Pant Pratinidhi family

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Pant Pratinidhi family
Current region Pune, India
EtymologyThe Viceroy
Place of origin Kinhai, Satara, Satara District, Maharashtra, India
Members Parshuram Trimbak Pant Pratinidhi
Krishnarao Pant Pratinidhi
Shripatrao Pant Pratinidhi
Jagjivanrao Pant Pratinidhi
Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi
Parashuram Rao Pant Pratinidhi
Parashuramrao Shrinivas I
Connected families Gandekar family
Estate(s) Aundh State
Vishalgad estate

Pant Pratinidhi family is a prominent aristocratic noble family of India, who served as Pratinidhis to Chhatrapatis of Maratha Empire and later became rulers of the Princely states of Aundh and Vishalgad. [1] [2]

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The Pant Pratinidhi's were officers of the highest dignity under the Maratha Empire. They were ranked above all Ashta Pradhans and even above Peshwas during Rajaram I to Shahu I times. [3]

History

The family of the Pant Pratinidhi is descended from Trimbak Krishna, the Kulkarni (village officer) of Kinhai. Parshuram Trimbak Pant Pratinidhi, son of Trimbak Krishna was the founder of the family. Parshuram Pant Pratinidhi was born in 1660 in kinhai village. [4] The family name of Pant Pratinidhi family is Jaykar. [5]

Family tree

First generation

Second generation

Parshuram Trimbak married, had five sons and two daughters.

Third generation

Shrimant Krishnaji Parshuram married and had four sons.

Fourth generation

References

  1. Mahadeo Govind Ranade. Rise of Maratha Power. Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. p. 94.
  2. Apa Pant (1974). A Moment in Time. University of Nevada Press. p. 25. ISBN   9780340147900.
  3. Sumitra Kulkarni (1995). The Satara Raj, 1818-1848: A Study in History, Administration, and Culture. Mittal Publications. p. 41.
  4. 1 2 Bond 2006, p. 773.
  5. Maharashtra State Gazetteers: Kolhapur. Director of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, Maharashtra State. 1960. p. 94. The Chief of Vishalgad, styled Pant Pratinidhi, was a Deshasth Brahman and his family name was Jaykar.
  6. Stewart Gordon (1993). The Marathas 1600-1818, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 109.
  7. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay. Asiatic Society of Bombay. 1908. p.  142.
  8. Pant 1989, p. 12.
  9. Charles Umpherston Aitchison (2017). A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries, Vol. 6: Containing the Treaties, Etc., Relating to the Bombay Presidency; Part 1, the Peshwa, Baroda, Kathiawae, Palanpur Agency, Mahi Kantha and Rewa Kantha. Fb&c Limited. p. xiii.
  10. Pant 1990, p. 8.
  11. Pant 1990, p. 9.

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