1. Gangadhar Rao Newalkar was the 5th Raja of Jhansi situated in northern India, a vassal of Maratha Empire.
15 Facts About Gangadhar Rao
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Gangadhar Rao was the son of Shiv Rao Bhau and a descendant of Raghunath Hari Newalkar.
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Gangadhar Rao was the husband of the Rani of Jhansi, who became a symbol of resistance to British forces during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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The ancestors of Maharaj Gangadhar Rao hailed from a Brahmin family of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
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Subhedar Raghunath Haripant Newalkar alis Raghunath Rao II, strengthened Maratha polity in Bundelkhand, however as he grew old, he handed over the reins of Jhansi to his younger brother Raja of Jhansi Shiv Rao Bhau.
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Gangadhar Rao was an able administrator and he improved the financial condition of Jhansi, which had deteriorated during his predecessor's rule.
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Gangadhar Rao took corrective steps to ensure the growth and development of the town of Jhansi.
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Gangadhar Rao possessed wisdom, diplomacy, and was a lover of art and culture; even the British were impressed by his statesmanlike qualities.
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Maharaj Gangadhar Rao possessed considerable taste and some scholarship; he collected a fine library of Sanskrit manuscripts and enriched the architecture of the town of Jhansi.
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Gangadhar Rao was first married to Ramabai, who died soon after.
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Gangadhar Rao never became queen consort of Jhansi as Maharaj Gangadhar Rao started to hold the title of Raja in 1843, after Maharani Ramabai's death.
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On 19 May 1842, Maharaja Gangadhar Rao married a young girl named Manikarnika Tambe, later renamed as Lakshmibai, who was directly given the title of Rani after marriage.
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Gangadhar Rao eventually became the Queen of Jhansi and revolted against the British during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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Margashirsh Shukla Ekadashi, December 1851, she gave birth to a boy, named Damodar Gangadhar Rao, who died in March 1852.
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Later that year, Raja Gangadhar Rao adopted a child called Anand Rao, the son of his cousin Vasudev Newalkar of Parola, who was renamed Damodar Rao, on the day before he died.