Kurundvad Junior, also spelt as 'Kurundwad', was of two

Maratha The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a M ...

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s during the

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: ' Kurundvad Senior' and Kurundvad Junior. The two states separated in 1854 and less than a century later, on 8 March 1948, both states acceded to the Indian Union. With a surface of 295 km², Kurundvad Junior was smaller than the territory ruled by the senior line. Its population in 1881 was 25,811 and in 1901 it had risen to 34,003. Like Kurundvad Senior, Kurundvad Junior State was administered as part of the

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of the

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. Its capital was at

Kurundvad Kurundwad is a town on the banks of the Panchganga river, 55 km from Kolhapur (Kolhapur district) in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Geography It is in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is 55 km from the dist ...

a small town by the

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Kolhapur district Kolhapur district (Marathi pronunciation: olʱaːpuɾ is a district in the Maharashtra state of India. The city of Kolhapur is its district headquarter. It is situated near Panchaganga river. It is bordered by the Sangli district to the Nor ...

. Although they held different territories, the capital, Kurundvad, was shared between the two states. The territory of both was widely scattered, forming

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s within other native states and British districts.

History

The predecessor of the two states, Kurundvad State, was founded in 1733 following a grant by the Maratha

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to Trimbakrao Patwardhan. A first division occurred in 1811. In 1819 Kurundvad State became a British protectorate. On 5 April 1854 Kurundvad State split into a Senior Branch and a Junior Branch. While Shrimant Raghunathrao continued the Senior Line, his three younger brothers ruled jointly in Kurundwad Junior. After the youngest brother died without issue the descendants of the two middle brothers continued to rule jointly till 1947, just before acceding to the Indian Union. Kurundvad Junior State included 34 villages of which 17 were located near

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, mostly on the southern side of the city. Other 15 villages were close to the border of

Hyderabad State Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...

, of which part of them were in

Sholapur District Solapur District (Marathi pronunciation: olaːpuːɾ is a district in Maharashtra state of India. The city of Solapur is the district headquarters. It is located on the south east edge of the state and lies entirely in the Bhima and Seena basi ...

. The remaining two villages were small enclaves within

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Rulers

The rulers of the state belonged to the Patwardhan lineage and bore the title 'Rao'.Princely States of India
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Raos

*1733 - 1771 Trimbakrao I "Appa Sahib Patwardhan" (d. 1771) *1771 - 3 Mar 1771 Nilkanthrao "Dada Sahib Patwardhan" (b. 1726 - d. 1771) *1771 - 1801 Raghunathrao I "Dada Sahib Patwardhan" (b. 1750 - d. 1801) *1801 - 18.. Trimbakrao II "Appa Sahib Patwardhan" *18.. - 1827 Keshavrao "Baba Sahib Patwardhan" *1827-1854 Raghunathrao II "Dada Sahib Patwardhan"

After the split

(Often ruling jointly) * 5 Apr 1854 - 1869 Trimbakrao III (d. 1869) * 5 Apr 1854 - 18.. Vinayakrao I (b. 1823 - d. ....) "Appa Sahib Patwardhan" * 5 Apr 1854 - 1899 Ganpatrao I Hariharrao (b. 1837 - d. 1899) *1876 - 1911 Hariharrao Vinayakrao (b. 1852 - d. 19..) "Daji Sahib Patwardhan" *29 Jul 1899 - 1931 Madhavrao Ganpatrao "Bhav Sahib Patwardhan" (b. 1875 - d. 1948) *1911 - 1932 Vinayakrao II Hariharrao "Nana Sahib Patwardhan" (b. 1877 - d. 1932) *1932 - 9 Nov 1942 Ganpatrao II Madhavrao (b. 1900 - d. 1942) "Bapu Sahib Patwardhan" *1942 - 15 Aug 1947 Ganpatrao III Trimbakrao (b. 1924 - d. 2004) "Tatya Sahib Patwardhan"

References

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History

Rulers

Raos

After the split

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