PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
estate
was granted to Thakur Hanwant Singh (grandson of Rao Viram
Deo of Merta, himself grandson of Rao Jodhaji of Jodhpur)
by Emperor Akbar in 1557, as a reward for the exclusion of
the Parmar Rajputs who attacked the Imperial Thana. Estate
holders were...
- Thakur HANWANT
SINGH, Thakur of Masuda 1557/1583, married
and had issue.
- Thakur NARSINHDAS,
Thakur of Masuda 1583/1623, married and had issue.
- Thakur Junjhar Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Sabal Singh
- Kunwar Shyam Singh
- Kunwar Roop Singh
- Kunwar Chatar Singh
- Kunwar Durjan Singh
- Kunwar Raj Singh
- Thakur JUNJHAR
SINGH, Thakur of Masuda 1623/1650, married
and had issue.
- Thakur Ajab Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Balbhadra Singh
- Kunwar Kan Singh
- Kunwar Kusha Singh
- Kunwar Mokham Singh
- Kunwar Udai Singh
- Kunwar Gopaldas
- Thakur AJAB SINGH,
Thakur of Masuda 1650/1684, married and had issue.
- Thakur Mohan Singh [Muan Singh] (qv)
- Thakur Kesar Singh of Sathana, Lamba and Nagar.
- Thakur Bakht Singh of Kesarpura, Lalawas, and
Akrol.
- Thakur Jas Karan of Sakrani.
- Thakur Girdhar Das of Jamola.
- Thakur Amar Singh of Khuntia.
- Thakur MOHAN SINGH,
Thakur of Masuda 1684/1700, married and had issue.
- Thakur Sultan Singh (qv)
- Thakur Sher Singh of Shergarh.
- Thakur Bhairi Sal of Kailu Fatehgarh.
- Thakur SULTAN SINGH,
Thakur of Masuda 1700/1713, married and had issue.
- Thakur JAI SINGH,
Thakur of Masuda 1713/1761, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Shyam Singh, died before succession,
married and had issue.
- Thakur Ratan Singh (qv)
- Thakur Samrat Singh of Nandwara; married and had
issue.
- generations
- Rao Saheb Bijay Singh, Rao Sahib of
Masuda (see below)
- Kunwar Sujan Singh
- Baisa (name
unknown) [Rani Mertaniji of Banera],
married (as his fourth wife), Raja Sardar Singhji of
Banera.
- Thakur RATAN SINGH,
Thakur of Masuda 1761/1784, married and had issue.
- Thakur Bhairon Singh (qv)
- Thakur Devi Singh, married and had issue.
- Thakur Rirmal Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Bahadur Singh, adopted by Thakur
Shivnath Singh (see below), and succeded as
Thakur Bahadur Singh (later Rao Saheb) of
Masuda.
- Thakur BHAIRON
SINGH, Thakur of Masuda 1784/1806, married
and had issue.
- Thakur Devi Singh (qv)
- Thakur Padam Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Shivnath Singh, adopted by Thakur Devi
Singh (see below), and succeded as Thakur Shivnath
Singh of Masuda.
- Thakurani Pratap Kanwar, married (as his first
wife), Thakur Megh Singh of Diggi.
- Thakur DEVI SINGH,
Thakur of Masuda 1806/1843, he adopted Kunwar Shivnath
Singh, son of Thakur Padam Singh (see above), married
and had adoptive issue.
- Thakurani (name unknown), married (as his
second wife), Thakur Pratap Singh of Diggi.
- (A) Thakur Shivnath Singh (qv)
- Thakur SHIVNATH
SINGH, Thakur of Masuda 1843/1863, succeeded
by adoption, he adopted Kunwar Bahadur Singh, son of
Thakur Rirmal Singh (see above), married and had
adoptive issue.
- (A) Rao Saheb Bahadur Singh (qv)
- Rao Saheb BAHADUR
SINGH C.I.E., Thakur of Masuda 1863/1903,
born 1857 as Kunwar Bahadur Singh, son of Thakur
Rirmal Singh (see above), succeeded by adoption,
educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; Honourary Magistrate
and Munsif within the limits of his own estate, C.I.E.
