BARIA (Princely State)

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AREA: 2,106 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 225,000Rs ACCESSION: 10th June 1948
STATE: Bombay  DYNASTY:  Kichhi-Chauhan  RELIGION:  Hindu
VILLAGES: 495 POPULATION: 81,579 (1901)  REVENUE: 213,375Rs
     
PRESENT RULER:
   
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Ancestor was Rawal Patai, last Chauhan King of Champaner around 1484. A Second Class state in the Rewa Kantha Agency. Rulers were...
  • Raja JASHWANTSINHJI fl.1803
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  • Raja GANGADASJI JASHWANTSINHJI -/1819, married and had issue. He died August 1819.
    • Raja BHIMSINHJI GANGADASJI (qv)
    • Raja PRITHVIRAJJI GANGADASJI (qv)
      
  • Raja BHIMSINHJI GANGADASJI 1819/1820
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  • Raja PRITHVIRAJJI GANGADASJI 1820/1864
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  • HH Maharawal Shri MANSINHJI PRITHVIRAJJI 1864/1908, born 4th October 1855, succeeded 5th March 1864 (#1), educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot, married 1873, HH Maharani Chandra Kunverba Sahiba, daughter of Maharana VAIRISALJI NAHARSINHJI of Rajpipla, and had issue. He died 25th February 1908.
    • Lt.-Col. HH Maharawal Sir Shri RANJITSINHJI MANSINHJI (qv)
    • Maharaj Naharsinhji Mansinhji, married Rani Drupad Kunverba Sahiba of Rajpipla, died 1980, and had issue.
      • Maharaj Prithisinhji Naharsinhji, married and had issue.
        • Rajkumari Niranjana Devi, born 14th November 1929, married (as his second wife), Rao HARENDRA SINGH, 18th Rao of Kushalgarh, born 11th May 1924, died 21st February 1967, and has issue.
        • Maharaj Virvijaysinhji Prithisinhji, married and had issue.
          • Rajkumari Preeti Singh, married Rawal Raja Raghvendra Singh of Samode, and has issue, a son and a daughter.
    • HH Maharani Suraj Kunverb Sahiba, married HH Maharaja Shri Sir LAKHDHIRJI WAGHJI Bahadur of Morvi, and had issue.
    • HH Maharani Dev Kunverba Sahiba, married 1893, HH Maharaja Rao BHAVSINHJI II TAKHATSINGHJI of Bhavnagar, and had issue.
      
  • Lt.-Col. HH Maharawal Sir Shri RANJITSINHJI MANSINHJI 1908/1949, born 10th July 1886, K.C.S.I. [cr.1.1.1922], served in France and Flanders during WWI and on the N.W. Frontier during the Afghan War 1919, married 1stly, HH Maharani Takhat Kunverba Sahiba, died 1916, daughter of HH Maharana Shri Sir CHHATRASINHJI GAMBHIRSINHJI of Rajpipla, married 2ndly, HH Maharani Dilhar Kunverba Sahiba, daughter of Maharana Shri GAMBHIRSINHJI VAIRISALJI of Rajpipla, and had issue. He died 7th September 1949.
    • Yuvaraj Sobhagsinhji Ranjitsinhji (by Maharani Takhat Kunverba), married Yuvarani Bibhasprabha Devi, daughter of HH Maharaja BIRENDRA KISHORE DEV VARMAN MANIKYA Bahadur of Tripura, and had issue. He died January 1934.
      • HH Maharawal JAIDEEPSINHJI SOBHAGSINHJI (qv)
      • Maharaj Pradeepsinhji Sobhagsinhji, married and had issue.
        • Maharaj Jitendrasinhji Pradeepsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1980).
    • Maharaj Shri Hirasinhji Ranjitsinhji (by Maharani Dilhar Kunverba), married Rani Ranjana Devi of Rajpipla.
    • Kunwari Sahiba Rajendra Kunwar Ba, engaged 19th July 1915, to Yuvraj Fateh Singh of Alirajpur.
  • HH Maharawal JAIDEEPSINHJI SOBHAGSINHJI 1949/1987, born 1929, Member of the 8th Lok Sabha, a renowned polo player, married 27th May 1948, HH Maharani Prem Kumari, daughter of HH Saramad-i-Rajahai Hindustan Raj Rajendra Shri Maharajadhiraj Sir Sawai MAN SINGH II Bahadur of Jaipur, and his first wife, HH Maharani Marudhar Kunwar, and had issue. He died 1987?
    • Maharajkumari Urvashi Devi [Princess Bambi], born 22nd July 1949 in Devgadh-Baria, Dahod; B.A. (Hons.), member of the 8th Gujarat Legislative Assembly, married Rajkumar Kanak Singh of Dumraon, and has issue, one son.
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Maharaj Udayendrasinhji, nephew of HH Maharawal Jaideepsinhji Sobhagsinhji.
  • Maharani Kanak Kumari, married Maharaja Bahadur RAM RAN VIJAY PRASAD SINGH of Dumraon, and had issue.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.56