PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1838 as a result of a long running dispute with the rulers of Kotah.
Ancestors were petty chiefs of Halvad in the district of Jhalawar, in
Kathiawar.
Ancestors and rulers were...
- Kumar Shri Bhav Singh, younger son of the Chief of Halvad
in Jhalawar district,
fl.1709,
married and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharao ARJUN SINGH
of Kotah.
- Kumar Shri Madho Singh, Faujdar, married and had
issue.
He died after 1696.
- Kumar Shri Madan Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Himmat Singh, Faujdar, died 1758.
- Kumar Shri Prithvi Singh, married a Saktawat lady of
Dhangermow, and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Sheo Singh, born 1738.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharao GUMAN
SINGH of Kotah.
- Raj Rana Zalim Singh, born 1740, on the death of
one of the Kotah rajas
(1771), the state was left to the charge of Zalim Singh, from that time
on, Zalim Singh was the real ruler of Kotah. He brought it to a
wonderful
state of prosperity, and under his administration, which lasted over
forty-five
years, the Kotah territory was respected by all parties, he was Prime
Minister
of Kotah, and was granted the Jagir of Chiturkhaira in Mewar (Noble of
the
second
rank), he married into the Sisodia clan and had issue. He died 1824.
- Kumar Shri Madho Singh, born 1775, Prime Minister
of Kotah 1824/-, married and had
issue.
- Maharaja MADAN SINGH of Jhalawar (qv)
- Rani Ganga Bai, married Rao Raja BISHAN SINGH
Singh of Bundi.
- Rao Raja Goverdhan Das (natural son), born 1794,
married 1821, the
natural
daughter of the Chief of Jhabua.
- Rao Raja Puran Mal (natural son)
- Maharaj Rana MADAN SINGH 1838/1845, born 1808, in 1838 it
was
resolved,
with the consent of the Maharao of Kotah, to dismember the state, and
to
create the new principality of Jhalawar as a separate provision for the
descendants of Zalim Singh. Madan Singh received the title of Maharaja
Rana, and was placed on the same footing as the other rulers in
Rajasthan,
married 1stly, 1822, Maharani Chandrawatiji, a daughter of the Rao of
Rampura, married 2ndly, Maharani Bhatiyaniji of Goraich in Mewar,
married
3rdly, Maharani Rathoriji of Badnore
in Mewar,
married 4thly, Maharani Kachhawatiji of Bamori in Jhalawar, married
5thly,
1844,
Maharani Bhatiyaniji, a niece of Maharawal GAJ SINGH of Jaisalmer,
committed sati, also
had issue by a Khawas lady. He died 1845.
- Maharaj Rana PRITHVI SINGH (qv)
- Rao Raja Fateh Lal (by the Khawasina)
- Maharaj Rana PRITHVI SINGH 1845/1875, born 1830,
married 1stly,
Maharani Nathawatiji of Chomu, married
2ndly, Maharani Bhatiyaniji of
Goraich in Mewar, died
1890, married 3rdly, 1874, Maharani Solankiji, died 1883, and had
issue, 1 daughter,
an adoptive son as well as issue by secondary wives (1 son and 1
daughter). He died
August
1875.
- Maharajkumari (name unknown) (by 1st wife),
married 1861, Rao Raja SHIVDAN
SINGH of Alwar.
- (A) HH Maharaj Rana ZALIM SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharaj Rana ZALIM SINGH Bahadur 1876/1896, born 5th
November 1865 as Kumar Shri Bakhtsinhji Kesrisinhji of Wadhwan, adopted
by his predecessor,
succeeded 24th June 1876 (#1),
invested with governing powers in 1884, educated at Mayo College,
Ajmer;
owing to his alleged maladministration, his relations with the British
government became strained, and he was finally deposed on 2nd March
1896,
" on account of persistent misgovernment and proved unfitness for the
powers
of a ruling chief." He went to live at Benares, on a pension of
£2000;
and the administration was placed in the hands of the British resident;
he
married 1stly, 1886, HH Maharani Rathoriji, 4th daughter of Maharaja
PRITHVI SINGH of Kishangarh,
born 1879, died 1900, married 2ndly, 1886, HH Maharani Gohilji,
daughter of the Thakur of
Limri in Saurashtra. He died sp 1912 in Varanasi.
