PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
about 1460. A First Class in the Rewa Kantha Agency. Rulers were...
- Maharana AJAB SINGH 1786/1803
- Maharana RAM SINGH 1803/1810
- Maharana PRATAP SINGH 1810/1815
INTERREGNUM 1815/1819
- Maharana NAHARSINHJI 1819/1821
- Maharana VAIRISALJI NAHARSINHJI 1821/1860, married and had
issue.
- Maharana Shri GAMBHIRSINHJI VAIRISALJI (qv)
- HH Maharani Chandra Kunverba Sahiba, married 1873, HH
Maharawal Shri MANSINHJI PRITHVIRAJJI of Baria,
and had issue. She died 1894.
- Maharana Shri GAMBHIRSINHJI VAIRISALJI 1860/1897, born
1847, married
and
had issue. He died 10th January 1897.
- HH Maharana Shri Sir CHHATRASINHJI GAMBHIRSINHJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Ramsinhji Gambhirsinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot
- Kumar Shri Kiritsinhji Gambhirsinhji, educated at
Rajkumar College,
Rajkot
- Kumar Shri Narsinhji Gambhirsinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot
- Kumar Shri Digvijaysinhji Gambhirsinhji, educated at
Rajkumar College,
Rajkot
- HH Maharana Shri Sir CHHATRASINHJI GAMBHIRSINHJI 1897/1915,
born 1862,
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; a progressive ruler, began the
process
of modernisation of Rajpipla which was carried on by his son, he
married
1stly, a daughter of the Raja Saheb of Wankaner,
married 2ndly, a daughter of the Raja Saheb of Chhota-Udaipur,
married 3rdly, a daughter of Mahida Shri Durjan Sinhji, and had issue 4
sons and 2 daughters. He died 27th September 1915.
- Maj. HH Maharana Shri Sir VIJAYSINHJI CHHATRASINHJI (by
1st marriage)
(qv)
- Daughter, married 1927 (as his first wife), HH Maharawal
NATWARSINHJI
FATEHSINHJI
of Chhota-Udaipur. She died 1928.
-
Lt.-Col.
HH Maharana Shri Sir VIJAYSINHJI CHHATRASINHJI Sahib 1915/1951, born
30th
January 1890 at Nandod, G.B.E., K.C.S.I. [cr.1925], educated at
Rajkumar
College, Rajkot, and at the Imperial Cadet Corps, Dehra Dun; granted
the
hereditary title of Maharaja as well as having the state's salute
raised
from 11 to 13 guns, he introduced many reforms, including free Primary
education, nominal high school fees, scholarships, a hospital, 5
dispensaries
and a veterinary hospital in the state, good public works, and a
criminal-and-civil
court, he initiated the construction of good motorable roads, a 40 mile
railway line, and a 19 mile steam railroad and a tramway connecting the
towns along the river Narmada with villages in the interior and a power
house supplying water and electricity to the town, he regularised
the land revenue systems, introduced pensions for public servants and
increased
the salary of the police and military, he was a keen horseman, with his
horses winning the Irish Derby in 1926 (Embargo) and the Grand Prix in
Belgium in 1927 (Embargo), and the Epsom Derby in 1934 (Windsor Lad),
in
the 1932-1933 racing season he topped the racing events list in India,
he married 1stly, 2nd March 1911, HH Maharani Uday Kunverba
Sahiba
of Amleta, married 2ndly, 18th June
1917,
HH Maharani Padmini Kunverba Sahiba, daughter of Rao Raja Khuman Singh
Ju Deo of Panna, married 3rdly, 5th
January
1940, HH Maharani Ila Devi [née Ella Atherton], and had issue.
He
died 29th April 1951 in Europe and was cremated on the banks of the
river
Narmada, 18 kms from his former capital.
- HH Maharana Shri RAJENDRASINHJI VIJAYSINGHJI Sahib (by
1st wife)(see
below)
- Rajkumar Shri Raghunathsinhji Vijaysinhji Sahib (by 1st
wife), born
July
1913 at Nandod, died 1915.
- Rajkumari Shri (name
unknown) Kunverba Sahiba (by 1st wife), born 1914 at
Nanod, died
1915
at Nanod.
- Maharajkumari Kusum Kunverba Sahiba [HH Maharani Kusum
Kunverba Sahiba
of Chhota Udaipur](by 1st wife), married 5th December 1928, (as his
second
wife), HH Maharawal Shri NATWARSINHJI FATEHSINHJI of Chhota-Udaipur,
and had issue. She died 1981.
- Maharaj Shri Pramodsinhji Vijaysinhji Sahib (by 1st
wife), born 13th
January
1917 at Nandod, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and Queen’s College,
Cambridge
(B.A), member of the Indian Administrative Service, married 10th
December
1952, Rani Jayendra Kumari, daughter of Thakur Sahib Shri INDRASINHJI
BALVIRSINHJI
of Lakhtar, and had issue. He died 1st
January 1980 at Bombay.
- Rajkumari Yogeshwari Devi Sahiba, born 13th October
1953 at Bombay,
married
6th December 1976, Kunwar Duleep Singh, son of Thakur Harnath Singh of
Khatipura, and had issue. She died 2001.
- Rajkumari Maheshwari Devi Sahiba, born 16th December
1954 at Bombay,
married
11th December 1981, Shri Manvendra Singh Panwar, son of Lt.-Col.
Mahendra
Pratap Bahadur Singh, and has issue.
- Rajkumari Durgeshwari Devi Sahiba, born 10th April 1956
at Lakhtar,
married
21st April 1980, Shri R. Balchander, and has issue.
