PRESENT RULER: HH The Maharaja Bahadur of Dhar (Vacant since 1989).

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1728. Rulers were...

1. Raja UDAJIRAO I PUAR, 1st Raja of Dhar 1728/1732 (abdicated), died 1742.

2. Raja ANANDRAO I PUAR, 2nd Raja of Dhar 1732/1736 (abdicated), 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

3. Raja JASWANTRAO I PUAR, 3rd Raja of Dhar 1736/1761, born 1724, died in the Battle of Panipat in 1761.

   • Raja Khanderao Jaswantrao Puar (qv)

Rajmata Gahenabai Raje Sahib Puar, Regent of Dhar 1761/1777

4. 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

5. Raja ANANDRAO II PUAR, 5th Raja of Dhar 1782/1807, born 1763, married Rani (later Rajmata) Mainabai Sahib Puar, and had issue. He died 1807.

   • 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)

6. Raja RAMCHANDRARAO I PUAR, 6th Raja of Dhar 1807/1810, born 1807, died 1810.

REGENCY 1810/1827

7. 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

8. Raja JASWANTRAO II PUAR, 8th Raja of Dhar 1833/1857, born 1822, he succeeded by adoption. He died sp 1857.

Rajmata Sri Draupadibai Raje Sahib Puar, Regent of Dhar [23.5.1857] - [19.1.1858]

STATE CONFISCATED [19.1.1858] - [1.5.1860]

REGENCY [1.5.1860] - [1.10.1864]

9. 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 in 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 in 1883; K.C.S.I. [cr.1877], C.I.E. [cr.1883], married 1stly, Maharani (name unknown), died in January 1890, married 2ndly, 1890, Maharani (name unknown), and had adoptive issue. He died sp 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

10. 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], 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.

    • 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

11. 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.

12. HH Maharaja Shri JUGDEO RAO PUAR Bahadur, born 1921; Heir of his brother.