PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
ancestor of the family was Thakore Sejakji,
founding Thakore
of
Sejakpur
who migrated to Kathiawar, about the year 1260, his second son, Thakore
Saheb Sarangji, founded the predecessor state of Arthila and his
descendants
ruled there for four
generations till Raja Mandalik of Junagadh conquered and sacked Arthila
and slew Thakore Saheb Dudoji, the then ruling chieftain. The Gohils of
Arthila then
withdrew to Lathi which they held till the merger of the State in 1948.
Lathi ranks as a Fourth Class state in Kathiawar. The Chief maintains a
military force of 12 cavalry, 25 infantry and 10 guns (as of 1892).
Rulers
were....
- Thakore Saheb SARANGJI
SEJAKJI, 1st Thakore Saheb of Arthila, married and had issue.
- generation
- Thakore Saheb Nonghanji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb NONGHANJI,
3rd Thakore Saheb of Arthila fl.1350, married and had issue.
- generation
- Thakore Saheb Dudoji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb DUDOJI,
4th Thakore Saheb of Arthila, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Limshaji Dudoji [Jijibawa] (qv)
- Thakore Saheb LIMSHAJI
DUDOJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi
- Thakore Saheb Shri JIJIBAWA,
Thakore Saheb of Lathi, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Lakhaji Jijibawa (qv)
- Kumar Shri Prithiraj Jijibawa
- Thakore Saheb Shri LAKHAJI
JIJIBAWA, Thakore Saheb of Lathi 1750/-, during his
reign, he
suppressed the Kathis who had harassed the people of the region around
Lathi; married and had
issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Dajirajji Lakhaji [aka Kumar Shri
Amarsinhji Lakhaji] (qv)
- Thakore Saheb Shri Takhatsinhji Lakhajji (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharaja Gaekwad
Damajirao Gaekwad
Shamsher Bahadur
of Baroda.
- Thakore Saheb Shri
DAJIRAJI LAKHAJJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi, married and had
issue,
one daughter.
- Kumari (name unknown), married HH Thakore Sahib
Shri Dajirajji of Wadhwan.
- Thakore Saheb Shri
TAKHATSINHJI LAKHAJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi -/1878, born 1843,
married and
had issue.
- Kumar Shri Bhavsinhji Takhatsinhji, died a
premature death whilst studying at Rajkumar College, Rajkot.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Sursinhji Takhatsinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Vijaysinhji Takhatsinhji, married and had
issue.
- Kumar Shri Pravinsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil, married and
had
issue.
- Kumar Arunkumar Pravinsinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1957).
- Kumar Shri Natwarsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil
- Kumar Shri Gambhirsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil, married and
had
issue.
- Kumar Shri Janakkumar Gambhirsinhji Gohel, educated
at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1951).
- Kumar Shri Jayendrasinhji Gambhirsinhji Gohel,
educated
at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1951), married 1965, Kumari Shri Jyoti
Devi, eldest daughter of Thakore Saheb Mahendrasinhji Jorawarsinhji of
Mengni, and his wife, Thakorani Nirmala
Kunverba Saheba, and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Amarsinhji Jayendrasinhji, educated at
Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1983)
- Thakore Saheb Shri
SURSINHJI TAKHTSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi 1878/1900, born
1875, he succeeded
to the gadi as a minor on 4th
November 1878 (#1),
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot to 1891; he was a poet and
published a number of works, still popular today viz. Kalapi-no-Kekarav,
Harirji Gohel, Mala and Mudrika;
married 1stly, Thakorani Rajba of Roha (Kutch), married 2ndly,
Thakorani Anandiba of Kotda Sangani, and had issue. He died
1900.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Pratapsinhji Sursinhji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb Shri
PRATAPSINHJI SURSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi 1900/1918, born
21st April
1891,
succeeded to the gaddi on 10th June 1900, Investiture held on
1st
May 1911, he was a man of literary
bent and contributed to Gujarati literature under the pseudonym
of Rajhamsa; married and had issue. He died 14th October
1918.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Pralhadsinhji Pratapsinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Mangalsinhhji Pratapsinhji Gohil
- Kumar Shri Harishchandrasinhji Pratapsinhji Gohil
- Thakore Saheb Shri
PRALHADSINHJI PRATAPSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi 1918/-, born
31st
March 1912 and
succeeded 14th October 1918, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Bhupendrasinhji Pralhadsinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Dharmendrasinhji Pralhadsinhji Gohil
- Thakore Saheb Shri Kirtikumarasinhji Pralhadsinhji (qv)
- Kumari Shri Niladevi [Maharjkumarani Shri Niladevi,
Dumraon], married Maharajkumar Divya Dip Singh
of Dumraon, and has issue, three
children.
- Thakore Saheb Shri
BHUPENDRASINHJI PRALHADSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi, educated
at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1950), married Thakorani Durgaraje, and
had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Kirtikumarasinhji Bhupendrasinhji (qv)
- Kumari Chanchallaraje (Rani Mruganainaraje Mrugendrasinh
Ghatge of Kagal-Junior), married 16th May 1979, Meherban Shrimant
Rajamanya Rajashri Mrugendrasinh Ajitsinh Ghatge
Sarjerao Deshmukh,
5th and present
Chief of Kagal-Junior, and has issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri
KIRTIKUMARASINHJI PRALHADSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumar Shri Mahendrasinhji
Jitendrasinhji, educated at Rajkumar
College, Rajkot (1967)
- Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji, married 18th March 1994 (as her
second husband), Rajkumari Pratima Devi, born 6th June 1956, daughter
of Raja Prasanna Chandra Deo of Jarada,
and his wife, Rani Swarna Prabha Manjari Devi.
- Kumar Shri Narendrasinhji Chandrasinhji Gohil B.Com., Bayat
of Lathi, Teacher, born 3rd November 1984 in Lathi, married 3rd
November 2008 in Lathi, Kumari Nanbhu, and has issue, one son.
- Kumar Nilrajsinh Narendrasinhji Gohil.
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