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          Gangadhar Rao chose five year-old Anand Rao, his cousin's child, to be his adopted son.!

          Gangadhar Rao

          5th raja of Jhansi

          Gangadhar Rao Newalkar was the 5th Raja of Jhansi situated in northern India, a vassal of Maratha Empire.

          The object of the series is the publication of biographies of those eminent sons and daughters of India who have been mainly instrumental in our national.

        1. The object of the series is the publication of biographies of those eminent sons and daughters of India who have been mainly instrumental in our national.
        2. Maharaja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar of Jhansi was widowed and looking for a wife.
        3. Gangadhar Rao chose five year-old Anand Rao, his cousin's child, to be his adopted son.
        4. Hundred years ago, in , Lakshmibai, Ranee of Jhansi, fell in the battle of Gwalior and, for all practical purposes, the Indian Revolt came to an end.
        5. About the Author, Raja Rao. Raja Rao was born in in the village of Hassana, in Mysore in a very old South Indian Brahmin family.

          6. He was a MarathiKarhade Brahmin. He was the son of Shiv Rao Bhau and a descendant of Raghunath Hari Newalkar (who was the first governor of Jhansi under Maratha rule).[2]

          Biography

          The ancestors of Maharaj Gangadhar Rao hailed from a Brahmin family[3] of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.

          Some of them moved to Khandesh, when Peshwa rule began and served important posts in the Peshwa and Holkar armies. 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.

          On the death of Raghunath Rao III son of Shiv Rao Bhau in 1838, the British rulers accepted his brother Gangadhar Rao as the Raja of Jhansi in 1843.[6]

          He was an able administrator and he improv