NIMAJ (Thikana)

 
VILLAGES:  10 VILLAGES:  40,000Rs ACCESSION:  ??
STATE:  Jodhpur DYNASTY:  Rathore (Udawat clan) RELIGION:  Hindu
AREA:  67,769 acres POPULATION:  15,735  
     
PRESENT RULER:  Thakur BHAGWATI SINGHJI, 15th Thikanedar of Nimaj, (Jagram Durg, Nimaj, Rajasthan, India)
One of eight Premier Nobles of Marwar (Sirayat), married a Princess of Salumber, and has issue.
  • Kunwar Bhuwan Singh
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Founder of the family was Rao UDA, grandson of Rao JODHA of Marwar. Rulers were...... 
  1. Thakur JAGRAM SINGH, first Thikanedar of Nimaj from 1708, died after 1733.

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  5. Thakur SURTAN SINGH, (brother of Thakur Sur Singh, died 26th June 1820), died 26th June 1820.

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  7. Thakur SANWANT SINGH, married and had issue.
    • Thakur SAWAI SINGH (qv)
    • Thakur SHIVA SINGH of Mohrra.
    • Kunwar Lakshman Singh

  8. Thakur SAWAI SINGH

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  11. Thakur CHATAR SINGH 1870/-, born about 1854, adopted from the Ramgarh family, Member of the Jodhpur State Council in 1882, married and had issue.
    • Thakur PRITHVI SINGH (qv)

  12. Thakur PRITHVI SINGH, born about 1890, married and had issue. He died 1913.
    • Thakur UMAID SINGHJI (qv)

  13. Thakur UMAID SINGHJI 1930/-, 13th Thikanedar of Nimaj, born 7th June 1909, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 1927 in Sikar, Thakurani Phool Kanwar, eldest daughter of Rao Raja Bahadur KALYAN SINGH of Sikar, and had issue, seven sons and five daughters.
    • Rani Sahiba Prem Kumari, married Maharaj BHIM SINGH of Shivrati, and has issue.
    • Thakur UDAI SINGHJI (qv)
    • Thakur Daulat Singhji
    • Thakur Shyam Singhji, married a Princess of Rajpipla in Gujarat, and has issue, two sons.
      • Col. Kunwar Nipendra Singh, married a Princess of Dhenkanal in Orissa.
      • Kunwar Anirudh Singh, married to Jamnagar (Nawanagar).
    • Baiji Lal Man Kanwar
    • Baiji Lal Chandra Kanwar
    • Thakur Man Singh, born 1939, married 1968, Thakurani Durga Kanwar, born 1949, daughter of Raj Rana HARI SINGH of Tana, and his wife, Rani Marudhar Kanwar, and has issue.
      • Kunwar Nandi Vardhan Singh 
      • Khunwar Harsh Vardhan Singh
    • Baiji Lal Munni Kawar
    • Brig. Thakur Pratap Singhji V.S.M., A.D.C., educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and Government College, Ajmer; served in the Indian Territorial Army and later entered politics and served as M.L.A. from Jaitaran Constituency; married Thakurani Jaikirti Kumari, daughter of Thakur Janak Singhji of Chomu, and had issue, two sons and one daughter. He died October 1999.
      • Capt. Thakur Ridhiraj Singh, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and at St. Stephens College, Delhi; served in the Indian Territorial Army; married a grand-daughter of Maj. Thakur Shaitan Singhji P.V.C., and has issue.
        • Kunwar Amritanshu Rathore, presently (2008) studying in Jodhpur.
      • Baisa Tripti Kumari [Thakurani Tripti Kumari of Bitar], married Lt.-Cdr. Thakur Anshuman Chauhan of Bitar, U.P., son of Lt.-Gen. Thakur D.S. Chauhan (Army Commander, Central Command), and has issue, one son and one daughter.
        • Kunwar Tribhuvan Chauhan
        • Kumari Padmanjali
      • Thakur Himanshu Rathore, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, Loretto School, Edinburg, Scotland and Jai Hind College, Bombay; presently (2008) working with Tajsafaris at Bandhavgarh National Park, M.P.
    • Baiji Lal Shyam Kawar
    • Insp.-Gen. (ret'd.) Thakur Raghu Raj Singhji, born 5th May 1945 in Nimaj, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; at King George School, Ajmer and Government College, Ajmer (Bachelors of Arts); served in the Border Security Force and retired as Inspector General in 2005, married 26th May 1972 in Jobner, Thakurani Vijay Laxmi, and has issue, a son and a daughter.
      • Kunwar Rishiraj Singh Rathore, born 1975 in Nimaj, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;  at Delhi University (Bachelor of Commerce) and at Monash University, Melbourne (Master of Business Systems); married 28th January 2005 at Castle Bijaipur, Rajkumari Priyanka Kumari, daughter of Rawat Rao NARENDRA SINGH of Bijaipur and his wife, Rani Harendra Kanwar.
      • Baisa Ritu Kawar
    • Thakur Shakti Singhji, married to Roha in Kutch, and has issue, two sons.
      • Kunwar Jaivardhan Singh
      • Kunwar Rajyvardhan Singh

  14. Thakur UDAI SINGHJI, born 1931, married Thakurani Pritam Kanwar, daughter of Raja SANGRAM SINGH of Khandela-Junior, and his wife, Rani Kishore Kanwar, and had issue, four sons and one daughter.
    • Baisa Nagendra Kunwar, married Col. Bhupendra Singhji of Nemrana.
    • Thakur BHAGWATI SINGHJI (qv)
    • Thakur Bhagirat Singh, married to Danta.
    • Thakur Bhanu Pratap Singh, married to Thikana Haveli Amarkot in Pakistan.
    • Thakur Bharat Singh, married to Dhanariya.

  15. Thakur BHAGWATI SINGHJI (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Thakur Sahib of Neemaj, married Thakurani Lad Kanwar, daughter of Thakur BHAGWANT SINGH of Mandawa Line II, and his wife, Thakurani Suraj Kanwar.
 
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