PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Hathras
was a
Jat state, which was annexed to British India in 1817. Estate holders
were....
- Thakur MAKHAN SINGH,
Thakur of Mursan, married and had issue. He died after
1660.
- Thakur NANDRAM SINGH,
Thakur of Mursan, Faujdar,
married and had issue. He died 1696.
- Thakur Jai Singh [Bhoj Singh] (qv)
- Thakur Zulkaran Singh, Thakur of Mursan, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Kushal Singh, Thakur of Mursan
- Raja Pohap Singh, Thakur of Mursan
- Raja Bhagwant Singh, Thakur of Mursan, married and had
issue.
He died 1824.
- Raja Tikaram Singh, Thakur of Mursan 1824/1878,
C.I.E.,
married and had issue. He died 1878.
- Kunwar Kishan Pratap Singh, married and had issue.
He died before 1878.
- Raja Bahadur Ghanshyam Singh, Thakur of Mursan
1878/- (#1), title was
formally
conferred
3rd December 1859, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Baldeo Singh
- Kunwar Kharag Singh, third son,
he was adopted by Raja Harnarayan Singh of Hathras in 1889, and
succeeded as
Raja
Mahendra Pratap Singh of Hathras (see below).
- Thakur JAI SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras 1696/1749, Faujdar,
married and had issue. He
died
1749
- Thakur Badan Singh (qv)
- Thakur Samant Singh, married and had issue.
- Thakur Balwant Singh
- Thakur Kishan Singh
- Thakur BADAN SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras 1749/1768, married and had issue. He
died 1768.
- Thakur Bhure Singh [Boori Singh] (qv)
- Thakur Sakat Singh, Thakur of Karil, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Drig Singh, Thakur of Jatoi
- Thakur Udai Singh, Thakur of Karil, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Sujan Singh, Thakur of Jatoi, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Roop Singh, Thakur of Jatoi, married and had
issue.
He died 1876.
- Kunwar Harnarayan Singh, adopted by Raja Govind
Singh of Hathras, and succeeded as Raja Harnarayan Singh of Hathras
(see below).
- Thakur BHURE SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras 1768/1775, married and had issue. He
died 1775.
- Raja Dayaram Singh (qv)
- Raja Nawal Singh, Thakur of Beswa, married and had issue.
- Raja Har Krishan Singh, Thakur of Beswan, married and
had issue.
- Thakur Jai Kishore Singh, Thakur of Beswan, married
and had
issue.
- Thakur Girdhar Singh, Thakur of Beswan
- Thakur Gir Prashad Singh, Thakur of Beswan, married
and had
issue. He died 1881.
- Thakur Gururudhaj Prasad Singh, Thakur of Beswan
- Thakur Saparundhaj Prasad Singh, Thakur of Beswan
- Thakur Jiwaram Singh, Thakur of Mendu, married and had
issue.
He died 1835.
- Thakur Randhir Singh, Thakur of Mendu
- Raja DAYARAM SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras 1775/1841, he assumed the title of Raja after his
accession, and greatly expanded his territory and bought progress and
prosperity to his state, and for a time was considered the most
powerful chief in this part of the country, he was deposed by the
British authorities and his state annexed in 1817, married and
had
issue. He died 1841.
- Raja GOVIND SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras 1841/1861, he adopted Kunwar Harnarayan
Singh, son of Thakur Rup Singh of
Jatoi, he succeeded on his father's death to only a portion of one
village as zamindar, but his loyalty to British interests during the
1857 Mutiny, enabled him to recover much of the Hathras estate; married
Rani Sahib Kunwar from Bharatpur, and had adoptive issue.
He died 1861.
- Kunwar (name unknown)
Singh (by Rani Sahib Kunwar), died young in 1861.
- (A) Raja Harnarayn
Singh (qv)
- Raja HARNARAYAN SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras 1863/1896, born 1863, he succeeded by adoption, he
adopted
Kunwar Kharag
Singh in 1889, the third son of Raja Bahadur Ghanshyam Singh of Mursan
(see
above), married 1stly, Rani Swarup Kaur from Bharatpur, married 2ndly,
Rani Hanumant Kaur of Dholpur, and had
adoptive issue. He died 1896.
- (A) Raja Mahendra
Pratap Singh (qv)
- Raja MAHENDRA PRATAP SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras 1896/1924, born 1st December 1886 in
the Thenua gotra of the Jat Hindu princely
state of Mursan in Aligarh Janpad in Uttar Pradesh, as Kunwar Kharag
Singh of Mursan; popularly known
as Aryan
Peshwa, he was a freedom fighter, journalist,
writer and revolutionary social reformist of India, college educated,
he received his education under British headmasters and
Muslim teachers from the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College, Aligarh; he
established a free indigenous technical institute, ‘Prem
Mahavidyalaya’ in his palace at Vrindavan in 1909, he
established the
first Provisional Government of India at Kabul in Afghanistan, in 1915;
declared a fugitive by the British Government of India, his estate was
forfeited and he left for
Japan, on 7th September 1924 the estate was granted to his son; later
he published the ‘World Federation Monthly Magazine’
in 1929; he formed the Executive Board of India in Japan in
1940; and returned to India in 1946; Member of Parliament 1957/1962;
President of
Indian Freedom Fighters’ Association; President of All India Jat
Mahasabha; journalist
and prolific writer who wrote a large number of books on various
topics; married 1stly, 1902, Rani Balbir Kaur, daughter of Tikka Sahib
Balbir
Singh Bahadur of Jind,
died 1925, married 2ndly, a daughter of Sardar Bhagwant Singh,
Rais-i-Azam
of Bhadaur, and had issue, one son and
one daughter. He
died on
29th April 1979.
- Kumari Bakti Devi Kaur
- Raja Prem Pratap Singh (qv)
- Raja PREM PRATAP SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras 1924/1947, born 1912, married
(sep'd. 1946), Georgiana (an English
lady), and had issue. He died 13th June 1947 in Vrindavan.
- Raja Amar Pratap Singh (qv)
- Kumari Sarla Kaur, born 1942.
- Raja AMAR PRATAP SINGH,
Thakur of Hathras (see above)
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