PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Ancestor
of the family was Raja RAJ SINGH of Halvad-Dhrangadhra, (son of Harpal
Singh Makwana),
whose two sons performed meritorious service in Udaipur, Kunwar Sajja
Singh receiving
the Jagir of Delwara and Kunwar Ajja
Singh receiving
the Jagir of Bari Sadri. Rulers were...
- Raj Rana AJJA SINGH [Ajoji] 1499/1527, married and had
issue. He died in battle 17th March
1527 at Khanwa.
- Raj Rana SIHA SINGH [Sinhji] (qv)
- Raj Rana SIHA SINGH [Sinhji] 1527/1534, married and had
issue. He died in battle 1534 at
the first
siege
of Chittor.
- Raj Rana ASAJI (qv)
- Raj Rana SURTAN SINGH I (qv)
- Raj Rana ASAJI 1534/1535, died in battle 1535 at the second
siege of
Chittor.
- Raj Rana SURTAN SINGH I 1535/1568, married and had issue.
He died in battle 24th
February 1568 at
the third siege of Chittor.
- Raj Rana BIDA (MAN SINGH) (qv)
- Raj Rana BIDA (MAN SINGH) 1568/1576, married and had
issue. He
died
in battle 21st June 1576 at the Battle of Haldighati.
- Raj Rana DEDA SINGH (qv)
- Raj SHYAM SINGH of Jharol.
- Raj Rana DEDA SINGH 1576/1609, married and had issue. He
died in battle 1609 at Ranakpur.
- Raj Rana HARI DAS 1609/1622, died in battle 1622 at Hurda.
- Raj Rana RAI SINGH I
- Raj Rana SURTAN SINGH II, married and had issue.
- Raj Rana CHANDRASEN (qv)
- Kunwar Jaswant Singh (third son), he was granted the
Thikana of Bhiyana; married and had issue.
- Several generations
- Thakur Bhawani Singh of Kitkheda, married and had
issue.
- Kunwar Himmat Singh of Kitkheda, adopted to
Fatehpur in Jhalawar, and succeeded there as Thakur HIMMAT
SINGH of Fatehpur; married and had
issue. He died 1868.
- Thakur CHHATAR SAL of Fatehpur 1868/-, married
and had
issue.
- Kunwar Bhawani Singh of Fatehpur, succeeded as
HH
Maharaj Rana Sir Shri BHAWANI SINGH Bahadur of Jhalawar.
- Raj Rana CHANDRASEN, married and had issue, four sons.
- Raj Rana KIRTI SINGH I (qv)
- Raj Rana DAULAT SINGH, 1st Jagirdar of Tana,
he was granted the Jagir of Tana by Maharana Sangram Singh II of Mewar
in
1717.
- Maharaj Aman Singhji, he was granted the Thikana of Talawada; married and had issue.
- Raj Rana KIRTI SINGH I, married, and had issue.
- Raj Rana RAI SINGH II (qv)
- Raj Rana NATH SINGH, 2nd Jagirdar of Tana,
adopted by his uncle, Raj Rana DAULAT SINGH (see above)
- Raj Rana RAI SINGH II
- Raj Rana SURTAN SINGH III
- Raj Rana CHANDAN SINGH
- Raj Rana KIRTI SINGH II 1817/1865, married 1stly, Rani
Sringar Kanwar, daughter of Rao KESARI SINGH of Bedla,
married 2ndly, Rani Gulab Kanwar, daughter of Rawat AJIT SINGH of
Bansi, and had issue, five sons and
three daughters.
- Raj Rana SHIV SINGH (by Rani
Sringar Kanwar) (qv)
- Kunwar Fateh Singh (by Rani
Sringar Kanwar), born 1831, adopted by Raj KALYAN
SINGH III of
Delwara, and succeeded there as Rao Bahadur Raj Rana FATEH SINGH of Delwara (qv)
- Kunwar Jai Singh (by Rani
Sringar Kanwar), born 1835.
- Kunwar Ummed Singh (by Rani
Sringar Kanwar), born 1839.
- Baisa Chaman Kanwar (by Rani
Sringar Kanwar), married 1848, Kanwar Madho Singh
of Begun. She committed sati in 1861.
- Baisa Roop Kanwar (by Rani
Sringar Kanwar), married 1852, Rawat UMMED SINGH of Kanore.
