PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The
Taluka, a Seventh Class State, is an offshoot of the Dhrol
State. Kaloji of Dhrol had seven sons of whom Sangoji was the eldest,
Bhimji
the second and Junoji the third. On Kaloji's death Sanjoji succeded to
the Gadi of Dhrol, the other brothers having been provided with
suitable
appanages. Sangoji died while fighting on the side of Nawanagar State
with
a Mahomedan army and had no issue. The succession accordingly devolved
on Bhimji but he abdicated in favour of his younger brother Junoji,
himself
remaining content with his appanage of Khirasara and 12 other villages.
Succession is ruled by Primogeniture. The Jurisdictional Powers of the
State are: Criminal - fifteen days of rigorous imprisonment and fines
up
to 50Rs, Civil - None. Rulers were....
- Thakore BHIMJI KALOJI,
1st Thakore Shri of Khirasra, son of
Thakore Kaloji Panchanji of Dhrol,
married and had issue.
- Thakore Sangaji Bhimji (qv)
- Thakore SANGAJI BHIMJI,
2nd Thakore Shri of Khirasra,
married and had issue.
- Thakore Ranmalji Sangaji (qv)
- Thakore RANMALJI SANGAJI,
3rd Thakore Shri of Khirasra,
married and had issue.
- Thakore Hathiji Ranmalji (qv)
- Thakore HATHIJI RANMALJI,
4th Thakore Shri of Khirasra
fl.1808, married and had issue.
- Thakore Dungarji Hathiji (qv)
- Thakore DUNGARJI HATHIJI,
5th Thakore Shri of Khirasra,
married and had issue.
- Thakore Jijibhai Dungarji (qv)
- Thakore JIJIBHAI DUNGARJI,
6th Thakore Shri of Khirasra
-/1872, married and had issue.
- Thakore Raisinhji Jijibhai (qv)
- Kumar Shri Bhavsinhji Jijibhai
- Kumar Shri Khengarji Jijibhai
- Thakore RAISINHJI JIJIBHAI,
7th Thakore Shri of Khirasra
1872/-, born 1850, he succeeded to the gadi on 1st
January 1872 (#1),
married and had issue. He died after 1891.
- Thakore Balsinhji Raisinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Takhatsinhji Raisinhji
- HH Maharani Nand Kunverba, married 1905, HH Maharaja Rao
Bhavsinhji II
Takhatsinhji of Bhavnagar.
- HH Maharani Yeshwant Kunverba, married HH Umdae Rajhae
Buland Makan Maharajadhiraja
Maharaja Sir Madan Singhji Bahadur of Kishangarh.
- Thakore Shri BALSINHJI
RAISINHJI, 8th Thakore Shri of
Khirasra -/1920, married and had
issue.
- Thakore Shri Sursinhji Balsinhji (qv)
- [?A lady of Khirasra
and niece of the Maharaja Jam Sahib of
Nawanagar, married
17th April 1914, Col. HH Raj Rishi Shri Sawai Maharaja Sir Jai Singhji
Virendra
Shiromani Dev Bharat Dharam Prabhakar of Alwar.]
- Thakore Shri SURSINHJI
BALSINHJI, 9th Thakore Shri of Khirasra 1920/- , born 26th
September 1890,
educated
in England and in the Imperial Cadet Corps at Dehra Dun, succeeded to
the gaddi
24th Feburary 1920, attended His Majesty's Coronation at
Westminster
Abbey in 1911, married and had issue.
- Thakore Shri Prabhatsinhji Sursinhji (qv)
- Rani Pratap Kunwar, married (as his second wife), Rao Bir
Singh Ju Deo
of Bihat, and had issue.
- Shrimati Thakurani Anand Kumari, married 1935, Thakur
Shivraj Sharan Singh of Jamli, and had
issue.
- Kumar Shri Pratapsinhji Sursinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1950).
- Kumar Shri Digvijaysinhji Sursinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1953).
- Kumar Shri Diljeetsinhji Sursinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1964); married Kumari Parveen Kanwar, daughter of
Maharaj Banney Singhji of Raoti, and his
wife, Rani Rasal Kanwar, and has issue, two daughters.
- Kumari Soniya Kumari, born 2nd March 1969,
married Thakur Laxman Singhji of Ransigaon.
- Kumari Hansprabha Kumari, married Kumar Shri
Jagdipsinhji
Gohil of Haliyad in Bhavnagar.
- Thakore Shri PRABHATSINHJI
SURSINHJI, 10th Thakore Shri of Khirasra (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumar Shri Prakramsinhji, married and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Mulrajsinhji Prakramsinhji, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1945), married and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Harishchandrasinhji Mulrajsinji, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1977)
- Kumar Shri Kiratsinhji
Prakramsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1947).
- Kumar Shri Pravinsinhji
Prakramsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1949).
- Kumar Shri Mahipatsinhji Prakramsinhji, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1953).
- Kumar Shri Jaipalsinhji Prakramsinhji, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1964)..
The assistance of YS Jaideepsinh Jadeja is gratefully
acknowledged, 2002.
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