PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1552 when the thikana was granted to Thakur Pratap Singhji I, son
of Rao Viram Deoji of Merta, himself a grandson of Rao Jodha of Marwar. Due to it’s strategic nature,
Ghanerao had the unique
distinction
of a having a seat of nobility in both the houses of Mewar (Udaipur)
and Marwar (Jodhpur). Rulers were.....
- Thakur PRATAP SINGHJI 1552/1568, married and had issue.
- Thakur GOPALDASJI 1568/1626, married and had issue.
- Thakur KISHAN SINGHJI [Kishandasji] (qv)
- Thakur KISHAN SINGHJI [Kishandasji] 1626/1649, married and
had issue.
- Thakur DURJAN SINGHJI I (qv)
- Thakur DURJAN SINGHJI I 1649/1675, married and had issue.
- Thakur GOPINATHJI 1675/1704, married and had issue.
- Thakur SURAT SINGHJI (qv)
- Thakur SURAT SINGHJI 1704/1714, married and had issue.
- Thakur PRATAP SINGHJI II (qv)
- Thakur PRATAP SINGHJI II 1714/1720, married and had issue.
- Thakur PADAM SINGHJI (qv)
- Thakur PADAM SINGHJI 1720/1742, married and had issue.
- Thakur VIRAM DEOJI 1743/1778, the Thikana was transferred
to
Marwar about
this
time; married and had issue.
- Thakur DURJAN SINGHJI II (qv)
- Baijilal (name unknown),
married (as his first wife), Raja HAMEER SINGH of Banera, and had issue.
- Thakur DURJAN SINGHJI II 1778/1799
- Thakur HAMIR SINGHJI (qv)
- Thakur AJEET SINGHJI (qv)
- Thakur HAMIR SINGHJI 1799/1800
- Thakur AJEET SINGHJI 1800/1856, married and had issue.
- Thakur NAHAR SINGHJI (qv)
- Thakur HIMMAT SINGHJI (qv)
- Thakur NAHAR SINGHJI 1856/1866
- Thakur HIMMAT SINGHJI 1866/1874, married and had issue.
- Thakur JODH SINGHJI 1874/1929, married Thakurani Jadhav
Kunwar,
daughter HH Raja Rawat BALBHADRA SINGH
of Rajgarh, and his wife, Rani
Uday Kunwar, and had issue.
- Thakur LAXMAN SINGHJI 1929/1982, born 1909, adopted from
Kotri; educated at Mayo College,
Ajmer;
exercises
First Class Judicial powers, married Thakurani Prem Kumari of Kanod,
and had
issue, 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died 1982.
- Thakur Sahib SAJJAN SINGH (qv)
- Thakur Sahib Pushpendra Singh, married Thakurani
Rajeshwari
Kumari, daughter of Raja Padam Dev Singh of Poonch,
and his wife, Rani Manek Kunwar, and had issue. He died 1998.
- Thakur Khem Singh
- Kunwarani Bhavna Kumari married to Kunwar Shatrunjai
Singh of Deogarh.
- Thakur Sahib Mahendra Singh of Kotri, married Kumari
Pratap Kanwar
[now Thakurani Pratap
Kumari], daughter of Rawat Shri KHUMAN SINGH of Salumber,
and has issue.
- Thakur Sahib Lokendra Singh of Kotri, married 27th
March 1995, Thakurani Bhargavi
Kumari, daughter of Maharaj Arvind Singh
of Udaipur, and his wife, Rani Raj
Vijayraj Kumari, and has issue, one daughter.
- Baiji Lal Kumari Lokaviaa Rathore, born 1997.
- Thakurani Gayatri Kumari married to Thakur Veer Vijay
Singh of Umaidnagar.
- Thakur Sahib Mahabir Singh married to Rani Devendra
Kumari of Barwara,
and has issue.
- Kunwar Aayush Singh married Kunwarani Shivali Kumari,
and has issue, one
daughter.
- Baiji Lal Samriddhi Kumari, born 27th
April 2003.
- Bhanwar Sanat Singh Rathore
- Kunwar Siddharth Singh
- Kunwarani Shivani Kumari married to Maharaj Kushalpal
Singh
Jadeja of Jamnagar.
- Kunwarani Daulat Kumari, married 1949, Kunwar Sangram
Singh of Nawalgarh,
and has issue.
- Baiji Lal Phulendra Kumari (+), married Bad Kumar Shri
Pratap Gang Deo, second son of Raja DIBYASHANKAR SUDHAL DEB of Bamra, and had issue, four sons.
- Baiji Lal Prafullat Kumari married to Khejarla.
- Thakurani Jaswant Kumari married to Apji Thakur Jaswant
Singhji of Palaitha.
- Thakurani Jitendra Kumari married to Thakur Devendra
Singh of Kudsu.
- Thakur SAJJAN SINGHJI (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Baisa (name unknown), married (as his first wife),
Thakur Chaman Singh of Tana.
- Thakur (name unknown), younger brother of the Thakur
Sahib of Ghanerao, married the elder daughter of Raj
Rana DEVI SINGH of Tana, and his second
wife, Rani Naval Kunwar.
The generous help of Kunwar Suryabhan Singh Rathore is
gratefully acknowledged, March 2010. |