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  Maheshwar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The town lies on the north bank of the Narmada River, It is built on the site of the ancient city of Mahesvari, and was the capital of king Arjuna Kartavirya, who was mentioned in the Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana.
In the late eighteenth century Maheshwar served as the capital of Rajmata Ahilya Devi Holkar, ruler of the state of Indore.
She embellished the city with many buildings and public works, and it is home to her palace, as well as numerous temples, a fort, and riverfront ghats, broad stone steps which step down to the river.
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 Holkar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They are one of the prestigious dyansties whose name became associated with the very title of the ruler, which was generally known as Maharaja Holkar or Holkar Maharaja, while the official full title was Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri (personal name) Holkar Bahadur, Maharaja of Indore, with the colonial style of His Highness.
He was succeeded by Rajmata Ahilya Devi Holkar (reigned 1767-1795), his daughter-in-law.
In 1818, at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Maratha War, the Holkars lost much of their territory to the British and were incorporated into the British Raj as a princely state of the Central India Agency.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Malwa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Malhar Rao Holkar (1694–1766) became leader of Maratha armies in Malwa in 1724, and in 1733 the Maratha Peshwa granted him control of most of the region, which was formally ceded by the Mughals in 1738.
The Holkar dynasty ruled Malwa from Indore and Maheshwar on the Narmada until 1818, when the Marathas were defeated by the British in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, and the Holkars of Indore became a princely state of the British Raj.
The shrine of Hussain Tekri, built by the Nawab of Jaora, Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan Bahadur, in the 19th century, is on the outskirts of Jaora in the Ratlam district.
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 Pawar lmoney.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Ponwar Rawats, later Rajas, became tributaries of Sindhia in the 18th century.
The Maratha Peshwa Bajirao invaded Malwa in 1723, and his armies were led by Maratha generals that included Udaji Rao Ponwar, Malharao Holkar and Ranoji Sindhia.
Udaji Rao Ponwar established himself at Dhar in Malwa in 1728, but in 1732 fell out of favor with the Peshwa and was imprisoned; his younger brother Anand Rao Ponwar became the Raja of Dhar, and his descendants ruled the state until Indian Independence.
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 Maratha Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This was one great sign of the social mobility of the Maratha empire, which enabled their rapid expansion.
A clerk, such as Balaji or his son, and ordinary men like Shinde or Holkar, owed their positions to the aura of this great prince.
The Maratha_controlled regions were divided among the Gaekwads of Baroda, the Holkars of Indore & Malwa, and the Scindias of Gwalior (and Ujjain): these became strongholds of Maratha power.
www.kraeuter-und-gewuerze.de /en:Maratha_Confederacy   (1384 words)

  
 Ahilyabai Holkar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Rajmata Ahilyabai Holkar (1725 - 1795, ruled 1767-1795) was a ruler of the Malwa kingdom, India.
She was born in the village of Chaundi in the Konkan region of Maharashtra.
Twelve years later, her father-in-law, Malhar Rao Holkar, died.
www.tocatch.info /en/Rajmata_Ahilya_Devi_Holkar.htm   (154 words)

  
 Holkar Did You Mean holkar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Holkar were a prominent Maratha family, who ruled as rajas and later maharajas of Indore in central India as part of the Maratha Confederacy until 1818, and afterwards as a princely state of British India until India's independence, when the Holkars acceded to the Indian government.
By his death he ruled much of Malwa, and was acknowledged as one of the five virtually independent rulers of the confederacy.
Tukoji Rao Holkar (ruled 1795-1797) briefly succeded Rani Ahilyadevi upon her death.
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 Rajmata Ahilya Devi Holkar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 patiala5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The names of three of these ladies were (i) H.H. Maharani Sri Jashodha Devi Sahib, (ii) H.H. Maharani Sri Rewati Devi Sahib, and (iii) H.H. Maharani Sri Rupwant Devi Sahib.
November 1932), née Maharajkumari Shrimant Sumitra Raje Sahib Holkar, youngest daughter of H.H. Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Sir Tukojirao III Holkar XIII Bahadur, Maharaja of Indore, GCIE, by his wife, H.H. Maharani Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Sharmista Devi Sahib Holkar, née Nancy Anne Miller, of Seattle, Washington, USA.
4) Maharajkumari Bibiji Yadunandan Kaur Sahiba [Honey] [Rani Yaduvansh Kumari Sahiba, Rajmata of Nalagarh].
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 Mahavamsa 13: Mahinda's Ankunft
Malwa and neighbourhood according to the historical map of India by Fielding Lucas Jr.
Vaishnavites and most modern Hindus, see Indra as minor deity and contemporary Hindus generally worship a personal supreme God in the form of Shiva,Vishnu, Devi or Surya.
A puranic story illustrating the subjugation of Indra's pride is illustrated in the story of Govardhan hill where Krishna, avatar or incarnation of Vishnu carried the hill and protected his devotees when Indra, angered by non-worship of him, launched rains over the village.
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