LIMBDI (Princely State)

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Area:  888 km2 Privy Purse:  230,000Rs  ACCESSION:  15th February 1948
STATE:  Saurashtra DYNASTY:  Jhala RELIGION:  Hindu
Villages:  83  Population:  35,422 (1921) Revenue:  900,000Rs
     
PRESENT RULER:  HH Thakur Sahib Shri CHHATRASALJI DIGVIJAYSINHJI (1941/-) (Dighbuvan, Gujarat, India)
born 19th February 1940 and succeeded 6th January 1941, married 1stly, 1960 (div.), HH Thakurani Saheb Hemant Devi of Jaisalmer, born 1943, married 2ndly, late 1960's, HH Thakurani Saheb Snehlata Kumari, daughter of Thakur Sahib JAYENDRA SINHJI of Kathiwada, and has issue.
  • Yuvaraj Sahib Jaideepsinhji Chhatrasalji, married 1stly, November 1988 at Simla (div.), Rajkumari Meenakshi Kumari, born 27th June 1966 at Simla, daughter of Raja VIRBHADRA SINGH of Rampur-Bushahr, married 2ndly, 2003, Yuvarani Priya Kumari, and has issue.
    • Rajkumari Nandita Kumari (by 1st wife)
    • Rajkumar Digvijay Sinh Jhala (by 1st wife)
    • Rajkumari Vamakshi Kumari (by 2nd wife), born 2004.
  • Raj Kumari Varsha Kumari, married.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  A Second Class state founded about 1500. Succession to the gaddi is governed by the law of primogeniture. Rulers were....
  • Raj Sahib MANGUJI, second son of Raj Sahib Harpal Dev of Halvad, founder of the successor state of Limbdi, married and had issue.
  • Raj Sahib MADHUPAL [Manipal] (son), married and had issue.
  • Raj Sahib DHAVAL [Dhamal], fl.1194
  • .....
  • Thakur Sahib NAGJI I, 12th in descent from founder.
  • .....
  • Thakur Sahib KHETOJI II, 17th in descent from founder, married and had issue. He died 1486.
  • Thakur Sahib SAGHOJI (son)
  • .....
  • Thakur Sahib ASKARANJI III, 23rd in descent from founder.
  • Thakur Sahib ADERAJJI II fl.1600
  • Thakur Sahib VERISALJI II
  • Thakur Sahib HARBHAMJI I, he founded the capital at Limbdi, died 1786.
  • Thakur Sahib HARISINHJI 1786/1825, an able and intelligent administrator.
  • Thakur Sahib BHOJRAJJI III 1825/1837
  • Thakur Sahib HARBHAMJI II 1837/1856
  • Thakur Sahib Shri FATEHSINHJI 1856/1862, married and had issue. He died 1862.
    • HH Thakur Sahib Shri Sir JASWANTSINHJI FATEHSINHJI (qv)
  • HH Thakur Sahib Shri Sir JASWANTSINHJI FATEHSINHJI 1862/1907, born 23rd May 1859 (#1), succeeded 30th January 1862, K.C.I.E. [cr.1887], M.L.C., educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; travelled to London in 1876 and later attended the Golden Jubilee celebrations of HM Queen Victoria in England in 1887; he died sp April 1907.
  • Col. HH Thakur Sahib Shri Sir DAULATSINHJI JASHWANTSINHJI 1907/1940, born 11th July 1868 as Kumar Shri Dadbha Muluji of a collateral line, installed on the gaddi on 14th April 1908, K.C.I.E. [cr.1921], represented India at the opening of the Federal Parliament in Australia in 1901; died 30th September 1940, married with issue.
    • HH Thakur Sahib Shri DIGVIJAYSINHJI DAULATSINHJI (qv)
    • Kumar Shri Ghanshyamsinhji Daulatsinhji, born 23rd October 1902 in Limbdi, Gujarat, died 10th November 1964 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
    • HH Maharani Rupaliba Sahiba, married 5th February 1920, Lt.-Col. HH Maharaja Rana Saheb Shri Sir NATWARSINHJI BHAVSINHJI of Porbandar. She died sp 1943.
  • HH Thakur Sahib Shri DIGVIJAYSINHJI DAULATSINHJI 1940/1941, born 10th April 1896, married 1stly 1910, Kunwari Shri Nandkunwarba, the only daughter of Maharaja Sir KESRI SINGH of Idar, married 2ndly, (name unknown), and had issue. He died 6th January 1941.
    • Yuvraj Saheb Ramrajendrasinhji Digvijaysinhji (by Thakorani Nandkunwarba), born 12th March 1917, died vp(spm?) before 1941.
    • HH Thakur Sahib Shri CHHATRASALJI DIGVIJAYSINHJI (by 2nd marriage) (qv)
    • Kumari Premkumari, married Yuvraj Udaybhansingh of Porbandar.
    • Kumari Dharmendrakumari, married Yuvraj Jayendrasinh [later Rana Sahib Shri JAYENDRASINH of Kathiwada], and had issue, one son.
  • HH Thakur Sahib Shri CHHATRASALJI DIGVIJAYSINHJI (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Kumar Shri Himmatsinhji Jhala
  • UNKNOWN, married and had issue.
    • HH Thakur Sahib Shri Sir DAULATSINHJI JASHWANTSINHJI [Dadha Muluji],  (see above)
    • Kumar Shri Natwarsinhji
    • Kumar Shri Pratapsinhji, married Kumari Jasvant Kunverba Sahiba, and had issue.
      • Kumar Shri Janaksinhji Pratapsinhji, first person in India to make fibreglass cars, married Kumari Laxmi Devi of Rajpipla, and had issue, 5 children.
        • Kumari Shri Harinakshini Devi, married Kumar Indrapalsinhji of Rajpipla.
        • Kumari Shri Unmani Devi, married Dr. Hasnain Patel
        • Kumar Shri Shivpalsinhji Janaksinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1972); married Parven Masani-Cama
        • Kumari Shri Anjali Devi, married Arjunsinhji of Mudhol.
        • Kumar Shri Mahipalsinhji Janaksinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1979).
      • Wing Cdr. Kumar Jayvantsinhji Pratapsinhji, born January 1927 in Porbandar, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun (Class of 1945), a Fighter Pilot (GDP) serving with the Indian Air Force (Wing Commander 1947 to 1969), married August 1952 in Poona, Kauverani Indira Singh, and has issue. He died December 2003 in the U.S.A.
        • Kumar Vijit Singh Jhala, born August 1953 in Bombay, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun (Class of 1969), M.S. Environmental Studies (USA), B.A. Communications (USA), married October 2001 in the U.S.A., Rajkumari Ameeta Singh.
        • Kumar Shri Shivraj Singh, married Kumari Shivani Singh
        • Kumari Meenakshi Singh
      • Kumar Shri Bharatsinhji Pratapsinhji, artist, painter, poet, and bohemian.
        • Kumar Shri Raivirsinhji Bharatsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1968).
        • Kumar Shri Digvijaysinhji Bharatsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1975).
        • Kumar Shri Chandravirsinhji Bharatsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1977).
    • Kumar Shri Jadakaka
 
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