[cr.1893], Kaiser-i-Hind, Rao Saheb [cr.1.1.1877]
(personal), married Rani Ugam Kanwar, daughter of
Thakur Mukand Singh of Mukangarh,
and had issue. He died 10th July 1903.
- Kunwar Sawai Ram Singh, died in his teens, and is
revered as a saint by villagers at his cenotaph.
INTERREGNUM 1904/1905,
in due course the British authorities selected Kunwar
Nathu Singh, a descendant of Thakur Samrat Singh of
Nandwara (see above) to succeed Rao Saheb Bahadur
Singh.
- Rao Saheb BIJAY
SINGH, Rao Sahib of Masuda 1905/1938,
educated at Mayo College, Ajmer (Class-Captain
1916/17), he was confeered with the title of Rao Saheb
by the Government of India on 1st January 1923;
Honorary Magistrate within the limits of his estate;
married and had issue.
- Rao Saheb Narayan Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Shabhu Singh
- Kunwar Jitendra Singh
- Thakurani Sajjan Kanwar, married 2nd February
1941, Thakur Devi Singh of Mandawa-Junior, and had
issue.
- Thakur Umaid Singh, born 8th September 1931,
married 3rd November 1958 (sep'd. 1960, div. 1980),
Maharajkumari Himmat Kunwarba Sahiba, daughter of
Major HH Maharana Shri Maharaja Shri Raj Sir
Ghanshyamsinhji Ajitsinhji Sahib Bahadur of Dhrangadhra, and
his fifth wife, HH Maharani Nawal Kunwarba Sahiba.
- Kunwar Daulat Singh
- Rani Kuashalya Kanwar, married the Raja Sahib of
Shohratgarh.
- Kunwar Shivpratap Singh
- Kunwar Madhusudan Singh, married Thakurani
Jitendra Kumari, daughter of Thakore Shri
Jaswantsinhji Takhatsinhji of Ranasan.
- Rao Saheb NARAYAN
SINGH, Rao Sahib of Masuda 1938/1992,
born 1919, married 1stly, Rani Kamala Raje, daughter
of Rawal Bishan Singh of Bissau,
and his second wife, Thakurani Anand Kanwar, married
2ndly, Rani Urmila Devi of Kherali in Saurashtra, and
had issue. He died 1992.
- Rani Vijaylakshmi Kanwar, married Maharaj
Sukhdevsinghji Jadecha of Jamnagar, son of
Gen. Maharaj Rajendrasinghji, former C-in-C, Indian
Armed Forces.
- Rao Saheb Indrajit Singh (qv)
- Thakur Mohan Chandra Singh, married Thakurani
Pratibha Kumari of Katesar, and has issue.
- Kunwar Jagatdeep Singh, married Kunwarani Keya
Kumari.
- Kunwar Shailendra Rathore, married Kunwarani
Navnidhi Kumari of Muli in Gujarat, and has issue.
- Bhanwar Devvrat Rathore
- Bhanwar Baisa Devika Rathore
- Thakur Amardeep Singh (by Rani Urmila Devi),
married and has issue.
- Thakur Dushyant Singh (by Rani Urmila Devi), born
11th September 1957 in Ajmer, Member of the
Rajasthan State Congress Body, Member of O.B.A. Mayo
College, Ajmer; married 30th June 1989 at Nainital,
Thakurani Sangeeta Kumari, and has issue.
- Baisa Priyanka Kumari
- Baisa Rukmini Kumari
- Kunwar Aditya Vikram Singh
- Kunwar Rananjay Singh
- Thakur Durjai Singh (by Rani Urmila Devi), married
Kumari Deepika Kumari, fourth daughter of Rawal
Raghuveer Singhji of Dhula,
and his wife, Rani Jaya Kumari, and has issue.
- Rao Saheb INDRAJIT
SINGH, Rao Sahib of Masuda (see above)
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