PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Bantva is a Jurisdictional Taluka, founded in 1733 as a
result of a division of the Bantva district by Khan Shri
Sherzamankhanji with his elder brother, who became the
first ruler of Manavadar. Formerly known as Bantva and
Limbuda (in 1854), as Sherbulandkhanji Estate and
afterwards as Bantva Majmu, which comprised Bantwa Bara
Majmu and Bantwa Chota Majmu. Rulers were...
- Khan Shri
SHERZAMANKHANJI SALABAT MUHAMMEDKHANJI, 1st
Khan Sahib of Bantva 1733/1779, youngest son of Nawab
Saheb Salabat Muhammadkhan Babi of Junagadh, married and
had issue.
- Khan Shri Edalkhanji Sherzamankhanji (qv)
- Khan Shri Mukhtyarkhanji Sherzamankhanji, he
succeeded in Gidad, later known as Sardagadh.
- Khan Shri
EDALKHANJI SHERZAMANKHANJI, 2nd Khan Sahib of
Bantva 1779/-, he received 12 villages as his share of
his father's property, married and had issue, four
sons.
- Khan Shri Muhammedkhanji Edalkhanji (qv)
- Khanzada Shri Rahimkhanji Edalkhanji, married and
had issue, five sons.
- Khanzada Shri Bande Alikhanji Rahimkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Daudkhanji Rahimkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Husainkhanji Rahimkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Shamsherkhanji Rahimkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Umarkhanji Rahimkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Khan Jahankhanji Edalkhanji, married
and had issue, one son.
- Khanzada Shri 'Alamkhanji Khanjahankhanji,
married and had issue, two sons.
- Khanzada Shri Himatkhanji 'Alamkhanji, married
and had issue, two sons.
- Khanzada Shri Bahadurkhanji Himatkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Amirkhanji Himatkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Khan Jahankhanji 'Alamkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Bajuddinkhanji Edalkhanji, married
and had issue, three sons.
- Khanzada Shri Jamiatkhanji Bajuddinkhanji,
married and had issue, one son.
- Khanzada Shri Bajinkhanji Jamiatkhanji,
married and had issue.
- (name
unknown) Begum, married (as his third
wife), about 1891, Khan Shri Sher Bulandkhanji
Rustamkhanji, 7th Khan Sahib of Bantva, and
had issue (see below).
- Khanzada Shri Karimkhanji Bajuddinkhanji,
married and had issue, one son.
- Khanzada Shri Kalaminkhanji Karimkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Abdul Mirkhanji Bajuddinkhanji,
married and had issue, two sons.
- Khanzada Shri Umedkhanji Abdulmirkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Muzafarkhanji Abdulmirkhanji
- Khan Shri
MUHAMMEDKHANJI EDALKHANJI, 3rd Khan Sahib of
Bantva -/after 1854, born 1784, married and had issue.
He died after 1854.
- Khan Shri Sher Bulandkhanji Muhammedkhanji (qv)
- Khan Shri SHER
BULANDKHANJI MUHAMMEDKHANJI, 4th Khan Sahib
of Bantva, born 1814, married and had issue, six sons.
- Khan Shri Sherkhanji Sherbulandkhanji (qv)
- Khan Shri Rustamkhanji Sherbulandkhanji (qv)
- Khanzada Shri Sherzamankhanji Sherbulandkhanj,
married and had issue, one son.
- Khanzada Shri Hamidkhanji Sherzamankhanji
- Khanzada Shri Dilerkhanji Sherbulandkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Azamkhanji Sherbulandkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Muhammedkhanji Sherbulandkhanji
- Khan Shri
SHERKHANJI SHERBULANDKHANJI, 5th Khan Sahib
of Bantva -/1888, died sp about 1888.
- Khan Shri
RUSTAMKHANJI SHERBULANDKHANJI, 6th Khan Sahib
of Bantva 1888/1903, married and had issue. He died
3rd September 1903.
- Khan Shri Sherbulandkhanji Rustamkhanji (qv)
- Khan Shri SHER
BULANDKHANJI RUSTAMKHANJI, 7th Khan Sahib of
Bantva 1903/1934, born 20th October 1862, succeeded
3rd September 1903, married 1stly, 1876, Nawabzadi
Bibi Shri Taj Bakhte Sahiba of Junagadh, married
2ndly, married 3rdly, about 1891, a daughter of
Khanzada Shri Bajinkhanji Jamiatkhanji of Bantva (see
above), and had issue. He died 6th February 1934.
- Khan Shri Sher Khanji Sherbulandkhanji (qv)
- Khanzada Shri (name
unknown) Sherbulandkhanji
- Khanzada Shri (name
unknown) Sherbulandkhanji
- Khanzada Shri Sarbulandkhanji Sherbulandkhanji,
married Nawabzadi Bima Shri Zohra Jahan Bakhte
Sahiba of Balasinor.
- Khanzada Shri Sadiqkhanji Sherbulandkhanji,
married Nawabzadi Bima Shri Akhtar Jahan Bakhte
Sahiba of Balasinor, born about 1942.
- Khan Shri SHER
KHANJI SHERBULANDKHANJI, 8th Khan Sahib of
Bantva 1934/-, born 26th October 1892, he succeeded on
6th February 1934, but settled in Pakistan after
Independence, married 1st June 1913, Nawabzadi Bima
Shri Husain Bakhte Sahiba, died 1946, daughter of the
Nawab of Balasinor.
The help of John Duncan McMeekin, is gratefully
acknowledged, September 2014. |