PRESENT RULER: Thakur HARSHVARDHAN SINGHJI, 8th and present Thakur Saheb of Jaiwana

he is university educated and completed a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), he is the current proprietor of Hotel Caravan Sarai (Jaiwana Haveli) at Udaipur.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The founder of the lineage was Maharaj Shri Viramdeoji Sahib of Ghosunda, third son of Maharana Udai Singhji II of Mewar, and his second wife, Maharani Solankini Sehjabai, daughter of Rao Prithvi Singh Solanki of Toda (now Toda Rai Singh in Tonk). In 1817, Kunwar Pahad Singhji, the second son of Thakur Zalim Singhji of Kankarwa, was granted Jaiwana as jagir from Maharana Bhim Singhji of Mewar. Estate holders were .....

• Thakur Sahib Zalim Singhji, 1st Thakur Saheb of Khartana and Kankarwa, he received as his jagir, Khartana and Kan Madari, and continued to reside at Sanwar; married and had issue.

  • Kunwar Surajmal II, received Khartana and Kankarwa as jagir.

  • Kunwar Pahad Singhji, he received as his jagir, Jaiwana (Jeewana) in 1817 from Maharana Bhim Singhji (see below)

• Thakur PAHAD SINGHJI, 1st Thakur Sahib of Jaiwana; he was granted the jagiri of Jaiwana by Maharana Bhim Singhji of Udaipur in 1817; he adopted his nephew as his successor, married and had adoptive issue. He died sp.

  • (A) Thakur Eklingdasji (qv)

• Thakur EKLINGDASJI, 2ndThakur Sahib of Jaiwana; second son of Thakur Surajmal II of Kankarwa, he succeeded by adoption, married and had adoptive issue. He died sp.

  • (A) Thakur Hameer Singhji (qv)

• Thakur HAMEER SINGHJI, 3ndThakur Sahib of Jaiwanal he succeeded by adoption, married and had adoptive issue. He died sp.

  • (A) Thakur Kesari Singhji (qv)

• Thakur KESARI SINGHJI, 4th Thakur Sahib of Jaiwana, second son of Rawat Udai Singhji of Kankarwa, he succeeded to Jaiwana by adoption; married and had issue.

  • Kunwar Randheer Singhji, adopted back into Kankarwa

  • Kunwar Ranjeet Singhji

• Thakur RANJEET SINGHJI, 5th Thakur Sahib of Jaiwana, he accompanied Justice Thakur Jawan Singhji of Kankarwa to England for higher education in 1931, while there he contracted severe tuberculosis and was treated in a sanitorium in Switzerland; he was forced to return to Jaiwana, but passed away in Rajnagar before reaching home; his mother established a hostel “Harnath Bhawan” at Bhopal Nobles School, Udaipur for poor children in his memory, which is still functioning; married and had issue.

  • Thakur Pratap Singhji (qv)

• Thakur PRATAP SINGHJI, 6th Thakur Sahib of Jaiwana -/1979; he was trained as a Police Officer after completing schooling from Bhopal Noble’s School and Mayo College, Ajmer; he served as Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mewar; he served in the North African theatre during World War II with the Mewar Bhupal Infantry (1941-1942); later he managed the estate at Jaiwana; married the sister of Thakur Daulat Singh Rathore of Kelwa, and had issue. He died in 1979.

  • Thakur Veerendra Singhji (qv)

  • Kunwar Gajendra Singhji

  • Kunwar Lalit Singhji

• Thakur VEERENDRA SINGHJI, 7th Thakur Sahib of Jaiwana 1979/-; married Thakurani Vijaylaxmi Kanwar, daughter of Raja Harish Chand of the Bilaspur family, and his wife, Rani Sahiba Kailash Kanwar, and had issue, two sons and one daughter.

  • Thakur Harshvardhan Singhji (qv)

  • Kunwar Yashvardhan Singhji

  • Baisa Latika Baisa, married Thakur Manvendra Singh of Patodi.

• Thakur HARSHVARDHAN SINGHJI, 8th Thakur Sahib of Jaiwana (see above)