VILLAGES: x
AREA: 1,028 km2
STATE: Bombay
PRIVY PURSE: 140,442Rs
REVENUE: Rs
DYNASTY: Naik Nimbalkar
ACCESSION: 8th March 1948
RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 58,085 (1892)
PRESENT RULER: Raja Bahadur Shrimant RAMRAJE PRATAPSINH NAIK NIMBALKAR, Raja of Phaltan since 7th October 2004.
Installed 7th October 2004, married Rani Shrimant Rekha Naik Nimbalkar, and has issue.
Yuvaraj Aniket Ram Naik Nimbalkar
Sarojini Devi Naik Nimbalkar
Sai Naik Nimbalkar
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1270's. Rulers were...
Naik NIMBRAJ I NIMBALKAR 1284/1291
Naik PADAKHALA JAGDEVRAO DHARPATRAO NIMBALKAR 1291/1327
Naik NIMBRAJ II NIMBALKAR 1327/1349
Naik VANANG BHUPAL NIMBALKAR 1349/1374
Naik VANANGPAL NIMBALKAR 1390/1394
Naik VANGOJI I NIMBALKAR 1394/1409
Naik MALOJI I NIMBALKAR 1409/1420
Naik BAJI I NIMBALKAR 1420/1445
Naik POWARRAO NIMBALKAR 1445/1470
Naik BAJI II NIMBALKAR 1470/1512
Naik MUDHOJI II NIMBALKAR 1512/1527
Naik BAJI DHARRAO NIMBALKAR 1527/1560
Naik MALOJI II NIMBALKAR 1560/1570
Naik VANGOJI II JAGPALRAO NIMBALKAR 1570/1630, his sister, Dipa Bai, married Raja Maloji Bhonsle, Jagirdar of Pune.
Naik MUDHOJI II NIMBALKAR 1630/1644, married and had issue.
Naik BAJAJI I NIMBALKAR (qv)
Maharani Sai Bai, married Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI RAO BHONSLE I of Satara, and had issue. She died 6th June 1674.
Naik BAJAJI I NIMBALKAR 1644/1676, married and had issue.
Mahadaji Naik Nimbalkar, married Sakhu Bai, daughter of Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI I of Satara.
Naik VANGOJI NIMBALKAR III 1676/1693
Naik JANOJI NIMBALKAR 1693/1748
Naik MUDHOJIRAO NIMBALKAR III 1748/1765
Naik SAYAJIRAO NIMBALKAR 1767/1774
Naik MALOJIRAO NIMBALKAR III 1774/1777
Naik JANRAO NIMBALKAR II 1777/1827
Naik BAJAJIRAO NIMBALKAR II 1827/1841, married and had adoptive issue. He died 1841.
Raja Shrimant MUDHOJIRAO JANRAO [Bapu Saheb] NAIK NIMBALKAR IV 1841/1916, Deshmukh and Naik Nimbalkar of Phaltan, born 5th November 1838, succeeded 7th December 1841, installed 26th March 1860 (#1), C.S.I. [cr.1911] (#2), married and had issue. He died 1916.
Major HH Raja Bahadur Shrimant MALOJIRAO MUDHOJIRAO [Nana Saheb] NAIK NIMBALKAR IV (qv)
Rajkumar Venkatrao Naik Nimbalkar
Major HH Raja Bahadur Shrimant MALOJIRAO MUDHOJIRAO [Nana Saheb] NAIK NIMBALKAR IV 1916/1978, born 11th September 1896 in Nimbhore, succeeded 17th October 1916, Raja Bahadur [cr.1946], K.C.I.E. [cr.1942], Raja [cr.1936], Major [1936], married 18th December 1923?, HH Rani Lakshmi Devi, born 1901, died 1984, daughter of the Hon. Sardar Shambhusinghraje Jadhavrao K.I.H. of Malegaon, and had issue. He died 14th May 1978.
Raja Shrimant PRATAPSINH MALOJIRAO [Bapu Saheb] NAIK NIMBALKAR (see below)
Rajkumar Vijaysinh alias Shivajiraje Malojirao Naik Nimbalkar, born 1925, married and had issue, 3 children. He died 8th November 2001.
Rajkumar Udaysinhraje Malojirao Naik Nimbalkar, born 1927
Rajkumar Vikramsinhraje Malojirao Naik Nimbalkar, born 1933
Rajkumari Sarojini Devi Akkasaheb Naik Nimbalkar, born 1920
PRATAPSINH MALOJIRAO BAPUSAHEB NAIK NIMBALKAR 1978/2004, born 1923 and succeeded 1978, married and had issue. He died 6th October 2004.
Raja Bahadur Shrimant RAMRAJE PRATAPSINH NAIK NIMBALKAR (qv)
Raja Bahadur Shrimant RAMRAJE PRATAPSINH NAIK NIMBALKAR (see above)
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 417
2. "Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage", 1916 London, p.644