Ranjitsinhrao Gaekwad was the titular Maharaja of Baroda from 1988 to 2012. He succeeded his elder brother Fatehsinhrao II to the throne when the latter passed away without producing an heir. Ranjitsinhrao finished the education at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and had a post-graduate degree in fine arts. In 1959-60 he worked at the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts, London…
Lieutenant-Colonel Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Shrimant Maharaja Fatehsinghrao Prataprao Gaekwad, Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur, Maharaja of Baroda (2 April 1930, Baroda – 1 February 1988, Bombay) was an Indian politician, cricketer, and titular Maharaja of Baroda belonging to the Gaekwad dynasty of the Marathas. Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad was born to Pratap Singh Gaekwad, the last ruling Maharaja of Baroda and his first wife,…
Born in a Maratha family of Kolhapur Maharani Shantadevi, was the first wife of Maharaja Pratapsinrao Gaekwad. Her Father was Sardar Hausrkar Mansinhrao Subbarao of Hasur. Her engagement was arranged to Pratapsinhrao, when at the age of 13, Shantadevi came to Baroda to meet Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, who was impressed by her immediately. The marriage took place on January…
Maharaja Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad (29 June 1908 – 19 July 1968) succeded to the throne in 1939 after the demise of his grandfather Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III. He ruled for a period of ten years, from 1939 to 1949, until the assimilation of Baroda State into the Indian Union. After that, he held the role of titular Maharaja until 1951, when…
The sprawling cities that we see growing around us nowadays, are actually the results of a long process of evolution, evolution of culture, people, landscape and dynasties. The Baroda that we see today, the cultural capital of Gujarat, is just one example of these processes. Every place passes through the hands of many kings and dynasties, but every so often…
Pilaji Rao Gaekwad (d. May 14, 1732) was a Maratha general who can be credited as the founder of the Gaekwad Dynasty of Baroda. He succeded Damajirao Gaekwad I, his uncle who was second in command to the Senapati for the Peshwa. The Peshwa the effective ruler of the Maratha empire, appointed him to collect revenues from the territories in…