DANTA (Princely State)

(9 gun salute)
AREA: 899 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 92,000Rs  ACCESSION: 6th November 1948
STATE: Gujarat  DYNASTY: Parmar RELIGION: Hindu
  POPULATION: 18,000 (1892)  
     
PRESENT RULER: HH Maharana Sri MAHIPENDRA SINGH, Maharana of Danta since the 10th of July 1989. (Bhavani Villa, Danta Bhawangad - 385120, Gujarat, India)
born 17th December 1948 in Bombay, married 6th March 1975 in Jaipur, HH Maharani Chandra Kumari, daughter of Yuvraj Surendra Pal Deo of Karauli, and his wife, Yuvrani Narendra Kumari, and has issue.
  • Maharajkumari Rituja Kumari, born 9th October 1976, married Maharajkumar Anant Pratap Deo, son of HH Maharaja Shri UDIT PRATAP DEO of Kalahandi, and his wife, HH Maharani Padma Manjari Devi, and has issue, one daughter.
  • Maharajkumar Riddhiraj Singh, born 3rd December 1980 in Jaipur, married 6th/9th March 2007, Maharajkumari Divyajyoti Devi, eldest daughter of Gajapathi Maharaj DIBYASINGHA DEB IV, Maharaja  of Puri, and his wife, Maharani Lilabati Pattamahadei.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Rulers were...

  • Maharana Sri PRITHVISINHJI GAJSINHJI 1687/1743
  • Maharana Sri KARANSINHJI 1743/-
  • Maharana Sri RATANSINHJI KARANSINHJI -/-
  • Maharana Sri ABHAISINHJI KARANSINHJI -/1795
  • Maharana Sri MANSINHJI ABHAISINHJI 1791/1800
  • Maharana Sri JAGATSINHJI ABHAISINHJI 1800/1823
  • Maharana Sri NARSINHJI ABHAISINHJI 1823/1847
  • Maharana Sri JALAMSINHJI NARSINHJI 1847/1859, married and had issue.
    • Maharana Sri SARDARSINHJI JALAMSINHJI (qv)
    • Maharajkumari (name unknown) Kumari, married 1876 (as his first wife), HH Maharao KESARI SINGHJI Bahadur of Sirohi, and had issue. She died 24th April 1899.
  • Maharana Sri SARDARSINHJI JALAMSINHJI 1859/1860
  • Maharana Sri HARISINHJI NARSINHJI 1860/1876
  • Maharana Sri JASHWANTSINHJI HARISINGHJI 1876/1908, born 14th October 1850, succeeded 1st December 1876 (#1), married and had issue.
    • HH Maharana Sri HAMIRSINHJI JASHWANTSINHJI (qv)
    • Maharajkumari (name unknown) Kumari, married as his second wife, HH Sri Raj-i-Rajan Maharawal Sir PRITHVI SINGH Bahadur of Banswara, and had issue.
  • HH Maharana Sri HAMIRSINHJI JASHWANTSINHJI 1908/1925, born 21st December 1869, succeeded 16th June 1908; married and had issue.
    • HH Maharana Sri BHAWANISINHJI HAMIRSINGHJI (qv)
  • HH Maharana Sri BHAWANISINHJI HAMIRSINGHJIHH Maharana Sri BHAWANISINHJI HAMIRSINGHJI 1925/1948 (abdicated), born 12th September 1899 and succeeded 20th November 1925, married 1914, HH Maharani Vijay Kanwar, born 1897, daughter of Maharaj MOOL SINGH of Raoti, Rao of Dattigaon, and his third wife, Rani Sundar Kanwar, and had issue.. He died 1953.
    • Rani Krishna Kumari fourth daughter, married 1945, Raja DEVI SINGH, Raja Sahib of Asope, and had issue, two sons and four daughters. She died 1995.
    • [?Maharajkumari (name unknown), married (as his first wife), Raja RAM SINGH of Khandela-Senior, and had issue.]
  • HH Maharana Sri PRITHVIRAJSINHJI 1948/- , born 1928, married 30th January 1948, HH Maharani Hemant Kumari, daughter of HH Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal Shri Sir LAKSHMAN SINGH Bahadur of Dungarpur, and his second wife, HH Maharani Manhar Kunwar, and had issue. He died 10th July 1989.
    • HH Maharana Sri MAHIPENDRA SINGH (qv)
  • HH Maharana Sri MAHIPENDRA SINGH (see above)
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.106