Predecessors and Short History: A
Fourth
Class Princely State, the Ruling Family is descended from the same stem
as that of the Kutch and Morvi Houses. Kanyaji, the founder of the
Morvi
State had eight sons of whom Modaji, the sixth son, received in
appanage
Malia with three other villages in Machhu Kantha and Vandhia with
several
others in Vagad. Modji desiring to throw off allegiance to the parent
State
imported the Mianas, a criminal tribe from Sindh and induced them to
settle
within his territory. With their aid, he seized several other villages
in Machhu Kantha and established a separate Chiefdom. The rule of
succession
is by Primogeniture. The State had the following powers; Criminal:
Three
year's rigorous imprisonment and fines to the extent of 5,000Rs,
Civil:
To the extent of 10,000Rs.
PREDECESSORS:
- Thakur Sahib KANYAJI RAVAJI, founder of Morvi in 1697, representing the senior-most
branch of the Jadeja Rajputs, son of Jam Ravaji
Rayadhanji of Kutch,
married and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Tejmalji Kanyaji, married Kumari Shri
Pamba Sahiba, daughter of Raj Sahib JASWANTSINHJI GAJSINHJI of Dhrangadhra,
and his third wife, Rani
Phuljiba Sahiba. He
died spm.
- Thakur Sahib ALIAJI KANYAJI, succeeded in Morvi.
- Kumar Shri Bhimji Kanyaji of Gugan, with the villages of
Jetpur [Machhu] and Sultanpur at Morvi.
- Kumar Shri Lakhaji Kanyaji of Lakadia, Nagdavas, Gharana,
Bahadurgadh at Morvi and Manaba (Vagad) etc.
- Kumar Shri Raysangji Kanyaji of Kumbharia (Vagad).
- Thakur Saheb MODAJI KANYAJI, sixth son,
married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb NATHAJI MODAJI (see below)
- Thakur Saheb DEVAJI MODAJI (see below)
- Kumar Shri Ranmalji Kanyaji of Kumbharia (Machhu) and
Laliana (Vagad)
- Kumar Shri Ramsangaji Kanyaji of Jangi (Vagad).
RULERS:
- Thakur Saheb DEVAJI MODAJI, he was the younger son
and
received Malia, Khakhrechi and
Vadharava in Machhukantha, as well as the Bhimadevka area of Fulpara
- Sikarpur in Vagad, he chose to remain in Vadharva thikana, with
administrators
looking after affairs in Malia, an arrangement which continued till
independence, he married and
had issue, four surviving sons.
- Kumar Shri Vajesangji Devaji, overlooked in the
succession in Vadharva, but was compensated with a share in the jagir
which was divided into five parts.
- Kumar Shri Agarsinhji Devaji of Vadharva, received two of
five shares in the jagir, as the successor in Vadharva.
- Thakur Saheb NATHAJI MODAJI, his
younger brother succeeded in Malia, and in an
arrangement he was granted Wandhia and several villages, and eventually
succeeded in Malia when his brother and his sons opted to stay in
Vadharva, he married and had issue, nine sons.
- Thakur Saheb VIBHAJI NATHAJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb VIBHAJI NATHAJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb DOSAJI VIBHAJI (qv)
- Thakur Saheb DOSAJI VIBHAJI 1802/1810, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Saheb SATAJI DOSAJI (qv)
- Rani Ram Kunwarba Sahiba, married (as his sixth wife),
Raj Sahib AMARSINHJI
RAISINHJI of Dhrangadhra.
- Thakur Saheb SATAJI DOSAJI, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb MULVAJI SATAJI (qv)
- Kumar Kaliansinhji Sataji of Khiraj.
- Kumar Jalamsinhji Sataji of Vardusar.
- Thakur Saheb MULVAJI -/1875, married and had issue.
- Thakur Saheb MODJI MULVAJI (qv)
- Kumar Lagdhiraji Mulvaji, married and had issue.
- Kumar Nathaji Lagdhiraji
- Kumar Bhimsinhji Lagdhiraji
- Thakur Saheb MODJI MULVAJI 1875/1907, born 1st July 1846,
succeeded
23rd
June 1875(#1),
married
and had issue. He died 20th October 1907.
- Thakur Saheb RAISINHJI MODJI (qv)
- Kumar Abhaisinhji Modji
- Thakur Saheb RAISINHJI MODJI 1907/1930, born 14th February
1868 and
succeeded
20th October 1907, married Bai Shri Bakunverba, daughter of Rana Shri
Udaisinhji
of Vanod, and had issue.
- Yuvraj Saheb Gumansinhji Raisinhji, married and had
issue. He died vp
1922.
- Thakur Saheb HARISHCHANDRASINHJI GUMANSINHJI (qv)
- Kumar Shri Narendrasinhji Gumansinhji
- Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji Gumansinhji
- Kumar Shri Bharatsinhji Raisinhji
- Kumar Shri Balvirsinhji Raisinhji, married and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Surendrasinhji Balvirsinhji
- Thakur Saheb HARISHCHANDRASINHJI GUMANSINHJI 1930/1939,
married
Thakurani Jayvant
Kunwarba Sahiba, daughter of Thakur S. Sinhji of Adpur, and his wife, Thakurani
Makunvarba
Sahiba of Adpur, and had
issue.
- Thakur Saheb BHUPENDRASINHJI HARISHCHANDRASINHJI (qv)
- Kumari Shri Premila Kuvarba Saheb, married Kumar Shri
Balwantsinhji Sahebsinhji of Gangad, and has issue.
- Kumar Shri Raghuvirsinhji Balwantsinhji
- Thakur Saheb BHUPENDRASINHJI HARISHCHANDRASINHJI (see above)
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