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{{Short description|Maratha dynasty that ruled the Gwalior State in India}}
{{About||the Maratha clan|Shinde|the neighbourhood|Scindia, Visakhapatnam}}
{{infobox royal house
| surname = House of Scindia
| coat of arms = Gwalior Coat of arms.png
| image =
| image_size = 150
| image_caption = Flag (1731–1948)
| country = [[Gwalior State]]
| founding year = 1731
| founder = [[Ranoji Scindia]]
| current head = [[Jyotiraditya Scindia]]
| final ruler = [[Jiwajirao Scindia]] (Gwalior) later the [[Rajpramukh]])
| estate = [[Gwalior Fort]] [[Shinde Chhatri]]
 [[Jai Vilas Palace]], Gwalior Samudra Mahal, Mumbai
| titles = *[[Raja of Gwalior]]
*[[Maharaja of Gwalior]]
*[[Vakil of the Mughal Empire|Vakil]] of the [[Mughal Empire]]
*[[Rajpramukh]] of Madhya Bharat
| deposition = 1948 (Gwalior State) 1971 ([[Rajpramukh]] under the Indian Union)|
}}{{Use Indian English|date=September 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
'''House of Scindia''' or earlier known as the Sendrak was a [[Maratha]] royal house. They claim descent from the mythical [[Nāga|Nagas]] beings, often associated with serpent worship, that ruled the erstwhile [[Gwalior State]] in central India. [[Ranoji Scindia]] rose as a prominent military commander under [[Peshwa]] [[Bajirao I]].<ref name="Embree1988"/><ref name="Ayyar1999"/><ref name="Chandra2003"/><ref name="seminar417424"/> Ranoji and his descendants, along with [[House of Holkar|Holkar]]s, played a leading role during the [[Maratha Empire|Maratha ascendancy]] in northern India in the 18th century. The Gwalior State became a [[princely state]] during the [[British Raj]] in the 19th and the 20th centuries. After [[India's independence]] in 1947 and the abolition of princely states, several members of the Scindia Dynasty went on to enter Indian politics.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