- Baisa Daulat Kanwar [HH Maharani Daulat Kanwar of
Mewar] (by Rani
Sringar Kanwar), married 1863, HH Maharana SHAMBHU
SINGH of Udaipur.
- Kunwar Kesari Singh (by Rani Gulab Kanwar)
- Raj Rana SHIV SINGH 1865/1883, born 1830, married 1stly,
1841, Rani Ejan Kanwar, daughter of Raja TAKHAT SINGH of Sailana, married 2ndly, 1843, Rani Roop
Kanwar, daughter of Rawat AJIT SINGH of Kanore,
married 3rdly, 1843, Rani Phool Kanwar, daughter of Rawat GAMBHIR SINGH
of Thana, and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1883.
- (A) Raj Rana RAI SINGH III (qv)
- Raj Rana RAI SINGH III 1883/1897, born 1861, married 1stly,
1878, Rani Sardar Kanwar, daughter of Rawat RATAN SINGH of Kurabar, married 2ndly, 1878, Rani Ratan
Kanwar, daughter of Thakur SANGRAM SINGH of Bhadrajun, married 3rdly, 1886, Rani Nathe
Kanwar, daughter of Rao ZORAWAR SINGH of Kushalgarh, and
had
issue as well as adoptive issue. He died spm 1897.
- Baisa Nawal Kanwar (by Rani Sardar Kanwar), married about
1895, Bhanwar Nahar
Singh (later Thakur
NAHAR SINGH) of Kuchaman, and had
issue.
- (A) Raj Rana DULEH SINGH (qv)
- Raj Rana DULEH SINGH 1897/1936, born 1884,
married 1stly, 1901, Rani Anand Kanwar, daughter of Rajawat Ummed Singh
of Barwara in Jaipur, married 2ndly, 1913, Rani Raj Kanwar, daughter of
Rao Bahadur MOD SINGH of Deolia,
married 3rdly, 1925, Rani Mohan Kanwar, daughter of Rawat JAWAN
SINGH of Lunda, and had issue. He died
1936.
- Raj Rana KALYAN SINGH (by Rani Raj Kanwar) (qv)
- Rajkumari Nihal
Kumari (by Rani Raj Kanwar), married Bhanwar Samar Singh of Banera,
and had issue.
- Kunwar Bhim Singh (by Rani Mohan Kanwar)
- Baisa Suryaprabha (by Rani Mohan Kanwar), married 1953,
Rawal AJIT SINGHJI of
Jobner, and has issue.
- Raj Rana KALYAN SINGH 1936/1944, married 1931, Rani
Muktawati
Kanwar,
died 20th April 1995, daughter of Rajkumar Pratap Singh, Yuvaraj Saheb
of Banera, and had issue.
- Raj Rana HIMMAT SINGHJI (qv)
- Thakur Chandrasen Jhala, married Thakurani Meena Kumari
Rathore, and had issue, three daughters.
- Kumari Savita Singh Deo,
married and has issue, two daughters.
- Kumari Kritika Devi
- Kumari Mrigakshi Devi
- Kumari Pratibha Jhala, married and has issue, one son.
- Kumari Preeti Rathore, married and had issue, two
daughters.
- Baisa Rama Kumari
- Baisa Bhargavi Kumari
- Raj Rana HIMMAT SINGHJI 1944/2004, born 5th September 1942
in Banera,
married 1953 in Basant Panchmi, Thikana Bhadrajun, Dist. Jalore, Rani
Gopal
Kanwar, died 5th June 1995, daughter of Raja DEVI SINGH of Bhadrajun, and had issue, two sons. He died
2004.
- Kunwar Ghanshyam Singh (succeeded as Raj Rana GHANSHYAM
SINGHJI) (qv)
- Kunwar Karan Singh
- Raj Rana GHANSHYAM SINGHJI (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Rani Anand Kunwar, married as fifth wife, Raja BHIM SINGH
I, Raja Saheb of Banera.
- Thakur Anand Singhji, married Thakurani Bhagwati Kunwar,
daughter of Major Thakur Chawand Singh Chundawat of Gyangarh, and his wife, Thakurani Saheb
Kalyan Kunwar, and had issue.
- Thakur Anand Singhji, married and had issue.
- Rani Pooran Kanwar, married (as his third wife), Maharaj
Hati Singhji of Ratlam.
The help of Deepak Aggarwal is gratefully acknowledged,
December 2008.
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