PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1552 when the thikana was granted to Thakur Pratap Singhji I, son
of Rao Viram Deoji of Merta, himself a grandson of Rao Jodha of Marwar. Due to it’s strategic nature,
Ghanerao had the unique
distinction
of a having a seat of nobility in both the houses of Mewar (Udaipur)
and Marwar (Jodhpur). Rulers were.....
- Thakur PRATAP SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1552/1568, married and had issue.
- Thakur GOPALDASJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1568/1626, married and had issue.
- Thakur Kishan Singhji [Kishandasji] (qv)
- Thakur KISHAN SINGHJI
[Kishandasji], Thakur of Ghanerao 1626/1649, married and
had issue.
- Thakur Durjan Singhji I (qv)
- Thakur DURJAN SINGHJI I,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1649/1675, married and had issue.
- Thakur GOPINATHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1675/1704, married and had issue.
- Thakur Surat Singhji (qv)
- Thakur SURAT SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1704/1714, married and had issue.
- Thakur Pratap Singhji II (qv)
- Thakur PRATAP SINGHJI II,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1714/1720, married and had issue.
- Thakur Padam Singhji (qv)
- Thakur PADAM SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1720/1742, married and had issue.
- Thakur VIRAM DEOJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1743/1778, the Thikana was transferred
to
Marwar about
this
time; married and had issue.
- Thakur Durjan Singhji II (qv)
- Baijilal (name unknown),
married (as his first wife), Raja Hameer Singhji of Banera, and had issue.
- Thakur DURJAN SINGHJI II,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1778/1799
- Thakur Hamir Singhji (qv)
- Thakur Ajeet Singhji (qv)
- Thakur HAMIR SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1799/1800
- Thakur AJEET SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1800/1856, married and had issue.
- Thakur Nahar Singhji (qv)
- Thakur Himmat Singhji (qv)
- Thakur NAHAR SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1856/1866
- Thakur HIMMAT SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1866/1874, married and had issue.
- Thakur JODH SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1874/1929, married Thakurani Jadhav
Kunwar,
daughter HH Raja Rawat Balbhadra Singhji
of Rajgarh, and his wife, Rani
Uday Kunwar, and had adoptive issue.
- (A) Thakur Laxman Singhji (qv)
- Thakur LAXMAN SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao 1929/1982, born 1909, adopted from
Kotri; educated at Mayo College,
Ajmer;
exercises
First Class Judicial powers, married Thakurani Prem Kumari of Kanod,
and had
issue, four sons and five daughters. He died 1982.
- Thakur Sahib Sajjan Singhji (qv)
- Thakur Sahib Pushpendra Singh, married Thakurani
Rajeshwari
Kumari, daughter of Raja Padam Dev Singh of Poonch,
and his wife, Rani Manek Kunwar, and had issue. He died 1998.
- Thakur Khem Singh
- Kunwarani Bhavna Kumari, married Kunwar Shatrunjai
Singh of Deogarh.
- Thakur Sahib Mahendra Singh of Kotri, married Kumari
Pratap Kanwar
[now Thakurani Pratap
Kumari], daughter of Rawat Shri Khuman Singhji of Salumber,
and has issue.
- Thakur Sahib Lokendra Singh of Kotri, married 27th
March 1995, Thakurani Bhargavi
Kumari, daughter of Maharaj Arvind Singh
of Udaipur, and his wife, Rani Raj
Vijayraj Kumari, and has issue, one daughter.
- Baiji Lal Kumari Lokaviaa Rathore, born 1997.
- Thakurani Gayatri Kumari married to Thakur Veer Vijay
Singh of Umaidnagar.
- Thakur Sahib Mahavir Singh married to Rani Devendra
Kumari of Barwara,
and has issue.
- Kunwar Aayush Singh married Kunwarani Shivali Kumari,
and has issue, one
daughter.
- Baiji Lal Samriddhi Kumari, born 27th
April 2003.
- Bhanwar Sanat Singh Rathore
- Kunwar Siddharth Singh, married 12th December 2008,
Baisaheb Rohini Singh, daughter of Thakur Randhir Vikram Singh of Mandawa, and his wife, Thakurani Manjul
Kumari.
- Kunwarani Shivani Kumari married to Maharaj Kushalpal
Singh
Jadeja of Jamnagar.
- Baiji Lal Daulat Kumari, married 1949, Kunwar Sangram
Singh of Nawalgarh,
and has issue.
- Baiji Lal Phulendra Kumari (+), married Bada Kumar Shri
Pratap Gang Deo, second son of Raja Dibyashankar Sudhal Deb of Bamra, and had issue, four sons.
- Baiji Lal Prafullat Kumari, married to Khejarla.
- Baiji Lal Jaswant Kumari [Thakurani Jaswant Kumari of
Palaitha], married to Apji Thakur Jaswant
Singhji of Palaitha.
- Baiji Lal Jitendra Kumari [Thakurani Jitendra Kumari of
Kudsu], married to Thakur Devendra
Singh of Kudsu.
- Thakur SAJJAN SINGHJI,
Thakur of Ghanerao (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Baisa (name unknown), married (as his first wife),
Thakur Chaman Singh of Tana.
- Thakur (name unknown), younger brother of the Thakur
Sahib of Ghanerao, married the elder daughter of Raj
Rana Devi Singhji of Tana, and his second
wife, Rani Naval Kunwar.
The generous help of Kunwar Suryabhan Singh Rathore is
gratefully acknowledged, March 2010. |