PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
A Princely State located east of Palanpur in North Eastern Gujarat. It
paid tribute of 3,983Rs to either Palanpur or Idar. The Maharana
maintains a military force of 70 cavalry and 67 infantry (in 1893).
Rulers
were...
- Rana Shri JASRAJI,
1st Rana Shri of Danta 1068/1069
- Rana Shri KEDARSINHJI,
2nd
Rana
Shri of Danta 1069/-
- Rana Shri JASPALJI,
3rd
Rana
Shri of Danta
- Rana Shri JAGATPALJI,
Rana
Shri
of Danta 1395/1445
- Rana Shri ASKARANJI,
1st
Mahrana
Shri of Danta 1445/-, he
received the title of Maharana from Imperial Delhi in 1445.
- Mahrana Shri VAGHJI,
2nd
Mahrana
Shri of Danta -/1544
- Mahrana Shri JETPALJI,
3rd
Mahrana
Shri of Danta 1544/ca1545
- Mahrana Shri JAIMALJI,
Mahrana
Shri
of Danta ca1545/-
- Mahrana Shri PRATAPSINHJI,
Mahrana
Shri
of Danta
- Mahrana Shri MANSINHJI I,
Mahrana
Shri
of Danta for five
years
- Mahrana Shri GAJSINHJI,
Mahrana
Shri
of Danta -/1687
- Maharana Sri PRITHVISINHJI
GAJSINHJI, Maharana of Danta
1687/1743
- Maharana Sri VIKRAMDEOJI,
Maharana
of
Danta in 1743
- Maharana Sri KARANSINHJI,
Maharana
of
Danta 1743/-, married and had issue.
- Maharana Sri Ratansinhji Karansinhji (qv)
- Maharana Sri Abhaisinhji Karansinhji (qv)
- Maharana Sri RATANSINHJI
KARANSINHJI, Maharana of Danta for
five years
- Maharana Sri ABHAISINHJI
KARANSINHJI, Maharana of Danta
-/1795, married and had issue.
- Maharana Sri Mansinhji Abhaisinhji (qv)
- Maharana Sri Jagatsinhji Abhaisinhji (qv)
- Maharana Sri Naharsinhji Abhaisinhji (qv)
- Maharana Sri MANSINHJI II
ABHAISINHJI, Maharana of Danta
1795/1800
- Maharana Sri JAGATSINHJI
ABHAISINHJI, Maharana of Danta
1800/1823
- Maharana Sri NAHARSINHJI
ABHAISINHJI, Maharana of Danta
1823/1847, married and had issue.
- Maharana Shri Jhalamsinhji Naharsinhji (qv)
- Maharana Sri Harisinhji Naharsinhji (qv)
- Rani Daulat Kunwar, married 1834 (as his sixth wife),
Maharao Shri Sheo Singhji of Sirohi,
and had issue.
- Maharana Sri JHALAMSINHJI
NAHARSINHJI, Maharana of Danta
1847/1859, married and
had issue.
- Maharana Sri Sardarsinhji Jhalamsinhji (qv)
- Maharajkumari Guman Kumari [HH Maharani Guman Kunwar of
Sirohi], married in May 1876
(as his first wife), HH Maharao Kesari Singhji Bahadur of Sirohi, and had issue. She died 24th April
1899.
- Maharana Sri SARDARSINHJI
JHALAMSINHJI, Maharana of Danta
1859/1860
- Maharana Sri HARISINHJI
NAHARSINHJI, Maharana of Danta
1860/1876, born 1817, married and had issue. He died 1876.
- Maharana Sri Jashwantsinghji Harisinhji (qv)
- Maharana Sri JASHWANTSINHJI
HARISINGHJI, Maharana of Danta
1876/1908,
born 14th October 1850, succeeded 1st December 1876 (#1),
married and had issue. He died 1908.
- HH Maharana Sri Hamirsingji Jashwantsinghji (qv)
- Maharajkumar Fatehsinghji Jashwantsinghji, married and
had issue, three daughters.
- Rani Saheba Sajjan Kanwar, married (as his first wife),
Maharaj Govardhan Singhji Sahib of Nachana in Jaisalmer. She died sp.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharaj Kishore
Singhji of Banswara.
- Kumari (name unknown) [Pratap Kumari??], married to Nimach
[Thakur Daulat Singhji of Nimaj??].
- Maharaj Dalpatsinghji Jashwantsinghji, born 1881, died on
24th July 1944.
- Maharajkumari (name
unknown) Kumari, married as
his second wife, HH Sri Raj-i-Rajan
Maharawal Sir Prithvi Singhji Bahadur of Banswara,
and
had
issue.
- HH Maharana Sri HAMIRSINHJI
JASHWANTSINHJI, Maharana of
Danta 1908/1925,
born 21st December 1869, succeeded 16th June 1908; married HH Maharani (name unknown) [later Rajmata
Bhatianiji of Danta], born 1878, died on 25th October 1945, and had
issue. He died 1925.
- HH Maharana Sri Bhawanisinhji Hamirsinhji
(qv)
 HH
Maharana Sri BHAWANISINHJI HAMIRSINHJI
K.C.S.I., Maharana of Danta
1925/1948
(abdicated 30th January 1948), born 12th September 1899 and succeeded
20th
November
1925, granted an enhanced gun salute of 11 guns about 1935; married
1stly, 1914, HH Maharani Vijay Kanwar, born 1897, died sp in 1923, daughter of
Maharaj Shri Mool Singhji of Raoti, Rao
of
Dattigaon, and his third wife, Rani
Sundar Kanwar, married 2ndly, HH Maharani (name unknown), died spm in 1923, a daughter of Raja
Bhagwant Raj Bahadur Singh, Raja of Sohawal
in Bundelkhand, married 3rdly, HH Maharani (name unknown), a daughter of Kunwar
Pratap Singh of Auwa in Jodhpur, and had
issue, three sons and seven daughters. He died 1961.
- HH Maharana Sri Prithvirajsinhji
Bhawanisinhji Sahib Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumari Jitendra Kumari (by Maharani Baghelji
Sahiba), born 1918, married (as his first wife), 19th May 1937 at
Danta, Raja Ram Singh of Khandela-Senior,
and
had
issue. She died sp
on 19th August 1944 at Danta.
- Rani Krishna Kumari (fourth daughter), married 1945, Raja
Devi Singhji, Raja Sahib of Asope, and
had
issue, two sons and four daughters. She died 1995.
- Maharajkumar Madhu Sudan Singh, born 1933.
- Maharajkumar Raghubir
Singh, born 1934.
- HH Maharana Sri PRITHVIRAJSINHJI
BHAWANISINHJI Sahib Bahadur, Maharana of Danta 1948/1989, born
1928,
married 30th January 1948, HH Maharani Hemant Kumari, daughter of HH
Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal Shri Sir Lakshman Singhji Bahadur of Dungarpur,
and his second wife, HH Maharani Manhar Kunwar, and had issue. He died
10th July 1989.
- HH Maharana Sri Mahipendra Singh (qv)
- HH Maharana Sri MAHIPENDRA
SINGH (see above)
The help of Deepak Aggarwal
is gratefully
acknowledged, June 2011. |
