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	The '''Gaekwads ~~of Baroda~~''' (also spelled as '''Gaikwads''', '''Guicowars''', '''Gaekwars''') ([[IAST]]: ''~~Gāyǎkǎvāḍǎ~~'') are [[Hindu]] [[Maratha Empire~~] [[Gaekwad~~]] ~~dynasty of the Maratha Empire are originally of~~ [[~~Kunbi~~]] ~~origin~~. <ref>{{cite book \|title=The Indian Princes and their States \|series=The New Cambridge History of India \|first=Barbara N. \|last=Ramusack \|author-link=Barbara Ramusack \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|year=2004 \|isbn=9781139449083 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA35 \|page=35&36}}</ref> A dynasty belonging to this clan ruled the [[princely state]] of [[Baroda State\|Baroda]] in [[West India\|western India]] from the early 18th century until 1947.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Industrial Transition in Rural India: Artisans, Traders, and Tribals in South Gujarat \|first=Hein \|last=Streefkerk \|publisher=Popular Prakashan \|year=1985 \|isbn=9780861320677 \|url=https://archive.org/details/industrialtransi0000stre \|url-access=registration \|page=[https://archive.org/details/industrialtransi0000stre/page/n130 111]}}</ref> The ruling prince was known as the Maharaja Gaekwad of Baroda. With the city of [[Baroda]] ([[Vadodara]]) as its capital, during the [[British Raj]] its relations with the British were managed by the [[Baroda Residency]]. It was one of the largest and wealthiest princely states existing alongside [[British India]], with wealth coming from the lucrative cotton business as well as rice, wheat and sugar production.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/808132672.html?dids=808132672:808132672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+16%2C+1927&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=India+Has+Rich+State+In+Baroda&pqatl=google\|title=India Has Rich State in Baroda\|date=16 August 1927\|work=[[Hartford Courant]]}}</ref>		The '''Gaekwads''' of Baroda (also spelled as '''Gaikwads''', '''Guicowars''', '''Gaekwars''') ([[IAST]]: ''Gāyakavāḍa'') are a [[Hindu]] dynasty of the former [[Maratha Empire]] and its subsequent [[Princely States]].<ref>{{cite book \|title=The Indian Princes and their States \|series=The New Cambridge History of India \|first=Barbara N. \|last=Ramusack \|author-link=Barbara Ramusack \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|year=2004 \|isbn=9781139449083 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA35 \|page=35&36}}</ref> A dynasty belonging to this clan ruled the [[princely state]] of [[Baroda State\|Baroda]] in [[West India\|western India]] from the early 18th century until 1947.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Industrial Transition in Rural India: Artisans, Traders, and Tribals in South Gujarat \|first=Hein \|last=Streefkerk \|publisher=Popular Prakashan \|year=1985 \|isbn=9780861320677 \|url=https://archive.org/details/industrialtransi0000stre \|url-access=registration \|page=[https://archive.org/details/industrialtransi0000stre/page/n130 111]}}</ref> The ruling prince was known as the Maharaja Gaekwad of Baroda. With the city of [[Baroda]] ([[Vadodara]]) as its capital, during the [[British Raj]] its relations with the British were managed by the [[Baroda Residency]]. It was one of the largest and wealthiest princely states existing alongside [[British India]], with wealth coming from the lucrative cotton business as well as rice, wheat and sugar production.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/808132672.html?dids=808132672:808132672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+16%2C+1927&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=India+Has+Rich+State+In+Baroda&pqatl=google\|title=India Has Rich State in Baroda\|date=16 August 1927\|work=[[Hartford Courant]]\|access-date=6 July 2017\|archive-date=4 November 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104084919/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/808132672.html?dids=808132672:808132672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+16,+1927&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=India+Has+Rich+State+In+Baroda&pqatl=google\|url-status=dead}}</ref>

	[[File:Baroda Lvp.JPG\|thumb\|right\|400px\|[[Laxmi Vilas Palace]] of the Gaekwad dynasty.]]		[[File:Baroda Lvp.JPG\|thumb\|right\|400px\|[[Laxmi Vilas Palace]] of the Gaekwad dynasty.]]
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	==Early history==		==Early history==
	[[File:A print of the Gaekwar of Baroda.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright\|A print of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaikwad]]		[[File:A print of the Gaekwar of Baroda.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright\|A print of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaikwad]]
	The Gaekwad rule of [[Vadodara\|Baroda]] began when the [[Maratha Empire\|Maratha]] general [[Pilaji Rao Gaekwad]] conquered the city from the [[Mughal Empire]] in 1721. The Gaekwads were granted the city as a [[~~fief~~]] by [[Chhatrapati]] [[Shahu I]], the Chhatrapati of the [[Maratha empire]].		The Gaekwad rule of [[Vadodara\|Baroda]] began when the [[Maratha Empire\|Maratha]] general [[Pilaji Rao Gaekwad]] conquered the city from the [[Mughal Empire]] in 1721. The Gaekwads were granted the city as a [[Jagir]] by [[Chhatrapati]] [[Shahu I]], the Chhatrapati of the [[Maratha empire]].

