PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The Ruling
family of Virpur descends from the Nawanagar House. Jam Vibhaji I of
Nawanagar
had four sons of whom Bhaniji, the second son received Kalawad and
eleven
other villages in appanage. According to Colonel J.W. Watson, the
village
of Kharedi is said to have been included in the appanage but owing to
some
dispute with the parent State, Bhanji renounced all claims to the Giras
and accepted a subordinate position under the Mahomedan Thanadar of
Kharedi,
which was then infested with gangs of marauding Kathis. His assistance
to the Thanadar in the expulsion of these freebooters obtained for him
a grant of one-half of Kharedi lands from the thanadar. Mokaji, the
seventh
in descent from Bharoji, moved to Virpur from Kharedi and repaired the
old Fort of the New Capital. Virpur, a Fourth Class State, formerly in
Kathiawad in pre-Independence India, follows the rule of Primogeniture
in regard to succession and exercises the jurisdictional powers as
follows:
Criminal - Seven year's rigorous imprisonment and fine to the extent of
10,000Rs, Civil - to the extent of 20,000Rs. Rulers were.....
- Thakur Saheb BHANAJI VIBHAJI, founder of Kalavad, Virpur
and Kharedi,
brother
of Jam Satoji of Nawanagar, married
and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb BHARAJI BHANAJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb BHARAJI BHANAJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb HARDHOLJI BHARAJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb HARDHOLJI BHARAJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb SAHEBJI HARDHOLJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb SAHEBJI HARDHOLJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb MOKAJI I SAHEBJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb MOKAJI I SAHEBJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb MULUJI I MOKAJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb MULUJI I MOKAJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb JETHIJI MULUJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb JETHIJI MULUJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb MOKAJI II JETHIJI [alias Bavaji] (qv)
- Kumar Sujoji Jethiji of Khijadia.
- Kumar Junoji Jethiji of Hadmadia.
- Kumar Ranmalji Jethiji of Kalmeghda & Moridad.
- Thakur Saheb MOKAJI II JETHIJI [alias Bavaji], married and
had issue.
- Thakur Saheb SURAJI I MOKAJI (qv)
- Kumar Dungarji Mokaji of Bhangda.
- Thakur Saheb SURAJI I MOKAJI, married and had issue. He
died after 1813.
- Thakur Saheb MULUJI II SURAJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb MULUJI II SURAJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb SURTANJI MULUJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb SURTANJI MULUJI -/1864, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Saheb SURAJI II SURTANJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb SURAJI II SURTANJI, born 8th October
1846, succeeded
30th July 1864 (#1),
married
and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb HAMIRSINHJI SURAJI (qv)
- Kumar Jethiji Suraji
- Kumar Ramsinhji Suraji, fl.1902
- Kumar Joravarsinhji Suraji, educated at Bombay University.
- Daughter, married the Rana of Porbandar.
- Daughter, married the Thakur Saheb of Palitana.
- Thakur Saheb HAMIRSINHJI SURAJI 1918/-, born 1876,
succeeded 18th
October
1918, married and had issue.
- Thakur
Saheb DILIPSINHJI HAMIRSINHJI (qv)
-
 Thakur
Saheb DILIPSINHJI HAMIRSINHJI -/1945, married Thakur Rani Takhat
Kunverba Saheb [the late Rajmata Saheb of Virpur], died 1991, and had
issue.
He died June 1945.
- Thakur Saheb NARENDRASINHJI DILIPSINHJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Harishchandrasinhji Dilipsinhji
- Kumar Shri Virbhadrasinhji Dilipsinhji
- Kumar Shri Pratapchandrasinhji Dilipsinhji
- Kumar Shri Subhadrasinhji Dilipsinhji, born 11th April
1934 in Virpur,
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; Senior Cambridge, i.e. School
Leaving
certificate of Cambridge University, U.K.; B.A., LL.B from
University
of Delhi. Advocate of Gujarat High Court. Attended Management Courses
at
the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and at the Department of
Management Studies, University of Leeds, U.K., Diploma in Law from
Colorado,
U.S.A., Retired as Advisor, National Textile Corporation, in India;
married
17th June 1960 in Surendranagar, Rani Shri Dharmendra Kunverba Saheb,
and
has issue.
- Kumari Shri Asha Kumari, a venture capitalist in
California, U.S.A. (U.S.A.)
- Kumar Shri Yashwantsinhji Subhadrasinhji, working in
the travel trade. (Ahmedabad,
India)
- Kumar Shri Yogendrasinhji Subhadrasinhji, working in
the travel trade. (Ahmedabad,
India)
- Kumar Shri Pratap Kunverba Saheb, married Thakur Saheb
Shri Kiritsinhji
of Mehlol, and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb NARENDRASINHJI DILIPSINHJI 1945/-, married and
had issue.
- Thakur Saheb PUSHPENDRASINHJI NARENDRASINHJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Jadavendrasinhji Narendrasinhji Jadeja
- Thakur Saheb PUSHPENDRASINHJI NARENDRASINHJI (see above)
Courtesy of Y.S. Jaideepsinhji Jadeja
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