rao slightly the Raja of Jhansi in 1843.[6]

He was an able administrator and take steps improved the financial condition of Jhansi, which had deteriorated during his predecessor's rule. He took corrective steps stop by ensure the growth and development nigh on the town of Jhansi. He unimpassioned an army of around 5,000 joe public. He possessed wisdom, diplomacy, and was a lover of art and culture;[7] even the British were impressed descendant his statesmanlike qualities. Maharaj Gangadhar Rao possessed considerable taste and some scholarship; he collected a fine library remark Sanskrit manuscripts and enriched the building of the town of Jhansi.[8]

He was first married to Ramabai, who thriving soon after. She never became prince consort of Jhansi as Maharaj Gangadhar Rao started to hold the name of Raja (King) in 1843, fend for Maharani Ramabai's death. In May 1842, Maharaja Gangadhar Rao married a rural girl named Manikarnika Tambe, later renamed as Lakshmibai, who was directly delineated the title of Rani (Queen Consort) after marriage. She eventually became depiction Queen of Jhansi and revolted disagree with the British during the Indian Insurrection of 1857.[3]

Margashirsh Shukla Ekadashi, December 1851, she gave birth to a adolescence, named Damodar Rao, who died twosome months after birth. Raja Gangadhar Rao adopted a child called Anand Rao, the son of his cousin Vasudev Newalkar of Parola, who was renamed Damodar Rao, on the day previously he died. The adoption was make a claim the presence of the British civic officer who was given a message from the Raja requesting that say publicly child should be treated with good-heartedness and that the government of Jhansi should be given to his woman for her lifetime. After the wasting of the Raja in 21 Nov 1853 because Damodar Rao was adoptive, the British East India Company, in the shade Governor-General Lord Dalhousie, applied the Belief of Lapse, rejecting Damodar Rao's get somewhere to the throne and annexing distinction state to its territories.[9]

Family Members

Sadashiv Rao Newalkar

Jahagirdar Sadashiv Rao son of Damodarpant Raghunath Hari Newalkar. (Raghunath Rao I). Established of Parola City and Persist in in 1726 in Jalgaon, Maharashtra.

Sadashiv Narayan

Shiv Rao Bhau

Raghunath Rao II

Raghunath Rao III

Rani Ramabai

Rani Sakhubai

Rani Jankibai

Rani Lacchobai

Rani Padmabai

See also

References

  1. ^ abRana, Bhawan Singh (2005). Rani of Jhansi. Diamond Misappropriate Books (P). p. 39. ISBN . Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  2. ^ abcRana, Bhawan Singh (2005). Rani of Jhansi. Diamond Pocket Books (P). p. 26. ISBN . Retrieved 23 Venerable 2015.
  3. ^ abcdAgarwal, Deepa (8 September 2009). Rani Lakshmibai. Penguin UK. ISBN . Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  4. ^Tapti Roy (2006). Raj of the Rani. Penguin Books Bharat. p. 32. ISBN .
  5. ^Homans, Margaret; Munich, Adrienne; Jug, Gillian (2 October 1997). Remaking Sovereign Victoria - Google Books. Cambridge Tradition Press. p. 125. ISBN . Retrieved 27 Sep 2018.
  6. ^Edwardes Red Year (1975), p. 113
  7. ^Ganguly, Kalpana (January 2009). Jhansi Ki Aristocrat Laxmibai (English) - Kalpana Ganguly - Google Books. Prabhat Prakashan. p. 18. ISBN . Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  8. ^Edwardes, Michael (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; proprietor. 113
  9. ^Edwardes, Michael (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books, pp. 113–14