==Foundation==
[[File:Sardar Ranoji Scindia.jpg|thumb|Sardar Ranoji Scindia (First Maharaja of the Scindia Dynasty)|left]]
The Scindia dynasty was founded by [[Ranoji Scindia]], a personal servant and soldier of Peshwa [[Bajirao I]].<ref name="Embree1988">{{cite book|author=Ainslie Thomas Embree|title=Encyclopedia of Asian history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LtwpAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-18899-7|page=14|quote=Ranoji Scindia (d. 1750), the founder of Gwalior state, started his political career reputedly as a slipper-bearer at the court of the peshwa, or prime minister, of the Marathas, but soon rose to high office.|access-date=25 August 2020|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414084516/https://books.google.com/books?id=LtwpAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Ayyar1999">{{cite book|author=K. V. Krishna Ayyar|title=The Zamorins of Calicut: From the Earliest Times Down to A.D. 1806|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUtuAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Publication Division, University of Calicut|isbn=978-81-7748-000-9|quote=The carrying of the Pallimaradi before the Zamorin on public occasions might have been due to the same reason as the carrying of a pair of golden slippers before Scindia, whose ancestor was the slipper - bearer of Peshwa Baji Rao - to show his respect for his original humble office which was the cause of his subsequent success|access-date=25 August 2020|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414084517/https://books.google.com/books?id=oUtuAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Chandra2003">{{cite book|author=Satish Chandra|title=Essays on Medieval Indian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1BRuAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-566336-5|page=93|quote=The Sindhias, it is well-known, were drawn from a Kunbi family which had the hereditary patel-ship of Kumberkerrab in the district of Wai. The origins of the Holkar were even more humble: they belonged to the caste of goat-herds (dungar), the family holding zamindari rights in the village of Hal.|access-date=9 October 2020|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414084506/https://books.google.com/books?id=1BRuAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="seminar417424">{{cite journal|title=Seminar – Issues 417–424|page= 59 |author=Romila Thapar|year=1994|quote=Many peasant caste men who distinguished themselves in battle or otherwise served the ruler became Marathas. Witness the first Holkar who was a shepherd and the first Scindia who was a Kunbi personal servant of the Peshwa}}</ref> Ranoji prospered early under Bajirao because of the favorable circumstances created by the appointment of Bajirao as the Peshwa at the age of twenty. This had evoked jealousy from senior officials like Anant Ram Sumant, [[Shripatrao Pratinidhi|Shripatrao Pant Pratinidhi]], [[Khanderao Dabhade]] and Kanhoji Bhosle. This led Bajirao to promote as commanders of his troops talented young men who were barely out of their teens such as [[Malhar Rao Holkar]], the Pawar (Puar) brothers, Pilaji Jadhav, Fateh Singh Bhosale and Ranoji. None of these men belonged to families that held hereditary [[Deshmukh]]i rights under earlier rulers such as the Deccan Sultanates.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gordon |first1=Stewart |author-link=Stewart N. Gordon |title=The Marathas 1600–1818 |year=2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge [u.a.] |isbn=978-0521033169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHK-BhVXOU4C |pages=117–121 |access-date=15 May 2020 |archive-date=4 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704172644/https://books.google.com/books?id=iHK-BhVXOU4C |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sardesai |first=Govind Sakharam |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32142/ |title=New History of the Marathas: The expansion of the Maratha power, 1707–1772 |date=1946 |publisher=Phoenix Publications |pages=65, 69}}</ref> The Shindes or Scindias had served as [[shiledar]]s (cavalrymen) under the [[Bahmani Sultanate]] and played an important role in the state of affairs and held [[Patil (title)|Patilki]] of Kumberkerrab.<ref name="Eaton2005">{{cite book|author=Richard M. Eaton|title=A social history of the Deccan, 1300–1761: eight Indian lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGd2huLXEVYC&pg=PA188|access-date=16 July 2011|year=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-25484-7|pages=188–|archive-date=4 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704172644/https://books.google.com/books?id=cGd2huLXEVYC&pg=PA188|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Chandra2003"/>

There are otherwise several anecdotes about the origin of the Scindhias (Shindes), especially those recorded by [[Sir John Malcolm]].<ref name=Ramusack2004>{{cite book |title=The Indian Princes and their States |series=The New Cambridge History of India |first=Barbara N. |last=Ramusack |author-link=Barbara Ramusack |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-1139449083 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA35 |pages=35, 36 |access-date=11 April 2016 |archive-date=4 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704172710/https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA35 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Stewart N. Gordon|Stewart Gordon]] states the cultivator, etc. origin of other [[Maratha]]s.<ref name="Gordon1993">{{cite book|author=Stewart Gordon|title=The Marathas 1600–1818|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHK-BhVXOU4C&pg=PA15|date= 1993|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26883-7|pages=15–|quote=Looking backward from ample material on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we know that Maratha as a category of caste represents the amalgamation of families from several castes - Kunbi, Lohar, Sutar, Bhandari, Thakar, and even Dhangars (shepherds) – which existed in the seventeenth century and, indeed, exist as castes in Maharashtra today. What differentiated, for example, "Maratha" from "Kunbi"? It was precisely the martial tradition, of which they were proud, and the rights (watans and inams) they gained from military service. It was these rights which differentiated them from the ordinary cultivator, ironworkers and tailors, especially at the local level|access-date=15 May 2020|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414083928/https://books.google.com/books?id=iHK-BhVXOU4C&pg=PA15|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Historical ties with the Company and Britain==
[[File:Shinde Chhatri.jpg|thumb|[[Shinde Chhatri]], Wanawdi, [[Pune]]: A memorial dedicated to [[Mahadji Shinde]]]]
During the [[Second Anglo-Maratha War]], [[Daulat Rao Scindia]] suffered major defeats at the [[Battle of Assaye|Assaye]] and [[Battle of Laswari|Laswari]], leading him to sign the [[Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon]] in 1803 and surrender extensive territories to the [[East India Company]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gordon |first=Stewart |title=The Marathas 1600–1818 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1993 |pages=198–202}}</ref> Although still nominally a senior [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] chief, Scindia increasingly entered into direct arrangements with the British, often at moments when the [[Maratha Confederacy]] depended on unified action. Contemporary Maratha correspondence and later nationalist writings repeatedly portray his conduct as a breach of Maratha solidarity, noting that separate settlements and refusals to coordinate weakened the Confederacy's resistance at decisive stages.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kulkarni |first=Uday S. |title=The Era of Baji Rao II and Fall of the Maratha Empire |year=2016}}</ref>

