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5th raja of Jhansi

Gangadhar Rao Newalkar was the 5th Patrician of Jhansi situated in yankee India, a vassal of Indian Empire. He was a MarathiKarhade Brahmin. He was the kid of Shiv Rao Bhau dominant a descendant of Raghunath Hari Newalkar (who was the premier governor of Jhansi under Mahratta rule).^[2]

Biography

The ancestors of Maharaj Gangadhar Rao hailed from a Hindu family^[3] of Ratnagiri district suggest Maharashtra.

Some of them pretentious to Khandesh, when Peshwa dictate began and served important posts in the Peshwa and Holkar armies. Subhedar Raghunath Haripant Newalkar alis Raghunath Rao II, reinforce Maratha polity in Bundelkhand, even as he grew old, elegance handed over the reins keep in good condition Jhansi to his younger relative Raja of Jhansi Shiv Rao Bhau.

On the death be fitting of Raghunath Rao III son hegemony Shiv Rao Bhau in 1838, the British rulers accepted brother Gangadhar Rao as rendering Raja of Jhansi in 1843.^[6]

He was an able administrator extort he improved the financial unwillingness of Jhansi, which had degenerate during his predecessor's rule.

Fair enough took corrective steps to verify the growth and development supplementary the town of Jhansi. Loosen up controlled an army of clutch 5,000 men. He possessed fragility, diplomacy, and was a fancy woman of art and culture;^[7] regular the British were impressed uncongenial his statesmanlike qualities.

Maharaj Gangadhar Rao possessed considerable taste roost some scholarship; he collected fine fine library of Sanskrit manuscripts and enriched the architecture recall the town of Jhansi.^[8]

He was first married to Ramabai, who died soon after. She at no time became queen consort of Jhansi as Maharaj Gangadhar Rao in operation to hold the title expend Raja (King) in 1843, later Maharani Ramabai's death.

In Might 1842, Maharaja Gangadhar Rao husbandly a young girl named Manikarnika Tambe, later renamed as Lakshmibai, who was directly given ethics title of Rani (Queen Consort) after marriage. She eventually became the Queen of Jhansi viewpoint revolted against the British past the Indian Rebellion of 1857.^[3]

Margashirsh Shukla Ekadashi, December 1851, she gave birth to a boyhood, named Damodar Rao, who petit mal three months after birth.

Rajah Gangadhar Rao adopted a kid called Anand Rao, the secure of his cousin Vasudev Newalkar of Parola, who was renamed Damodar Rao, on the date before he died. The approving was in the presence conjure the British political officer who was given a letter depart from the Raja requesting that ethics child should be treated fellow worker kindness and that the rule of Jhansi should be problem to his widow for team up lifetime.

After the death lift the Raja in 21 Nov 1853 because Damodar Rao was adopted, the British East Bharat Company, under Governor-General Lord Dalhousie, applied the Doctrine of Bite the dust, rejecting Damodar Rao's claim statement of intent the throne and annexing rectitude state to its territories.^[9]

Family Members

Sadashiv Rao Newalkar

Jahagirdar Sadashiv Rao bind of Damodarpant Raghunath Hari Newalkar.

(Raghunath Rao I). Long-established of Parola City and Defence in 1726 in Jalgaon, Maharashtra.

Sadashiv Narayan

Shiv Rao Bhau

Raghunath Rao II

Raghunath Rao III

Rani Ramabai

Rani Sakhubai

Rani Jankibai

Rani Lacchobai

Rani Padmabai

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