GARHI (Jagir)

 
VILLAGES:  167 REVENUE:  40,000Rs ACCESSION:  ??
STATE: Banswara DYNASTY:  Chauhan RELIGION:  Hindu
  POPULATION:  17,453  
     
PRESENT RULER:  The Rao Saheb of Garhi
 
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Rulers were...
  1. Thakur AGAR SINGH, from Thakurda in Banswara, received the Jagir of Wasi in Banswara, fl.1750, married and had issue.
    • Thakur UDAI SINGH (qv)

  2. Thakur UDAI SINGH, received Garhi and Nawagaon.

  3. Thakur ARJUN SINGH

  4. Rao RATAN SINGH, Kamdar of Banswara 1874/1876, received the title of Rao [cr.1872] from the Maharana of Udaipur, married and had issue.
    • Rao GAMBHIR SINGH (qv)
    • Baisa (name unknown) [Maharani Sahiba Chauhaniji], married Maharana SHAMBHU SINGH of Udaipur.

  5. Rao GAMBHIR SINGH -/1889, he adopted Kunwar Sangram Singh, son of Thakur Udai Singh of Thakurda, married and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1889 (1890?).
    • (A) Rao SANGRAM SINGH (qv)

  6. Rao SANGRAM SINGH 1889/1905, born 1873 as Kunwar Sangram Singh, son of Thakur Udai Singh of Thakurda, married the daughter of the Thakur of Semlia in Sailana [?Maharaj Bhawani Singh], and had adoptive issue. He died 1905.
    • (A) Rao RAI SINGH (qv)

  7. Rao RAI SINGH 1905/-, born 1887, adopted from Gamra, an off-shoot of Thakurda in Banswara, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer.

  8. Rao RANJIT SINGH

  9. Rao HIMMETH SINGHJI, married Rani Phool Kumari of Uniara, born 1919, died 1962, and had issue, two children, one son and one daughter.
    • Rao INDRAJIT SINGH (qv)
    • Baiji Lal Giriraj Kumari [Rani Giriraj Kumari of Rampura], born 1st November 1938, married 17th February 1957, Raja SAMAR SINGH of Rampura, and has issue, two sons and one daughter.

  10. Rao INDRAJIT SINGH, born 1936, educated at Daly College, Indore; married 195x, Rani Sampat Kumari, daughter of Maharaj Shri Ajit Singh Sahib of Jodhpur, and his wife, Rani Man Kumari, and had issue, five children. He died 2005/2006.
    • Baiji Lal Jayraj Kumari (Princess Joy) [Kunwarani Jayraj Kumari of Ghanerao], married Kunwar Suryabhan Singh of Ghanerao.
    • Baiji Lal Rohini Kumari (Princess Gattu) [HH Maharani Rohini Kumari of Karauli], married 1986, HH Maharaja Shri KRISHAN CHANDER PAL DEO of Karauli.
    • Rajkumar Ranjit Singh, died young about 1979/1980.
    • Rajkumari Kirti Kumari, married 1988, Rajkumar Jungvijay Singh of Amarkot.
    • Rajkumari Parneeti Kumari, married in Dungarpur.

  11. Rao (name unknown) (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Rani Sahiba Chauhaniji, married (as his first wife), Maharaj KESRI SINGH of Bhindar.
  • Shri Rao Birender Singh, Chief Minister of Haryana [24.3.1967] - [21.11.1967], married and had issue.
    • Rao Inderjit Singh, Politician, Advocate and Social Worker, born 11th February 1950 in Rewari, Haryana; educated at the University of Delhi, Delhi (B.A. (Hons), LL.B.); Member, Haryana Legislative Assembly 1977/1996 and 2001/2004 (four terms); Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Haryana 1986/1987; Minister of Environment & Forest and Medical & Technical Education, Government of Haryana 1991/1996; Member of Lok Sabha XIII 1998/2004 and XIV 2004/-; Member, Committee on Science and Technology; Environment and Forests 1998/1999;  Union Minister of State, External Affairs 2004/-; he joined the Youth Congress in 1978; General Secretary, Youth Congress Haryana, 1980/1982; General Secretary and Vice-President, Pradesh Congress Committee (P.C.C.), Haryana, 1983/1990; Member, All Indian Congress Committee 1991/-; National Champion for three years in Skeet shooting; awarded a Bronze medal in Commonwealth Championship and three Gold Medals in South Asian Federation Games; Member, Indian Shooting Team; Member, Delhi Gymkhana Club; Member, Kasanli Club; Member, Chandigarh Golf Club and Noida Golf Club; interests and pastimes are reading and angling; he married 6th December 1976, Rani Manita Singh, and has issue, two daughters. (Rampura House, Rewari - 123 401, Haryana, India)
    • Rao Ajit Singh, born 1955.

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