Vijayaraje scindia biography of williams

MAHADJI, THE FIFTH and youngest son of the founder of the House of Scindia, was considered the most powerful man in India in the late 18th century. Under him, Gwalior became the leading principality in the Maratha empire and one of the foremost Indian military powers. He restored the Mughals to Delhi, accompanying Shah Alam II there in He destroyed the Jats of Mathura and the Pashtun Rohillas, restricted the Nizam of Hyderabad to the Deccan and, most importantly, humbled the British in the First Anglo-Maratha War.

That was perhaps the greatest hour for the House of Scindia, equalled only two centuries later, in the rise of his descendant Jivajirao’s widow, Vijayaraje, who was instrumental in the establishment of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the BJP. Her only son, Madhavrao, fled the Jana Sangh (and briefly India) at the height of Emergency and in crossed the Rubicon by joining the Congress, leaving behind the mother and even

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Vijaya Raje Scindia

Rajmata of Gwalior (–)

Vijaya Raje Scindia
Scindia on postage cover of India
Tenure	21 February – 16 July
Successor	Madhavi Raje Scindia
Tenure	16 July – 25 January
Successor	Madhavi Raje Scindia
Religion	Hinduism
In office 5 April &#;– 2 April
Preceded by	V. G. Deshpande
Succeeded by	Ramsahai Pande
Constituency	Guna, Madhya Pradesh
In office 2 April &#;– 4 March
Preceded by	Suraj Prasad
Succeeded by	Ram Awtar Sharma
Constituency	Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
In office 15 March &#;– 18 January
Preceded by	Yashwant Singh Kushwah
Succeeded by	Raghubir Singh Machhand
Constituency	Bhind, Madhya Pradesh
In office 2 December &#;– 10 October
Preceded by	Mahendra Singh
Succeeded by	Madhavrao Scindia
Constituency	Guna, Madhya Pradesh
In office 10 April &#;– 2 December
Constituency	Madhya Pradesh
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Born	Lek • House of Scindia Maratha dynasty that ruled the Gwalior State in India For the Maratha clan, see Shinde. For the neighbourhood, see Shinde, Visakhapatnam. House of Scindia or earlier known as the Sendrak was a Hindu Maratha Royal House that ruled the erstwhile Gwalior State in central India. It had the Patil-ship of Kanherkhed in the district of Satara and was founded by Ranoji Scindia, who was sardar of maratha empire and real maratha warrior clan appointed by chattrapati shahuji maharaj-1's servant family from kokan worked as prime minister also known as PeshwaBajirao I.[1][2][3][4] Ranoji and his descendants, along with their rivals the Holkars, played a leading role during the Maratha ascendancy in northern India in the 18th-century. The Gwalior State became a princely state during the British Raj in the 19th and the 20th-centuries. After India's independence in and the abolition of princely states, several members of the Scindia Dy