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{{Short description|Raja of Nagpur from 1755 to 1772}}
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| name = Janoji I
| title = [[Maharaja]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8r_BXh0tueMC&q=%22janoji%22+%22maharaja%22 | title=A Hand-book to the Records of the Government of India in the Imperial Record Department: 1748 to 1859 | date=1925 }}</ref><ref>A History of Orissa, Volume 2, p.307 [https://books.google.com/books?id=BxpDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22maharaja+janoji%22]</ref> <br> Senasahib Subha
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| caption = Equestrian portrait of Janoji Bhonsle
| succession = 2nd [[Maharaja]] of [[Nagpur kingdom|Nagpur]]
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| reign = 14 February 1755 – 21 May 1772
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| predecessor = [[Raghuji I]]
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| successor = [[Mudhoji I]]
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| birth_place = [[Nagpur]], [[Maratha Empire]] <br/> (present-day Nagpur, [[Maharashtra]], [[India]])
| death_date = 21 May 1772
| death_place = Nagpur, [[Maratha Confederacy]] <br> (present-day Nagpur, Maharashtra, India)
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| house = [[Bhonsles of Nagpur]]
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| father = [[Raghuji I]]
| mother = Sulā Bai [[Mohite (clan)|Mohite]]<ref name="state">{{cite web |title="Mahratta (Maratha) states- Nagpur": Indian Princely States K–Z |url=https://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_K-W.html#Nagpur |website=World statesmen |access-date=4 February 2023 |archive-date=26 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226221028/https://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_K-W.html#Nagpur |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name= "mehta">{{cite book |last1=Mehta |first1=Jaswant Lal |title=Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707–1813 |date=1 January 2005 |publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd |isbn=978-1-932705-54-6 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1wUgKKzawoC&pg=PA48 |language=en}}</ref>
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| religion = [[Hinduism]]
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* [[Fourth Maratha invasion of Bengal]]
* [[Fifth Maratha invasion of Bengal]]
* [[Battle of Rani Sarai]]
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[[File:Handwriting of Janoji Bhonsle.jpg|thumb|Handwriting of Janoji Bhonsle]]
'''Janoji I''' (Janoji Bhonsle, {{IPA|mr|d͡ʒaːɳod͡ʒi bʱoːsəleː}}; reigned 14 February 1755{{snd}}21 May 1772) was the second [[Maharaja]] of [[Kingdom of Nagpur|Nagpur]] from the [[Bhonsles of Nagpur|Bhonsle dynasty]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Saswadkar |first=P. L. |date=1977 |title=An Eighteenth Century Diplomat from Nagpur: Devajipant Chorghade |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42936585 |journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute |volume=37 |issue=1/4 |pages=155–162 |jstor=42936585 |issn=0045-9801}}</ref> He was one of the four legitimate sons of [[Raghuji I]]. Following a succession dispute with his brothers, Janoji ascended the throne in 1755, succeeding his father as the ruler of Nagpur.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Malik |first=Zahiruddin |date=1975 |title=Side Lights on the Administrative System of the Bhonsle State of Nagpur (1740–1772) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44138856 |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=36 |pages=310–320 |jstor=44138856 |issn=2249-1937}}</ref> He also participated in the conflict between [[Peshwa Madhavrao]] and the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]], aligning himself with [[Raghunathrao]]. In 1765, both Madhavrao and Raghunathrao later turned against him and jointly sacked and burned the city of [[Nagpur]]. Janoji eventually agreed to pay tribute to Madhavrao.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Divekar |first=V. D. |date=July 1982 |title=The Emergence of an Indigenous Business Class in Maharashtra in the Eighteenth Century |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/emergence-of-an-indigenous-business-class-in-maharashtra-in-the-eighteenth-century/DDA7C6E45AAC2D92D6D2FD022A16CD74 |journal=Modern Asian Studies |language=en |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=427–443 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X00015250 |issn=1469-8099|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He died in 1772 without leaving an heir and was succeeded by his brother, [[Mudhoji I]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Saswadkar |first=P. L. |date=1975 |title=Royal Weddings at Nagpur at the End of the Eighteenth Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42930952 |journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute |volume=35 |issue=1/2 |pages=138–144 |jstor=42930952 |issn=0045-9801}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1755 births]]
[[Category:1772 deaths]]
[[Category:People from the Maratha Empire]]

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