PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Predecessor
state of Dhundhar (Dausa) founded in 1093 by DULEH RAI (DULHA RAO).
Known as Amber
from the 1300's to 1727 when a new capital called Jayapura was built.
The
state was then renamed Jaipur. Rulers were....
- Raja SODH DEV 966/1006, Raja of Dausa, son of Raja
Ishwar Das of Gwalior.
- Raja DULHA RAO 1006/1036 or 1093/1136, Raja of
Dausa, married 1006, Rani Meroni, a daughter of Raja Ralhan Singh
Chauhan, Raja
of Ajmer, part of the dowry included the region of Dhundhar, and had
issue.
- Raja KANKAL DEV 1036/1038
- Raja HUNA DEV 1039/1053
- Raja JANAD DEV 1053/1070
- Raja PUJANA DEV 1070/1084 or 1185/1191 , married
(amongst others), a
sister of Raja
Prithviraj III,
King of Delhi, and had issue.
- Raja MALESI DEV 1094/1146
- Raja BYALA DEV 1146/1179
- Raja RAJA DEV 1179/1216
- Raja KILHAN DEV 1216/1276
- Raja KANTAL DEV 1276/1317, ancestor of the Gogawat
clan,
including
the Thakurs of Duni.
- Raja JANSI DEV 1317/1366, married and had issue.
- Rao Kumbha of Banskhoh (one of the 12 bara Kotri)
- Raja UDAYAKARNA 1366/1388, married and had issue, 8
sons. He
died 1388.
- Rao Barsingh Deo, received Mojad (Mozamabad) and was
ancestor of the
Naruka sub-clan, rulers
of Alwar, Uniara, Lawa etc.
- Rao Balaji, recieved the village of Barwara
near Amarsar in
1390,
married and had issue. He died 1430.
- Rao Mokalji 1430/1445 of Barwara, married 4 wives,
and had issue. He
died
1445
- Rao Khemraj
- Rao Kharud, married and had issue.
- Rao Khuman, ancestor of the Khumawats, now likely
extinct.
- Rao Shiv Brahm, founder of Nindar
(one of the 12
bara Kotri) and ancestor of the Sheobramhpota sub-clan.
- Rao Patal, recieved Loni and was ancestor of the
Patalpota sub-clan.
-
Rao Peepaji, became a local diety.
-
Rao Peethal, ancestor of the Peethalpota sub-clan.
-
Rao Napa
- Raja NARSINGH DEO 1388/1413, died 1413
- Raja BANBIR SINGH 1413/1424 (1428/1439), married and
had issue. He died 1424.
- Rao Naro Singh of Watka (one of the 12 bara Kotri)
- Raja UDHA RAO 1424/1453 (1439/1467), died 1453
- Raja CHANDRASENA 1453/1502 (1467/1502), died 1502
- Raja PRITHVI SINGH I 1502/1527 , married (a), Rani
Apurva Devi of Bikaner,
married (b). daughter of Maharana RAIMAL SINGH of Mewar, married (c),
Rani Sohag
Devi,
daughter of Rao Gyan Gaud, and had issue, 18 sons (5 dsp) and 3
daughters.
He died 4th November 1527.
- Raja BHIM SINGH (qv)
- Raja BAHARMALLA (qv)
- Raja PURAN MAL (qv)
- Rao GOPAL SINGH fl.1550, (son of the Rathore Queen),
granted the Jagirs
of Chomu and Samode
in 1550. Ancestor of the Nathawats, one of the bara Kotri (12 chambers)
of the Kachhawa Royal Family.
- Rajukumar Rupsi Singh, (son of the Gaud Queen),
received the Jagir of
Daosa.
His son Jaimal was the ancestor of the Jagirdars of Fatehpur. He died
after
1562.
- Rajkumar Jag Mal, (son of the Rathore Queen), received
the Jagir of Diggi,
married and had issue.
- Kumar Khangar Singh, ancestor of the Khangarots,
which comprised one of
the bara Kotri (12 chambers) of the Kachhawa Royal Family.
