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1890, India, Indore State, Tukoji Rao III.  Silver  Rupee Coin. VF

Reference: KM-44. Denomination: Rupee Mint Place: Malharnagar Mint Period: 1890 (VS1947) Condition: A well-circulated VF.  Weight: 11.14gm  Diameter: 22mm Material: Silver

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 Sir Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Tukojirao III Holkar XIII Bahadur GCIE (26 November 1890 – 21 May 1978) was the Maharaja of Indore (Holkar State) belonging to the Holkar dynasty of the Marathas, son and successor of Shivajirao Holkar who abdicated in his favor on 31 January 1903. His mother was Akhand Soubhagyavati Shrimant Maharani Sita Bai Sahib Holkar. He completed his education from the Daly College, Indore and ICC, Dehradun.

He reigned under a regency council initially. He was sworn in with all the powers on 6 November 1911 at the age of 21. That same year he attended the coronation of George Vof England in London. He founded the Order of Merit of Holkar (February 1914) and the Order of Ahilyabai Holkar (22 November 1920). He was invested as a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in the 1918 New Year Honours. He abdicated in favour of his only son Yashwantrao Holkar II on 26 February 1926.

In 1895 he married Maharani Shrimant Chandravati Bai Sahib Holkar, in 1913 he married Maharani Akhand Soubhagyavati Shrimanta Indira Bai Sahib Holkar and 1928 with Maharani Akhand Soubhagyavati Shrimanta Sharmista Devi Sahib Holkar, an American born Nancy Anne Miller. Before the wedding, Nancy Anne Miller adopted Hinduism. Dr. Shrinivas Gosavi, personal physician to HH Tukojirao, had to ask Aadi Shankarachrya to intervene as the Hindu hierarchy around Tukojirao was against performing the conversion ceremony. Aadi Shankarachrya himself performed the ceremony and the wedding took place. Dr. Gosavi had received many death threats and went underground for some time till he prevailed.

HH Tukojirao died in Paris on 21 May 1978. He had one son and six daughters.