VILLAGES: 86
AREA: km2
STATE: Udaipur
REVENUE: Rs 99,753
DYNASTY: Jhala
ACCESSION: xx
RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 25,985 (1941)
PRESENT RULER: Raj Rana PRAGYAT SINGH, 20th and present Raj Rana Saheb of Delwara since 1999.
born 197x
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Jagir of Delwara was granted to Kumar Sajja Singh from Halvad (Dhrangadhra), Gujarat. The estate holders were....
Raj SAJJA SINGH I, 1st Raj of Delwara -/1534, married and had issue. He died 1534 at Chittor.
Raj Jait Singh I (qv)
Raj JAIT SINGH I, 2nd Raj of Delwara and Raj of Kherwa 1534/1567, he was granted the Jagir of Kherwa [aka Khairava], married and had issue. He died 1567.
Raj MAN SINGH I, 3rd Raj of Delwara 1567/1576, died 18th June 1576 at Haldighati.
Raj KALYAN SINGH I, 4th Raj of Delwara 1576/-
Raj RAGHUDEV SINGH I, 5th Raj of Delwara
Raj JAIT SINGH II, 6th Raj of Delwara fl.1600, married and had issue.
Raj Sajja Singh II
Kunwar Arjun Singh, third son, he was granted the estate of Kunadi in 1644, and succeded there as Raj Arjun Singhji of Kunadi.
Raj SAJJA SINGH II, 7th Raj of Delwara
Raj MAN SINGH II, 8th Raj of Delwara, married and had issue.
Raj Raghudev Singh II (qv)
Kunwar Shatrusal Singh, he was granted the estate of Gogunda and succeded there as Raj Shatrusal Singh I of Gogunda.
Raj RAGHUDEV SINGH II, 9th Raj of Delwara, married and had issue. He died 1768?.
Raj Kalyan Singh II (qv)
Raj KALYAN SINGH II, 10th Raj of Delwara, died 1768?.
Raj SAJJA SINGH III, 11th Raj of Delwara, married Rani Gulab Kanwar, Maharaj Shri Bharat Singhji, Baba Saheb of Kherabad, she committed sati at Kherabad.
Raj KALYAN SINGH III, 12th Raj of Delwara, he adopted Kunwar Fateh Singh, son of Raj Kirti Singh of Bari Sadri, married and had adoptive issue. He died sp.
(A) Rao Bahadur Raj Rana Fateh Singh (qv)
Raj BAIRI SAL, 13th Raj of Delwara, married and had adoptive issue.
Rao Bahadur Raj Rana FATEH SINGH, 14th Raj Rana of Delwara -/1891, created Raj Rana (Hereditary), created Rao Bahadur on 2nd January 1888 (#1), born as Kunwar Fateh Singh, son of Raj Kirti Singhji of Bari Sadri, adopted by Raj Kalyan Singhji III (above), Member of the Mewar Council, married and had issue.
Raj Rana Zalim Singh (qv)
Kunwar Bijay Singh, he was adopted by the Raj Sahib of Kunadi, and succeeded there as Raj Bijay Singhji of Kunadi.
Thakurani Raj Kanwar, married Thakur Shambhu Singhji of Auwa, and had issue.
generation
Raj Rana Jaswant Singh (qv)
Raj Rana ZALIM SINGH, 15th Raj Rana of Delwara 1891/1900, born about 1863, married and had issue. He died in July 1900.
Raj Rana MAN SINGH III, 16th Raj Rana of Delwara 1900/1913, born 23rd August 1892, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer. He died sp in 1913.
Raj Rana JASWANT SINGH, 17th Raj Rana of Delwara 1913/-, born in June 1903; he succeeded to the estate in August 1913 by selection of the Darbar; Member of the High Court in Udaipur, married the sister of the Maharaj Sahib of Khatoli in Kotah, and had issue, two sons and one daughter.
Raj Rana Khuman Singh (qv)
Rajkumari Laxmi Kunwar [Rajmata Laxmi Kunwar of Sanjeli], married Maharaja Narendra Singhji of Sanjeli, and has issue.
Thakur Nareshwar Singh, educated at Bhopal Noble High School, Udaipur.
Raj Rana KHUMAN SINGH, 18th Raj Rana of Delwara, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married a daughter of the Thakur Sahib of Badnore.
Raj Rana VIKRAM SINGH, 19th Raj Rana of Delwara, married Rajkumari Ravija Kumari, second daughter of Raja Dinesh Singh of Kalakankar, and his wife, Rani Neelima Kumari, and had issue. He died 1997.
Raj Rana Pragyat Singh (qv)
Kunwar Vigyat Singh, born 1975, educated at The Doon School, Dehra Dun.
Raj Rana PRAGYAT SINGH, 20th Raj Rana of Delwara (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
Thakur Akshay Singh
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.136