- Rajkumar Sanga Singh, (son of the Rathore Queen),
founder of Sanganer,
which lapsed to the parent state on his death without issue. One of the
bara Kotri (12 chambers) of the Kachhawa Royal Family.
- Rajkumar Pachayan Singh, (son of the Rathore Queen),
founder of
Samriya.
Ancestor of the Pachayanots, one of the bara Kotri (12 chambers) of the
Kachhawa Royal Family.
- Rajkumar Balbhadra Singh, (son of the Rathore Queen),
founder of Achrol.
Ancestor of the Balbhadrots, one of the bara Kotri (12 chambers) of
the
Kachhawa Royal Family.
- Rajkumar Surtan Singh, (son of the Rathore Queen),
founder of Surothe.
Ancestor of the Surtanots, one of the bara Kotri (12 chambers) of the
Kachhawa
Royal Family.
- Rajkumar Chaturbhuj Singh, (son of the Rathore Queen),
founder of
Bagru.
One of the bara Kotri (12 chambers) of the Kachhawa Royal Family.
- Rajkumar Kalyan Das, (son of the Sisodia Queen),
granted the Jagir of
Kalwar.
His descendants were one of the bara Kotri (12 chambers) of the
Kachhawa
Royal Family.
- Raja PURAN MAL 1527/1534, (son of the Tonwar
Queen), received the
Jagir of Nimera founding the clan of Puranmalots, one of the bara
Kotri (12 chambers) of the Kachhawa Royal Family, married a Rathore
Princess,
and had issue. He died 19th January 1534 in battle.
- Rajkumar Suja Singh of Nimera fl.1556
- Raja BHIM SINGH 1534/1537, (eldest son of the
Rathore Queen),
married
and had issue. He died 22nd July 1537.
- Rajkumar Askaran Singh, married and had issue.
- Raja RAJ SINGH of Narwar, married and had issue.
- Raja RATAN SINGH 1537/1548, died 15th May 1548.
- Raja BAHARMALLA (or BHAR MAL) 1548/1574, (4th son
of the Rathore
Queen), born about 1499, received the Jagir of Narwar, married Rani
Champavati,
daughter of Rao Ganga Singh Solanki, and had issue. He died 27th
January
1574.
- Raja BHAGWAN DAS (qv)
- Rajkumar Jagannath Singh (son of the Solanki Queen), died
after 1585.
- Rajkumar Madho Singh
- Rajkumar Surat Singh
- Rajkumari Heera Kunwar [Mariam Zamani], married circa
6th February
1562,
Padshah Akbar of Delhi,and had issue.
- Raja BHAGWAN DAS 1574/1589, he was granted
the title of Amir ul-Umara by
the Mughal Emperor, married and had issue. He died 10th
December 1589.
- Raja MAN SINGH I Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumar Madho Singh, married and had issue. He died
after 1585.
- Kumar Chhatar Singh, married and had issue. He died
March 1630
- Kumar Bhim Singh, died May 1630
- Kumar Anand Singh, died May 1630.
- Rajkumar Chandrabhan Singh (son of the daughter of
Raisal Bhati),
married
the daughter of Raja Puran Mal of Gidhaur.
- Rajkumar Suraj Singh fl.1580
- Rajkumar Pratap Singh fl.1600 (son of Rani Bhagwati)
- Daughter, married Padshah Jehangir of Delhi.
- Mirza Raja MAN SINGH I Bahadur 1589/1614 (son of
Rani Bhagwati),
born 9th
May 1540, married, including (a) 30th January 1593 Rani Akshaya Devi,
daughter
of the Raja Ram Chandra Dev of Khurda, (b) 23rd December 1596 Rani
Kshama
Devi (committed sati), daughter of Maharaja NAR NARAYAN
of Cooch
Behar, and had issue. He died 6th July 1614 at Elichpur.
- Yuvaraj Jagat Singh, married and had issue. He died
9th October 1599.
- Raja Maha Singh, born 10th September 1585, received
the Jagir of Garha,
granted the Title of Raja by the Mughal Emperor, married Rani Damiyanti
Devi, grand-daughter of Maharana UDAI SINGH of Mewar and had issue. He
died 30th May 1617.
