PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Also
known as Devgarh, located 38 kms NE of Udaipur, a Jagir belonging to
the
Sangawat sub-clan of the Chundawat clan of the Sisodia Royal Family.
The
Rawat of Devgarh is one of 16 feudal barons privileged to wait
on the Maharana of Udaipur (Mewar). The founder of the family was Rawat
Chunda, one of whose sons (Rawat Kandhal), was father of Rawat Sanga
Singh,
the
first Rawat of Devgarh. The rulers are ....
- Rawat Shri SANGA SINGHJI,
1st Rawat of Deogarh 1521/1574, married and had issue.
- Rawat Shri Duda Singhji (qv)
- Rawat Shri DUDA SINGHJI,
2nd Rawat of Deogarh 1574/1611, married and had issue. He died
1611.
- Rawat Shri Isar Dasji (qv)
- Rawat Shri ISAR DASJI,
3rd Rawat of Deogarh 1611/1641, married and had issue. He died
1641.
- Rawat Shri Gokul Dasji I (qv)
- Rawat Shri GOKUL DASJI I,
4th Rawat of Deogarh 1641/1669,
married and had
issue.
- Rawat Shri Dwarka Dasji (qv)
- Kunwar Sabal Singh, he was granted the jagir of Bassi and
succeded there as Rao Sabal Singh of Bassi.
- Kunwar Daulat Singh, he was granted the jagir of
Daulatgadh.
- Baisa Udai Kanwar, married Kunwar Padam Singh of Samuja, and had issue, six sons.
- Rawat Shri DWARKA DASJI,
5th Rawat of Deogarh 1669/1706
- Rawat Shri SANGRAM
SINGHJI I, 6th Rawat of Deogarh 1706/1737,
married and had
issue.
- Rawat Shri Jaswant Singhji (qv)
- Kunwar Jai Singh, he was granted the jagir of
Sangramgarh and succeeded there as Rawat Shri Jai Singhji of
Sangramgarh.
- Rawat Shri JASWANT SINGHJI,
7th Rawat of Deogarh 1737/1776, married
and had issue.
- Rawat Shri Raghav Dasji (qv)
- Kunwar Gopal Das, married and had
issue.
- Kunwar Gyan Singh, he was granted the jagir of
Gyangarh and succeded there as Rawat Shri Gyan Singhji, 1st Rawat Sahib
of Gyangarh
[cr.ca1800]
- Kunwar Ajit Singh, he was granted the jagir of Kareda.
- Maharani Kundan Kunwar, married
Maharaja Sawai Madho Singhji II of Jaipur.
- Rawat Shri RAGHAV DASJI,
8th Rawat of Deogarh 1776/1786, married and
had issue.
- Kunwar Anop Singh, married and had
issue. He died vp
aged 22.
- Rawat Shri Gokul Dasji II (qv)
- Rawat Shri GOKUL DAS II,
9th Rawat of Deogarh 1786/1821,
married
and had issue.
He died 1821.
- Rawat Shri Nahar Singhji I (qv)
- Maharani Shringar Kunwar, married
Maharao Kishore Singhji II of Kotah.
- Rawat Shri NAHAR SINGHJI I,
10th Rawat of Deogarh 1821/1847
- Rawat Shri RANJIT SINGHJI,
11th Rawat of Deogarh 1847/1867, married and had issue.
- Rawat Shri Krishna Singhji (qv)
- Rawat Shri KRISHNA SINGHJI,
12th Rawat of Deogarh 1867/1900,
born 1847, married
1stly, 1887, Rani Monghi Kunwarba Sahiba
of Dhrangadhra,
married 2ndly, Rani Mertaniji of Ghanerao,
and had issue, as well as adoptive issue. He died sp 1900.
- Kunwar Jaswant Singh, married Kunwarani Ajab Kunwar of Badnore, died
January
1886. He died vpsp January 1886.
- (A) Kunwar Pratap Singh [Anop Singh],
adopted from Sangramgarh,
married and had issue. He died before his adoptive father before 1900.
