PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1629. Rulers were.....
- Rajadhiraj SURAJ MAL 1629/- , second son of Maharana Amir
Singh I of
Udaipur, joined
the service of the Mughal Emperor, who gave him the district of Phoolia
and a mansab (military posting) of 800 Jat (foot soldiers) and
300
Sawar (horse or horsemen), raised to 1,000 Jat and 500 Sawar in 1643,
and
to 1,500 Jat and 700 Sawar in 1645. Later, he went to Kandahar with
Prince
Aurangzeb and, in 1651, his mansab was again raised, to 2,000
Jat
and 800 Sawar, married and had issue.
- Rajadhiraj SUJAN SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Viram Deo, received the mansab of 800 Jat and 400
Sawar, later
raised
to 3,000 Jat and 1,000 Sawar. Fought in the battle of Samugadh, with
Prince
Dara's force against Prince Aurangzeb, but later went over to
Aurangzeb.
Served in Assam with Ram Singh of Jaipur, returning to Mathura where he
died circa 1688.
- Rajadhiraj SUJAN SINGH -/1664, married and had issue. He
died 1664 at
the
battle of Dharmat, along with five sons.
- Maharaj Fateh Singh, married and had issue. He died 1664
at the battle
of Dharmat.
- Rajadhiraj HIMMAT SINGH (qv)
- Rajadhiraj DAULAT SINGH (fourth son) (qv)
- Rajadhiraj HIMMAT SINGH 1664/1670, succeeded as a minor,
deposed by his
uncle after six years, ancestor of the Jagirdars of Gangwas and
Barliawas.
- Rajadhiraj DAULAT SINGH 1670/1685, married and had issue.
- Rajadhiraj BHARAT SINGH (qv)
- Rajadhiraj BHARAT SINGH 1685/1729, fought for Maharana
Sangram Singh II
in the battle against Mewati Ranbaj Khan, imprisoned by his son, Umaid
Singh, and died in prison, married Rani Gulab Kanwar of
Khandela-Senior,
and had issue. He died 1729.
- Rajadhiraj UMAID SINGH (qv)
- Rajadhiraj UMAID SINGH 1729/1769, married and had
issue. He died
14th January 1769 at the Battle of Ujjain.
- Kunwar Udyot Singh, married and had issue. He died vp
(poisoned
by his own father).
- Rajadhiraj RAM SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Zalim Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Jay Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Bijay Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Sultan Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Zorawar Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Kesri Singh
- Kunwar Sabal Singh
- Kunwar Anar Singh
- Kunwar Sundar Singh
- Kunwar Sanwant Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Balwant Singh of Dhanop, married and had
issue.
- Kunwar Dhirat Singh, married daughter of Thakur
Megh Singh of Kotri in
Kishangarh, and had issue.
- HH Rajadhiraj Sir NAHAR SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Kalyan Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Zalim Singh
- Kunwar Bahadur Singh
- Kunwar Chotu Singh
- Kunwar Suraj Mal, married and had issue.
- Rajadhiraj RAM SINGH 1769/1774, married and had issue.
- Rajadhiraj BHIM SINGH (qv)
- Rajadhiraj BHIM SINGH 1774/1796, married and had issue.
- Rajadhiraj AMAR SINGH (qv)
- Rajadhiraj AMAR SINGH 1796/1827, married and had issue.
- Rajadhiraj MADHO SINGH (qv)
- Rajadhiraj MADHO SINGH 1827/1845, married and had
issue.
- Rajadhiraj JAGAT SINGH (qv)
- Daughter, married Maharaja PRITHVI SINGH of Kishangarh.
- Rajadhiraj JAGAT SINGH 1845/1853, died 1853.
- Rajadhiraj LAKSHMAN SINGH 1853/1870, married the daughter
of Lakshman
Singh
of Poroli in Mewar, adopted Kunwar Nahar Singh of Dhanop in 1869. He
died sp
1870.
- HH Rajadhiraj Sir NAHAR SINGH 1870/1932, born 7th November
1855,
son of Kunwar Dhirat Singh of Dhanop (see above), adopted by Rajadhiraj
Lakshman Singh, K.C.I.E.
[cr.1903], awarded a 9-gun salute, Member of the Mahand Raj Sabha,
married
1stly, 19th August 1870, daughter of Thakur Ram Singh of Baghera in Jaipur,
married 2ndly, 16th May 1874, daughter of Thakur Chattar Sal of
Maksundangarh,
died before 1893, married 3rdly, 7th July 1889, Rani Swarup Kunwarba of
Sokhada-Dhrangadhra, died before
1893,
married 4thly, 4th March 1893, the sister of the Maharawal of
Chhota-Udaipur,
and had issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters (by 2nd wife). He died 24th June
1932.
- HH Svasti Shri Rajadhiraja Sahib UMAID SINGH II Bahadur
(by 2nd wife)
(qv)
- Rajakumar Sirdar Singh (by 2nd wife), born 1880, educated
at Mayo
College,
Ajmer; married and had issue.
- HH Maharani Prema Kumari Devi, married 25th November
1925, HH Maharaja
Sir PRATAP CHANDRA BHANJ DEO of Mayurbhanj.
- HH Svasti Shri Rajadhiraja Sahib UMAID SINGH II Bahadur
1932/1947, born
7th March 1876, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; Chief Minister of
Shahpura
1912/1932, Abdicated in favour of his eldest son, 3rd February 1947.
Received
the Silver Durbar Medal (1911), Silver Jubilee Medal (1935) and
Coronation
Medal (1937). Married 1stly a sister of Raja Shri Jai Singhji Sahib,
Raja
of Khetri, died at Shahpura 8th August 1913, married 2ndly December
1914
at Kishengarh, a daughter of Raja Shri Samvat Singhji Sahib, Raja of
Ralaota
(Kishengarh State). He had issue, an only daughter by his first wife
and
one son and two daughters by the second.
- HH Rajadhiraj SUDERSHAN SINGH (qv)
- HH Rajadhiraj SUDERSHAN SINGH 1947/-, born 8th December
1915, married
HH
Rani Harshwant Kunwarba Sahiba of Dhrangadhra,
and had issue.
- HH Rajadhiraj INDRAJIT SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumari Mahendra Kumari [Princess Bapujija], born 2nd
May 1936,
married 10th December 1961, Thakur Amarjeet Singh of Gumanpura,
born 1935, died 2005, son of General Thakur Nathu
Singh (1900-1994), and has issue.
- Thakur Shatrujeet Singh Rathore, born January
1963, married 11th March 1993,
Thakurani Maya Singh, daughter of Col. Apji Bharat Singh Hada of Koela-Kotah, and
has issue, one daughter.
- Trisha Rathore, born 17th November 1998.
- Thakur Jai Singh Rathore, born
December 1965, married 21st February 1994, Thakurani
Mandvi Kumari, and has issue, two daughters
- Tameksha Rathore born 28 September 1995.
- Darshini Rathore, born 26th December
1998.
- Rajkumari Mridul Kumari [Princess Shilujija], born 18th
August 1941.
- HH Rajadhiraj INDRAJIT SINGH (see above)
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