PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in 1728. The title of Viswas Rao ("Faithful") is
said to have been conferred on this family by the
Maharajas of Satara, as the descendants of Sivaji and the
heads of the Mahratta Empire, but it has not been
recognised for some years prior to 1893. The Maharaja
maintains a military force of 367 cavalry, 1249 infantry,
and 5 guns, and is entitled to a salute of 15 guns (in
1893). Rulers were...
- Shrimant Babaji Puar, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Kaloji Babji Puar, married and had issue
(see Dewas-Senior and Dewas-Junior)
- Shrimant Sambhuji Babaji Pura, married and had
issue.
- Raja Anandrao I Sambhujirao Puar (qv)
- Raja UDAJIRAO I
PUAR, 1st Raja of Dhar 1728/1732 (abdicated),
died 1742.
- Raja ANANDRAO I
PUAR, 2nd Raja of Dhar 1732/1736 (abdicated),
he was acknowledged by the Peshwa, Baji Rao, to be the
head of the Puar Rajput clan, married and had issue.
He died 1749.
- Raja Jaswantrao Anandrao Puar (qv)
- Shrimant Sardar Rayajirao Pawar (Amdabadkar),
married and had issue, the Amdabadkar Pawar estate
holders of Amdabad, Pune District, Maharashtra;
married and had issue, two sons.
- Shrimant Sardar Malharrao Rayajirao Pawar,
married and had issue, one son.
- Shrimant Sardar Balwantrao Malharrao Pawar,
married and had issue.
- Shrimant Sardar Malharrao Balwantrao Pawar,
married and had issue.
- Shrimant Sardar Krushnajirao alias Sardar
Rayajirao Pawar, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Sardar Malharrao Rayajirao
Pawar, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Sardar Sambhajirao Malharrao
Pawar, married and had issue.
- Sardar Bhupendra Sambhajirao Pawar (France)
- Sardar Ravindra Sambhajirao Pawar,
married and has issue, two sons.
- Sardarkumar Himanshu Ravindra
Pawar, born 8th August 1983.
- Sardarkumar Hrisshikesh Ravindra
Pawar, born 10th December 1985.
- Shrimant Sardar Vitthalrao Rayajirao Pawar
(Ladavad), he died sp.
REGENCY
1736/1745
- Raja JASWANTRAO I
PUAR, 3rd Raja of Dhar 1736/1761, born 1724,
died in the Battle of Painipat in 1761.
- Raja Khanderao Jaswantrao Puar (qv)
Rajmata Gahenabai
Raje Sahib Puar, Regent of Dhar 1761/1777
- Raja KHANDERAO
PUAR, 4th Raja of Dhar, Raja of Dhar
1761/1782, born 1759, died 1782.
Rajmata Nubadhabai
Raje Sahib Puar, Regent of Dhar 1782/1798
- Raja ANANDRAO II
PUAR, 5th Raja of Dhar 1782/1807, born 1763,
married Rani (later Rajmata) Minabai Sahib Puar, she
was celebrated for her courage and abilities, and the
determination with which she resisted the attacks of
Scindia and Holkar, and had adoptive issue. He died
1807.
- (A) Raja
Ramchandrarao Anandrao Puar (qv)
Rajmata Mainabai
Raje Sahib Puar, Regent of 1807/1810, she adopted her
sister's son in 1810, with the consent of the
neighbouring Chiefs, and he succeeded as Raja
Ramchandrarao Puar II (qv)
- Raja RAMCHANDRARAO
I PUAR, 6th Raja of Dhar 1807/1810, born
1807, died 1810.
REGENCY
1810/1827
- Raja RAMCHANDRARAO
II PUAR, 7th Raja of Dhar 1810/1833, he
succeeded by adoption, born 1809, married and had
adoptive issue. He died 17th October 1833 (#2).
- (A) Raja
Jaswantrao Ramchandrarao Puar (qv)
REGENCY
1833/1840
- Raja JASWANTRAO II
PUAR, 8th Raja of Dhar 1833/1857, born 1822,
he succeeded by adoption. He died sp in 1857.
Rajmata Sri
Draupadibai Raje Sahib Puar, Regent of Dhar
[23.5.1857] - [19.1.1858]
STATE
CONFISCATED
[19.1.1858] - [1.5.1860], for rebellion during the
uprising.
REGENCY
[1.5.1860]
- [1.10.1864]
 HH Maharaja Sir ANANDRAO
PUAR III Bahadur K.C.S.I., C.I.E., 9th Raja
of Dhar 1860/1898, born 8th April 1844, he succeeded
by adoption, investiture was held on 21st November
1864 (#1),
he was granted the right of adoption by a Sanad (note
to No. LXIV) in 1862 by the Government of India; on
the occasion of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi on
1st January 1877, the title of Maharaja was conferred
upon him as a personal distinction, and he was also
appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order
of the Star of India; the further decoration of
Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian
Empire was conferred upon him on 1st January 1883;
married 1stly, Maharani (name unknown), died in January 1890,
married 2ndly, 1890, Maharani (name unknown),
and had adoptive issue. He died sp in 1898.
- (A) Shrimant
Udajirao Sambajirao Puar, younger son of the late
Maharaja's half-brother, Shrimant Sambajirao Puar
[Appa Sahib] of Malthan, he succeeded as Lt.-Col.
HH Maharaja Shri Sir Udajirao Anandrao Puar
Bahadur (qv)
REGENCY
COUNCIL
1898/1904
- Lt. Col. HH
Maharaja Shri Sir UDAJIRAO II PUAR Bahadur
K.C.S.I., C.I.E., K.B.E., 10th Raja of Dhar
1898/1926, born 1886, he succeeded by adoption,
Maharaja [cr.1918], K.C.S.I. [cr.1911] (#3), K.C.V.O., K.B.E., married
HH Maharani Sahiba, Regent of Dhar, died 1931, and had
issue, seven daughters. He died 30th July 1926 (#4).
- Maharajkumari Vijaya Raje Puar, born 16th
September 1919, Member of the Rajya Sabha 1952/1957,
married Lt. Dr. Maharajkumar Basant Narain Singh of
Ramgarh. (Raj Bungalow, Post Office and District
Hazaribagh, Bihar).
- Rani Urmila Devi [Sumitraraje], born 15th October
1923, married May 1939, Chhatrapati Shri
Shahumaharaj Bhonsle of Satara,
and had issue. She died 5th June 1999 in Pune.
Dowager Maharani
Laxmibai Sahiba Pura, Regent of Dhar 1926/1931
REGENCY
COUNCIL
1931/1940
- HH Maharaja
ANANDRAO IV PUAR Bahadur, 11th Raja of Dhar
1926/1989, born 1920, he succeeded by adoption,
married 1951 (div.), HH Maharani Mrunalini Devi,
Chancellor of Sayaji University of Baroda, daughter of
HH Maharaja Gaekwad Sir Pratapsinghrao Gaekwad Sena
Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur
Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia of Baroda, and his first
wife, HH Maharani Shanta Devi Saheb. He died sp
1989.
- HH Maharaja Shri
JUGDEO RAO PUAR Bahadur, born 1921; Heir of
his brother.
The help of John Duncan McMeekin, is gratefully
acknowledged, January 2011.
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