Interregnum
1896/1899, since the late
Maharaja
Rana died issueless and had refused to adopt a successor, after much
consideration,
the government resolved in 1897 to break up the state, restoring the
greater
part to Kotah, but forming the two districts of Shahabad and the
Chaumahla
into a new state, which came into existence in 1899, and of which
Kunwar
Bhawani Singh, a descendant of the original Zalim Singh, was appointed
chief.
- HH
Maharaj Rana Sir Shri BHAWANI SINGH Bahadur 1899/1929, born 3rd
September
1874, son of Thakur Chatarsal Singh of Fatehpur in Jhalawar, educated
at
Mayo College, Ajmer; a research student at New College, Oxford 1921/22;
Member of the Royal Society of Great Britain, built Kemball Public
Library
and Colvin Girl's School and Parmanand Hostel, established Rajendra
Literary
Institute, K.C.S.I. [cr.1908], married 1894, HH Maharani Brij Kunwar,
daughter
of Maharaj Saheb Durjan Sal of Kherli in Kotah, and had issue. He died
13th
April 1929, cremated in Aden.
- Lt.
HH Maharaj Rana Sir Shri RAJENDRA SINGHJI Dev Bahadur (qv)
-
 Lt.
HH Maharaj Rana Sir Shri RAJENDRA SINGHJI Dev Bahadur 1929/1943,
born 15th July 1900, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and at Oxford,
served
as a Lieutenant in the Indian Army, keen photographer and poet,
he
composed poetry under the pen name of ‘Sudhakar’ and Urdu Shairi
using the name of ‘Makhmoor’, married 1stly, HH Maharani Brijraj
Kunwar,
daughter of the Thakur of Vihedli in Kotah, married 2ndly, 6th
September
1920,
HH Maharani Hira Kunwarba Sahiba, a daughter of Thakur Sahib MULVAJI
TAJOJI
of Kotda-Sangani, born 1899,
caused
to be built the first ladies hospital in Jhalawar, which still exists
in
her name, opened the earliest primary school there called 'Shudhakar
Bal
Mandir', died 1999, and had issue. He died 2nd September 1943.
- HH Maharaj Rana Shri HARISCH CHANDRA SINGHJI Dev Bahadur
(qv)
- HH Maharaj Rana Shri HARISCH CHANDRA SINGHJI Dev Bahadur
1943/1967, born 27th
September
1921 at Oxford, UK, educated in India and England, joined the foreign
service
and served for three years in Rome and later Rangoon, returning to
India
in 1954, a cabinet minister 1961/1966 in the Sukhadia government,
married
5th May 1940 at Woodville Palace, HH Maharani Ila Devi, daughter of
Raja Rana Sir BHAGAT CHAND Bahadur of Jubbal,
and his second wife, Rani Bai Shri Leila Ba Kunverba Sahiba, she died
3rd February 2007 in the Sawai Man Singh
Medical College Hospital, Rajasthan, and had issue. He died 17th March
1967 in New Delhi.
- HH Maharaj Rana Shri INDRAJIT SINGHJI Dev Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaj Mahijit Singh, born 1st May 1947, married Rani
Bharati Kunwarba, daughter of Maharaj Shri Himmatsinhji Vijayrajji of Kutch, and his wife, Rani Sahiba Padmini
Kunverba, and has issue.
- Rajkumar Abhijit Singh, born 1973.
- Rajkumari Yashodara Kunwarba, born 1978.
-
 HH
Maharaj Rana Shri INDRAJIT SINGHJI Dev Bahadur 1967/2004, born 12th
June 1944 at
Woodville
Palace, Simla; educated at Doon School, served in the Indian Army,
married
19th April 1968 at New Delhi, HH Maharani Swarupa Kumari, daughter of
Lt.
Col. HH Maharaja MANABENDRA SHAH Sahib Bahadur of Tehri-Garhwal, and his wife, HH
Maharani Suraj Kanwar, and had issue. He died 24th April 2004 at New
Delhi.
- HH Maharaj Rana Shri CHANDRAJIT SINGHJI Dev Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumari Rajivini Kumari, born 1978, married 3rd
April 2006 at Tehri-Garhwal House in New Delhi, Kunwar Anant Shekhar
Singh, son of Thakur K. P. Singh from Eastern U.P., and his wife,
Thakurani Manorama Singh.
- Maharaj Aprajit Singh, born 1980, married 2nd December
2007 in New Delhi.
- HH Maharaj Rana Shri CHANDRAJIT SINGHJI Dev Bahadur (see
above)
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