PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Two
versions exist for the founding of the state, the Banswara version
states
that the country was taken from the Bhils by Kushal Singh of Banswara
and
given to Akhai Raj as a reward for services rendered; but the
Kushalgarh
version states that it was taken from the Bhils by Akhai Raj himself,
and
that it was named after the Bhil chief, Kushla, whom he defeated. As a
result of frequent attempts on the part of the Maharawal of Banswara,
to
claim rights over the estate to which he was not entitled, Kushalgarh
was
finally declared to be practically independent of Banswara for all
purposes
other than payment of tribute and personal attendance on certain
occasions.
The Rao's position may be described in general terms as that of a
mediatized
or guaranteed feudatory. He deals directly with the assistant to the
Resident
in Mewar, he exercises civil and criminal powers in his own estate.
Ancestors
and rulers were....
- Thakur MALDEO, fl.1590, descendent of Rao JODHA, founder of
Jodhpur, married and had
issue.
- Thakur RAM SINGH, founder of the Ramawat clan, married and
had issue. He died
c1631.
- Thakur JASWANT SINGH (qv)
- Thakur JASWANT SINGH, married and had issue.
- Thakur AMAR SINGH (qv)
- Thakur AKHAI RAJ (qv)
- Thakur AMAR SINGH, received the Jagir of Khera (60
villages) in Ratlam,
leaving descendents till after 1870.
- Thakur AKHAI RAJ, received the Jagir of Kushalgarh in 1671.
- Thakur AJAB SINGH
- Thakur KALYAN SINGH
- Thakur KIRAT SINGH
- Thakur DAL SINGH
- Thakur KESRI SINGH
- Thakur ACHAL SINGH
- Thakur BHAGWANT SINGH
- Rao ZALIM SINGH, granted the title of Rao by the Maharana
of Udaipur.
- Rao HAMIR SINGH
- Rao ZORAWAR SINGH -/1891, married and had issue. He died
1891.
- Rao UDAI SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Jaswant Singh, born 1862.
- Rani Nathe Kanwar, married 1886 (as his third wife), Raj
Rana RAI SINGH III of Bari-Sadri.
She died sp.
- Rao UDAI SINGH 1891/1916, born 1855 (1858), married Kumari
Shri Nalini Kunwarba Sahiba, daughter of Kumar Shri Shivsinhji
Govindsinhji of Hampar in Dhrangadhra,
and his second wife, Kumari Shri Monghi Kunwarba Sahiba of
Limbda, and had issue. He died 1916.
- Rao RANJIT SINGH 1916/-, born 1882, married and had issue.
- Yuvaraj (name unknown)
Singh, married and had issue. He died vp.
- Raj
Kumari Mohan Devi (+), married Raj Kumar Sri Shesh Pratap Singh Deo
(+), third son of Raja SHURA PRATAP SINGH Dev Mahendra Bahadur of Dhenkanal, and his wife, Rani Krushna
Priya Devi, and had issue, two
daughters and one son.
- Rani Pritam
Kumari, married Raja AMARENDRA MANSINGH Bhrambar Rai, Raja Saheb of Dompada in Orissa, and had issue, one
daughter.
- Rani Jaswant Kumari, married 1947, Rawat SHAMBHU SINGH of
Lunda,
and has issue.
- Rao HARENDRA SINGH -/1967, born 11th May 1924, educated at
Mayo
College,
Ajmer, married 1stly, 23rd May 1943 (separated 1948), Maharajkumari
Jayvant
Kunwarba Sahiba, daughter of Major HH Maharana
Shri Maharaja Shri Raj Sir GHANSHYAMSINHJI AJITSINHJI
Sahib Bahadur of Dhrangadhra, and
his fifth wife, HH Maharani Nawal Kunwarba
Sahiba,
married 2ndly, Rajkumari Niranjana Devi, born 14th November 1929,
eldest daughter of Maharaj Prithi Singh of Baria,
and
had issue. He died 21st February 1967.
- Rao MANVENDRA SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumar Indrajeet Singh, born 19th December 1950,
married Rajkumari Madhu Kumari (sister of Rani Gyaneshwari Kumari of
Kushalgarh, see above), and has issue, a son and a daughter.
- Kumari Urvashi Singh
- Kunwar Bhartendu Singh
- Rajkumari Prasanyta Kumari, born 6th September 1956,
married 1stly, Upendra Singh Jamwal of Barnai, born 31st August 1952,
married
2ndly, Captain Arpan Anand, and has issue, one son and three
daughters. -
- Kumari Harshaeta Jamwal (by Upendra Singh
Jamwal),
born 1977, married Rajkumar Mrinal Singh of Dumraon,
born 1971, and has issue.
- Kunwar Hitendra Singh Jamwal (by
Upendra Singh Jamwal)
- Kumari Mahagrita Jamwal (by
Upendra Singh Jamwal)
- Arpanyta Sevati Anand (by Captain Arpan Anand)
- Rao MANVENDRA SINGH (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Maharani Moti Kunwari, married Maharawat DALPAT SINGH of Pratapgarh
1808-1864
- Unnamed Princess, married (as his 2nd wife), Maharaj
SHIVDAN
SINGH of Shivrati
1900-1975
- Unnamed Princess, married Thakur Niranjan Singh Ranawat of Kankarwa.
- Maharaj Bhanupratap Singh (P.O.Tambesara,
Kushalgarh, via Udaigarh (W. RLY.), Banswara, Rajasthan, India)
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