PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1197. The rulers of Dungarpur claim descent from the Rajput house of
Mewar (see Udaipur). Towards the end of the 12th century, Samant Singh,
the eldest son of the ruler of Mewar, had to leave Mewar in favor of
his
younger brother Kumar Singh. Samant Singh drifted into the hilly area
of
Bagar and, within the next century, Samant Singh's successors
controlled
the whole province of Bagar. Rawal Udai Singh of Bagar was killed at
the
battle of Khanua in 1527, fighting for Mewar against Moghul Emperor
Babur.
His territory was thereafter divided between his two sons, forming two
separate states. Prithvi Raj remained in Dungarpur while his brother
Jagmal
Singh became independent ruler of Banswara. Rulers were...
- Rawal SAMANT SINGH 1197/1209 or 1179/1192
- Rawal JAYAT SINGH 1209/1218 (son)
- Rawal SINHAD DEO 1218/1248 (brother)
- Rawal JAY SINGH DEO 1248/1251 (son)
- Rawal DEOPALI DEO 1251/1278 (brother)
- Rawal VIRSINH DEO 1278/1303 (son)
- Rawal BHOO CHAND 1303/1331 (son)
- Rawal DUNGAR SINGH 1331/1363 (son)
- Rawal KARAN SINGH I 1363/1384 (son)
- Rawal JAYKRISHNA 1384/1386 (son)
- Rawal MAHIPAL SINGH I 1386/1398 (brother)
- Rawal KANHAD DEO 1398/1403 (brother)
- Rawal PRATAP SINGH 1403/1423 (son)
- Rawal GOPINATH SINGH 1423/1447 (son)
- Rawal SOMA DAS 1447/1479 (son)
- Rawal GANGA DAS 1479/1497 (son)
- Rawal UDAI SINGH I 1497/1527 (son), married and had issue.
He died 17th
March 1527 at Khanwa.
- Rawal PRITHVIRAJ SINGH (qv)
- Rawal JAGMAL DAS of Banswara.
- Rawal PRITHVIRAJ SINGH 1527/1549
- Rawal ASKARAN SINGH 1549/1580 (son)
- Rawal SAHAS MAL 1580/1606 (son)
- Rawal KARAN SINGH II 1606/1609 (son)
- Rawal PUNJARAJ SINGH 1609/1657 (son)
- Rawal GIRDHAR DAS 1657/1661, married and had issue.
- Rawal JASHWANT SINGH I (qv)
- Several generations.
- Maharaj Jaswant Singh of Sabli, married and had issue.
- Maharawal UDAI SINGH II (see below)
- SON, married and had issue.
- Thakur Shambhu Singh of Sabli, born 1885.
- SON, married and had issue.
- Thakur Parbat Singh of Oara, born 1879.
- Thakur Umaid Singh of Mandwa
- Rawal JASHWANT SINGH I 1661/1691, married and had issue.
- Rawal KHUMAN SINGH (qv)
- SON, married and had issue.
- Thakur Bakht Singh, married
and had issue.
- Thakur Prithvi Singh, married and had issue.
- Thakur Ummed/Umaid Singh of Nandli, born 1853,
married and had issue.
- Thakur Khuman Singh, married and had issue.
- Thakur Himmat Singh (IPS), born 15th April
1915, he was the last
Superintendent
of Police of Dungarpur State at the time of the State's merger into the
Indian Union, later he was selected for the Indian Police Service and
retired
in 1973 as Deputy Inspector General of Police, married and had issue.
He
died 20th August 1979.
- Thakurani Neena Singh, educated at St.
Mary's
Convent, Ajmer; married
Thakur
Parikshit Singh from Harji in Jalore District, who has served in one of
the largest Tea and Rubber companies of India (Harrisons Malyalam), and
earlier in a sterling company known as Harrisons & Crosfield and
the
Bombay Burmah Tea Corp. owned by Nusli Wadia; now retired and doing
freelance
consultancy for Tea and Rubber plantations, and has issue.
- Thakur Narendra Singh, educated at St.
Xaviers in Jaipur and St. Paul's
in Udaipur, presently working with Zila Parishad, Udaipur; married to
Thakurani
Dr. Nidhi Singh of Jai Singh Garh in District Panipat, Haryana;
presently
teaching Psychology and English at Mayo College Girl's School, Ajmer;
and
has issue.
- Kunwar Abhijai Singh, studying at Mayo
College, Ajmer.
