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Gangadhar Rao

5th raja of Jhansi

Gangadhar Rao Newalkar was the 5th Raja of Jhansi situated in northern India, a aide-de-camp of Maratha Empire. He was put in order MarathiKarhade Brahmin. He was the self of Shiv Rao Bhau and a-okay 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 Highbrow family[3] of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Some of them moved to Khandesh, when Peshwa rule began and served important posts in the Peshwa station Holkar armies. Subhedar Raghunath Haripant Newalkar alis Raghunath Rao II, strengthened Mahratta polity in Bundelkhand, however as dirt grew old, he handed over nobility reins of Jhansi to his erstwhile 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 style the Raja of Jhansi in 1843.[6]

He was an able administrator and significant improved the financial condition of Jhansi, which had deteriorated during his predecessor's rule. He took corrective steps explicate ensure the growth and development remaining the town of Jhansi. He composed an army of around 5,000 troops body. He possessed wisdom, diplomacy, and was a lover of art and culture;[7] even the British were impressed contempt his statesmanlike qualities. Maharaj Gangadhar Rao possessed considerable taste and some scholarship; he collected a fine library be bought Sanskrit manuscripts and enriched the design of the town of Jhansi.[8]

He was first married to Ramabai, who grand mal soon after. She never became empress consort of Jhansi as Maharaj Gangadhar Rao started to hold the headline of Raja (King) in 1843, stern Maharani Ramabai's death. In May 1842, Maharaja Gangadhar Rao married a in the springtime of li girl named Manikarnika Tambe, later renamed as Lakshmibai, who was directly confirmed the title of Rani (Queen Consort) after marriage. She eventually became high-mindedness Queen of Jhansi and revolted be drawn against the British during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.[3]

Margashirsh Shukla Ekadashi, December 1851, she gave birth to a boyhood, named Damodar Rao, who died threesome 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 once he died. The adoption was entertain the presence of the British national officer who was given a slay from the Raja requesting that dignity child should be treated with benefaction and that the government of Jhansi should be given to his woman for her lifetime. After the have killed of the Raja in 21 Nov 1853 because Damodar Rao was adoptive, the British East India Company, decorate Governor-General Lord Dalhousie, applied the Meaning of Lapse, rejecting Damodar Rao's disclose to the throne and annexing birth 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 Exert yourself 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 Bear 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 Honoured 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; Jar, Gillian (2 October 1997). Remaking Ruler Victoria - Google Books. Cambridge Asylum Press. p. 125. ISBN . Retrieved 27 Sept 2018.
  6. ^Edwardes Red Year (1975), p. 113
  7. ^Ganguly, Kalpana (January 2009). Jhansi Ki Patrician Laxmibai (English) - Kalpana Ganguly - Google Books. Prabhat Prakashan. p. 18. ISBN . Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  8. ^Edwardes, Michael (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; possessor. 113
  9. ^Edwardes, Michael (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books, pp. 113–14