PRESENT RULER: Vacant since 1984.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A Second Class state founded about 1400. The rulers claim descent from the Ranas of Chittor about 1300. The Raja is first in order of precedence within the agency. Rulers were...

1. Rana BHAIRAVJI [Bosaji], granted the Jagir of Mudhol, comprising 84 villages on the 25th, Rabilaval, 800H, with this ruler the family came to use Bhosale or Bhonsle as a family name, married and had issue. He died after 800H (c1394).

   • Rana DEVRAJ SINGH (qv)

   • Shri Karan Singh, died 815H

2. Rana DEVRAJ SINGH c1394/c1420, married and had issue. He died 825H.

   • Rana UGRASEN (qv)

   • Shri Pratap Singh, died after 1460.

3. Rana UGRASEN c1420/1453, married and had issue. He died 1453.

   • Rana KARAN SINGH (qv)

   • Shri Shubha Krishna, received a jagir in Mirat province, his descendants retained Bhonsle as their family name and were ancestors of the rulers of Kolhapur, Nagpur, Sattara and Tanjore.

4. Rana KARAN SINGH 1453/1469, married and had issue.

   • Raja BHIM SINGH (qv)

5. Raja BHIM SINGH 1469/- , received the title of Raja Ghorpade Bahadur, henceforth his successors used Raja as their title, and Ghorpade as their family name, married and had issue.

   • Raja KHELOJI GHORPADE (qv)

6. Raja KHELOJI GHORPADE -/1514, married and had issue.

   • Raja MALOJI GHORPADE I (qv)

7. Raja MALOJI GHORPADE I 1514/-, married and had issue.

   • Raja AKHAISINGH GHORPADE (qv)

8. Raja AKHAISINGH GHORPADE -/-, married and had issue.

   • Raja KARANSINGH GHORPADE (qv)

   • Shri Bhimsingh Ghorpade, died c1576.

9. Raja KARANSINGH GHORPADE -/1565, married and had issue. He died 1565.

   • Raja CHOLARAJ GHORPADE (qv)

10. Raja CHOLARAJ GHORPADE 1565/1578, received a mansab of 7000 foot, as well as 26 villages in Vijayanagar provinces and 40 more to the south of Shira, he married and had issue. He died 1578.

    • Raja PIRAJI GHORPADE (qv)

    • Shri Valabhasinh Cholaraj Ghorpade, ancestor of the Royal Families of Kapshi and Gajendragad.

    • Shri Kanoji Cholaraj Ghorpade, ancestor of the Rajas of Sandur.

11. Raja PIRAJI GHORPADE -/-, married and had issue.

    • Raja PRATAPRAO GHORPADE (qv)

12. Raja PRATAPRAO GHORPADE [Nahuji] -/1645, died 1645.

13. Raja BAJIRAJE GHORPADE 1645/c1666, married and had issue, (4 wives and 6 sons were killed c1666). He was killed c1666.

    • Shrimant Raja MALOJI GHORPADE I (qv)

    • Shri Shankroji Ghorpade [Jaisingh], died 1666/1667 near Tasgaon.

14. Shrimant Raja MALOJI GHORPADE I c1666/1700, during his rule, the jagir became an independent state in 1670, married and had issue. He died 1700.

    • Shrimant Raja AKHAYAJIRAO MALOJIRAO GHORPADE (qv)

15. Shrimant Raja AKHAYAJIRAO MALOJIRAO GHORPADE 1700/1734, Governor of Bijapur -/1734, married and had issue. He died 1734.

    • Shrimant Raja PIRAJIRAO AKHAYAJIRAO GHORPADE (qv)

    • Shri Bajirao Akhayajirao Ghorpade

16. Shrimant Raja PIRAJIRAO AKHAYAJIRAO GHORPADE 1734/-, married and had issue. He died about 1738.

    • Shrimant Raja MALOJIRAO PIRAJIRAO GHORPADE III (qv)

    • Shrimant Sahib Shankrojirao Pirajirao Ghorpade, received lands in Bilgi, Bidri and Tikota.

      • Several Generations

        • Shrimant Raja Sankhraji of Bilgi, he died 9th August 1820 whereupon the jagir was resumed by the British government ^(#2).