- Baisa Ananya Singh, studying at Mayo
College
Girl's School, Ajmer.
- Kunwarani Neera Singh Sisodia, educated at
St. Mary's in Udaipur and
Sophia
School in Jodhpur, married 7th May 1987, Kunwar Gajraj Singh Chandel of
Bilaspur,
and has issue.
- Thakur Naresh Chandra Singh, educated at
St.
Paul's in Udaipur,
Businessman,
married Thakurani Kiran Singh of Patodi in District Barmer, and has
issue
- Kunwar Dhruv Raj Singh, studying at Mayo
College, Ajmer.
- Kunwar Janmajeya Singh, studying at St.
Paul's in Udaipur.
- Thakur Zorawar Singh, nephew of the following.
- Rawal KHUMAN SINGH 1691/1702
- Rawal RAM SINGH 1702/1730 (son)
- Rawal SHIV SINGH 1730/1785 (son)
- Rawal VAIRI SAL 1785/1790 (son)
- Rawal FATEH SINGH 1790/1808 (son)
- Maharawal JASHWANT SINGH II 1808/1845, (son), about 1820 he
adopted
Dalpat
Singh of Pratapgarh who became the effective ruler from about 1825. The
death of Dalpat Singh's only son in 1845, meant that he would succeed
in
Pratapgarh thus preventing him from succeeding in Dungarpur. Maharawal
Jashwant Singh II therefore in 1845 adopted Hanwant Singh the son of
the
Thakur of Mungala, however Udai Singh, the adopted son of Dalpat Singh
eventually succeeded in Dungarpur, while a son of Dalpat Singh by a
second
wife succeeded in Pratapgarh. He died 19th December 1845.
DALPAT SINGH 1825/1846, born 1808,
Regent
and Maharawat of Pratapgarh. He
died
1864.
- Maharawal UDAI SINGH II 1846/1898 born 1838, son of
Maharaj Jaswant
Singh
of Sabli (see above), married 1855, the daughter of Rao SHEO SINGH of Sirohi,
and had issue. He died 1898.
- Yuvaraj Khuman Singh, born 28th April 1856, married and
had issue. He died 30th
October 1893.
- HH Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal Shri BIJAY SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- HH Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal Shri BIJAY SINGH Bahadur
1898/1918, born 17th
July 1887, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; K.C.I.E. [cr.1912], married
1stly, 19th January 1907, HH Maharani Devendra Kumari, daughter of HH
Raja Sir JASHWANT SINGH Bahadur of Sailana,
married 2ndly, 13th June 1917, HH Maharani Sugan Kunwar of Sindhavadar
in Wankaner, born 23rd September 1901, died 7th December 1952, and had
issue. He died 15th November 1918.
- HH Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal Shri Sir LAKSHMAN SINGH Bahadur
(see below)
- Maharaj Virbhadra Singh, born 27th February 1909, married
Rani Tej
Kunwar, daughter of Maj.Gen. Apji Thakur Sir ONKAR SINGH
of Palaitha, and had issue. He died
16th
November 1972.
- Rani Girdhar Kumari, born 1932, married 1948, Maharaj
Hukam Singh of Jaisalmer,
and has issue.
- Rani Narendra Kumari, born 16th September 1934, married
in Kutch,
Maharaj
Shri Dilipsinhji of Kutch, born 16th
August
1927, and had issue. She died 23rd October 2000.
- Maharaj Samar Singh, married Rani Mridula Kumari,
daughter of Maharaja
Bahadur KAMAL SINGH of Dumraon,
and his wife, Maharani Usha
Rani, and has issue.
- Kunwar Shivendra Singh
- Kunwar Sudhir Singh
- HH Maharani Rama
Kunver, born 20th February 1911, married
5th February
1929, HH Maharana Raj Saheb PRATAPSINHJI of Wankaner,
and had issue. She died 10th February 1991.
- Maharaj NAGENDRA SINGH, born 18th March 1914, educated at
Mayo College, Ajmer and Cambridge University, England. He obtained his
Doctorate in Law from the same university and joined the Indian Civil
Sevice (ICS). Appointed a Judge and later became the Chief Justice of
the International Court Of Justice, The Hague; married in
Dungarpur,
11th
February 1940, Rani Pushpa Kumari, born 1920, daughter Col.
HH Maharaja Mahendra Sir YADVENDRA SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur of Panna, and his first wife, HH Maharani
Shri
Manhar Kunverba. He died 11th December 1988.