- Rawat Shri Vijai Singhji (qv)
- Rawat Shri VIJAI SINGHJI,
13th Rawat of Deogarh 1900/1943, born 1891,
educated
at Mayo College, Ajmer; married Rani Nand Kunwar, daughter of Raj
Rana Zalim Singhji of Delwara, and had
issue.
He died 1943.
- Rawat Shri Sangram Singhji II (qv)
- Rani Laxmi Kumari Chundawat, born
24th June 1916,
Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly 1962/1971, Member on the
Panel
of Chairmen, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly; Member of the Rajya Sabha
1972/1978, President of the Rajasthan P.C.C., author of a number of
books
in Hindi and Rajasthani, married 1934, Rawat Shri Tej Singhji of Rawatsar, and has issue. (Lakshmi
Niwas, Jagdeesh Marg, Bani Park, Jaipur, Raiasthan)
- Baisa Khuman Kunwar, married
into Bagri.
- Rawat Shri SANGRAM
SINGHJI II, 14th Rawat of Deogarh 1943/1965,
married Rani Krishna
Kumari of Dumraon, and had issue. He died
1965.
- Rawat Shri Nahar Singhji II (qv)
- Rani Sita Kumari, born 1936 in Deogarh, Udaipur,
educated at Sophia Girls College, Ajmer; married 25th June
1955, Raja Bahadur
Vishwanath Pratap Singh of Manda, and
has issue, two sons.
- Thakur Mandhata Singh, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
married Thakurani Govind
Kumari, daughter of Thakur Sahib Sawant Singhji of Baneria, and has
issue, two children.
- Baisa Mayank Kumari [Rajmata Mayank Kumari Deo of
Jeypore], educated at Sophia Girls College,
Ajmer; married Shri Maharaja Shakti Vikram Deo of Jeypore Estate in Orissa, and has issue,
one daughter.
- Kunwar Kaushlendra Singh
- Thakur Indrajeet Singh, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
formally a Tea Planter and now retired and settled in Jaipur; married
Thakurani Yogini Kumari
of Gamph in Gujarat, and has issue, two children.
- Baisa Hemangini Kumari, educated at Sophia Girls
College, Ajmer.
- Kunwar Prithivraj Singh, educated at Mayo College,
Ajmer; at present he is settled in Africa; married Kunwarani Aaditi
Kumari, daughter of Maharaj Suman Singhji of Jodhpur, and his wife, Rani Nirmala
Kumari.
- Kunwarani Chandramani Kumari, educated at Sophia Girls
College, Ajmer; married Kunwar B. K. Singh, and has issue, three
children, one daughter and two sons.
- Thakurani Shakuntala Kumari, educated at Sophia Girls
College, Ajmer; married Thakur K. A. P. Singhji of Pratapgarh, U.P.,
and has issue, two daughters.
- Lt.-Col. Thakur Randhir Singh, educated at Mayo College,
Ajmer; he served in the Indian Army in the Armoured Corps and commanded
a regiment, he was also wounded in the India-Pakistan War of 1971;
married Thakurani Chandra
Kumari, daughter of Maharaj Govardhan Singhji Sahib of Nachana in Jaisalmer, and has issue, one son.
- Kunwar Hemant Raj Singh, educated at Mayo College,
Ajmer and at M.S. University, Baroda; he was a Tea Planter from 1996 to
2009 in Dooars, West Bengal for Duncans Industries L.T.D.; at present
(2010) he is working for the Mehrangarh Museum trust, looking after the
Jodhpur Fort as a Manager, Adminstration; married 2001, Kuwarani Leena
Singh of Bakhatgarh, and has issue, one son.
- Thakur Vikram Singh, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
married Thakurani Vijaylaxmi Kumari
of Junia, and has issue, two children.
- Rawat Shri NAHAR SINGHJI
II, 15th Rawat of Deogarh (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Rawat Swarup Singh, son of a Rawat Sahib of Deogarh, he was
granted the Thikana of Bhagwanpura.
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