PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Pethapur State, consisting of the town of Pethapur and two
villages on the Sabarmati River in the Sabar Kantha
District has an area of 5,500 bighas under tillage and is
a Fourth Class State. The Thakors are Vaghela Rajputs
descending from a branch of the Vaghela sovereigns of
Anhilvada Patan (ruled 1130/1298). Siramshi or Sarangdev,
one of the two sons of Raja Karandev, the last Raja of
Patan, was allowed the town of Kalol and surrounding
villages as an estate. Descended from him in the 10th
generation, was Hematji, who, in 1445, by killing his
maternal uncle Pitaji of the Gohil Rajputs, took
possession of his estate, called Pethapur after him.
Rulers were....
- Thakore Shri
TIRATHSINHJI [Hemtaji], 1st Thakore Saheb of
Pethapur 1445/-
- Thakore Shri (name
unknown), married and had issue.
- Thakore Shri Punjsinhji (qv)
- Thakore Shri Balbhadra Singh, 1st Taluqdar of Pindarda, which split
from Pethapur in 1705 Samvat.
- Thakore Shri
PUNJSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Pethapur,
married and had issue.
- Thakore Shri Ranchhodsinhji Punjsinhji (qv)
- Thakore Shri
RANCHHODSINHJI PUNJSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of
Pethapur
- Thakore Shri
ADESINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Pethapur, married
and had issue.
- Rani Canduba Sahiba [Ramchandra Kunwarba], married
Raj Sahib Jaswantsinhji II Gajsinhji of Dhrangadhra, and
had issue.
- Thakore Shri
HIMATSINHJI BHAWANISINHJI Sahib, Thakore
Saheb of Pethapur 1861/1879, born 1847, succeeded 28th
September 1861, married and had issue. He died 1879.
- Thakore Shri Gambhirsinhji Himatsinhji Sahib (qv)
- Thakore Shri
GAMBHIRSINHJI HIMATSINHJI Sahib, Thakore
Saheb of Pethapur 1879/1896, born 1874, succeeded 13th
January 1879 (#1), during
his minority, the state was administered by his
mother, aided by experienced managers under a certain
supervision by the Political Agent; married and had
issue.
- Thakore Shri Fatehsinhji Gambhirsinhji Sahib (qv)
- Thakore Shri
FATEHSINHJI GAMBHIRSINHJI Sahib, Thakore
Saheb of Pethapur 1896/-, born 3rd October 1895 and
succeeded in 1896 (#2),
educated at Scott College, Sadra; married Ba Shri
Manhar Kunverba Saheb, daughter of Rana Shri
Harisinhji Sahib of Bhadakva in Kathiawad, and had
issue.
- Thakore Shri Bhupendrasinhji Fatehsinhji Sahib
(qv)
- Thakore Shri
BHUPENDRASINHJI FATEHSINHJI Sahib, Thakore
Saheb of Pethapur, born 7th October 1921, educated at
Daly College, Indore and Christian College, Indore.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- HH Rani Baiji Kunwarba Sahiba, married (as his third
wife), HH Raj Sahib Mansinhji II Ranmalsinhji of Dhrangadhra.
- Rani Sam Kunwarba Sahiba, married (as his fifth
wife), Raj Sahib Chandrasinhji Raisinhji of Dhrangadhra, and
had issue.
- Rani Chandar Kunwarba Sahiba, married (as his second
wife), Raj Sahib Jashwantsinhji Gajsinhji of Dhrangadhra, and
had issue.
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