PRESENT RULER: Meherban Shrimant Raja of Miraj Junior

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The state of Miraj was founded before 1750 and split into Senior and Junior branches in 1820. Rulers were...

• Raja Shrimant GANGADHAR RAO PATWARDHAN, 6th Raja of Miraj-Senior 1801/1820

  • Raja Ganpatrao I Patwardhan (qv)

  • Madhav Rao, 1st Raja of Miraj-Junior, a younger son of Gangadhar Rao, was the founder of junior branch of this family. He died in 1845 and was succeeded by his son Lakshman Rao, who died in 1876, in his sixty-eighth year. (continued below)

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1. Raja MADHAVRAO I PATWARDHAN, 1st Raja of Miraj Junior 1820/1845

2. Raja LAKSHMANRAO I [ANNA SAHEB] PATWARDHAN, 2nd Raja of Miraj Junior 1845/1876, born 1807, died 1876.

3. Raja HARIHARRAO [DADA SAHEB] PATWARDHAN, 3rd Raja of Miraj Junior 1876/1877, died 1877.

4. Raja LAKSHMANRAO II [ANNA SAHEB] PATWARDHAN, 4th Raja of Miraj Junior 1877/1899, died 7th February 1899.

Rani Parbati Bai Sahiba 1899/1909 (regent)

5. Meherban Shrimant Raja Sir MADHAVRAO II HARIHAR BABASAHEB PATWARDHAN, 5th Raja of Miraj Junior 1899/1950, K.C.I.E., born 4th March 1889 and succeeded by adoption on 16th December 1899 ^(#1), educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; awarded the Delhi Durbar Medal in 1911, married and had issue. He died 6th May 1950.

   • Meherban Shrimant Raja Chintamanrao Madhavrao Balasaheb Patwardhan (qv)

6. Meherban Shrimant Raja CHINTAMANRAO PMADHAVRAO BALASAHEB ATWARDHAN, 6th Raja of Miraj Junior 1950/1972, born 1909, died 22nd January 1972.