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{{Short description|Last King of Jawhar State}}
{{Sources|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox royalty
|name=Yashwantraoji Mukne
|title=Maharajah of [[Jawhar State]]
|image=Chamber of Princes 17-03-1941 detail.png
|caption=[[Maharaja]] Yashwant Raoji seating at fourth chair in second row in the meeting of [[Chamber of Princes]] in [[Delhi]], India, 1941
|coronation=26 May 1938
|regent=
|successor=None
|birth_name=Yashwant Rao
|birth_date=11 December 1917
|birth_place=[[Jawhar]], [[British India]]
|death_date={{death date and age|1978|6|4|1917|12|11|df=yes}}
|death_place=[[Jawhar]], [[Maharashtra]], India
|spouse=[[Priyamwande Mukne]], ([[Princess]] Kamala Bai Dafle of [[Jath State]])
|issue=[[Yuvraj]] [[Digvijaysingh Rao Mukne]], Princess Asharaje Sahiba, Princess Premaraje Sahba
|regnal name=Dada Saheb
|posthumous name=Godharma Pratipalak
|house=[[Mukne Dynasty]]
|father=Maharaja [[Martand Rao Mukne]] (Bhau Saheb)
|religion=[[Hindus|Hindu]]
|mother=Maharani [[Saguna Bai Mukne]]
|occupation=[[Flight Lieutenant]] in [[Royal Indian Air Force]]
}}

'''Maharaja Shrimant Yashwantraoji Martandraoji Mukne''' or '''Maharaja Patang Shahji Mukne''' ('''V''') ('''Dada Saheb''') (11 December 1917 – 4 June 1978) was the last [[Kolis|Koli]] ruler of [[Jawhar State]] in India and later became a politician. He was born in [[Jawhar]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iOsNUZ2MXgC&q=Mukni+Koli&pg=PA212|title=The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated of the Indian Empire|last=Lethbridge|first=Sir Roper|date=2005|publisher=Aakar Books|isbn=9788187879541|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Burman|first=J.J. Roy|date=1996|title=A comparison of sacred groves among the Mahadeo Kolis and Kunbis of Maharashtra|journal=Indian Anthropologist|volume=26|issue=1|pages=37–45|issn=0970-0927|jstor=41919791}}</ref>

[[File:Jawhar flag.svg|thumb|Flag Of Jawhar State]]

H.H Yashwantrao supported the revolutionaries directly or indirectly against [[British Rule]] in India. He attempted to established a factory to manufacture pistols and other firearms in [[Gorkha Kingdom|Nepal Kingdom]] in 1907.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sampath|first=Vikram|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E46nDwAAQBAJ&q=Jawhar+State&pg=PT103|title=Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924|date=2019-08-16|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5305-614-8|language=en}}</ref>

== History ==
[[File:Jaivilas Palace, Jawhar.jpg|thumb|Front View Of Jai Vilas Palace Built By Yashwant Raoji]]
Maharaja Mukne's father, Vikramshah Pantangshah, was Raja of Jawhar, a princely state in the [[Thane district]] of what was then [[Bombay Presidency]]. A benevolent ruler who served in World War I and was granted a nine-gun salute, he died at the age of 42, around 1928, having succeeded his father as ruler in 1917. He had a son and a daughter,<ref>{{cite newspaper |newspaper=The Times |date=11 January 1928 |title=The Rajah of Jawhar |page=17}}</ref> the former of whom succeeded him.

Yashwantrao Martandrao Mukne was too young to assume control at the time of his accession, so his mother, [[Rajmata]] [[Saguna Bai Mukne]], acted as regent. When he came of age in 1938, he assumed full ruling powers.{{cn|date=May 2019}}

He did good works such as by expanding development activities, encouraging the [[chemical]], [[paper]], [[textile]], [[dyeing]] and printing liquor and [[starch]] industries. He provided free primary education and medical relief, He ran both [[Middle school|middle]] and [[High school|high]] schools, a central library and [[museum]], hospital and maternity home. He provided touring dispensaries for rural areas of state. At the outbreak of [[World War II]], He volunteered for services and served as [[Flight lieutenant]] for four years in [[Royal Indian Air Force]].{{cn|date=May 2019}}

Jawhar State acceded to the newly independent India in 1947, after which Mukne was no longer ruler and entered politics.{{cn|date=May 2019}} As a member of the [[Indian National Congress]], he was elected to the [[1st Lok Sabha]] from the [[Thane (Lok Sabha constituency)|Thane]], which was a seat [[Reservation in India|reserved]] for candidates from the [[Scheduled Tribe]]s. He was subsequently elected to the [[3rd Lok Sabha]] from [[Bhiwandi (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhiwandi]] and to the [[4th Lok Sabha]] from [[Dahanu (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dahanu]], which was also a reserved constituency.<ref name="bioprofile"/>

==Education==
Born on 11 December 1917, Mukne was educated at [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot]], and at Old [[Blundell's School]] and the [[Middle Temple]] in England. He was married to Her Highness Priyamvada Raje, a princess of [[Jath State]], and had one son and two daughters. He lived at [[Jai Vilas Palace]], Jawhar, in Thane district.<ref name="bioprofile">{{cite web |url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1865.htm |title= Official biographical sketch |publisher=Parliament of India website |access-date=22 February 2012 }}</ref>

==References==
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