PRESENT RULER: HH Maharaja Puar TUKOJIRAO IV PUAR, 9th Maharaja of Dewas-Snr (1999/-) (Anand Bhawan Palace, Dewas, India)

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1728. Closely related to Dewas Jnr. Rulers were....

1. Raja TUKOJIRAO I PUAR 1728/1753 died 1753

2. Raja KRISHNAJIRAO I PUAR 1753/1789

3. Raja TUKOJIRAO II PUAR 1789/1824

4. Raja RUKMANGADRAO PUAR 1824/1860

5. HH Raja KRISHNAJIRAO II [BABA SAHEB] PUAR 1860/1899, born November 1849, succeeded 18th March 1861 ^(#1), married and had issue.

   • HH Maharaja Sir TUKOJIRAO III PUAR (qv)

6. HH Maharaja Sir TUKOJIRAO III PUAR 1899/1937, born 1st January 1888, Maharaja [cr.1918], K.C.S.I. [cr.1911], educated at Daly College, Indore and at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 1908, HH Maharani Radhabai Akka Sahib of Kolhapur, and had issue. He died 21st December 1937.

   • HH Maharaja VIKRAMSINHARAP PUAR [NANA SAHEB] Maharaj (qv)

7. HH Maharaja VIKRAMSINHARAO PUAR [NANA SAHEB] Maharaj 1937/1948, born 4th April 1910, Maharaja of Kolhapur 1948/1983 as HH Sir Maharajah SHAHAJI II Chhatrapati, married 1926, and had issue. He died 9th May 1983

   • HH Maharaja Puar KRISHNAJIRAO III PUAR (qv)

   • Maharajkumari Shaliniraje Puar, married Shrimant Rajaramsinhrao Bhonsle of Nagpur, and had issue.

     • HH Maharaja SHAHU II Chhatrapati Rao of Kolhapur.

8. HH Maharaja Puar KRISHNAJIRAO III PUAR 1948/1999, born 1932, married and had issue. He died 1999.

   • HH Maharaja Puar TUKOJIRAO IV PUAR (qv)

9. HH Maharaja Puar TUKOJIRAO IV PUAR (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Maj. Sardar SHANKARRAO [APPASHEB] GAMBHIRRAO PUAR, great grandson of Bhagwantrao fl.1792, Home Member of Council of State in Dewas-Snr, Premier Jagirdar of Dewas-Snr.