- Mirza Raja JAI SINGH I (see below)
- Rajkumar Jhujhar Singh, Thakur
of
Raisar. Ancestor of
the Madhani subclan and Mansinghot subclan of the Rajawat clan of the
Kachhawa
Royal Family, including the Thakurs of Ranoli, Siwar, Jhalai
and Isarda, married and had issue.
- [?Kunwarani Kusum
Kanwar, married Kunwar Mahesh Das of Jalore, grandson of Maharaja Udai
Singh of Jodhpur, and had issue.]
- Daughter, married 8th June 1608 the Mughal Emperor
Jehangir.
- Mirza Raja BHAO SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumar Himmat Singh (son of Rani Jamoti/Jambvanti,
daughter of Ratan
Singh Chauhan), married and had issue. He died 16th March 1597.
- Kumar Kushan Singh, died sp.
- Rajkumar Durjan Singh (son of Rani Sahodra Gaud),
received the Jagir of Dhula in Jaipur, a
General
in the army of
the Mughal Emperor, captured the fort of Kakruya in 1596, and
recaptured
the fort of Bhusna, later in the same year, killed in a naval
engagement,
twelve miles off Vikrampur on the 5th September 1597.
- Rajkumar Sakat Singh (son of Rani Sumitra, daughter of
Ishwar Das
Rathore),
received the Jagir of Paharia in Jaipur, died before 1608.
- Rajkumar Kesho Das (son of Rani Kshama Devi).
- Rajkumar Atibal Singh (son of Rani Kshama Devi).
- Mirza Raja BHAO SINGH Bahadur 1614/1621 (son of
Rani Sahodra
Gaud), died
13th December 1621 sp.
- Mirza Raja JAI SINGH I Bahadur 1621/1667 , born
15th July 1611,
Mirza Raja
[cr.1639], married and had issue. He died 28th August 1667 in Burhanpur.
- Mirza Raja RAM SINGH I Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumar Kirat Singh, ancestor of the Rajas of Kama,
married and had issue. He died 1673.
- Baijas Kaur, married 1678 the Mughal Prince, Muhammad
Azim 1664-1712
- Daughter, married Raja Mahendra KEERAT SINGH of Bhadawar.
- Mirza Raja RAM SINGH I Bahadur 1667/1688, married
and had issue.
He died
April 1688 at Kohato.
- Yuvaraj Kishan Singh, married and had issue. He died
March 1682.
- Mirza Raja BISHAN SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Mirza Raja BISHAN SINGH Bahadur 1688/1699, born
1672, married and
had issue.
He died 31st December 1699.
- Sri Sawai Maharaja JAI SINGH I Bahadur (qv)
- Mirza Raja Bijay Singh, Mirza Raja [cr.1708], died
October 1729.
- Daughter, married Rao Raja BUDH SINGH of Bundi.
- 1. Sri Sawai Maharaja JAI SINGH II Bahadur 1699/1743 ,
born 4th November
1688, Saramad-i-Rajahae
Hind [cr.1721], Raj Rajeshwar, Shri Rajadhiraj, Maharaja Sawai
[cr.1723],
married 1stly, March 1701, daughter of Udit Singh (nephew of Raja Uttam
Ram Gaur of Sheopur), married (b), Maharani Chandra Kunwar, daughter of
Maharana
SANGRAM SINGH II of Udaipur, married (c), a daughter of Raja BHIM SINGH
I of Banera, and had issue. He died
21st September 1743
at Jaipur.
- Maharajkumar Shiv Singh, born 1702, married and had
issue, 2 sons. He
died of cholera in August 1724 along with his mother.
- Sri Sawai Maharaja ISHWARI SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Sri Sawai Maharaja MADHO SINGH I Bahadur (by the
Udaipuri Maharani)(qv)
- Daughter, married Rao Raja DALEL SINGH of Bundi.
- Daughter, married Maharaja ABHAI SINGH of Jodhpur.
- 2. Sri Sawai Maharaja ISHWARI SINGH Bahadur 1743/1750,
born 1721, married (amongst others) (a), Maharani Ajab Kunwar, daughter
of Raja SURTAN SINGH of Banera. He died
12th December
1750, took poison along with 3 Queens and a concubine. A further 21
other
wives committed sati next day.