	In their early years, the Gaekwads served as subordinates of the [[Dabhade]] family, who were the Maratha chiefs of Gujarat and holders of the ''senapati'' (commander-in-chief) title. When [[Umabai Dabhade]] joined [[Tarabai]]'s side against [[Balaji Baji Rao]], Pilaji's son [[Damaji Rao Gaekwad]] commanded the Dabhade force. He was defeated, and remained under Peshwa's arrest from May 1751 to March 1752. In 1752, he was released after agreeing to abandon the Dabhades and accept the Peshwa's suzerainty. In return, Damaji was made the Maratha chief of Gujarat, and the Peshwa helped him expel the Mughals from Gujarat.<ref name="CAKDBP_1918">{{cite book \|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofmaratha03kincuoft#page/2/mode/2up/search/umabai \|title=A History of the Maratha People Volume 3 \|authors=[[Charles Augustus Kincaid]] and [[Dattatray Balwant Parasnis]] \|year=1918 \|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] \|pages=2–10 }}</ref>		In their early years, the Gaekwads served as subordinates of the [[Dabhade]] family, who were the Maratha chiefs of Gujarat and holders of the ''senapati'' (commander-in-chief) title. When [[Umabai Dabhade]] joined [[Tarabai]]'s side against [[Balaji Baji Rao]], Pilaji's son [[Damaji Rao Gaekwad]] commanded the Dabhade force. He was defeated, and remained under Peshwa's arrest from May 1751 to March 1752. In 1752, he was released after agreeing to abandon the Dabhades and accept the Peshwa's suzerainty. In return, Damaji was made the Maratha chief of Gujarat, and the Peshwa helped him expel the Mughals from Gujarat.<ref name="CAKDBP_1918">{{cite book \|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofmaratha03kincuoft#page/2/mode/2up/search/umabai \|title=A History of the Maratha People Volume 3 \|authors=[[Charles Augustus Kincaid]] and [[Dattatray Balwant Parasnis]] \|year=1918 \|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] \|pages=2–10 }}</ref>

	Damaji subsequently fought alongside [[Sadashivrao Bhau\|Sadashiv Rao]], [[Vishwasrao\|Vishwas Rao]], [[Malhar Rao Holkar]], ~~Janakoji~~ and [[Mahadji Shinde]] in the [[Third Battle of Panipat]] (1761). After the Maratha defeat at Panipat, the central rule of the Peshwas was weakened. As a result, the Gaekwads, along with several other powerful Maratha clans, established themselves as virtually independent rulers, while recognizing the nominal authority of the Peshwas and suzerainty of the [[Bhonsle]] Maharaja of [[Satara State\|Satara]].		Damaji subsequently fought alongside [[Sadashivrao Bhau\|Sadashiv Rao]], [[Vishwasrao\|Vishwas Rao]], [[Malhar Rao Holkar]], [[Jankoji Rao Scindia\|Jankoji Scindia]] Sidhojiraje [[Gharge-Desai (Deshmukh)]] and [[Mahadji Shinde]] in the [[Third Battle of Panipat]] (1761). After the Maratha defeat at Panipat, the central rule of the Peshwas was weakened. As a result, the Gaekwads, along with several other powerful Maratha clans, established themselves as virtually independent rulers, while recognizing the nominal authority of the Peshwas and suzerainty of the [[Bhonsle]] Maharaja of [[Satara State\|Satara]].

