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First Official Raja of kolhapur.Deposed by his stepmother, Rajasbai in favour of her own son, Sambhaji II Sambhaji II: 1698 1714–1760 18 December 1760 Signed treaty of Varna with Shahu I to formalize the existence of two seats of the dynasty at Satara and Kolhapur respectively. [74] Shivaji III: 1756 22 September 1762 – 24 April 1813 24 ...
This title was used by the House of Bhonsle, between 1674 and 1818, as the heads of state of the Maratha Confederacy. The states of Satara and Kolhapur came into being in 1707, because of the succession dispute over the royalty.
Satara district (ISO: Sātārā Jilhā; Marathi pronunciation: [saːt̪aɾaː]) is a district of Maharashtra state in western India with an area of 10,480 km 2 (4,050 sq mi) and a population of 3,003,741 of which 14.17% were urban (as of 2011).
The Kolhapur State was a Maratha princely state of India, under the Deccan Division of the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency. [1] It was considered the most important of the Maratha principalities [citation needed] with the others being Baroda State, Gwalior State and Indore State.
Shivaji II (Shivaji Bhonsale, Marathi pronunciation: [ʃiˈʋaːdʑiː ˈbʱos(ə)le]; 9 June 1696 – 14 March 1726) was the fourth Chhatrapati of the Maratha Kingdom.He was the son of the Maratha Chhatrapati Rajaram I, and his wife Tarabai.
The Satara State was a Maratha rump state in India created after the fall of the Maratha Confederacy in 1818 following the Third Anglo-Maratha War, and annexed by the British in 1849 using the Doctrine of lapse. The state was ruled by the Bhonsle dynasty, descendants of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha kingdom.
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By 1670s, Shivaji had acquired extensive territory and wealth from his campaigns. [5] [11] But, lacking a formal crown, he had no operational legitimacy to rule his de facto domain and technically, remained subject to his Mughal (or Deccan Sultanate) overlords; in the hierarchy of power, Shivaji's position remained similar to fellow Maratha chieftains.