SANJELI (Princely State)

 
AREA: 88 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 29,150Rs ACCESSION: 10th June 1948
STATE: Bombay  DYNASTY: Chauhan  RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 3,751 (1892)    
     
PRESENT RULER:   (c/o Pushpa Nivas Palace, Sanjeli 389175, Gujarat, India)
 
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
  • Thakur PRATAPSINGHJI, born 1847 (#1).
  • Thakur PUSHPASINGHJI PRATAPSINGHJI fl.1948
  • .......
  • Maharaja NARENDRA SINGH, born 1923, married Maharani (later Rajmata) Laxmi Kunwar, daughter of Raj Rana JASWANT SINGH of Delwara, and his wife, the sister of the Maharaj of Khatoli in Kotah, and had issue.
    • Rajkumari Bhuwaneshwari, married Kunwar Dharmendra Singh Parihar of Nagod (C.I.), and has issue.
      • Kumari Dr. Bhawna Singh, a Cardiac Surgeon, married Kunwar Piyush Singh.
      • Kumari Namrata Singh, married Kumar Debjit Prasad Singh Deo of Panchkote Raj in West Bengal.
      • Capt. Kunwar Bharatendra Singh Parihar, born 31st August 1971 in Dahod, Gujrat; educated at the University of Delhi (B.Com. with Hons.) and at Bond University, Gold Coast, Q.L.D., Australia (M.B.A.), presently serving as a Captain in the Indian Territorial Army, married 29th February 2004 in Ranchi, Kunwarani Manideepa, daughter of Kumar Dinamani Nath Shah Deo of Chhota Nagpur, and has issue.
        • Kumari Shivranjini Parihar, born 20th November 2004 at Kolkatta, India.
    • Yuvraj Manvendra Singh Chauhan, later Raja MANVENDRA SINGH (qv)
    • Rajkumari Maheshwari, married to Rana Rajendra Singh of Barwah, and has issue.
      • Kumari Devija Rana
      • Kumari Ravija Rana
      • Kunwar Mrityunjay Rana
    • Maharaj Kumar Kalika Kumar Chauhan, married to Maharajkumari Giriraj Kumari, daughter of the Raja Saheb of Verawar, younger brother of HH the Maharaja of Vijaynagar, and has issue, one son.
      • Kumar Kamakhya Chauhan
  • Raja MANVENDRA SINGH -/2006, educated at Daly College, Indore; married to Maharajkumari Geeta Devi [Rani Geeta Devi of Sanjeli], daughter of HH Maharaja PRATAP KESARI DEO of Kalahandi, and had issue, two daughters. He died 24th November 2006 at Indore after a prolonged illness.
    • Rajkumari Padmini Kumari, married Rajkumar Keshvendra Singh of Rampura in Uttar Pradesh.
    • Rajkumari Sarvani Kumari.
  • (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Rani Chauhaniji Dariao Kanwar, married Maharaj MADHO SINGH of Bhindar, and had issue, one daughter.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 477