PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Also known as Rana Jagir, the story of the protection and
assistance extended by the Amarkot Ranas to the Mughal Emperor Humayun
when he was escaping the Afghan usurper Sher Shah Suri, is legendary
and it became the birthplace of Padshahzada Akbar,
future Emperor of Delhi. Rulers
were...
- Rana PARSHAD SINGH a contemporary of the Mughal Emperor
Humayum
(1530/1556)
- Rana BAHABUT SINGH, ancestor of the later Rana Sahebs of
Amarkot.
- Rana MEHRAJ SINGH, married and had issue.
- Rana ARJUN SINGH -/1947, married Rani Dev Kumari, and had
issue. He died
January 1947 (#1) .
- Rana CHANDER SINGH (see above)
- Thakur Saheb Inder Singhji, born 1934.
- Thakur Saheb Balbeer Singhji, born 1938, married Rani
Indira Kumari, youngest daughter of Rawat JAI SINGHJI, 3rd Rawat Saheb
of Meja.
 Rana CHANDER SINGH 1947/2009, born
1931 in Rana Jagir, Tharparkar District, elected Minister in the
Pakistan Assembly 1985/1992 (a record 9 times), married Rani Subhadra
Kumari, daughter
of Rawat TEJ SINGHJI of Rawatsar in
Bikaner,
and his wife, Rani Lakshmi Kumariji,
and had issue. He died 2009.
- Kunwar Jungvijay Singh, born 5th February 1956.
- Kunwar Hamir Singh, succededed as Rana HAMIR SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Bhopal Singh, born 7th October 1959.
- Kunwar Dr. Pritipal Singh Sodha, married Kunwarani
Ronilla
Singh Ranawat, daughter of Col. Thakur Ran Vijay Singh Ranawat of Kankarwa, and has issue, two sons.
- Bhanwar Shivdan Singh Sodha
- Bhanwar Bhawani Singh
Sodha
- Rajkumari Sangeeta Kumari, married to Thakur Narpat Singh
Ranawat of Shahpura in Jaipur,
and has issue, two children.
- Kunwar Shatrunjay Pratap Singh,
Conservationist working for
the survival of tigers in India.
- Kunwar Aditya Singh
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Thakur Aidan Singh, born about 1893 in Rana Jagir, married
and
had
issue.
- Thakur Bher Singh, married and had issue.
- HH Maharani Sahib Hawa Kanwar, married 1927 (as his
second wife), HH
Maharajadhiraj
Maharawal GIRDHAR SINGH of Jaisalmer,
and had issue. She died 1991.
- Kunwar Rajvir Singh, nephew of Rana Chander Singh, married
Kanwarani Uma Kanwar, daughter of Rawat Sawai HARI SINGH II of Begun, and his first wife, Rani
Kanchan
Kunwar.
- Kunwarani Sarita Kumari,
married Kunwar Himmat Singh, son
of Thakur
SAJJAN SINGH of Ghanerao.
- HH Maharani Sahib Jadau [Het] Kanwar of Amarkot(?Umarkot),
married
(as his second wife), HH
Maharajadhiraj Maharawal Sir JAWAHIR SINGH Bahadur of Jaisalmer.
- Kaurani Prakash Kanwar Sodha ji, married Maharaj
Chanderveer Singhji of Ratlam.
- Thakur Verishal Singhji, married and had issue.
- Rani Nain Kanwar
Sodisa, married Capt. Maharaj Mohan Singhji of Raoti, and has issue.
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