PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY:
Also known as Moti Jatwad or Warahi [Joravarkhanji's Estate]. Founded
as
a result of the partition of the original state of Bajana amongst three
Bhayat, with Malek Shri HEDAR KHAN [Hadoji], receiving a portion of
Bajana,
Malek Shri PIR KHAN [Lakha] receiving Sitapur and Vanod
with Malek Shri ISA KHAN [Isaji] receiving Valivada as his portion.
Rulers
were....
- Malek Shri ISA KHAN [Isaji], removed his capital to Warahi,
married and had issue.
- Malek Shri BHAKARJI, married and had issue.
- Malek Shri HAMIRKHANJI (qv)
- Malek Shri HAMIRKHANJI, married and had issue.
- Malek Shri PIROJKHANJI (see below)
- Kumar Shri Ravaji Hamirkhanji
- Kumar Shri Sedadkhanji Hamirkhanji, married and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Hamirkhanji Sedadkhanji
- Malek Shri LAKHAJI HAMIRKHANJI (see below)
WARAHI [Moti Jatwad or Jorawarkhanji's Estate]
| AREA: 311 km2 |
REVENUE: 31,000Rs |
| VILLAGES: 16 |
RELIGION: Muslim |
| POPULATION: 2,821 (1921) |
DYNASTY: Malik |
| PRESENT RULER: The
Malek
Shri had the powers equivalent to that of a First Class Magistrate in
Criminal
matters and he had the power of hearing civil suits up to the value of
5,000Rs. The State held no Sanad of adoption. Primogeniture governed
succession. |
- Malek Shri LAKHAJI HAMIRKHANJI
- Malek Shri MANSINHJI, married and had issue.
- Malek Shri UMARKHANJI MANSINHJI (qv)
- Malek Shri UMARKHANJI MANSINHJI, married and had issue.
- Malek Shri SAHADATKHANJI UMARKHANJI (qv)
- Malek Shri SAHADATKHANJI UMARKHANJI -/1847, married and had
issue. He died 1847
leaving three
widows,
one of whom was pregnant at the time. The legitimacy of the birth of
the
heir was questioned by the late Malek's cousins, but after a thorough
investigation
by the British authorities, the infant was accepted as the true heir.
- Malek Shri UMARKHANJI SAHADATKHANJI (qv)
- Malek Shri UMARKHANJI SAHADATKHANJI 1848/1881, born 1848
(posthumous),
married and had issue. He died 1881.
- Malek Shri JORAVARKHANJI UMARKHANJI (qv)
- Malek Shri JORAVARKHANJI UMARKHANJI 1881/-, born 14th
September 1881
(posthumous),
succeeded 14th September 1881 (#1),
installed
1st July 1901, married and had issue.
- Malek Shri UMARKHANJI JORAVARKHANI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Husenyavarkhanji Joravarkhanji
- Kumar Shri Joravarkhanji Husenyavarkhanji, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1965), married and has issue.
- Kumar Shri Sarfrajkhanji Joravarkhanji
- Kumar Shri Sydullakhanji
Husenyavarkhanji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1965).
- Kumar Shri Yusufkhanji Husenyavarkhanji, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1965).
- Malek Shri UMARKHANJI JORAVARKHANI, born 9th September 1922.
WARAHI [Muradkhanji's Estate]
| AREA: 104 km2 |
REVENUE: 15,000Rs |
| VILLAGES: 5 |
RELIGION: Muslim |
| POPULATION: 1,253 (1921) |
DYNASTY: Malik |
| PRESENT RULER: The
Malek
Shri exercised the powers of a Second Class Magistrate in criminal
matters
and heard civil suits up to the value of 500Rs. Succession was governed
by the rule of primogeniture. |
- Malek Shri PIROJKHANJI HAMIRKHANJI,
married and had
issue.
- Malek Shri LAKHAJI PIROJKHANJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Akherajji Pirojkhanji
- Malek Shri LAKHAJI PIROJKHANJI,
married and had
issue.
- Malek Shri ADHESINHJI LAKHAJI (qv)
- Malek Shri ADHESINHJI LAKHAJI,
married and had
issue.
- Malek Shri MURADKHANJI ADHESINHJI (qv)
- Malek Shri MURADKHANJI ADHESINHJI, married and had issue.
- Malek Shri HAMUBHAI MURADKHANJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Ravaji Muradkhanji
- Malek Shri HAMUBHAI MURADKHANJI, married and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Gajukhanji Hamubhai
- Malek Shri MURADKHANJI HAMUBHAI (qv)
- Malek Shri MURADKHANJI HAMUBHAI, born 9th October 1889,
succeeded 18th
August 1911,
married and had
issue.
- Malek Shri RAVAJI MURADKHANJI (qv)
- Malek Shri RAVAJI MURADKHANJI, born 29th March 1923.
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