PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The Thakurs of this thikana are descendents of Maharana Udai Singh II
(founder of Udaipur) through his son Rana Viramdeo, the younger
brother of Rana Sagat Singh (founder of the
Shaktawat-Sisodia clan). This thikana is a Baba Ranawat thikana (that
is, a thikana from which male children were adopted to the ruling house
of Mewar, in
the absence of a male heir). The descendents of Rana Udai Singh were
the first branch of Sisodias to carry the patronym of Ranawat.
They are a sub-branch of the jagir of Sanwar, and other Viramdevot
Ranawats
are found in Hamirgarh, Kherabad, Sanwar, Jaiwana, Pahuna,
Ranawaton-ki-sadri and Ranawaton-ka bangla. Rulers were....
- Baba VIRAM DEO, third son of Maharana Udai Singh II of
Udaipur, married and had issue.
- Baba ISRI DAS (qv)
- Rawat BHOJ SINGH of Hamirgarh, also received the Jagirs
of Gosunda and Athana.
- Baba SANGRAM SINGH, married and had issue.
- Baba SHAMBHU SINGH, 1st Baba Saheb of Sanwar; married and
had issue, the Thakur Sahebs of Sanwar and Kankarwa. He died 1773.
- Baba PRITHVI SINGH, third son, 1st Baba Saheb of Mahua.
- Thakur Sahib UDAY SINGHJI, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Ranjeet Singh, married to an Udawat Rathore lady
from Pih-Thamli in Ajmer, and had issue. He died vp.
- Thakur Sahib GUMAN SINGH (qv)
- Hon. Thakur Mahendra Singhji Ranawat, educated at the
Balwant Rajput College, Agra (B.A., LL.B.), Member of Parliament (Rajya
Sabha 1952/1954), Food and Jagirdari resettlement Commissioner,
Government of Rajasthan; Minister to the Princely states of Bundi,
Sirohi and Bharatpur, prominent historian of Rajasthan; married and had
issue.
- Thakur Narayan Singh Ranawat, involved in farming and
business in Udaipur; married a lady from Danta state in Gujarat, and
had issue. He died 1983.
- Thakur Yadavendra Singh Ranawat
- Thakur Pradyuman Singh Ranawat
- Thakur Sajjan Singh Ranawat, IAS Deputy Health
Secretary, Rajasthan; married to
a Yaduvanshi lady from Bihar, and has issue.
- Veena Kunwar, married Mr. Arjun Singh Pundir, a
businessman from Aligarh.
- Kunwar Mrityunjay Singh Ranawat
- Madhu Kanwar, married Col. Himmat Singh Bhati.
- Justice Thakur Jawan Singh Ranawat, born 1905, educated
at the
Balwant Rajput College, Agra
(B.A., LL.B., LL.M.); Chief Justice of Rajasthan 1963/1968, Chief
Justice of Mewar, shortlisted amongst three candidates
for the position of Chief Justice of India. Formulator of the Ranawat
Finance
Commission, Rajasthan; married and had issue. He died 1994.
- Thakur Rajendra Singh Ranawat, Commandant, Home Guards,
Rajasthan, and WW2 veteran; married and had issue. He died 1984.
- Thakur Virendra Singh Ranawat, farmer, married and
has issue.
- Kunwar Ranaditya Singh Ranawat, B.A., LL.B.
- Kunwarani Nidhi Ranawat
- Thakurani Padma Kanwar, married Col. Thakur Rajendra
Singh Naruka of Kothi Rao, Alwar, and has issue.
- Thakurani Pushpa Kanwar, married Dr. Kishen Singh.
- Thakur Parmeshwar Singh Ranawat, married to a Hara
lady from Balwan, Kota and has issue.
- Thakur Dhirendra Singh Ranawat, married Thakurani
Madhu Singh, and has issue.
- Kunwar Harshranwat Singh Ranawat B.Com., M.B.A.,
born 3rd October 1983 in Udaipur.
- Kunwar Shakti Singh Ranawat, born 10th December
1984.
- Kunwarani Jyoti Kanwar, married Kunwar Praveen Singh,
son of Thakur Madan Singhji of Bhev in Sirohi, and has issue.
- Baisa Deepeka,
married 15th October 2004 in England.
- Kunwar
Yasvardan Singh Deora
- Thakurani Anuradha Kanwar married Thakur Ranveer
Singh Rathore of Kanota, Jaipur.
- Thakur Raghubir Singh Ranawat B.A., married Thakurani
Arjun Rajvi of Hanumangarh, and had issue. He died 1998.
- Rani Meena Kanwar, married Maharaj Abhimanyu Singh
Hara of Bhambora, Kotah.
- Capt. Kunwar Ravindra Singh Ranawat, Regiment of the
Artillery; Commandant Home Guards, Rajasthan.
- Kunwar Anil Singh Ranawat, Rajasthan Tourism.
- Thakurani Rajshri Ranawat, married Mr. Rajendra Singh
Kachchawa, a hotelier in New York, USA.
- Thakur Mahendra Singh Ranawat, married to a Rajawat
lady of Ranoli, and had issue.
- Thakur Sahib SUBHASH SINGH RANAWAT (qv)
- Thakur Janardan Singh Ranawat
- Thakur Niranjan Singh Ranawat, married to a Rathore
lady from Kushalgarh in Banswara
- Thakur Vibhuti Singh Ranawat, married to a Rathore
lady from Ras in Ajmer.
- Wing Commander Thakur Hargobind Singh Ranawat, married
to a Parmar lady from Nahan in Himachal Pradesh, and has issue.
- Maj. Kuwar
Yashwant Singh Ranawat, maried to Shekhawat lady from Sikar.
- Kumari Pratibha Singh, married to Lt.-Col. Bhanu
Pratap Singh Rathore of Para.
