Tukojirao III

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| name = Tukojirao III
| image = HH Maharaja Tukoji Rao III Puar of Dewas Sr (cropped).jpg
| alt = Portrait of Maharaja Tukoji Rao III Puar
| caption = Portrait of Maharaja Tukoji Rao III Puar
| birth_name = Keshavrao Anandrao [[Pawar|Puar]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|1|1}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|12|21|1888|01|01}}
| death_place = [[Pondicherry]]
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| title = Maharaja of [[Dewas Senior]] princely state
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| children = [[Shahaji II|Vikramsinhrao]]
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'''Tukojirao III''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI}} (1 January 1888 – 21 December 1937) was the ruling [[Maharaja]] of the [[Maratha]] [[princely state]] of [[Dewas]] from 1900 to 1937. He succeeded to the ''gadi'' of Dewas following the death of his uncle, Raja Krishnajirao II.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} His tutor and guardian from 1907 was [[Malcolm Lyall Darling]].<ref name="dewey">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HGvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA102 |page=102 |title=Anglo-Indian Attitudes: Mind of the Indian Civil Service |first=Clive |last=Dewey |publisher=A. & C. Black |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-82643-254-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/papers/item/darling-m-l-papers/ |publisher=Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge |title=Darling, M.L. Papers |accessdate=2018-02-08}}</ref>

The first Maharaja of Dewas, he was granted the title by the British Government on his thirtieth birthday in 1918. The novelist [[E.M. Forster]] served as his secretary for a period in 1921. In 1934, Tukojirao fled from the British to [[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]] in [[French India]], leaving his only son [[Shahaji II|Vikramsinhrao]] to take charge of the state's affairs. He died in [[exile]] in Pondicherry three years later at the age of 48, and was succeeded by Vikramsihnrao, who himself exchanged the throne in 1946 to become [[Chhatrapati]] [[Shahaji II]] [[Bhonsle]], [[Maharaja]] of [[Kolhapur State|Kolhapur]].

==Titles==
*1888-1900: [[Sriman|Shrimant]] Keshavrao Anandrao [[Pawar|Puar]]
*1900-1911: [[His Highness]] [[Kshatriya]] Kulavatana Sena Sapta Sahasri Senapati Pratinidhi, [[Raja]] Shrimant Tukojirao III Puar, [[Raja]] of [[Dewas|Dewas (Senior)]]
*1911-1918: His Highness Kshatriya Kulavatana Sena Sapta Sahasri Senapati Pratinidhi, Raja Shrimant [[Sir]] Tukojirao III Puar, Raja of Dewas (Senior), [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]]
*1918-1937: His Highness Kshatriya Kulavatana Sena Sapta Sahasri Senapati Pratinidhi, [[Maharaja]] Shrimant Sir Tukojirao III Puar, [[Maharaja]] of Dewas (Senior), KCSI

==Honours==
*Delhi Durbar Gold Medal-1903
*Delhi Durbar Gold Medal-1911
*[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]] (KCSI)-1911
*[[King George V Silver Jubilee Medal]]-1935

==See also==
* [[List of Maratha dynasties and states]]
* [[List of Indian princely states]]
* [[Krishnajirao III]]
* [[Tukojirao IV]]
* [[Dhar State]]

==Sources==

==References==
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