Gajendragad
Jagir
Present Head
(Dharwar, Karnataka, India)
History
Founder of the family was Shri Valabhasinh Cholaraj Ghorpade, the second son of Raja Cholaraj Ghorpade of Mudhol. The estate was recognized by the British Government as a saranjam and had been declared by the Bombay High Court in 1868 to be partible, the issue was re-examined in 1891 and the Government passed a Resolution in 1891 stating that “the whole of the Gajendragad estate was a saranjam continuable as hereditary in the fullest sense of the word”.
Genealogy
- Shrimant Sardar Bahirojirao Ghorpade Hindurao, Saranjamdar of Gajendragad, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao Bahirojirao [Appasaheb] Ghorpade Hindurao
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao Bahirojirao [Appasaheb] Ghorpade Hindurao, Saranjamdar of Gajendragad -/1844, recognised by the British Government as the Saranjamdar of the Gajendragad estate, married and had issue. He died .
- Shrimant Sardar Daulatrao Bhujangrao Ghorpade Hindurao
- Shrimant Sardar Daulatrao I Bhujangrao Ghorpade Hindurao, Saranjamdar of Gajendragad 1844/1864, married and had issue. He died .
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao Daulatrao Ghorpade Hindurao
- Shrimant Malojirao Daulatrao Ghorpade, he inherited 7 villages as his share of the patrimony; married and had issue.
- Shrimant Daulatrao III Malojirao Ghorpade, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Malojirao Daulatrao Ghorpade, married and had issue. He died after 1952.
- Shrimant Murarrao Malojirao Ghorpade, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Daulatrao Murarrao Ghorpade, adopted by his uncle (see below).
- Shrimant Shambhu Malojirao Ghorpade, adopted his nephew, married and had adopted issue.
- Shrimant Daulatrao Shambu Ghorpade (born as Shrimant Daulatrao Murarrao Ghorpade), adopted by his uncle (see above), married and has issue.
- Shrimant Shambhusinhrao Daulatrao Ghorpade
- Shrimant Daulatrao Shambu Ghorpade (born as Shrimant Daulatrao Murarrao Ghorpade), adopted by his uncle (see above), married and has issue.
- Shrimant Vijaysinhrao Malojirao Ghorpade, married and had issue.
- Kumari Sunila Raje Ghorpade, married Shrimant Rane of Sangli (Sankli?).
- Kumari Harshala Raje Ghorpade
- Kumari Methila Raje Ghorpade
- Shrimant Murarrao Malojirao Ghorpade, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Malojirao Daulatrao Ghorpade, married and had issue. He died after 1952.
- Shrimant Daulatrao III Malojirao Ghorpade, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Yeshwantrao Daulatrao [alias Annasaheb] Ghorpade, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Bhujangrao II Yeshwantrao Ghorpade
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao I Daulatrao Ghorpade Hindurao, Saranjamdar of Gajendragad 1864/1881, married Shrimant Rani Krishnabai, she adopted a relative on 3rd February 1882 who was recognised as the heir in respect of that portion of the estate which lay within the Principality of Kolhapur; the adoption was later recognized by the Bombay Government, regarding the property in British India, and a resolution was passed on the 26th of April 1882, embodying the above decision. He died sp 1881.
- (A) Shrimant Sardar Daulatrao II Bhujangrao Ghorpade Hindurao
- Shrimant Sardar Daulatrao II Bhujangrao Ghorpade Hindurao, Saranjamdar of Gajendragad 1881/1931, married and had issue. He died .
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao III Daulatrao Ghorpade Hindurao
- Shrimant Babasaheb Bahirojirao Daulatrao Ghorpade, married Bai Abayabai, she adopted her nephew, Shrimant Vijaysinhrao Dattajirao on 10th July 1941. He died .
- Shrimant Dattajirao Bahirojirao
- Shrimant Dattajirao Daulatrao Ghorpade, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Vijaysinhrao Dattajirao Ghorpade, adopted by Bai Abayabai, widow of Shrimant Babasaheb Bahirojirao Ghorpade on 10th July 1941.
- Shrimant Sardar Bhujangrao III Daulatrao Ghorpade Hindurao, Saranjamdar of Gajendragad 1932/-, he was granted the Saranjam of Gajendragad by order of the Government of Bombay on 7th June 1932. He died after 1952.