- Maharaj PRADYUMNA SINGH, born 1st February 1918, married
Rani Indira
Kumari, daughter Capt. Rao KRISHNAPAL SINGH of Awagarh, and his wife, Rani Darshan
Kumari,and had issue.
- Kunwarani Ravi Prabha, married Kunwar Hitendra Dev
Singh of Poonch.
- Maharaj Manvendra Singh, B.A., born 13th December 1947
in Agra, educated at K. R. College, Mathura (Uttar Pradesh); Member of
Congress 1978/-; elected to Lok Sabha VIII in 1984; Member,
Consultative Committee, Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation;
Railways; Surface Transport; Food Processing Industries; Agriculture
and Education 1984/1989; re-elected to Lok Sabha IX 1989; Chairman of
the House Committee 1989/1990; Member of the General Purposes
Committee 1990/-; Member of the Committee of Priviliges 1990/-; Member
of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of Food Processing Industries
1990/-; re-elected to Lok Sabha XIV 2004/-; Member of the Committees on
Industry, Defence and the Members of Parliament Local Area Development
scheme; President of the Brij Kala Kendra and the
Governing Body
of B.R. College, Agra; Treasurer of All India Kshatriya Maha
Sabha 1974; Secretary of the Braj Jaycees, Mathura 1982/1983; President of the Uttar Pradesh Volleyball Association, for
six years; Member of the Rotary Club, Mathura; former Patron of
the Delhi Distt.
Cricket Association (DDCA) for ten years; married 25th November
1969, Rani Urmila Kumari, and has issue, 1 son. (Awagarh House,
Dampier Nagar, Mathura - 281 001, Uttar Pradesh, India)
 HH Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal Shri Sir LAKSHMAN SINGH Bahadur
1918/1989,
born
7th March 1908, Member of the Rajya Sabha 1952/1958, MLA 1962/1989,
G.C.I.E.
[cr.1947], K.C.S.I. [cr.1935], educated at Mayo College, Ajmer
(Class-Captain
1926/27); Member of the Standing Committee of Chamber of Princes
1931/47,
President of the Swatantra Party in Rajasthan 1961/69, President of
All-India
Kshatriya Nahasabha 1962/- , Patron of the Rajputana Cricket
Association
and the Cricket Club of India, Member of the MCC, captained Rajputana
XI
against MCC and Australian XI on four occasions, is a keen naturalist
and
interested in agriculture and study of wild life, married 1stly, 8th
February
1920, HH Maharani Brijraj Kunwar, born 26th November 1907, died 21st
January 1982, daughter of Kunwar Man Mahendra Bikram Singh of Bhinga, married 2ndly, 8th
March
1928, HH Maharani Manhar Kunwar, born 2nd May 1914, died 8th October
1975, daughter of Lt.-Col. HH Umdae Rajhae Buland Makan Maharajadhiraja
Maharaja Sir
MADAN
SINGH Bahadur of Kishangarh, and
had issue. He died 6th
June 1989.
- Thakurani Rajendra Kumari, born 16th January 1928,
married 25th
November
1944, Thakur Saheb DHARMENDRA SINGHJI of Muli.
- HH Maharani Sushila Kumari, born 25th July 1929, married
25th February
1944, HH Maharaja KARNI SINGHJI of Bikaner,
and had issue.
- HH Maharani Hitendra Kumari (Hemand Kumari), born 30th
July 1930,
married
30th January 1948, HH Maharana PRITHVIRAJ SINGH of Danta.
- HH Maharawal MAHIPAL SINGH (see below)
- HH Rani Krishna Kumari, born 4th January 1933, married
21st February
1951,
HH Raja LALIT SEN of Suket and has issue.
- Maharaj Jai Singh, born 19th May 1934, married 1963, Rani
Anupama
Kumari, born 1939, daughter of Lt.
Col. HH Maharaja MANABENDRA SHAH Sahib Bahadur
of Tehri-Garhwal, and his wife,
HH Maharani Suraj Kanwar.
 Maharaj Raj Singh,
born 19th December 1935 in Dungarpur, educated at Daly College, Indore;
a former first class cricketer, he played in 86 first class cricket
matches from 1955 to 1971 for Rajasthan, he served as a selector of the
Indian national team
for two terms, he has also managed the Indian cricket team four times
on
overseas tours, served as president of the Board of Control for Cricket
in India. He died unmarried on 12th September 2009 in Mumbai.
- HH Maharawal Shri MAHIPAL SINGH II Bahadur (see above)
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