17. Shrimant Raja MALOJIRAO PIRAJIRAO GHORPADE III -/1805, Governor of Bijapur 1738/-, married (a), a Rajput lady, married (b), another Rajput lady, married (c), a lady from Pole, married (d), a lady from Kathiawar, married (e), a Parmar lady, and married (f), a Solanki lady, and had issue. He died 1805.

    • Shrimant Sahib Govindrao Raje Malojirao Ghorpade (by 1st wife), married and had issue. He died about 1770.

      • Shrimant Raja NARAYANRAO GOVINDRAO GHORPADE (qv)

    • Shrimant Sahib Maharrao Malojirao Ghorpade (by 1st wife)

    • Shrimant Sahib Bajirao Malojirao Ghorpade (by 2nd wife)

    • Shrimant Sahib Ranojirao Malojirao Ghorpade (by 3rd wife), married and had issue. He died 1779.

      • Shrimant Sahib Nahirjirao Ranojirao Ghorpade, granted the Jagir of Padsalgi.

18. Shrimant Raja NARAYANRAO GOVINDRAO GHORPADE 1805/1815, married 1stly, a Solanki Rani (Senior Queen), married 2ndly, a Parmar Rani (Junior Queen), and had issue. He died 1815.

    • Shrimant Raja VYANKATRAO NARAYANRAO GHORPADE I (by 1st wife) (qv)

    • Shrimant Sahib Laxmanrao Ghorpade (by 1st wife), married Rani Laxmi Bai Saheb, married and had issue. He died after 1845.

      • Shrimant Sahib Narayanrao Ghorpade

    • Shrimant Sahib Govindrao Ghorpade (by 2nd wife), eldest son, though by the Junior Queen, contested the succession unsuccessfully, died 1818 at the Battle of Ashtee ^(#3).

19. Shrimant Raja VYANKATRAO NARAYANRAO GHORPADE I 1815/1854, married and had issue. He died 1854.

    • Shrimant Raja BALWANTRAO VYANKATRAO GHORPADE (qv)

20. Shrimant Raja BALWANTRAO VYANKATRAO GHORPADE 1854/1862, born 1843, married 1857, a daughter of the Chief of Torgal, and his wife, Rani Ahilya Bai Sahib, and had issue. He died 1862.

    • HH Shrimant Raja Meherban VYANKATRAO BALWANTRAO RAJE GHORPADE [BALA SAHEB] (qv)

    • Rani Radhabai Sahib, born 1861, married Meherban Shrimant Rajamanya Rajashri Jaisinhrao Narayanrao [Abasaheb] Ghatge Sarjerao Vajarat-ma-ab, 4th Chief of Kagal-Senior, and had issue. She died 1877.

21. HH Shrimant Raja Meherban VYANKATRAO BALWANTRAO RAJE GHORPADE II [BALA SAHEB] 1862/1900, born 9th April 1861, succeeded 27th March 1862 ^(#1), educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; established a regular system of government in the State, married and had issue. He died 1900.

    • HH Shrimant Raja Meherban Sir MALOJIRAO VYANKATRAO GHORPADE IV [NANA SAHEB] (qv)

    • Rajkumar Laxman Singh, died after 1938.

22. HH Shrimant Raja Meherban Sir MALOJIRAO VYANKATRAO GHORPADE IV [NANA SAHEB] 1900/1937 (abdicated), born 1884, K.C.I.E. [cr.1920], Hon. 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army, served with the British Forces in Egypt 1914/1918; he was granted the title of Raja as a hereditary distinction on 3rd June 1922; married 1stly, sister of Col. HH Maharaja Shri Sir UDAJIRAO II PUAR Bahadur of Dhar, 2ndly daughter of the Jadeja Giras family of Kathiawar, and had issue, 2 sons and 1 daughter.

    • HH Shrimant Raja BHAIRAVSINHRAO MALOJIRAO GHORPADE II (qv)

23. HH Shrimant Raja BHAIRAVSINHRAO MALOJIRAO GHORPADE II 1937/1984, born 15th October 1929 and succeeded 9th November 1937 as the 23rd Raja of Mudhol, married 1stly, Rani Pramila Raje of Rajkot, ?married 2ndly, Rani Indira Raje, and had issue. He died 1984 in a car accident.

    • Rajkumari Menaka Raje Bhonsle