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Sayajirao Gaekwad II

maharaja of Baroda

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16198665 ↗
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Sayaji Rao Gaekwad II was the eight Maharaja of Baroda State reigning from 1819 to 1847. He became Maharaja of Baroda after the death of Anand Rao Gaekwad. He was the third son of Govind Rao Gaekwad.

Succession

He died in 1847 and was succeeded by Ganpat Rao Gaekwad as the new Maharaja of Baroda state.

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“Sayajirao Gaekwad II” enters the record as maharaja of Baroda. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sayajirao, Gaekwad and maharaja can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sayajirao Gaekwad II” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.