Over the following decades, Scindia's court deepened its engagement with British authority. The dynasty pursued independent diplomacy with the Company, seeking favourable terms for the preservation of [[Gwalior State|Gwalior]] even as British influence expanded across [[North India]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Mehta |first=J. L. |title=Advanced Study in the History of Modern India |publisher=Sterling |year=2005 |page=90}}</ref> Several accounts describe these choices as politically expedient steps that undermined broader Maratha leverage. Critics writing after the fall of the Confederacy have characterised Scindia's approach during this era not simply as accommodation but as conduct that edged into open abandonment of Maratha interests at moments when collective strength might have altered the balance of power.

These accusations intensified dramatically during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]. [[Jayajirao Scindia]] remained officially loyal to the British even as large portions of the Gwalior contingent mutinied and joined rebel leaders like [[Rani Lakshmibai]] and [[Tatya Tope]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kim |first=Hyung-Eun |title=The Gwalior Contingent and the 1857 Rebellion |publisher=Routledge |year=2018}}</ref> Rebel correspondence, as well as later nationalist narratives, describes Scindia's refusal to support the uprising as a decisive blow to the rebellion in central India. His cooperation with British authorities, alongside his suppression of rebel-aligned forces, is widely interpreted as enabling the British recapture of [[Gwalior]] and sealing the strategic collapse of resistance in the region.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mukherjee |first= Rudrangshu |title=Awadh in Revolt, 1857–1858 |publisher=Anthem Press |year=2001}}</ref>

The magnitude of Scindia’s decision was captured in the remark attributed to Governor-General [[Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning|Lord Canning]]: "If Scindia joins the rebels, I shall pack up tomorrow and go to the hills."<ref>{{cite news |last=Singh |first=Pratinav Anil |title=The House of Scindia: The Family Reunion |url=https://openthemagazine.com/cover-story/the-house-of-scindia-the-family-reunion/ |publisher=Open Magazine |date=2020-03-13}}</ref> The comment reflects the British understanding that a Scindia defection would have tipped the rebellion's military balance, potentially transforming the uprising into a successful struggle for [[Indian independence movement|independence]]. The dynasty's loyalty to the Company at this critical moment has therefore remained one of the most frequently cited examples of a princely house whose choices shaped the outcome of both the [[Maratha Empire|Maratha decline]] and the failure of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|1857 revolt]].

==History==
===Maratha Period===
[[File:Scindia dynasty in 1795.png|thumb|500x500px|Territories of the [[Gwalior State|Gwalior]] in 1795]]
The Scindia dynasty was founded by [[Ranoji Scindia]], who was the son of Jankojirao Scindia, the [[Patil (title)|Patil]] of [[Kanherkhed]], a village in [[Satara District]], [[Maharashtra]].<ref name="Rathod1994">{{cite book|author=N. G. Rathod|title=The Great Maratha Mahadaji Scindia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPq640stHJ0C&pg=PA1|year=1994|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-85431-52-9|page=1}}</ref> [[Peshwa]] [[Baji Rao I|Baji Rao]]'s career saw the strengthening of the [[Maratha Empire]]. Ranoji was in charge of the [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] conquests in [[Malwa]] in 1726. Ranoji established his capital at [[Ujjain]] in 1731. His successors included Jayajirao, Jyotibarao, Dattajirao, Jankojirao, [[Mahadji Shinde]] and [[Daulatrao Scindia]].The Scindias became a major regional power in the latter half of the 18th century, and figured prominently in the three [[Anglo-Maratha Wars (disambiguation)|Anglo-Maratha Wars]].They held sway over many of the [[Rajput]] states, and conquered north India. In 1818, after accepting the terms of a [[subsidiary alliance]] with the British, the family shifted their base from Ujjain to [[Gwalior State|Gwalior]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