- 3. Sri Sawai Maharaja MADHO SINGH I Bahadur 1750/1768,
born December
1728, received the Jagir of Rampura in 1729, but lost it to
the Marathas in 1757, married
(amongst others) (a), 15th May 1761, the daughter of Raja Fateh Singh
of Ratlam,
married (b), the daughter of Rawat JASWANT SINGH of Deogarh, married (c), Maharani Ratan
Kunwar, a daughter of Raja SARDAR SINGH of Banera,
and had issue. He died 5th March 1768.
- Sri Sawai Maharaja PRITHVI SINGH II Bahadur (by Deogarh
Princess)(qv)
- Sri Sawai Maharaja PRATAP SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- 4. Sri Sawai Maharaja PRITHVI SINGH II Bahadur 1768/1778,
born c1762,
married (a)
a Princess of Bikaner and (b) a Princess of Kishangarh, and had issue.
He died 13th April 1778.
- Maharajkumar Man Singh, (by the Kishangarh Princess),
born 1777, living
in exile in 1820.
- 5. Sri Sawai Maharaja PRATAP SINGH Bahadur 1778/1803,
born 2nd December
1764, married
1799 and had issue. He died 1803.
- Sri Sawai Maharaja JAGAT SINGH II Bahadur (qv)
- 6. Sri Sawai Maharaja JAGAT SINGH II Bahadur 1803/1818,
married a Bhati
Princess,
died 1834, and had issue. He died 21st November 1818.
- Sri Sawai Maharaja JAI SINGH III Bahadur (qv)
- ?Kunwar Sangram Singh, ?adopted to Jhalai (or Isarda),
married and had
issue.
MOHAN SINGH [MAN SINGH II], 22nd Dec
1818
to
25th April 1819 (regent-usurper), born about 1809, son of Raja Manohar
Singh of Narwar, installed on the gaddi by an ambitious noble
but
deposed on the birth of the rightful heir.
- 7. Sri Sawai
Maharaja JAI SINGH III Bahadur 1819/1835,
born 25th April 1819, married
and had issue. He died 6th February 1835
- 8. Sri Sawai Maharaja Sir RAM SINGH II Bahadur 1835/1880,
born 27th
September 1835,
was granted a sanad of adoption in 1862, G.C.S.I. [cr.1863],
received
a personal gun salute of 19, which was raised further to 21 guns at the
Delhi Durbar in 1877, made a Counsellor of the Empire, C.I.E.
[cr.1878],
married amongst others (a) 1863 a daughter of Maharaja TAKHAT SINGH of Jodhpur.
He died spm 17th September 1880.
- 9. HH Saramand-i-Rajha-i-Hindustan Raj Rajindra Sri
Maharajadhiraj
Sawai
Sir MADHO SINGH II Bahadur 1880/1922, born as Qayam or Kaim Singh,
younger
son of the Thakur of Isarda on 29th August 1861, his personal gun
salute
was raised to 19 in 1887, and further increased to 21 in 1896, G.C.S.I.
[cr.1888] , G.C.I.E. [cr.1900] , G.C.V.O. [cr.1903], made an Honourary
Colonel of the 13th Rajputs (Shekhawati Regiment), married to five
official
wives (and 18 concubines who gave him 50 to 60 children, 107 according
to a different source, of
whom
18 sons were alive in 1935 and one son was still alive in 1985), 1stly,
the
daughter
of Thakur Budh Singh Pal of Amargarh in Etah-Karauli, married 2ndly,
1881,
the 3rd daughter of Maharaja PRITHVI SINGH of Kishangarh,
died 25th March 1893, married 3rdly, 1882, HH Maharani Ba Kunwarba
Sahiba
of Dhrangadhra, died after 1922,
married
4thly, 1891, daughter of the Thakur of Khamor in Shahpura, married
5thly,
1892, the daughter of Thakur Jivraj Singh of Rori in Bikaner, by whom
he
had one daughter. He died 7th September 1922.
