PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Predecessor
state founded about 1260, Thakore Saheb Sarangji and his descendants
ruled at Arthila for four
generations when Raja Mandalik of Junagadh conquered and sacked Arthila
and slew Thakore Saheb Dudoji, the then ruling chieftain. The Gohils of
Arthila then
withdrew to Lathi which they held till the merger of the State in 1948.
Lathi ranks as a Fourth Class state in Kathiawar.
Rulers
were....
- Thakur Saheb SARANGJI SEJAKJI, younger son of the Thakur of
Sejakpur,
founded
Lathi about 1260, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb NONGHANJI (grandson) fl.1350
- Thakur Saheb DUDOJI (grandson), married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb LIMSHAJI DUDOJI [Jijibawa] (qv)
- Thakore Saheb LIMSHAJI DUDOJI [Jijibawa]
- Thakore Saheb Shri JIJIBAWA, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri LAKHAJI JIJIBAWA (qv)
- Kumar Shri Prithiraj Jijibawa
- Thakore Saheb Shri LAKHAJI JIJIBAWA 1750/-, during his
reign, he
suppressed the Kathis who had harassed the people of the region around
Lathi; married and had
issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri DAJIRAJI LAKHAJI [aka Kumar Shri
Amarsinhji Lakhaji] (qv)
- Thakore Saheb Shri TAKHATSINHJI LAKHAJI (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharaja Gaekwad
DAMAJIRAO GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
of Baroda.
- Thakore Saheb Shri DAJIRAJI LAKHAJI, married and had issue,
one daughter.
- Kumari (name unknown), married HH Thakore Sahib
Shri DAJIRAJJI of Wadhwan.
- Thakore Saheb Shri TAKHATSINHJI LAKHAJI -/1878, married and
had issue.
- Kumar Shri Bhavsinhji Takhatsinhji, died a
premature death whilst studying at Rajkumar College, Rajkot.
- Thakore Saheb Shri SURSINHJI TAKHATSINHJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Vijaysinhji Takhatsinhji, married and had
issue.
- Kumar Shri Pravinsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil, married and
had
issue.
- Kumar Arunkumar Pravinsinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1957).
- Kumar Shri Natwarsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil
- Kumar Shri Gambhirsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil, married and
had
issue.
- Kumar Shri Janakkumar Gambhirsinhji Gohel, educated
at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1951).
- Kumar Shri Jayendrasinhji Gambhirsinhji Gohel,
educated
at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1951), married 1965, Kumari Shri Jyoti
Devi, eldest daughter of Thakur Saheb MAHENDRASINHJI JORAWARSINHJI of Mengni, and his wife, Thakurani Nirmala Kunverba Saheba, and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Amarsinhji Jayendrasinhji, educated at
Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1983)
- Thakore Saheb Shri SURSINHJI TAKHTSINHJI 1878/1900, born
1875, succeeded
4th November 1878 (#1),
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot to 1891; he was a poet and
published a number of works, still popular today viz. Kalapi-no-Kekarav,
Harirji Gohel, Mala and Mudrika;
married 1stly, Thakorani Rajba of Roha (Kutch), married 2ndly,
Thakorani Anandiba of Kotda Sangani, and had issue. He died
1900.
- Thakore Saheb Shri PRATAPSINHJI SURSINHJI (qv)
- Thakore Saheb Shri PRATAPSINHJI SURSINHJI 1900/1918, born
21st April
1891,
succeeded to the gaddi on 10th June 1900, Investiture held on
1st
May 1911, he was a man of literary
bent and contributed to Gujarati literature under the pseudonym
of Rajhamsa; married and had issue. He died 14th October
1918.
- Thakore Saheb Shri PRALHADSINHJI PRATAPSINHJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Mangalsinhhji Pratapsinhji Gohil
- Kumar Shri Harishchandrasinhji Pratapsinhji Gohil
- Thakore Saheb Shri PRALHADSINHJI PRATAPSINHJI 1918/-, born
31st
March 1912 and
succeeded 14th October 1918, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri BHUPENDRASINHJI PRALHADSINHJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Dharmendrasinhji Pralhadsinhji Gohil
- Thakore Saheb Shri KIRTIKUMARASINHJI PRALHADSINHJI (qv)
- Thakore Saheb Shri BHUPENDRASINHJI PRALHADSINHJI, educated
at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1950), married Thakurani Durgaraje, and
had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri KIRTIKUMARASINHJI PRALHADSINHJI (qv)
- Kumari Chanchallaraje (Rani Mruganainaraje Mrugendrasinh
Ghatge of Kagal-Junior), married 16th May 1979, Meherban Shrimant
Rajamanya Rajashri Mrugendrasinh Ajitsinh Ghatge
Sarjerao Deshmukh,
5th and present
Chief of Kagal-Junior, and has issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri KIRTIKUMARASINHJI PRALHADSINHJI (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari Shri Niladevi, married Maharajkumar Divya Dip Singh
of Dumraon.
- Kumar Shri Mahendrasinhji
Jitendrasinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1967)
- Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji, married 18th March 1994 (as her
second husband), Rajkumari Pratima Devi, born 6th June 1956, daughter
of Raja PRASANNA CHANDRA DEO of Jarada,
and his wife, Rani Swarna Prabha Manjari Devi,
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