PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
ancestor
of the family was Rao Bhirji, fifth son of Rao Jodha of Marwar.
His descendant, Kunwar Kesho Das or Kishan Das, founded Jhabua in 1584.
The Raja maintains a military force of 64 cavalry, 253 infantry, and 4
guns (in 1893). Rulers
were...
- Raja KESHO DAS, 1st
Raja of Jhabua 1584/1607, he was granted the title of Raja by the
Emperor of Delhi, as a reward for a
successful campaign in Bengal, and for punishing the Bhil Chiefs of
Jhabua, who had murdered an Imperial Viceroy of Gujarat, married and
had issue.
- Raja KARAN SINGH,
2nd Raja of Jhabua 1607/1610, married and had issue.
- Raja MAH SINGH, 3rd
Raja of Jhabua 1610/1677, married and had issue.
- Raja KUSHAL SINGH,
4th Raja of Jhabua 1677/1723, married and had issue.
- Raja Anup Singh (qv)
- Thakur Indar Singh of Bhagor, married and had issue.
- Raja ANUP SINGH,
5th Raja of Jhabua 1723/1727, married and had issue.
- Raja SHEO SINGH,
6th Raja of Jhabua 1727/1758, ke adopted Kunwar Bahadur Singh,
son of Thakur Indar Singh of Bhagor (see above); married and had
adoptive issue. He died sp 1758.
- (A) Raja Bahadur Singh (qv)
- Raja BAHADUR SINGH,
7th Raja of Jhabua 1758/1770, born as Kunwar Bahadur Singh
of Bhagor, he succeeded by adoption; married and had issue.
- Raja BHIM SINGH,
8th Raja of Jhabua 1770/1821, in consequence of the disturbed
state of the country and the
imbecility of the Raja, he was required to abdicate
in favour of his son in 1821; married and had issue. He died
4th April 1829 (#2).
- Raja Pratap Singh (qv)
- Maharaj Moti Singh, he was granted the estate of Khawasa
in
1826; married and had issue.
- Maharaj Salim Singh, married and had issue.
- Maharaj Gulab Singh
- Raja PRATAP SINGH,
9th Raja of Jhabua 1821/1832, he adopted his nephew, Kunwar Ratan Singh
(see above),
married and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1832.
- (A) Raja Ratan Singh (qv)
- Raja RATAN SINGH,
10th Raja of Jhabua 1832/1840, adopted by his predecessor,
he was granted a khilat by the Bengal Government in 1834;
married (amongst others), Rani Pratap Kunwar, daughter of Raja Bhim
Singhji II of Banera, and his wife,
Rani
Mertaniji, and had issue. He died 1840.
- HH Raja GOPAL SINGH,
11th Raja of Jhabua 1841/1895, born 22nd February
1841, succeeded
October 1841 (#1);
he performed good service during the mutiny of 1857, in consideration
of which he was allowed to exercise limited criminal powers within his
State; in 1865, he permitted the mutilation of a person
confined under suspicion of theft, the Raja was fined 10,000Rs, and
required to grant the injured man a pension, the Rajmata was banished
from Jhabua for a year, and the Kamdar and others were expelled from
the state, also the Raja had his gun salute discontinued, which was
restored at the expiration of a year from the date of its
discontinuance, after a favourable report on his administration; he
married and had adoptive issue.
He
died spm 1895.
- Baisa (name unknown) [HH Maharani (name unknown)
Sahiba
of Bundi], married Colonel HH Maharao
Raja Shri Sir
Raghubir Singhji
Sahib
Bahadur of Bundi.
- (A) HH Raja Udai Singh (qv)
- HH Raja UDAI SINGH,
12th Raja of Jhabua 1895/1942, born 6th May 1875, son of
Maharaj Raghunath Singh of Khawasa,
married and had adoptive issue. He dspm
after 1945.
- (A) HH Raja Dilip Singh (qv)
- HH Raja DILIP SINGH,
13th Raja of Jhabua 1942/1965 , born 26th February 1905,
son of Maharaj Kesar Singh
of Khawasa, educated at Agra and
Aligarh,
Kamdar of Ratanmal, President of the Council of administration, Jhabua;
married HH Rani Gopal Kumari, daughter of Thakur Chain Singh, and had
issue. He died 1965.
- HH Raja Ajit Singh (qv)
- Rajkumari Girija Devi [Rajmata Saheba of Balsan], born
31st August
1931,
educated at St. Raphael's School, Indore; married Rana Vidyabushn Singh
of Balsan, and has issue, two sons.
- Maharaj Gajendrapal Singh, Thakur Saheb of Jhaknaoda
1946/-; educated at Daly College,
Indore; he was adopted
15th July 1946, by the two surviving widows of the late Thakur Narayan
Singh of Jhaknavda
Thikana in Jhabua, who died 11th November 1945; he married Rajkumari
Somlata Kumari, born 2nd April 1943, daughter of Rana Ran Bahadur Singh
Jandaive of Balsan, and has issue.
- Rajkumari Chandrika Kumari, married January 1991 (div.
1992), Yuvaraj Shri Manvendrasinhji Raghubirsinhji Sahib of Rajpipla.
- Maharaj Devendra Pal Singh, married 24th November 1968 at
Wankaner in Gujarat, Rajkumari Bhagyawanti Devi [Rani Bhagyawanti Devi
of Jhabua], daughter of Maharaj Saheb Chandra Bhanu Singhji of Wankaner,
and his wife, Rani Kumud Manjli, and has issue, one son.
- Rajkumar Bhriguraj Singh, married Rajkumari Mahima
Singh, daughter of Raja Dr.
Sanjay Singh of Amethi, and his first
wife, Rani Garima Devi.
- Rani Krishna Kumari, married Rao Ran Bahadur Singh of Churhat, and has
issue.
- HH Raja AJIT SINGH,
14th Raja of Jhabua 1965/2002, educated at Daly College,
Indore, married
and had issue, three sons. He died 8th November 2002.
- HH Raja Narendra Singh (qv)
- Maharaj Gopal Singh, educated at Daly College,
Indore; married 1980, Rajkumari Prafulla Singh, daughter of Darbar
Saheb Janak Sinhji of Rajpar, Saurasthra, and has issue. (Jhabua
Farms,
Indore)
- Rajkumar Mayur Singh, married 2006, Kumari
Maheshwari, daughter of Darbar Shri Shivrajsinhji Harishchandrasinhji
of Dhank, and has issue.
- Kumari Bhavika Singh Jhabua
- Maharaj Ganesh Singh, married Rani Arunima Kumari, and
has
issue.
- Rajkumari Nandini Kumari, married, Kunwar Pitamber
Pratap Singh, son of Thakur Dyanendra Singh of Orai (see Kotla), and
his wife,
Thakurani Maya Singh, M.P., Rajya Sabha, and has issue, one
son.
- Bhanwar Rudra Pratap Singh
- Rajkumari Vijaya Kumari, married 25th February 2008 at
Nahan in Sirmur, Kunwar Sangram Singh, son of Kunwar Abhay Singh of Sirmur, and his wife, Kumari Kunjana Devi.
- HH Raja NARENDRA SINGH,
15th Raja of Jhabua (see above)
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