- Rajkumari Krishna Kumari Sahiba, born 25th September
1959 at
Bhubaneshwar,
married 10th February 1989, Kumar Shri Brijrajsinhji Praveensinhji of
Dhrol.
- Maharajkumari Mohini Kunverba Sahiba [HH Maharani Mohini
Devi of Morvi]
(by 2nd wife), born 14th September 1918 at Nandod, married 27th January
1932, (as his first wife), HH Maharaja Shri MAHENDRASINHJI LAKHDIRJI
Sahib
Bahadur of Morvi. She died 13th December
1993.
- Rajkumar Shri (name
unknown) Vijaysinhji Sahib (by 2nd wife), born July 1919,
died 11th
August
1919.
- Maharaj Shri Indrajeetsinhji Vijaysinhji Sahib (by 2nd
wife), born 19th
September 1925 at Nandod, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 27th
May 1954 at Bombay, Rani Vina Kumari, daughter of Raja Shriniwas Prasad
Singh of Jagdishpur (Bhojpur,
Bihar),
and had issue. He died 11th July 1964.
- Rajkumar Shri Indra Vikram Singh, born 29th July 1955
at Mussoorie,
educated
at St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehra Dun; St. George’s College, Mussoorie;
Hans
Raj College, Delhi University; and at the British Institute of
Commerce,
Bombay; author of ‘Test Cricket - End of the Road?’ (1992), associate
editor
of Cricket Samrat - English edition (1999-2000), co-author of ‘Peter
Murray’s
World Cup Cricket’ (2002), married 21st May 1981 at Dehra Dun, Rajkumar
Rani Vandana Kumari, daughter of Thakur Mahabir Singh of Ajairajpura,
and
has issue.
- Kunwar Vishvajeet Singh, born 30th July 1983 at Doom
Dooma, educated at
Vidya Niketan, New Delhi; Summer Fields School, Gurgaon; Shaheed Bhagat
Singh College, Delhi University; and ICFAI University, Hyderabad.
- Rajkumar Indra Vadan Singh, born 1st November 1957 at
Dehra Dun,
educated at St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehra Dun; St. George’s College,
Mussoorie;
St. Michael’s School, Patna; Hindu College and Hans Raj College, Delhi
University, married 21st February 1982 at New Delhi, Rajkumar Rani
Ratna
Varma, daughter of Wing Commander J. C. Varma, and has issue.
- Kumari Shubhangini Singh, born 26th April 1983 at New
Delhi, educated
at
Vidya Niketan, New Delhi and Wigan & Leigh College, New Delhi.
- Kunwar Chandra Vadan Singh, born 3rd February
1988 at Duliajan,
educated
at Vidya Niketan, New Delhi.
- Maharajkumari Chandra Prabha Kumari Sahiba (Maharaj
Kunwar Rani Chandra
Prabha Kumari Sahiba of Nabha) (by 2nd wife), born 11th November 1932
at
Nandod, married 1950, Maharajkumar Shri Gurbaksh Singh of Nabha, and
has
issue.
- Maharaj Shri Rajsinhji Vijaysinhji Sahib (by 3rd wife),
born 21st
November
1940, educated at Westminister School.
- Maharajkumari Premila Devi Sahiba (by 3rd wife), born
10th April 1949,
educated at Heathfield School, Ascot.
- HH Maharana Shri RAJENDRASINHJI VIJAYSINHJI Sahib
1951/1963, born 30th
March 1912 at Nandod, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, and RMA,
Woolwich,
married 5th March 1934, HH Maharani Rasik Kunverba Sahiba, daughter of HH
Maharawal Shri FATEHSINHJI MOTISINHJI Sahib of Chhota-Udaipur,
and had issue. He died 3rd February 1963 at Bombay.
- HH Maharana Shri RAGHUBIRSINHJI RAJENDRASINHJI Sahib (qv)
- Maharajkumari Premlata Kumari Sahiba (HH Maharani
Premlata Kumari
Sahiba
of Patna, now the Rajmata Sahiba of Patna), born 5th January 1937 at
Nandod,
married 18th January 1955, HH Maharaja RAJ RAJ SINGH DEO of Patna,
and has issue.
- Maharajkumari Vimla Kumari Sahiba (Rani Vimla Kumari
Sahiba of Bamra),
born 15th September 1938 at Nandod, married 7th February 1965, Raja
PRADIPTA
GANG DEB of Bamra, and has issue.
- HH Maharana Shri RAGHUBIRSINHJI RAJENDRASINHJI Sahib (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Rani Manwar Kunwarba Sahiba, married 1914, Maharaj Dasrath
Singh of Barwani
and had issue. She died 1916.
- Rani Shyamlata Kumari, married Maharaj Shri Naharsinhji
Godji of Kutch.
- Maharaj Champaksinhji, married the 2nd daughter of Rana
GULABSINHJI
GAMMELSINHJI of Pratappur, and had
issue.
- Thakurani Bharati Devi, married April 1947, Lt.Col.
Thakur RAGHUVIR
SINGHJI
of Dundlod, and has issue.
- Rajkumari Veena Devi, married Kumar Shri Jaisinhji Jhala,
son of
Kumar Shri Banesinhji Jaswantsinhji of Wadhwan.
- Kanwar Prithiraj Singh, married and had issue.
- Rani Kusum Kumari, married 13th May 1930, Maj. HH Raja
Sir JOGINDER SEN
Bahadur of Mandi.
- Rani Jayaraj Kumari, married 1936, Maharaj Shri
Duleepsinhji
Jaswansinhji
Jadeja of Nawanagar.
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