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'''Maharao Raja''' ({{lit|Supreme [[Raja]] or [[King]]}}; feminine: '''Maharani''') is a royal title in the [[Indian subcontinent]] of [[Sanskrit]] origin.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lethbridge |first=Roper |url=http://archive.org/details/goldenbookofindi00lethuoft |title=The golden book of India, a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire |date=1893 |publisher=London Macmillan |others=Robarts - University of Toronto |pages=xxi}}</ref> It is one degree higher than [[Maharao]]. The word Maharao is a combination of ''Maha'' (meaning 'great') and [[Rao (title)|Rao]], which is a variation on [[Raja]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
The title of Maharao Raja was used by the rulers of [[Bundi State|Bundi]] and [[Kota state|Kotah]]. [[Budh Singh]] of Bundi received this title from the eighth [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Bahadur Shah I]] in 1707.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Solomon |first=R. V. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47sfj8DUwNgC |title=Indian States: A Biographical, Historical, and Administrative Survey |last2=Bond |first2=J. W. |date=2006 |publisher=Asian Educational Services |isbn=978-81-206-1965-4 |pages=154,215 |language=en}}</ref> Bhim Singh of Kotah was granted the title of Maharao by the tenth Mughal Emperor [[Farrukhsiyar]] in 1713 and began to use it by combining it with the title of [[Raja]], which was granted to his ancestor Madho Singh by the third Mughal Emperor [[Jahangir]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mathur |first=R. S. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Relations_of_Hadas_with_Mughal_Emperors/kHYtAAAAMAAJ |title=Relations of Hadas with Mughal Emperors, 1568-1720 A.D. |date=1985 |publisher=Deputy Publications |pages=107 |language=en}}</ref> This title was used by the rulers of [[State of Alwar|Alwar]] for some time as well. The first ruler of Alwar to assume this title was [[Sawai Pratap Singh Naruka|Pratap Singh]], and he began to use it in 1770, when he announced his independence from [[Kingdom of Amber|Jaipur]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hutchinson |first=Henry Neville |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Living_Rulers_of_Mankind/760aAAAAYAAJ |title=The Living Rulers of Mankind |date=1902 |publisher=G. Allen |pages=169 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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When the title of Maharaja was conferred by the [[British government of India|British Government]] as a hereditary distinction on [[Mangal Singh Prabhakar|Mangal Singh]] on 1 January 1889, from that date onwards the rulers of Alwar stopped using the title of Maharao Raja and began using the newly conferred title.<ref>{{Cite book |last=India |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_treaties_engagements_and/m9Ck1BUI_JUC |title=A collection of treaties, engagements, and sunnuds relating to India and neighbouring countries, compiled by C.U. Aitchison, revised and continued by A.C. Talbot. [With] An index, compiled by M. Belletty. revised |date=1892 |pages=286–287 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Usage ==<br />
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=== Bundi ===<br />
The ruler of [[Bundi State|Bundi]] bore the following styles and titles: ''His Highness Hadendra Shiromani Deo Sar Buland Rai Maharajadhiraj Maharao Raja Shri (personal name) Singhji Sahib Bahadur, Maharao Raja of Bundi''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Not Available |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59601 |title=The Indian Year Book 1945-46 Vol.xxxii |pages=1292}}</ref><br />
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=== Kotah ===<br />
The ruler of [[Kota state|Kotah]] bore the following styles and titles: ''His Highness Maharajadhiraj Maharaja Mahimahendra Maharao Raja Shri (personal name) Singhji Sahib Bahadur, Maharao Raja of Kotah''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encyclopaedia_Indica_Princely_States_in/qPYvAQAAIAAJ |title=Encyclopaedia Indica: Princely States in colonial India |date=1996 |publisher=Anmol Publications |isbn=978-81-7041-859-7 |pages=4–5 |language=en}}</ref> His consort bore the following: ''Her Highness Maharani (personal name) Sahiba''.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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