VADIA (Princely State)
AREA: 233.1 km2 Privy Purse: 78,250Rs ACCESSION: 15th February 1948
STATE: Saurashtra DYNASTY: Wala (Virani branch) RELIGION: Hindu

POPULATION: 13,722 (1931) REVENUE: 130,000Rs



PRESENT RULER: Darbar Shri VIKRAMWALA VIRAWALA Saheb, present Chief of Vadia
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1968); married and has issue, two children.
  • Kumar Amar Wala
  • Kumar Jai Wala
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A Third Class State, the ruling family is descended from the Virani branch of the Wala division of the Kathi clan. The State was a part of the Jetpur Taluka. It was in the time of Wala Shri Mulu Naja, who was third in descent from Vira Wala (Virani branch), that the Ruling Families of Jetpur came into contact with the British. He had entered into the engagements with Colonel Walker on behalf of all the shareholders of Jetpur. The State followed the rule of primogeniture for succession. The powers of the State were: Criminal : Seven years of rigorous imprisonment and 10,000Rs fine. Civil: Up to 20,000Rs. Rulers were....
  • Darbar Shri VIRA NAJA WALA, married and had issue.
    • Darbar Shri Kanthad Vira Wala (qv)
    • Kumar Shri Kumpa Vira Wala, died sp.
    • Kumar Shri Oghad Vira Wala, ancestor of the Darbar Shris of Wala-Bilkha (Kanthad Wala Estate).
  • Darbar Shri KANTHAD VIRA WALA, married and had issue.
    • Darbar Shri Deva Kanthad Wala (qv)
    • Darbar Shri Bhaya Kanthad Wala of Jetpur.
  • Darbar Shri DEVA KANTHAD WALA, married and had issue.
    • Darbar Shri Jivan Deva Wala (qv)
    • Kumar Shri Golan Deva Wala, died sp.
    • Kumar Shri Raning Deva Wala, married and had issue.
      • Kumar Shri Ram Raning Wala
  • Darbar Shri JIVAN DEVA WALA, Chief of Vadia -/1875; married and had issue. He died 24th February 1875.
    • Kumar Shri Kanthad Jivan Wala, died sp.
    • Darbar Shri Bawa Jivan Wala (qv)
COURT OF WARDS 1875/1895
  • Darbar Shri BAWA JIVAN WALA, Chief of Vadia 1875/1930, born 11th July 1874, installed 12th December 1895, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; married and had issue. He died 7th September 1930.
    • Darbar Shri Surag Bawa Wala Saheb (qv)
  • Darbar Shri SURAGWALA BAWAWALA Saheb, Chief of Vadia 1930/1950, born 15th March 1904 or 15th March 1905 (#1) and succeeded 7th September 1930, married 1921, Bai Shri Kunverbaisahib of Mekada and had issue, two sons and two daughters, including. He died 16th May 1950.
    • Yuvaraj Shri Krishnakumar Surag Wala, born 1931, died vpsp 27th January 1950.
    • Darbar Shri Virawala Suragwala Saheb (qv)
    • Kuwari Induba Surag Wala, married Shri J. A. Shekhwa, and had issue.
      • Shri Hemendra Shekhwa, born 3rd June 1946, married 1981, Kumari Manju Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Hari Singh of Baghat, and his wife, Kanwarani Rama Kumari, and has issue.
        • Vishwajit Shekhwa, born 1984.
    • Kuwari Kamlaba Surag Wala, born 1928, married 1947, Shri Kathad A. Dhadhal of Mendarda, born 1928, died 2011, and had issue, three daughters. She died 1986.
      • Pushpaba Dhadhal, born 1948, married 1974, Dr. Juwansinh Parmar, and has issue, one son.
        • Sangramsinh Parmar, born 1976, married 2004, Nishita Gohil, and has issue, one daughter.
          • Namyaa Parmar
      • Chandraba Dhadhal , born 1955, married 1976, Shri Bhupendra Wala, and has issue, four children.
        • Dr. Bhavisha Wala, born 1977, married 2007, Shri Indrajit Chandel, and has issue, one son.
          • Devvrat Chandel
        • Avni Wala, born 1978, married 2005, Shri Prakash Baskaran, and has issue, one daughter.
          • Tanisha Baskaran
        • Darshana Wala, born 1985.
        • Janvi Wala, born 1991.
      • Harshaba Dhadhal, born 1968, married 1989, Shri Daxesh Amin, and has issue, two children.
        • Harshil Amin, born 1991.
        • Krunali Amin, born 1993.
    • Kunwarani Janak Kunwarba, born 1940, married 1959, Thakursa Ummedsinghji of Jhadol in Kishangarh, son of late Rao Bahadur Roop Singh Panwar B.A., last Diwan of Kishangarh State and Judicial Member of State since 1919, and had issue, one son. She died 1961.
      • Kunwar Hameer Singh Panwar, born 1961, died 1979.
  • Darbar Shri VIRAWALA SURAGWALA Saheb, Chief of Vadia 1950/-; educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1952); married Rani Pushpa Devi, and had issue, three children.
    • Darbar Shri Vikramwala Virawala Saheb (qv)
    • Kumari Aruna Wala [Mrs. Aruna Trada], married Shri J. J. Trada, and has issue, two children.
      • Trishay Trada
      • Rahul Trada
    • Kumar Shri Uday Sinh Wala, born 28th December 1963 in Bombay, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1980) and at the University of Mumbai, India (Bachelor of Commerce), married 17th November 1993, Simeron Ghei, and has issue, one daughter.
      • Kumari Shri Diya Wala, born 1st April 1995.
      • Kumari Aanya Wala
  • Darbar Shri VIKRAMWALA VIRAWALA Saheb, present Chief of Vadia (see above)
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1. "Indian Annual Register" , N. N. Nitra, Calcutta 1945