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	==Gaikwad Maharajas of Baroda==		==Gaikwad Maharajas of Baroda==
	[[File:Pilajirao Gaikwad.jpg\|thumb\|Pilaji Rao, the founder of the dynasty]]		[[File:Pilajirao Gaikwad.jpg\|thumb\|Pilaji Rao, the founder of the dynasty]]
	~~[[File:Maharaja SAYAJIRAO 1.jpg\|thumb\|Maharaja [[Sayaji Rao Gaekwad\|Sayaji Rao I]]]]~~
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{{Short description|Hindu Maratha dynasty (1721–1947)}}
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The '''Gaekwads of Baroda''' (also spelled as '''Gaikwads''', '''Guicowars''', '''Gaekwars''') ([[IAST]]: ''Gāyǎkǎvāḍǎ'') are [[Hindu]] [[Maratha Empire] [[Gaekwad]] dynasty of the Maratha Empire are originally of [[Kunbi]] origin. <ref>{{cite book |title=The Indian Princes and their States |series=The New Cambridge History of India |first=Barbara N. |last=Ramusack |author-link=Barbara Ramusack |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9781139449083 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA35 |page=35&36}}</ref> A dynasty belonging to this clan ruled the [[princely state]] of [[Baroda State|Baroda]] in [[West India|western India]] from the early 18th century until 1947.<ref>{{cite book |title=Industrial Transition in Rural India: Artisans, Traders, and Tribals in South Gujarat |first=Hein |last=Streefkerk |publisher=Popular Prakashan |year=1985 |isbn=9780861320677 |url=https://archive.org/details/industrialtransi0000stre |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/industrialtransi0000stre/page/n130 111]}}</ref> The ruling prince was known as the Maharaja Gaekwad of Baroda. With the city of [[Baroda]] ([[Vadodara]]) as its capital, during the [[British Raj]] its relations with the British were managed by the [[Baroda Residency]]. It was one of the largest and wealthiest princely states existing alongside [[British India]], with wealth coming from the lucrative cotton business as well as rice, wheat and sugar production.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/808132672.html?dids=808132672:808132672&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+16%2C+1927&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=India+Has+Rich+State+In+Baroda&pqatl=google|title=India Has Rich State in Baroda|date=16 August 1927|work=[[Hartford Courant]]}}</ref>

[[File:Baroda Lvp.JPG|thumb|right|400px|[[Laxmi Vilas Palace]] of the Gaekwad dynasty.]]

==Early history==
[[File:A print of the Gaekwar of Baroda.jpg|thumb|left|upright|A print of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaikwad]]
The Gaekwad rule of [[Vadodara|Baroda]] began when the [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] general [[Pilaji Rao Gaekwad]] conquered the city from the [[Mughal Empire]] in 1721. The Gaekwads were granted the city as a [[fief]] by [[Chhatrapati]] [[Shahu I]], the Chhatrapati of the [[Maratha empire]].

In their early years, the Gaekwads served as subordinates of the [[Dabhade]] family, who were the Maratha chiefs of Gujarat and holders of the ''senapati'' (commander-in-chief) title. When [[Umabai Dabhade]] joined [[Tarabai]]'s side against [[Balaji Baji Rao]], Pilaji's son [[Damaji Rao Gaekwad]] commanded the Dabhade force. He was defeated, and remained under Peshwa's arrest from May 1751 to March 1752. In 1752, he was released after agreeing to abandon the Dabhades and accept the Peshwa's suzerainty. In return, Damaji was made the Maratha chief of Gujarat, and the Peshwa helped him expel the Mughals from Gujarat.<ref name="CAKDBP_1918">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofmaratha03kincuoft#page/2/mode/2up/search/umabai |title=A History of the Maratha People Volume 3 |authors=[[Charles Augustus Kincaid]] and [[Dattatray Balwant Parasnis]] |year=1918 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=2–10 }}</ref>

Damaji subsequently fought alongside [[Sadashivrao Bhau|Sadashiv Rao]], [[Vishwasrao|Vishwas Rao]], [[Malhar Rao Holkar]], Janakoji and [[Mahadji Shinde]] in the [[Third Battle of Panipat]] (1761). After the Maratha defeat at Panipat, the central rule of the Peshwas was weakened. As a result, the Gaekwads, along with several other powerful Maratha clans, established themselves as virtually independent rulers, while recognizing the nominal authority of the Peshwas and suzerainty of the [[Bhonsle]] Maharaja of [[Satara State|Satara]].

==British suzerainty==
[[File:SayajiRao Gaekwad.jpg|thumb|right|Sayajirao with Richard Temple, the Governor of Bombay and other members of the court. Circa 1880]]
The Gaekwads, together with several [[Maratha]] chieftains, fought the [[United Kingdom|British]] in the [[First Anglo-Maratha War]].

On 15 March 1802, the British intervened to defend a Gaekwad Maharaja, [[Anand Rao Gaekwad]], who had recently inherited the throne against rival claimants, and the Gaekwads concluded the Treaty of Cambey with the British that recognized their independence from the [[Maratha empire]] and guaranteed the [[Maharaja]]s of Baroda local autonomy in return for recognizing British suzerainty.