- Lallji Moti Singh
- Raja Gopal Singh, his fathers favourite son. Was
possibly considered as
his successor which would have caused considerable problems amongst the
Jaipur
nobles. He died 1920.
- Raja Jaswant Singh, still living in 1985.
- Daughter, married Rao Raja Sagat Singh of Idar.
- Daughter, married Rao Raja Hanut Singh of Idar.
- Daughter, married Rao Raja Abhay Singh of Idar.
- Daughter, married Rao Raja Mohan Singh, born 10th March
1905, son of Rao Raja Gulab Singh of Jodhpur,
and had issue, 3 sons and 1 daughter.
-
 10.
HH Saramad-i-Rajahai Hindustan Raj Rajendra Shri Maharajadhiraj Sir
Sawai
MAN SINGH II Bahadur 1922/1970, born as Kunwar Mor Mukut Singh, younger
son of the Thakur of Isarda on 21st
August
1911 in Isarda, adopted 24th March 1921 by his predecessor, Rajpramukh
of Rajasthan 1949/1956, Member of the Rajya Sabha 1962/1965, married
1stly,
30th January 1924, HH Maharani Marudhar Kunwar of Jodhpur,
married 2ndly, 24th April 1932, HH Maharani Kishore Kanwar, daughter of
HH Maharaja Sumer Singh of Jodhpur, married
3rdly, 9th May 1940, HH Maharani Gayatri Devi of Cooch
Behar and had issue. He died 24th June 1970 in Cirencester, UK and
was cremated three days later in Jaipur.
- HH Maharani Prem Kumari (by 1st wife), born 13th June
1929 in Simla,
married
27th May 1948, HH Maharawal Shri JAIDEEP SINGHJI of Baria, and had issue. She died 1970.
- HH Sri Sawai Maharaja BHAWANI SINGH Bahadur (by 1st
wife) (qv)
- Maharaj Jai Singh (by 2nd wife), born 5th May 1933 in
Staines, Raja
Saheb
of Jhalai, educated at Harrow School
1946/1951,
married 1983, Rani Vidya Devi, born October 1942, daughter of Kanwar
Rajinder
Singh of Jubbal and has issue.
- Maharaj Prithviraj Singh (by 2nd wife), born 10th
December 1935,
educated
at Harrow School 1950/1954, married 1961, Maharaj Kumari Devika Devi of
Tripura,
and has issue.
- Rajkumar Vijit Singh, married 1991, Rajkumari
Meenakshi Devi of Lunawada.
- Maharaj Jagat Singh (by 3rd wife), born 15th October
1949, Raja Saheb of Isarda, educated at
Harrow
School
1963/1967, married 10th May 1978 (div.), Mom Rajawongse Priyanandana
Rangsit
of the Royal Family Thailand, born 3rd July 1952, and had issue. He
died 5th February
1997
in London.
- Rajkumari Lalitya Kumari Singh, born 3rd February 1979.
- Maharaj Devraj Singh, born 13th January 1981, Raja
Saheb of Isarda 1997/-.
- 11. HH Sri Sawai Maharaja BHAWANI SINGH Bahadur ( see
above)
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born
22nd October
1931 in Jaipur, educated in Kashmir, Dehradun and then at Harrow School
(UK) 1946/1950, commissioned into Indian Army in the 3rd Cavalry
regiments
as a Second Lieutenant in 1951, selected for the Presidents bodyguard
in
1954, posted to HQ 50 (Indep.) Para Brigade in 1963, selected and
posted
as Adjutant, Indian Military Academy, Dehradun 1964/1967, volunteered
for
the new Para Commando Unit and was posted to 10 Para Commando as
2nd-in-command
in June 1967, became the commanding officer he in the following year,
awarded
the second highest gallantry award "Mahavir Chakra" in 1971, for his
part
in the Indo-Pak war, took voluntary retirement in 1974, was granted
rank
of Brigadier for life, served as the first Resident High Commissioner
to
the State of Brunei from July 1993 to January 1997, married 10th March
1967, HH Maharani Saheba Padmini Devi Prakash of Sirmur,
and has issue.
