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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Bantva is a Jurisdictional Taluka, founded in 1733 as a result of a division of the Bantva district by Khan Shri Sherzamankhanji with his elder brother, who became the first ruler of Manavadar. Formerly known as Bantva and Limbuda (in 1854), as Sherbulandkhanji Estate and afterwards as Bantva Majmu, which comprised Bantwa Bara Majmu and Bantwa Chota Majmu. Rulers were...

• Khan Shri SHERZAMANKHANJI SALABAT MUHAMMEDKHANJI, 1st Khan Sahib of Bantva 1733/1779, youngest son of Nawab Saheb Salabat Muhammadkhan Babi of Junagadh, married and had issue.

  • Khan Shri Edalkhanji Sherzamankhanji (qv)

  • Khan Shri Mukhtyarkhanji Sherzamankhanji, he succeeded in Gidad, later known as Sardagadh.

• Khan Shri EDALKHANJI SHERZAMANKHANJI, 2nd Khan Sahib of Bantva 1779/-, he received 12 villages as his share of his father's property, married and had issue, four sons.

  • Khan Shri Muhammedkhanji Edalkhanji (qv)

  • Khanzada Shri Rahimkhanji Edalkhanji, married and had issue, five sons.

    • Khanzada Shri Bande Alikhanji Rahimkhanji

    • Khanzada Shri Daudkhanji Rahimkhanji

    • Khanzada Shri Husainkhanji Rahimkhanji

    • Khanzada Shri Shamsherkhanji Rahimkhanji

    • Khanzada Shri Umarkhanji Rahimkhanji

  • Khanzada Shri Khan Jahankhanji Edalkhanji, married and had issue, one son.

    • Khanzada Shri 'Alamkhanji Khanjahankhanji, married and had issue, two sons.

      • Khanzada Shri Himatkhanji 'Alamkhanji, married and had issue, two sons.

        • Khanzada Shri Bahadurkhanji Himatkhanji

        • Khanzada Shri Amirkhanji Himatkhanji

      • Khanzada Shri Khan Jahankhanji 'Alamkhanji

  • Khanzada Shri Bajuddinkhanji Edalkhanji, married and had issue, three sons.

    • Khanzada Shri Jamiatkhanji Bajuddinkhanji, married and had issue, one son.

      • Khanzada Shri Bajinkhanji Jamiatkhanji, married and had issue.

        • (name unknown) Begum, married (as his third wife), about 1891, Khan Shri Sher Bulandkhanji Rustamkhanji, 7th Khan Sahib of Bantva, and had issue (see below).

    • Khanzada Shri Karimkhanji Bajuddinkhanji, married and had issue, one son.

      • Khanzada Shri Kalaminkhanji Karimkhanji

    • Khanzada Shri Abdul Mirkhanji Bajuddinkhanji, married and had issue, two sons.

      • Khanzada Shri Umedkhanji Abdulmirkhanji

      • Khanzada Shri Muzafarkhanji Abdulmirkhanji

• Khan Shri MUHAMMEDKHANJI EDALKHANJI, 3rd Khan Sahib of Bantva -/after 1854, born 1784, married and had issue. He died after 1854.

  • Khan Shri Sher Bulandkhanji Muhammedkhanji (qv)

• Khan Shri SHER BULANDKHANJI MUHAMMEDKHANJI, 4th Khan Sahib of Bantva, born 1814, married and had issue, six sons.

  • Khan Shri Sherkhanji Sherbulandkhanji (qv)

  • Khan Shri Rustamkhanji Sherbulandkhanji (qv)

  • Khanzada Shri Sherzamankhanji Sherbulandkhanj, married and had issue, one son.

    • Khanzada Shri Hamidkhanji Sherzamankhanji

  • Khanzada Shri Dilerkhanji Sherbulandkhanji

  • Khanzada Shri Azamkhanji Sherbulandkhanji

  • Khanzada Shri Muhammedkhanji Sherbulandkhanji

• Khan Shri SHERKHANJI SHERBULANDKHANJI, 5th Khan Sahib of Bantva -/1888, died sp about 1888.

• Khan Shri RUSTAMKHANJI SHERBULANDKHANJI, 6th Khan Sahib of Bantva 1888/1903, married and had issue. He died 3rd September 1903.

  • Khan Shri Sherbulandkhanji Rustamkhanji (qv)

• Khan Shri SHER BULANDKHANJI RUSTAMKHANJI, 7th Khan Sahib of Bantva 1903/1934, born 20th October 1862, succeeded 3rd September 1903, married 1stly, 1876, Nawabzadi Bibi Shri Taj Bakhte Sahiba of Junagadh, married 2ndly, married 3rdly, about 1891, a daughter of Khanzada Shri Bajinkhanji Jamiatkhanji of Bantva (see above), and had issue. He died 6th February 1934.

  • Khan Shri Sher Khanji Sherbulandkhanji (qv)

  • Khanzada Shri (name unknown) Sherbulandkhanji

  • Khanzada Shri (name unknown) Sherbulandkhanji

  • Khanzada Shri Sarbulandkhanji Sherbulandkhanji, married Nawabzadi Bima Shri Zohra Jahan Bakhte Sahiba of Balasinor.

  • Khanzada Shri Sadiqkhanji Sherbulandkhanji, married Nawabzadi Bima Shri Akhtar Jahan Bakhte Sahiba of Balasinor, born about 1942.

• Khan Shri SHER KHANJI SHERBULANDKHANJI, 8th Khan Sahib of Bantva 1934/-, born 26th October 1892 ^{(#5 p.326)}, he succeeded to the gadi on 6th February 1934 ^{(#5 p.326)}, but settled in Pakistan after Independence, married 1st June 1913, Nawabzadi Bima Shri Husain Bakhte Sahiba, died 1946, daughter of the Nawab of Balasinor.