- Thakur Bhawani Singh Ranawat, educated at Balwant Rajput
College, Agra (B.A., LL.B.), R.A.S, Secretary to the Government of
Rajasthan for Public Health and Education, Finance and Revenue and
Railways 1948/1954, Commissioner of Udaipur 1954/1957; married
Thakurani Kamla
Ranawat, a Rawalot Bhati lady of Dhoom-Dadri, and had issue.
- Dr Saroj Singh (Mrs. Saroj Panwar), educated at S.M.S.
Medical College, Jaipur; D.C. Path, Senior Medical Officer, Indian
Railways (Retd). First Rajput lady doctor from
Rajasthan; married Mr. Udaiveer Singh Parmar of Boom, Haryana;
Alumni of Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore; Retd. Chief
Administrator, Northern Railways. Twice awarded the President's
Commendation for distinguished services to the nation. Chief, Diesel
Component Works, Patiala. Forwarded on deputation to the Government of
the
Phillippines and Zimbabwe for development of their national
railworks. Introduced the first diesel engine to the Indian Railways in
1962, and had issue.
- Aprajita Panwar (Mrs. Aprajita Rana), B.E.
(Elec.), M.B.A., Lecturer in Business
Administration, DAB University, Indore; married Mr. Sumit
Rana (IIT-Delhi, Computer).
- Ashish Panwar, educated at Mayo College,
Rajasthan (M.A. (Eng), B.H.M.); employed in Dubai, married Mrs. Utpala
Chauhan, and has issue.
- Col.Thakur Ran Vijay Singh Ranawat, 2 & 3, Brigade
of the Guards,
Provost-Marshal, Corps of Military Police; married to a Rajawat lady of
Soda, Sawai Madhopur; and had issue.
- Kunwar Rohit Singh Ranawat, educated at Mayo College,
Ajmer, Rajasthan; involved in business in
Kathmandu, Nepal; married Mrs. Julia Ranawat, Legal Administrator for
U.N.H.C.R., and
has issue.
- Bhanwar Francisco Vijay Singh Ranawat
- Kunwarani Ronilla Singh Ranawat, married to Kunwar
Dr. Pritipal Singh Sodha of Amarkot,
Sindh, Pakistan; and has
issue, two sons.
- Bhanwar Bhawani Singh Sodha
- Bhanwar Shivdan Singh Sodha
- Thakur Dr. Ran Vikram Singh Ranawat, MD (General
Medicine & Therapeutics), educated at Sawai
Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur (1965) and R.N.T. Medical College,
Udaipur (1969, MD-Medicine), St Xavier's School, Jaipur; Ex-Assoc.
Professor of
Medicine, Al-Arab Medical University, Benghazi, Libya; presently in
private
practice at Dubai, UAE; married to Thakurani Dr. Bharti Ranawat, and
has issue.
- Kunwar Dr. Nishant Singh Ranawat, M.R.C.P. (UK),
M.R.C.P. (Ireland); educated at St. Xavier's School, Jaipur; Mayo
College, Ajmer, Rajasthan
(1991), Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur (1998), Guys & St.
Thomas' Hospital, London, U.K.; Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn,
N.Y.;
St Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J.; presently has
taken up a position as resident in internal medicine at SUNY, Brooklyn
in NY; married Kunwarani Dr. Jaya Ranawat B.D.S. (née Kumari
Jaya
Shah), daughter of Shri Surendra Kumar Shah, LLB, legal advisor to the
Times of India group, and of Jagmanpur
in Bundelkhand.
- Kunwar Dr. Jayant Singh Ranawat, Fellow of the Board
of
Internal Medicine, U.S.; Hepatology Fellow, University of Indiana,
Indianapolis, IN.; educated at St Xavier's School, Jaipur; Mayo
College, Ajmer, Rajasthan
(1992), Pirogov Medical Institute, Vinnitsa, Ukraine; Rosalind Franklin
University/Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IL; is presently a
practicing internist in Orlando, Florida; married Dr. Khushboo
Pundir of Faridabad, and has issue.
- Wg. Cdr. Thakur Ranveer Singh Ranawat (Retd.), I.A.F.;
2218 Sqn “Desert Tigers”, educated at Defence Services Staff College,
Wellington; NDA, Khadakvasla,
Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMCOL), Deheradun. President’s
Silver Medal for the Best Cadet at RIMCOL. Presently proprietor of a
hotel at
Jodhpur, married Thakurani Pavitra Jadaun, and has issue.
- Kunwar Dushyant Singh Ranawat, B. Com. (topped JNV
University, Jodhpur), M. Tech. (Computers-Australia), Assistant
Executive Manager, Barclays Bank,
Singapore; married a Rathore lady from Peelwa, Jodhpur.
- Kunwar Dhritiman Singh Ranawat, CA, Hyderabad.
- Brig. Thakur Ransher Singh Ranawat (Retd), Kirti
Chakra, Sena Medal; 9,
Brigade of the Guards; Sector Commander 12RR, Deputy Director General
NCC, UP & Uttaranchal. Hero of the Bangladeh War-Sylhet sector,
educated at Sainak School, Chittaurgarh and National Defence Academy,
Khadakvasla; married to Thakurani Nilesh Gaur of Parsindi, Bihar, and
has
issue.
- Kunwar Digvijay Singh Ranawat, Rajasthan tours,
Udaipur; married in Vancouver, Canada, Kunwarani Laila Rathore
- Mrs. Vaishali Chauhan, married to
Mr. Amit Chauhan in London.
- Thakur Sahib GUMAN SINGH -/1968, married to a Naruka lady
from Jawli in Alwar. He died
1968.
- Thakur Sahib SUBHASH SINGH RANAWAT (see above)
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