===Rulers of Gwalior state under the British===
After the defeat of the allied Maratha states by the British in the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]] of 1818, Daulatrao Shinde was forced to accept local autonomy as a [[princely state]] within British-occupied India and to give up Ajmer to the British. After the death of Daulatrao, Maharani Baiza Bai ruled the empire, saving it from the British power, till the adopted child Jankoji Rao took over the charge. Jankoji died in 1843, and his widow Tarabai Raje Scindia successfully maintained the position and adopted a child from close lineage named Jayajirao.{{cn|date=July 2023}}

===Accession of Gwalior state into Independent India===
The Scindia dynasty ruled Gwalior until India's independence from the [[United Kingdom]] in 1947, when the [[Maharaja]] [[Jiwajirao Scindia|Jivajirao Scindia]] acceded to the Government of India. Gwalior was merged with a number of other princely states to become the new Indian [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Madhya Bharat]]. Jiwajirao Scindia served as the state's [[rajpramukh]], or appointed governor, from 28 May 1948 to 31 October 1956, when Madhya Bharat was merged into [[Madhya Pradesh]].{{cn|date=July 2023}}

===Political careers of family members===
In 1962, [[Vijaya Raje Scindia|Vijayraje Scindia]], the widow of Maharaja Jiwajirao, was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]], beginning the family's career in electoral politics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vijaya Raje Scindia|url=http://www.sawnet.org/whoswho/?Scindia+Vijaya+Raje|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211050038/http://www.sawnet.org/whoswho/?Scindia+Vijaya+Raje|archive-date=11 February 2007|access-date=2006-12-04}}</ref> She was first a member of the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]], and later became an influential member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. Her son [[Madhavrao Scindia]] was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1971 representing the Jansangh Party, he joined Congress in 1980 and served until his death in 2001. His son, [[Jyotiraditya Scindia]], joined the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] and was elected to the seat formerly held by his father in 2004. He later joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] on 11 March 2020.{{cn|date=July 2023}} Vijayaraje's daughters have supported the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. [[Vasundhara Raje|Vasundhara Raje Scindia]] contested and won five [[Indian Parliament|parliamentary]] elections from [[Madhya Pradesh]] and [[Rajasthan]]. Under the Vajpayee government from 1998 onwards, Vasundhara was in charge of several different ministries. In 2003 she led the Bharatiya Janata Party to its largest majority in [[Rajasthan]], and became the state's [[Chief Minister]].<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite web |url=http://vasundhararaje.in/en/life-and-career |title=Life and Career – Vasundhara Raje |access-date=15 May 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606122810/http://vasundhararaje.in/en/life-and-career |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013 again, she led Bharatiya Janata Party to a thumping win in the state of Rajasthan, winning over 160 out of the 200 seats in the assembly elections. Her other daughter, [[Yashodhara Raje Scindia]], contested assembly elections from [[Shivpuri]] in Madhya Pradesh and won in 1998, 2003 and 2013 and also [[lok sabha]] 2004, 2009 from Gwalior. Upon the BJP's win in the state, she became the state's Minister for Tourism, Sports and Youth Affairs. Vasundhara's son [[Dushyant Singh]] entered the Lok Sabha in 2004 from Rajasthan.