1/4 Anna India Copper

1888, India, Indore State, Shivaji Rao.  Nice Copper 1/4 Anna  Coin.

Reference: KM-32.3. Denomination: 1/4 Anna Mint Place: Malharnagar Mint Year: 1888 AD (VS 1945) Material: Copper Diameter: 26mm Weight: 6.68gm

Indore State, also known as Holkar State, was a Maratha princely state in India during the British Raj. Its rulers belonged to the Holkar dynasty and the state was under the Central India Agency. Indore was a 19 gun salute (21 locally) princely state (a rare high rank). Indore princely state was located in the present-day Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The capital of the state was the city of Indore. The state had an area of 24,605 km² and a population of 1,325,089 in 1931. Other important towns besides Indore were Rampura, Khargon, Maheshwar, Mehidpur, Barwaha, and Bhanpura; there were a total of 3,368 villages.

Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Sir Shivaji Rao Holkar Bahadur XII (Indore, 11 November 1859 – Maheshwar, 13 October 1908) was the Maharaja of Indore(Hokar State) belonging to the Holkar dynasty of the Marathas. He was the son of Tukojirao Holkar II and Maharani Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Parvati Bai Sahib. He was educated at the Daly College, Indore, a prestigious school in central India along with the rulers of the Ratlam State, Dewas Sr. State & other Thakurs of the princely states in Madhya Bharat. .

e succeeded his father when he died on 17 June 1886. He visited England in 1887 to attend the celebrations of the golden wedding of the queen-empress, and was made Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India on 20 June 1887.

His administration was poor. The resident had been separately removed from Indore since 1854, but since 1899 the British appointed a new resident specific for better oversight of the state. The currency of the state was replaced in 1902 by the currency of British India.

He abdicated on 31 January 1903 in favour of his son Tukojirao Holkar III, (born in 1890) .

In 1865 he married Maharani Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Girja Bai Sahib Holkar, later Maharani Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Varanasi Bai Sahib Holkar, Shrimant Maharani Sahib Akhand Soubhagyavati Chandrabhaga Bai Holkar, Maharani Sita Bai Soubhagyavati Shrimant Akhand Sahib Holkar.

He died at Maheshwar on 13 October 1908. He had two sons and six daughters.