PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
This is a second class thikana of Mewar, and it is the Patwi thikana
(elder house) of the third class thikanas of Kankarwa, Pahuna,
Jaiwana, Turkiya etc. These thikanas belonged to the descendents of
Maharaj Viramdev (Viramdeo), the younger brother of Maharaj Sagat
(Shakta) Singh, head of the Shaktawat clan and half brother of
Maharana Pratap Singh of Mewar. They are known as Veeramdeot Ranawats,
and have the title of
'Baba (Maharaj)'. The younger son of Baba Sangram Singh of Kherabad,
Kunwar Shambhu Singh, received the thikana of Sanwar. Veeramdeots have
the
privilege of holding the post of Kiledar
of Kumbhalgarh, 'kiledar'
meaning 'officer in charge of the fort'. Shambhu Singh participated in
the war against the Maratha, Malharao Holkar, when he attacked Jaipur.
When Ajit Singh of Bundi assassinated Maharana Ari Singh II
(1761-1773), Shambhu also died fighting for his master. At the battle
of Harkayal against the Marathas during the reign of Maharana Bhim
Singh (1778-1828), Shambhu's grandsons, Daulat Singh and Kushal Singh,
took part, with Kushal dying on the battlefield. Rulers
were...
- Maharaj SHAMBHU SINGH, 1st Baba Saheb of Sanwar; son of
Maharaj SANGRAM SINGH, 4th Baba Saheb of Kherabad,
he took part with the Mewar forces in a number of battles against the
Maratha ruler of Indore, Malhar Rao Holkar; married and had issue, the
Thakur Sahebs of Sanwar and Kankarwa.
He was killed in battle against the forces of Bundi in 1773 fighting
for his liege lord, the Maharana of Udaipur.
- Maharaj JAI SINGH (qv)
- Maharaj Prithvi Singh (third son), 1st Baba Saheb of
Mahua.
- Maharaj JAI SINGH, married and had issue.
- Maharaj DAULAT SINGH (qv)
- Maharaj Kushal Singh, he was killed in the battle of
Harkayal.
- Maharaj DAULAT SINGH, he took part in the battle of
Harkayal, along with his brother; married and had issue. He died after
1820.
- Thakurani Ajab
Kanwar, married (as his third wife), Thakur BAKHTAWAR SINGH of Auwa.
- Maharaj BHAIRAV SINGH
- Maharaj GIRDHARI SINGH
- Maharaj LAXMAN SINGH, married and had issue.
- Thakurani Man Kanwar, married Thakur LAL SINGH of Ahor.
She died sp.
- Maharaj NAHAR SINGH, fl.1880, he built the fort at Thikana
Sanwar.
- Maharaj GOVARDHAN SINGH
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