<ref>{{cite news|title =Dushyant Singh wins|url =https://www.ndtv.com/elections/lok-sabha-election-candidates-list-2019/dushyant-singh-20025-1|publisher =NDTV|access-date =15 May 2020|archive-date =16 July 2020|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20200716173914/https://www.ndtv.com/elections/lok-sabha-election-candidates-list-2019/dushyant-singh-20025-1|url-status =live}}</ref>[[File:Portrait of Mahadaji Scindia.jpg|thumb|290x290px|[[Mahadaji Shinde|Mahadaji Scindia]] was instrumental in resurrecting Maratha power in North India after the [[Battle of Panipat in 1761]]<ref>{{cite book|author=N. G. Rathod|title=The Great Maratha Mahadaji Scindia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPq640stHJ0C&pg=PA8|year=1994|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-85431-52-9|page=8}}</ref>]]
==Scindia Maharajas of Gwalior and Ujjain==
The heads of the Royal House of Scindia include:
*[[Ranoji Shinde|Ranoji Rao Shinde]] (1731 – 19 July 1745). Died 19 July 1745.
*[[Jayappa Shinde|Jayappa Rao Shinde]] (1745 – 25 July 1755). Born c. 1720, died 25 July 1755.
*[[Jankoji Rao Scindia I]] (25 July 1755 – 15 January 1761). Born in 1745. died 15 January 1761.
* [[Dattaji Rao Scindia]] (Regent 1755 – 10 January 1760). Died 10 January 1760.
* ''Vacant 15 January 1761 – 25 November 1763''
*[[Kadarji Rao Scindia]] (25 November 1763 – 10 July 1764) Died ?.
*[[Manaji Rao Scindia]] (10 July 1764 – 18 January 1768) Died ?.
*[[Mahadaji Scindia]] (18 January 1768 – 12 February 1794). Born 3 December 1730, died 12 February 1794.
*[[Daulat Scindia|Daulat Rao Shinde]] (12 February 1794 – 21 March 1827). Born 1779, died 21 March 1827.
*[[Jankoji Rao Scindia II]] (18 June 1827 – 7 February 1843). Born 1805, died 7 February 1843.
*[[Jayajirao Scindia|Jayaji Rao Scindia]] (7 February 1843 – 20 June 1886). Born 19 January 1835, died 20 June 1886.
*[[Madho Rao Scindia]] (20 June 1886 – 5 June 1925). Born 20 October 1876, died 5 June 1925.
*[[Jivajirao Scindia]] (Maharaja 5 June 1925 – 15 August 1947, Rajpramukh 28 May 1948 – 31 October 1956. Last Maharaja, later Rajpramukh) Born 26 June 1916, died 16 July 1961.
*[[Madhavrao Scindia]] (1961–2001), the last reigning Maharaja, before the abolishment of the monarchy in 1971.
===Titular Maharajas===
*[[Jyotiraditya Scindia]] (2001–present)
* Mahaaryaman Scindia ([[heir apparent]])

== Orders of chivalry ==
The Royal House of Scindia awards two [[orders of chivalry]]; these knighthoods were instituted by [[Madho Rao Scindia|Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia]] in 1900 and 1907, respectively, and include:

*''Mansab-i-Aswadi'' (Order of the Snake), awarded in three grades
*Gwalior Medal, awarded in three grades<ref name="Anmol1996">{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia Indica: Princely States in colonial India |date=1996 |publisher=Anmol Publications |isbn=978-81-7041-859-7 |page=85 |language=en}}</ref>

== Family tree ==

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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{Citation|title=Hobson-Jobson: a Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive|first1=Sir Henry|last1=Yule|first2=Arthur Coke|last2=Burnell|editor=William Crooke|publisher=J. Murray|year=1903|location=London|oclc=4718658|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Z5iAAAAMAAJ&q=killadar+etymology}}
* {{cite book|last=Hope|first=John |title=The House of Scindea – A Sketch by John Hope|url=https://archive.org/stream/houseofscindeask00hoperich#page/n5/mode/2up|year=1863|publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London}}
* {{cite book|last=Neelesh Ishwarchandra Karkare |title=Tawaareekh-E-ShindeShahi |year=2017|isbn= 978-93-5267-241-7}}

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House of Scindia - Revision history

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