Aundh State was a princely state

Princely state

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 in British India, in the Deccan States Agency

Deccan States Agency

The Deccan States Agency was a unit of British India exercising suzerainty over a number of princely states. The agency was created in the 1930s, and was composed of a number of princely states in western India, located in the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka...

 division of the Bombay Presidency

Bombay Presidency

The Bombay Presidency was a province of British India. It was established in the 17th century as a trading post for the English East India Company, but later grew to encompass much of western and central India, as well as parts of post-partition Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula.At its greatest...

. It was one of the Satara

Satara

Satara is a city located in the Satara District of Maharashtra state of India. The town is 2320 ft. above sea-level, near the confluence of the Krishna and its tributary river Venna. The city was the capital of the Maratha empire in the 17th century, hence one of the the historical cities of...

 Jagir

Jagir

In historic India, a jagir was a small territory granted by the ruler to an army chieftain in fairly short terms usually of three years but not extending beyond his lifetime, in recognition of his military service...

s, and was founded in 1699. It was founded by Parshuram Tryambak Pant Pratinidhi who was warrior during the period of Sambhaji Raje and Rajaram Maharaj. He played a very big role in re-capturing forts like Panhala Fort

Panhala fort

Panhala fort , also known as Panhalgad, Pahalla and Panalla , is located in Panhala, 20 kilometres northwest of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India. It is strategically located looking over a pass in the Sahyadri mountain range which was a major trade route from Bijapur in the interior of Maharashtra to...

, Ajinkyatara

Ajinkyatara

Ajinkyatara is a fort on one of the seven mountains surrounding the city of Satara in the Sahayadri Mountains of Maharashtra, India. It is a 16th Century fort and now also holds the television tower for the city of Satara...

 (at Satara), Bhupalgad from Moguls during period of 1700-1705. He was born in Deshastha Bhramin community. Aundh's Hindu

Hindu

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 rulers used the title of "Pant Pratinidhi". Its area was 1298 square kilometers. The state flag was a rectangular orange banner. The state suffered severely from the plague of 1911. The last Ruler of Aundh was HH Meherban Shrimant Raja Bhavan Rao Shrinivas (Bala Sahib), Pant Pratinidhi Of Aundh. It joined the Union of India on March 8, 1948.

Foundation of the state Aundh
1690 / 1699
Princes (Raja Raja Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna... s), with the title Pant Pratinidhi
from	to	raja Raja Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna...	born	died
1697	1718-05-27	Parusharam Trimbak	1660	1718
1718	1746-11-25	Shrinivasrao Parashuram		1746
1746	1754	Jagjivanrao Parashuram
1754	1776-04-05	Shrinivasrao Gangadhar		1776
1776	1777-08-30	Bhavanrao		1777
1777-08-30	1848-06-11	Parashuramrao Shrinivas	1777	1848
1848-06-11	1901	Shrinivasrao Parashuram "Anna Sahib"	1833-11-27	1901
1901	1905	Parashuramrao Shrinivas "Dada Sahib"	1858-02-17	1905
1905-11-03	1909-11-04	Gopalkrishnarao Parashuram "Nana Sahib"
1909-11-04	1947-08-15	Bhavanrao Shrinivas "Bala Sahib"	1868-10-24	1951-04-13
Prime-minister
from	to	raja Raja Raja is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna...	born	died
1944	1948	Parshuram Rao Pant Pant (surname) Pant is part of a compound of North Indian and Marathi surnames of people with a Hindu Brahmin background. The Pant surname is derived from the title pandit, symbolizing the community's traditional association with scholarship....	1912-09-11	1992-10-05