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{{Infobox former subdivision
|conventional_long_name =Kurundwad State (1733–1854) Kurundvad Senior State (1854–1948)
|common_name =Kurundvad Senior
|nation = [[British India]]
|subdivision = [[Princely State]]
|era =
|year_start = 1733
|date_start =
|event_start=
|year_end = 1948
|date_end =
|event_end= [[Independence of India]]
|event1 =
|date_event1 =
|p1 =Maratha Empire
|s1 = India
|flag_p1 = Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg
|flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg
|image_flag = Flag of the Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR.svg
|image_coat =
|image_map = Kolhapur-Jath map.jpg
|image_map_caption =Kurundvad in the [[Imperial Gazetteer of India]]
|stat_area1 = 479
|stat_year1 = 1901
|stat_pop1 = 42,474
|today = [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
|footnotes =
}}
'''Kurundvad Senior''', also spelt as 'Kurundwad', was one of two [[Maratha]] [[princely state]]s during the [[British Raj]]: '[[Kurundvad Junior]]' and Kurundvad Senior. The two states separated in 1854 and less than a century later, on 8 March 1948, both states acceded to the [[Dominion of India|Indian Union]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/k/kurundwadsnr.html |title=Kurundwad Senior (Princely State) |access-date=1 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724063750/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/k/kurundwadsnr.html |archive-date=24 July 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Kurundvad Senior State was administered as part of the [[Deccan States Agency]] of the [[Bombay Presidency]].<ref>''[[Imperial Gazetteer of India]]'', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908</ref> Its capital was at [[Kurundvad]] a small town by the [[Panchganga river]] in [[Kolhapur district]]. The surface of was 479 km2, larger than Kurundvad Junior; its population in 1881 was 35,187 and by 1901 it reached 42,474 inhabitants, of which 34,000 were Hindu, 4,500 Muslim and 3,500 Jain.

==History==
The predecessor of the two states, Kurundvad State, was founded in 1733 following a grant by the Maratha [[Peshwa]] to Trimbakrao Patwardhan. A first division occurred in 1811. In 1819, Kurundvad State became a [[British protectorate]].

On 5 April 1854, Kurundvad State split into a Senior Branch and a Junior Branch. Although they held different territories, the capital, Kurundvad, was shared between the two states. The territory of both was widely scattered, forming [[enclave]]s within other native states and [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British districts]].<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Kuruntwad |volume=15 |page=954}}</ref> Kurundvad Senior retained 37 villages. The greater part of the state was formed by 25 villages located south of [[Belgaum]]. Another 10 villages were located in the valley of the [[Kistna]] river, mostly dispersed with swathes of [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British territory]] in between, but a few of these villages were also located within the [[Sangli State|Sangli]], [[Kolhapur State|Kolhapur]] and [[Miraj Senior|Miraj State]]s. The remaining two villages were particularly isolated from the rest of the princely state. These were the villages of [[Tikota]] (an enclave in [[Bijapur district, Karnataka|Bijapur District]], now in [[Karnataka]]) and [[Wategaon]] village (an enclave in [[Satara District]], now in [[Maharashtra]]) both separated from the rest of the territory.

==Rulers==
The rulers of the state belonged to the Patwardhan dynasty and bore the title 'Rao'.<ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_K-W.html Princely States of India]</ref>

*1733 – 1771 Trimbakrao I "Appa Sahib" Patwardhan (d. 1771)
*1771 – 3 March 1771 Nilkanthrao "Dada Sahib" Patwardhan (b. 1726 – d. 1771), son of Trimbakrao I
*1771 – 1801 Raghunathrao I "Dada Sahib" Patwardhan (b. 1750 – d. 1801), son of Nilkanthrao
*1801 – 18.. Trimbakrao II "Appa Sahib" Patwardhan, (years of rule unknown), son of Raghunathrao I
*18.. – 1827 Keshavrao "Baba Sahib" Patwardhan (b. ... – d. 1827), son of Trimbakrao II
*1827 – 1876 Raghunathrao II "Dada Sahib" Patwardhan (b. 1812 – d. 1876), son of Keshavrao
*25 Jan 1876 – 16 February 1908 Chintamanrao I "Bala Sahib" Patwardhan (b. 1849 – d. 1908), son of Raghunathrao II
*16 Feb 1908 – 10 September 1927 Bhalchandrarao "Anna Sahib" Patwardhan (b. 1873 – d. 1927), son of Chintamanrao I
*1927 – 1942 (regency) Sitabai Bhalchandrarao Patwardhan "Mai Sahib" (b. 1901 – d. 1969), wife of Bhalchandrarao and mother of Chintamanrao II
*1942 – 8 March 1948 Chintamanrao II "Bala Sahib" Patwardhan (b. 1921 – d. 1980), son of Bhalchandrarao
On 8 March 1948, the state acceded to India. Titular rulers of Kurundwad Senior in independent India have been:
*8 March 1948 – 15 January 1980 Chintamanrao II "Bala Sahib" Patwardhan (b. 1921 – d. 1980), son of Bhalchandrarao
*15 Jan 1980 – Present Bhalchandrarao II Chintamanrao Patwardhan (b. 1953)
The heir to the throne is Raghunathrao Bhalchandrarao Patwardhan (b. 1988), only son of the incumbent

==See also==
* [[Maratha Empire]]
* [[List of Maratha dynasties and states]]
* [[Political integration of India]]

==References==
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{{Princely states of the Deccan States Agency}}

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[[Category:History of Maharashtra]]
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