| PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The ancestor of the family was Rao Alhana, the Chauhan ruler of Nadol.
Rulers were ....
- Rao ALHANA [Arhan] of Nadol, married and had issue.
- Rao KIRTIPAL, founder of Jalore in 1181, and ancestor of
the Songara Chauhan clan, he married and had issue, He died 1182.
- Rao SAMARSINHA, Rao of Jalore 1182/-, married and had issue.
- Rao UDAYSINHA, Rao of Jalore; he captured Mandore from its
Muslim possessors; married and had issue.
- Rao CHACHIGADEVA, Rao of Jalore, married and had issue.
- Rao SAMANTSINHA, Rao of Jalore, married and had issue.
- Rao KANHADEVA, Rao of Jalore -/1311, he was killed in
battle and Jalore was destroyed in 1311; he married and had issue.
- Kunwar Viramdeva, died in battle in 1311.
- Kumari Virmati Bai, married Rawal LAKHANSI of
Jaisalmer.
- Thakur Raningdev
- Kunwar Mansinha, succeeded as Rao MAN SINGH I (qv)
- Rao MAN SINGH I 1213/1228
- Rao LUMBHA 1311/1321, grandson of Rao Deoraj and a scion of
the younger branch of the Chauhan rulers of Jalore, seized the town of
Abu
in the year 1311.
- Rao RANMAL 1374/1392, founded old Sirohi in 1374, ancestor
of the
Lakhawat,
Dungrawat, Tejawat and Bajawat clans in Sirohi, married and had issue.
- Rao SOBHAJI (qv)
- Rao Gaja Singhji, married and had issue.
- Rao Dungarji, received Radbar in Jagir and was the
founder of the Dungrawat families of
Padiv, Kalandri,
Motagaon,
Jawal and Mandwara, married and had issue.
- Thakur Alam Singhji, married and had issue.
- Rao Uda Singh, married and had issue.
- Rao Haraj Singh, married and had issue.
- Rao Baja Singh, founder of the Bajawat clan.
- Thakur Alam Singhji, he received Odha in Jagir in
1515, married and had issue, one son.
- Thakur Tej Singhji, Thakur Saheb of Odha, married
and had issue, six
sons.
- Thakur Nahara Singh, married and had issue.
- Thakur Samar Singhji of Odha.
- Thakur Suraji, received Hakiwada in Jagir,
married and had issue, three sons.
- Thakur Samint Singhji of Kalandri
- Thakur Pratap Singhji of Nibeda
- Thakur Kalyan Singhji of Artwada
- Thakur Kalyan Singh of Nava
- Rao SOBHAJI [Shivbhan] 1392/1424, founded the town of
Shivpuri, on the eastern slope of the Siranwa hills.
- Rao SAINS MAL [Sahasramal] 1424/1451, he abandoned Shivpuri
and built a
fort at Sirohi in 1435 which he made his capital.
- Rao LAKHAJI 1451/1483, founder of the Lakhawat families of
Madar,
Nimaj,
Rohera and Dalani, married and had issue.
- Rao AKSHAYRAJJI I (qv)
- Rao Uda Singh, married and had issue.
- Rao Rahdir Singh, married and had issue.
- Rao Pratap Singh, married and had issue.
- Rao Tej Singh, founder of the Tejawat family of
Bhatana.
- Rao AKSHAYRAJJI I 1523/1533, married and had issue,
three
sons.
- Maharao Shri RAJ SINGHJI (qv)
- Maharao Shri DUDAJI (qv)
- Raj Sahiban Shri Sur Singhji of Kacholi.
- Maharao Shri RAJ SINGHJI 1533/1543
- Maharao Shri DUDAJI 1543/1553
- Maharao Shri UDAI SINGHJI I 1553/1562
- Maharao Shri MAN SINGHJI II 1562/1572
- Maharao Shri SURTAN SINGHJI 1572/1610
- Maharao Shri RAJ SINGHJI II 1610/1620
- Maharao Shri AKSHAY RAJJI II 1620/1673
- Maharao Shri UDAI SINGHJI II 1673/1676
- Maharao Shri BAIRI SALJI I 1676/1697
- Maharao Shri SURTAN SINGHJI II [Sultan Singh] 1697
- Maharao Shri DURJAN SINGHJI 1697/1705
- Maharao Shri UMMED SINGHJI [Man Singh III] 1705/1749,
married and had issue, three sons. He died 1749.
