PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The Ruling
family of Virpur descends from the Nawanagar House. Jam
Vibhaji I of
Nawanagar
had four sons of whom Bhaniji, the second son received
Kalawad and
eleven
other villages in appanage. According to Colonel J.W.
Watson, the
village
of Kharedi is said to have been included in the appanage
but owing to
some
dispute with the parent State, Bhanji renounced all claims
to the Giras
and accepted a subordinate position under the Mahomedan
Thanadar of
Kharedi,
which was then infested with gangs of marauding Kathis.
His assistance
to the Thanadar in the expulsion of these freebooters
obtained for him
a grant of one-half of Kharedi lands from the thanadar.
Mokaji, the
seventh
in descent from Bharoji, moved to Virpur from Kharedi and
repaired the
old Fort of the New Capital. Virpur, a Fourth Class State,
formerly in
Kathiawad in pre-Independence India, follows the rule of
Primogeniture
in regard to succession and exercises the jurisdictional
powers as
follows:
Criminal - Seven year's rigorous imprisonment and fine to
the extent of
10,000Rs, Civil - to the extent of 20,000Rs. Rulers
were.....
- Thakore Saheb
BHANAJI
VIBHAJI, 1st Thakore Saheb of Virpur,
founder of Kalavad, Virpur
and Kharedi,
brother
of Jam Satoji of Nawanagar,
married
and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Bharaji Bhanaji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb BHARAJI BHANAJI, 2nd Thakore Saheb of
Virpur,
married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Hardholji Bharaji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb
HARDHOLJI
BHARAJI, 3rd Thakore Saheb of
Virpur, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Sahebji Hardholji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb
SAHEBJI
HARDHOLJI, 4th Thakore Saheb of
Virpur, married and had
issue.
- Thakore Saheb Mokaji I Sahebji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb
MOKAJI I
SAHEBJI, 5th Thakore Saheb of
Virpur, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Muluji I Mokaji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb
MULUJI I
MOKAJI, 6th Thakore Saheb of Virpur,
married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Jethiji Muluji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb
JETHIJI
MULUJI, 7th Thakore Saheb of Virpur,
married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Mokaji II Jethiji [alias Bavaji]
(qv)
- Kumar Sujoji Jethiji of Khijadia.
- Kumar Junoji Jethiji of Hadmadia.
- Kumar Ranmalji Jethiji of Kalmeghda and Moridad.
- Thakore Saheb
MOKAJI II
JETHIJI, 8th Thakore Saheb of
Virpur, married and
had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Suraji I Mokaji (qv)
- Kumar Dungarji Mokaji of Bhangda.
- Thakore Saheb
SURAJI I
MOKAJI, 9th Thakore Saheb of Virpur,
married and had issue. He
died after 1813.
- Thakore Saheb Muluji II Suraji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb
MULUJI II
SURAJI, 10th Thakore Saheb of
Virpur, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Surtanji Muluji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb
SURTANJI
MULUJI, 11th Thakore Saheb of Virpur
-/1864, married and had
issue.
- Thakore Saheb Suraji II Surtanji (qv)
- Thakore Saheb
SURAJI II
SURTANJI, 12th Thakore Saheb of
Virpur -/1918, born 8th October
1846, succeeded
30th July 1864 (#1),
married
and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Hamirsinhji Suraji (qv)
- Kumar Jethiji Suraji
- Kumar Ramsinhji Suraji, fl.1902
- Kumar Joravarsinhji Suraji, educated at Bombay
University.
- Kumari (name unknown), married HH Rana
Sahib
Bhavsinhji Madhavsinhji Bahadur of Porbandar.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Thakore
Sahib Shri
Sir Mansinhji Sursinhji of Palitana.
- Thakore Saheb
HAMIRSINHJI
SURAJI, 13th Thakore Saheb of
Virpur 1918/1938, born 1876,
succeeded 18th
October
1918, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Dilipsinhji Hamirsinhji (qv)
-
 Thakore
Saheb DILIPSINHJI HAMIRSINHJI, 14th Thakore
Saheb of Virpur
1938/1945,
married Thakorani Takhat
Kunverba Saheb [the late Rajmata Saheb of Virpur],
died 1991, and had
issue.
He died June 1945.
- Thakore Saheb Narendrasinhji Dilipsinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Harishchandrasinhji Dilipsinhji
- Kumar Shri Virbhadrasinhji Dilipsinhji
- Kumar Shri Pratapchandrasinhji Dilipsinhji
- Kumar Shri Subhadrasinhji Dilipsinhji, born 11th
April
1934 in Virpur,
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1954); Senior
Cambridge, i.e.
School
Leaving
certificate of Cambridge University, U.K.; B.A.,
LL.B from
University
of Delhi. Advocate of Gujarat High Court. Attended
Management Courses
at
the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and at
the Department of
Management Studies, University of Leeds, U.K.,
Diploma in Law from
Colorado,
U.S.A., Retired as Advisor, National Textile
Corporation, in India;
married
17th June 1960 in Surendranagar, Kumar Rani Shri
Dharmendra Kunverba
Saheb,
and
has issue.
- Kumari Shri Asha Kumari, a venture capitalist in
California, U.S.A. (U.S.A.)
- Kumar Shri Yashwantsinhji Subhadrasinhji,
educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1976); working in
the travel trade. (Ahmedabad,
India)
- Kumar Shri Yogendrasinhji Subhadrasinhji,
working in
the travel trade. (Ahmedabad,
India)
- Kumari Shri Pratap Kunverba Saheb, married Thakore
Saheb
Shri Kiritsinhji
of Mehlol, and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb
NARENDRASINHJI DILIPSINHJI, 15th Thakore
Saheb of Virpur 1945/-, educated
at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot; married Thakorani Basant
Kumari, and
had issue. [He died
23rd December
2001?]
- Thakore Saheb Pushpendrasinhji Narendrasinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Jaduvendrasinhji Narendrasinhji Jadeja,
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1965); married
in Jodhpur, Baisa
Chand Kanwar B.A. (Eng. Lit.), daughter of Maharaj
Banney Singhji of Raoti,
and his wife, Rani Rasal Kanwar, and
has issue, one son and one daughter.
- Kumar Shri Devendrasinhji Jaduvendrasinhji
Jadeja, a
Graduate with a Bachelor in Commerce (B.Com.),
Bachelor of Law (LL.B.)
and Dilpoma in International Business Management
(Dip. I.B.M.),
presently (2012) pursuing, Master of Law (second
semester), Chartered
Accountant (final year) and Company Secretary
(final year)
- Kumari Shalini Devi Jadeja, born 14th January
1986 in
Jodhpur, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in
Engish Literature, and a
Master of Arts in English Literature.
- Kumari Shri Kumud Kumari Jadeja B.A.
- Thakore Saheb
PUSHPENDRASINHJI NARENDRASINHJI, 16th Thakore
Saheb of Virpur (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumar Shri Indrasinhji
Mahipatsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot
(1948)
- Lt. Col. Kumar Shri Hariharsinhji
of Virpur, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot, died
in March 2001.
- Kumar Shri
Naharsinhji, married Kumari Shri Jitendra Kunwarba
Sahiba, daughter of
Kumar Shri Shivsinhji Govindsinhji of Hampar in Dhrangadhra, and
his second wife,
Kumari Shri Monghi Kunwarba Sahiba.
The help of Y.S. Jaideepsinhji Jadeja,
2002 and K.S. Subhadrasinhji D. Jadeja, 2005 is
gratefully acknowledged. |
