PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY: The
state
was founded in 1731. Rulers were...
- Shrimant Hingoji, married and had issue.
- Chengoji, married and had issue.
- Dattaji
- Janoji, married and had issue.
- Reoji, married and had issue.
- Jotiba, married and had issue.
- Yemaji, married and had issue.
- Appaji, married and had issue. He died
after 1721.
- Kedarji, married and had issue.
- Babaji [Hanwant Rao Scindia]
- Roraji, married and had issue. He died
after 1713.
- Janoji, married and had issue.
- Kundaji, married and had issue.
- Patobha, married and had issue.
- Maharaja Scindia Jankojirao II
Scindia, 6th Maharaja of Gwalior (qv
and cf. below)
- Chengoji, married and had issue.
- Manaji [Jenkoji], married and had issue.
- Maharaja Scindia Ranojirao Scindia, 1st
Maharaja of Gwalior (see below)
- Sambhuji, married and had issue.
- Dhar, married and had issue.
- Raghunath, married and had issue.
- Manaji, married and had issue.
- Maharaja Scindia
RANOJIRAO SCINDIA, 1st Maharaja of Gwalior
1731/1745, married and had issue, as well as further
issue. He died 19th July 1745.
- Maharaja Scindia Jayapparao Ranojirao Scindia (qv)
- Shrimant Dattajirao Ranojirao Scindia, married and
had issue. He died 1760.
- Shrimant (name
unknown) Dattajirao Scindia, born 1760.
- Maharaja Scindia Madhavrao I Ranojirao Scindia
(qv)
- Shrimant Jyotiba Ranojirao Scindia, died 1760.
- Shrimant Tukojirao Ranojirao Scindia, married and
had issue. He died 1761 in battle at Panipat.
- Shrimant Jyotaba Tukojirao Scindia
- Shrimant Ravloji Tukojirao Scindia
- Shrimant Anandrao Tukojirao Scindia, married and
had issue.
- Maharaja Scindia Daulatrao Scindia (qv)
- Shrimant Roraji Tukojirao Scindia
- Shrimant Kedarji Tukojirao Scindia
- Maharaja Scindia
JAYAPPARAO SCINDIA, 2nd Maharaja of Gwalior
1745/1755, married and had issue. He died 25th July
1755.
- Maharaja Scindia Jankojirao I Scindia (qv)
- Maharaja Scindia
JANKOJIRAO I SCINDIA, 3rd Maharaja of Gwalior
1755/1761, died 15th January 1761.
- Maharaja Scindia
MADHAVRAO I SCINDIA, 4th Maharaja of Gwalior
1761/1794, born 1730, married and had issue. He died
12th February 1794 at Poona.
- Shrimant Maharajkumari Bala Bai Raje Saheb
Scindia, she married Raja Chandra Desmukh Bahadur,
died in 1796, she was granted her husband's Jagir BALA BAI
JAGIR (39 villages, lapsed in 1831) ,
on the 18th February 1804, which she held till her
death in 1831.
- Maharaja Scindia
DAULATRAO SCINDIA, 5th Maharaja of Gwalior
1794/1827 , born 1779/1780, married (amongst others),
Shrimant Maharani Baijabai, she died after 1833, and
had issue. He died 20th March 1827
- (A) Maharaja
Scindia Jankojirao II [Jivajirao Scindia] (adopted
by Maharani Baijabai)(qv)
- Shrimant Maharajkumari (name unknown) (by Maharani
Baijabai), married Sardar Sri Ramchandra Rao
Patankar, and had adoptive issue.
Maharani
Scindia
Baija Bai 1827/1833 (Maharani Regent) married Maharaja
Scindia Daulatrao Scindia (see above), and had
adoptive issue. She died after 1833.
- Maharaja Scindia
JANKOJIRAO II SCINDIA, 6th Maharaja of
Gwalior 1827/1843, born 1816, married (amongst
others), Shrimant Maharani Tara Bai Raje Saheb
Scindia, born 1832, and had adoptive issue. He died
7th February 1843.
- (A) HH Maharaja Scindia Jayajirao Scindia (qv)
- HH Maharaja Scindia
JAYAJIRAO SCINDIA, 7th Maharaja of Gwalior
1843/1886, born 1834 as Shrimant Bhagirathrao
Hanwantrao Shinde, married 1stly, a daughter of Sardar
Mamasaheb Kadam, married 2ndly, a lady from Jodhpur,
married 3rdly, a lady from Jodhpur, married 4thly,
1875, a daughter of Sardar Jadhav, and had issue, as
well as further issue. He died 20th June 1886.
- HH Maharaja Scindia Madhavrao II Scindia (by 4th
marriage) (qv)
- Shrimant Balwant Rao [Bhaiya Sahib Scindia]
(natural son), born 1854 (#1),
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 (#2).
- Shrimant Maharajkumari Gunvantabai Raje Saheb
Scindia [Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Gunvantaraje
Saheb Shitole], married Sardar Raj Rajendra Raja
Ramchandrarao Shitole Deshmukh (Photo),
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.
- Shrimant Maharajkumari (name unknown) Raje Saheb Scindia,
married Sardar Krishnarao Mahadik.
-
 HH Maharaja Scindia
MADHAVRAO II SCINDIA, 8th Maharaja of Gwalior
1886/1925 , born 20th October 1876, married 1stly,
1891, HH Maharani Chinkuraje, awarded the
Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1900 and the Order of the Crown
of India in 1928, died 23rd November 1931 at Bombay,
married 2ndly, 8th August 1913, HH Maharani Gajraje
Sahiba, daughter of the Sar Desai of Sankli, died
1943, and had issue. He died 5th June 1925 in Paris.
- HH Maharaja Scindia Sir Jivajirao Scindia (qv)
- Rani Kamalaraje Scindia, 11th November 1914,
married 1933, Meherban Shrimant Raja Vijaisinghrao
Bhonsle of Akalkot.
- HH Maharaja Scindia
Sir JIVAJIRAO SCINDIA, 9th Maharaja of
Gwalior 1925/1961, born 26th June 1916, married 21st
February 1941 Maharani Vijaya Raje, born 12th 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 25th January 2001, and had issue. He died 1961.
- Maharani Padma Raje Scindia, born 23rd February
1942, married 6th March 1960 HH Maharaja Kirit
Bikram Kishore Deb Burman of Tripura, and had
issue, two daughters. She died 26th April 1969.
- Maharajkumari Usharaje Scindia, born 31st 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 8th 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 9th,
10th, 11th and 12th 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
17th November 1972, HH Maharaj Rana Hemant Singh of
Dholpur, and has
issue.
- Shrimant Maharajkumari Yashodhara Scindia, born
19th 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, 10th Maharaja of
Gwalior 1961/2001, born 10th May 1945 in Bombay,
married 9th 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, 30th September 2001
and was cremated at Amma Maharaj Ki Chhatri, Gwalior
on the 4th October 2001.
- Yuvrani Chitrangada Scindia, born 14th February
1967, married 11th December 1987, Yuvraj
Vikramaditya Singh of Jammu and Kashmir
and has issue.
- HH Maharaja Scindia Jyotiradityrao Scindia (qv)
- HH Maharaja Scindia
JYOTIRADITYARAO SCINDIA, 11th Maharaja of
Gwalior (see above)
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born 1st 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 13th Lok Sabha in 2002,
Member of the Committee on Finance 2002/2004, re-elected
to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004, Member of the Committees on
Estimates, Petitions and Finance; 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 12th 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. 