- Maharao Shri PRITHVIRAJ SINGHJI (qv)
- Raj Sahiban Shri Jagat Singhji of Bharja.
- Raj
Sahiban Shri Jorawar Singhji of Manadar.
- Maharao Shri PRITHVIRAJ SINGHJI 1749/1772, died 1772.
- Maharao Shri TAKHAT SINGHJI 1772/1781
- Maharao Shri JAGAT SINGHJI (uncle) 1781/1782, initially of
Bharaja,
married and
had
issue. He died 1782.
- Maharao Shri BAIRI SALJI II (qv)
- Rajkumar Sagat Singh [Shakti Singh]
- Rajkumar Bade Singh
- Rajkumar Daulat Singh
- Maharao Shri BAIRI SAL II 1782/1809, born 1760, married and
had
issue. He died
1809.
- Maharao Shri UDAIBHAN SINGHJI (qv)
- Maharao Shri SHEO SINGHJI (qv)
- Maharani Ratan Kunwar, married 10th February 1829,
Maharaja Sawai JAI
SINGH
III of Jaipur.
- Maharao Shri UDAIBHAN SINGHJI 1809/1817, married (amongst
others), Maharani Jait Kanwar, daughter of Thakur Salam Singh of Kharda. He died sp
1847.
- Maharao Shri SHEO SINGHJI 1817/1846, married
and had
issue. He died
8th December 1862.
- Maharao Shri UMAID SINGHJI II Bahadur (qv)
- Raj Sahiban Hamir Singhji, he was granted Bhimana,
Santpur,
Kui, Siawa and Positra; married and had issue.
- Rani Sringar
Kanwar, married Maharaj Sohan Singh of Bagore.
- Raj Sahiban Jet Singhji, born
1846,
he was granted Nandia (2,500Rs revenue), Laj, Hamirpur and Baoli;
Double Tazimi
Sardar; married and had issue.
- Raj Sahiban Achal Singhji of Nandia, born 1866.
- [?Rani Chand
Kanwar, married June 1908 (as his second wife), Maharaj Inder Singhji,
born 1882, second son of Maharaj Fateh Singhji of Raoti.]
- Raj Sahiban Jawan Singhji of Ajari (3,000Rs revenue),
married
and had issue.
- Raj Sahiban Zorawar Singhji of Ajari, born 1865, Double
Tazimi Sardar,
married
and had issue.
- Maharaj Amar Singhji of Ajari, born 1888.
- [?Rani Sahiba Devariji, married 1898 (as his first
wife), Maharaj Inder Singhji, born 1882, second son of Maharaj
Fateh Singhji of Raoti.]
- Raj Sahiban Tej Singhji of Manadar (4,500Rs revenue),
born
1848, Double
Tazimi
Sardar, married and had issue.
- Raj Sahiban Dalpat Singhji of Manadar, born 1873,
married
and
had issue.
- Raj Sahiban Man Singhji, born 1890, married and had
issue.
- Kunwar Tej Singhji, adopted by HH Maharajadhiraj
Maharao Shri Sir SARUP RAM SINGHJI Bahadur and succeeded as HH Maharao
ABHAI SINGHJI Bahadur (qv)
- Rani Sahiba Devariji,
married Maharaj Mool Singhji of Raoti in
Jodhpur, and had issue.
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married 1855, Maharawal
UDAI SINGH II of Dungarpur,
and had issue.
 Maharao Shri UMAID SINGHJI II
Bahadur 1862/1875, born 1833,
married
and had
issue. He died
16th September (or November) 1875.
- HH Maharao KESARI SINGHJI Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married 1870, HH
Maharaja SADUL SINGH of Kishangarh.
- HH Maharao KESARI SINGHJI
Bahadur 1875/1920, born 20th June
1857,
K.C.S.I. [cr.1895], G.C.I.E.