[[Maharaja Sayyaji Rao III|Maharaja Sayaji Rao III]], who took the throne in 1875, did much to modernize Baroda, establishing compulsory primary education, a library system and the [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]]. He also encouraged the setting up of [[textile]] factories, which helped create Baroda's textile industry. He is well known for offering [[B. R. Ambedkar]] a scholarship to study at [[Columbia University]].

Upon [[India]] attaining its independence in 1947, the last ruling Maharaja of [[Vadodara|Baroda]], Pratapsinhrao, acceded to India. Baroda was eventually merged with [[Bombay State]], which was later divided, based on linguistic principle, into the [[states and territories of India|states]] of [[Gujarat]] and [[Maharashtra]] in 1960.

Gaekwad, or Gayakwad, also survives as a fairly common Maratha [[surname]], found mainly in the Indian state of [[Maharashtra]].

==Gaikwad Maharajas of Baroda==
[[File:Pilajirao Gaikwad.jpg|thumb|Pilaji Rao, the founder of the dynasty]]
[[File:Maharaja SAYAJIRAO 1.jpg|thumb|Maharaja [[Sayaji Rao Gaekwad|Sayaji Rao I]]]]
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* Nandaji Rao Gaikwad, died May 1721
**{{Tree list/final branch}} Kerojirao
***{{Tree list/final branch}} Jhingojirao
****{{Tree list/final branch}} '''[[Pilaji Rao Gaikwad]]''', reigned from 1721, died 14 May 1732
*****[[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''I. [[Damaji Rao Gaekwad|Damaji Rao]]''', reigned from 1732, died 18 August 1768
******[[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''II. [[Sayaji Rao I Gaekwad|Sayaji Rao I]]''', reigned 1768–1778, died 1792
******[[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''III. [[Fateh Singh Rao Gaekwad|Fateh Singh Rao I]]''', born before April 1751, reigned from 1778, died 26 December 1789
******[[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''IV. [[Manaji Rao Gaekwad|Manaji Rao]]''', born before April 1751, reigned from 1789, died 27 July 1793
******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''V. [[Govind Rao Gaekwad|Govind Rao]]''', born 175?, reigned from 1793, died 19 September 1800
*******[[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''VI. [[Anand Rao Gaekwad|Anand Rao]]''', born 179?, reigned from 1800, died 2 October 1819
*******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''VI. [[Sayaji Rao Gaekwad II|Sayajirao II]]''', born 3 May 1800, reigned from 1819, died 28 December 1847
********[[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''VII. [[Ganpat Rao Gaekwad|Ganpat Rao]]''', born 1816, reigned from 1847, died 1856
********[[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''VIII. [[Khanderao II Gaekwad|Khanderao II]]''' [[Order of the Star of India|GCSI]], born 1828, reigned from 1856, died 14 June 1870
********{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''IX. [[Malhar Rao Gaekwad|Malhar Rao]]''', born 1831, reigned 1870 – 19 April 1875, died in obscurity in 1882
*****{{Tree list/final branch}} Prataprao (d. 1737 Kavlana branch)
******{{Tree list/final branch}} Kalojirao
*******{{Tree list/final branch}} Gabajirao
********{{Tree list/final branch}} Bhikajirao
*********{{Tree list/final branch}} Kashirao (1832-1877)
**********{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''X. [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III|Sayajirao III]]''' [[Order of the Star of India|GCSI]], [[Order of the Indian Empire|GCIE]], born 10 March 1863, reigned from 1875, died 6 February 1939
***********{{Tree list/final branch}} ''Yuvraja'' Fatehsinhrao (1883-1908)
************{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''XI. [[Pratap Singh Rao Gaekwad|Pratap Singh Rao]]''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|GCIE]], born 29 June 1908, reigned from 1939, titular Maharaja from 1949, deposed 1951, died 19 July 1968
*************[[Image:Simple silver crown.svg|15px]] '''XII. [[Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad|Fatehsinhrao II]]''', born 2 April 1930, titular Maharaja 1951–1971, family head: 1971–1988, died 1 September 1988
*************{{Tree list/final branch}} '''XIII. [[Ranjitsinh Pratapsinh Gaekwad|Ranjitsinh]]''', born 8 May 1938, family head from 1988, died 9 May 2012
**************{{Tree list/final branch}} '''XIV. [[Samarjitsinh Gaekwad|Samarjitsinh]]''', born 25 April 1967, family head since 2012
{{Tree list/end}}

==See also==
* [[List of Maratha dynasties and states]]
* [[Bhonsle]]
* [[Scindia]]
* [[Holkar]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.gaekwadsofbaroda.com/ Official Website of the Gaekwads of Baroda]

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