PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1730. The State follows the rule of Primogeniture for succession,
also
had a Sanad of adoption. Rulers were...
- Bahadurkhanji Babi 1630/1654, married and had issue.
- Sherkhanji Babi 1654/1690, married and had issue.
- Nawab Ja'afarkhanji Babi [Sardarkhanji] (qv)
- Khan Shri Mubarazkhanji Babi [Kadi, 1674]
- Khan Shri Muzaffarkhanji Babi [Kadi District]
- Khan Shri Shahbazkhanji Babi
- Nawab Ja'afarkhanji Babi [Sardarkhanji] 1690/1725, married
and had
issue.
- Nawab Saheb Salabat Muhammadkhan Babi (qv)
- Khan Shri Jahan Babi [Jawan Mard Khan], was given and
established
the house of Radhanpur,
in 1725.
- Nawab Sherkhanji Babi, married and had issue.
- Khan Shri Samatkhan Babi, married and had issue.
- Khan Shri Ja'afarkhan Babi, married and had issue.
- Khan Shri Muzaffarkhan Babi
- Khan Shri Fatehyabkhan Babi, both were Ranpur
Bhayat.
- Nawab Saheb Salabat Muhammadkhan Babi 1725/1730, was given
and established
Viramgam and
Gogha, Deputy Governor of Junagadh; willed his territory to his sons,
with the eldest recieving Junagadh and the younger sons sharing in the
Bantva district; married and had issue. He died of cholera in 1730 at
Ahmedabad.
- Nawab Saheb Bahadurkhanji Babi [Sherkhan] (qv)
- Khan Saheb Shri DILER KHAN SALABAT MUHAMMED KHAN, 1st
Ruler of Manavadar.
- Khan Saheb Shri SHER ZAMAN KHAN SALABAT MUHAMMED KHAN,
1st Taluqdar of Bantva.
- Nawab Saheb Bahadurkhanji Babi [Sherkhan] [1728, Deputy,
Junagadh; 1748,
Nawab, Junagadh.], 1st Nawab of Junagadh (see below).
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED SHER KHAN BABI 1735/1758, placed in
charge of Viramgam by his father in 1728, succeeded in Junagadh in 1730
and declared himself independent in 1735; married and
had issue.
He
died 1758.
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI I (qv)
- Nawab Saheb SARDAR MUHAMMAD KHANJI, founder of Balasinor.
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI I 1758/1774, married
and had issue. He died 1774.
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED HAMID KHANJI I (qv)
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED HAMID KHANJI I 1774/1811, married and
had issue. He died 1811.
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED BAHADUR KHANJI I (qv)
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED BAHADUR KHANJI I 1811/1840, married
and had
issue.
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED HAMID KHANJI II (qv)
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI II (qv)
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED HAMID KHANJI II 1840/1851, born 1828,
died
1851.
- Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI II 1851/1882, K.C.S.I.,
married and
had issue. He died 29th September 1882.
- HH Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED BAHADUR KHANJI II (qv)
- HH Nawab Saheb Sir MUHAMMED RASUL KHANJI (qv)
- Nawabzada Adilkhanji Mahabatkhanji Babi,educated at
Rajkumar College,
Rajkot;
Commandant of the Imperial Service Troops of Junagadh.
- HH Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED BAHADUR KHANJI II 1882/1892, born
1856,
succeeded
29th September 1882 (#1),
G.C.I.E., educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; died 23rd January 1892
- HH Nawab Saheb Sir MUHAMMED RASUL KHANJI 1892/1911, born
1858,
G.C.S.i.,
married and had issue. He died 24th January 1911.
- Nawabzada Sher Zamankhanji, died 15th August 1908.
- Nawabzada Bahadurkhanji, died 18th April 1906.
- Capt. HH Nawab Saheb Sir MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI III
RASUL KHANJI (qv)
- Capt. HH Nawab Saheb Sir MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI III RASUL
KHANJI
1911/1959,
born 2nd August 1900, G.C.S.I., K.C.S.I. [cr.1926], educated in England
and at Mayo College, Ajmer, entitled to a personal 15 gun salute,
married
Munawar Jahan Begum of Bhopal and had issue. He died 7th November 1959
at Karachi.
- HH Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED DILAWAR KHANJI MAHABAT KHANJI (qv)
- Nawabzada Muhammad Himatkhanji Mahabatkhanji Babi, born
16th February
1924.
- Nawabzada Muhammad Shamsherkhanji Mahabatkhanji Babi
- Nawabzada Muhammad Iqbalkhanji Mahabatkhanji Babi
- HH Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED DILAWAR KHANJI MAHABAT KHANJI
1959/1989, born
23rd
June 1922, married 30th November 1945, and had issue. He died 1989.
- HH Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED JAHANGIR KHANJI DILAWAR KHANJI
(qv)
- HH Nawab Saheb MUHAMMED JAHANGIR KHANJI DILAWAR KHANJI (see
above)
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