[cr.1901], succeeded 16th September 1875 (#1),
married 1stly, 1876, a daughter of Maharana Sri JALAMSINHJI NARSINHJI
of Danta, she
died 24th April 1899, married 2ndly, 1884, a daughter of Thakur Abhai
Singh of Varsoda, she died in 1887 (four days after the birth of
her son), married 3rdly, 1888, HH Maharani Man Kanwar, daughter of HH
Maharana Sahib Shri NARAYANDEVJI
RAMDEVJI of Dharampur, she died
1896, married 4thly,
1901, a daughter of Rao MANGAL SINGH of Bhinai,
she died in 1904 (a few
days after the birth of a son), and had issue. He died 1920.
- HH Maharajadhiraj Maharao Shri Sir SARUP RAM SINGHJI
Bahadur (by 1st wife) (qv)
- Maharajkumari Anand Kanwar (by third wife), born
1890, engaged 21st October 1894 at Abu Road Kharari, and married 10th
December 1905 at Sirohi (#2), Bhanwar
Prithvi Singh of Banswara at Sirohi,
and had issue.
She died 19th November 1909 in childbirth at Banswara.
- Maharajkumari Het Kanwar Bai (by third wife), born 12th
March 1891 at Sirohi, married 16th February 1907, HH
Maharajadhiraj Maharawal SALIVAHAN SINGH III Bahadur of Jaisalmer.
- Maharajkumari Padma Kanwar Bai [HH Maharani Shri
Padmakunwar Ba Sahiba of Kutch], born 4th February 1896 at Sirohi,
married
6th March 1907 at Sirohi, HH
Maharajahadhiraj
Mirzan Maharao Shri VIJAYARAJI Sawai Bahadur of Kutch.
 HH Maharajadhiraj Maharao Shri Sir SARUP RAM SINGHJI
Bahadur
1920/1946,
born 27th September 1888, G.C.I.E. [cr.1.1.1932], K.C.S.I.
[cr.3.6.1924], initially engaged 30th June 1900 at Abu Road Kharari to
a Princess of Pratapgarh, the marriage was put off after a while, he
married
20th November 1907 at Bhuj, HH Maharani
Krishna Kunwarba Sahiba, Regent of Sirohi 1946/1949, daughter of HH
Maharajadhiraj Mirzan Maharao
Shri Sir
KHENGARJI III Sawai Bahadur of Kutch,
and had issue, a daughter, as well as natural issue. He
died 3rd
February
1946.
- HH Maharani Gulab Kanwar Bai, born 26th September 1910 at
Bhuj, married 7th March 1935, HH
Maharaja Jam
Sahib
DIGVIJAY SINGHJI of Nawanagar.
- Rao Raja Lakhpat
Ram Singh (by an informal union), he was granted a jagir for his
maintenance in 1946.
- HH Maharao Shri TEJ RAM SINGHJI Bahadur 1946/1950, born as
Kunwar Tej Singh of Bari-Panti Manadar, adopted by his predecessor as
an infant, he was removed after four years due to
a disagreement between the Rajmata and the Indian Government.
 HH Maharao ABHAI SINGHJI
Bahadur 1950/1998, son of Maharaj
Man Singh of
Manadar
(see
above), installed 7th October 1950, married and had issue. He died 1998.
- HH Maharao RAGHUBIR SINGHJI Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaj
Shri Daivat Singhji Bahadur, married 26th February 1982,
Maharajkumari
Kirti
Kumari, born 25th October 1959, daughter of HH Maharawal Shri MAHIPAL
SINGH
II Bahadur of Dungarpur, and his
wife, HH Maharani Dev Kunwar. (Kesar
Bhawan Palace, Mt. Abu, India)
- Maharajkumari Shri Parvati Kumari Devi [Rani Parvati
Kumari Devi Sahiba of Rairakhol], married (as his first wife), Raja
HARI SHANKER
DEO JANAMUNI of Rairakhol.
- HH Maharao RAGHUBIR SINGHJI Bahadur (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Rajkumar Vijay Singhji, married 26th April 1982, Rajkumari
Krishnendra Kaur,
born
10th April 1954, daughter of Maharajkumar Edward Man Singhji of Bharatpur, and has issue.
- Rajkumari (name unknown), daughter of the Rao of
Sirohi, married Maharaja Sir MADAN PAL of Karauli.
- Rao Raja Lakhpat Ram Singh, he was granted a jagir in 1946.
The help of Deepak Aggarwal is gratefully
acknowledged, September 2006.
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