PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The
predecessor
state was known as Manoharpur. Estate holders were....
- Rao MANOHAR, Rao of
Shahpura 1584/1616, granted a mansab
of 1000 zat and 600 sawars
later
increased to 1000 zat and 800 sawars, founder of the Thikana named
after
himself, Manoharpur, married and had issue. He died 1616 in the Deccan.
- Kunwar Rai Chand, married and had issue. He died 1615 in
the battle of
Bangash.
- Rao Prithvi Chand (qv)
- Rao PRITHVI CHAND,
Rao of Shahpura 1616/1620, granted a mansab
of 500 zat and 300 sawars
later increased to 700 zat and 500 sawars, died in the siege of Kangra
Fort in 1620.
- Rao TILOK CHAND,
Rao of Shahpura 1620/1655, granted the
jagir of Manoharpur
and a mansab of 1000 zat
and 600 sawars.
- Rao ANAND CHAND,
Rao of Shahpura 1655/1686, married and had
issue.
- Kunwar Amar Chand, married and had issue. He died vp.
- Rao Jagat Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Shiv Singh
- Kunwar Arjun Singh
- Kumari Kalyan Kanwar [Jamilatunnissa Begum], married
10th August 1681, Shahazada
Kaim
Baksh of Delhi.
- Rao JAGAT SINGH,
Rao of Shahpura 1686/1702, married and had
issue.
- Rao Sagat Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Sardar Singh of Deobandh-Bakri
- Rao SAGAT SINGH,
Rao of Shahpura 1702/1738, married and had
issue.
- Rao Jaswant Singh (qv)
- Baisa (name unknown),
married 1719, Maharaja Ajit Singh of Jodhpur.
She committed sati
in June 1724.
- Rao JASWANT SINGH,
Rao of Shahpura 1738/1756, he was killed in 1756 by Sawai Raja Jai
Singh II of Jaipur, who proclaimed Shahpura as khalsa land.
- Rao NATHU SINGH,
Rao of Ajitgarh 1756/1793, married and had
issue. He died
1793 at
Ajitgarh.
- Rao Bishan Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Prithvi Singh of Garh, married and had issue.
- Rao Hanuwant Singh (qv)
- Several generations
- Rao Balwant Singh, married and had issue.
- Rao Pratap Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Harnath Singh
- Rani Sahiba Shekawatji, married 1904, (as his
fourth wife), Maharaj Sher Singh of Chokelov
in Jodhpur.
- Kunwar Berisal Singh of Palri.
- Rao BISHAN SINGH,
Rao of Shahpura 1793/1810, shifted the
capital from
Manoharpur to
Shahpura,
died sp 3rd August 1810.
- Rao HANUWANT SINGH,
Rao of Shahpura 1810/1856, married and
had issue.
- Kunwar Lakshman Singh, died vp 3rd May 1854.
- Rao Baldeo Singh (qv)
- Rao Shivnath Singh (qv)
- Rao BALDEO SINGH,
Rao of Shahpura 1856/1858, died sp
1858.
- Rao SHIVNATH SINGH,
Rao of Shahpura 1858/1881, he succeeded by adoption, married Rani
Lad Kunwar,
daughter of Thakur Jhujhar Singh of Geejgarh,
and had adoptive issue.
He
died sp
in 1881 at Allahabad.
- (A) Rao Pratap Singh Bahadur (qv)
- Rao PRATAP SINGH Bahadur,
Rao of Shahpura 1881/1942, born
1873, son of
Thakur Balwant
Singh
of Garh, he succeded by adoption, he was granted the title of Bahadur
by HH Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, married 1stly, Rani
Udawatji of Ras, married 2ndly, Rani
Hadiji
of Ratangarh, and had issue. He died 16th October 1942 (18th October
1939 #1).
- Kunwar Kalyan Singh (by 1st wife), married twice, and had
issue.
He died vp 30th
November
1938.
- Rao Dhir Singh (by 2nd wife)(qv)
- Thakur Veer Singh (by 2nd wife), married and has issue.
- Baisa Madhu Kumari, married 7th March 1991, Kunwar
Rajveer Singh of Bhainsrorgarh,
born 10th March 1966, and has issue.
- Rao DHIR SINGH, Rao
of Shahpura 1942/1974, born 10th August
1935, educated
at Mayo
College,
Ajmer and then at Maharaja College, Jaipur, earned his B.A. LL.B. from
Rajasthan University, married Rani Gunwant Kumari, daughter of Thakur
Mukund Singh of Chanod in Marwar, and
had issue. He died 24th June 1974.
- Rao Rajendra Singh (qv)
- Thakur Surendra Singh, born 20th June 1964, married 10th
December 1987,
Thakurani Ratan Kumari, daughter of Kunwar Balbhadra Chand of Chenani in Jammu, and his wife, Kunwarani
Prabha
Kumari, and has issue.
- Kunwar Digraj Singh
- Kunwar Adhiraj Singh
- Rajkumari Anurekha Kumari, married 1974, Kunwar
Yaduvendra Singh
Bhati
- Rajkumari Chandrakala Kumari, married 1976, Kunwar
Chandan Singh
Rathod.
- Rao RAJENDRA SINGH,
Rao of Shahpura (see above)
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