PRESENT RULER: VACANT since 1993.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: According to Imperial Gazette it had 14 villages and revenue of 55,000 Rs in 1877. Rulers were...

• Maharajadhiraj Maharaja RAGHUNATH SINGH, Raja of Maroth, born 1667 BS (circa 1610), second son of Thakur Sanwal Das, he was awarded 112 villages of Maroth and 19 villages of Sambhar by Padshah Shah Jehan, Mughal emperor of Delhi, he married nine wives and had issue, 8 sons. He died 1740 BS (circa 1683).

  • Kunwar Roop Singh, eldest son, died sp. in his territory at Sibsagar, Assam. (by 1st Rani)

  • Maharaja Sabal Singh, Raja of Minda, received ½ of Marot State (by 2nd Rani)

  • Maharaja Vijay Singh, Raja of Maroth/Abhaypura/Jiliya, received ½ of Marot State (by 2nd Rani)

  • Thakur Sher Singh, (elder brother of Amar Singh), received Thikana Lunwa. (by 3rd Rani)

  • Thakur Hatee Singh, (elder brother of Kishore Singh) received Thikana Panchota. (by 4th Rani)

  • Thakur Anand Singh, received Thikana Panchwa. (by 5th Rani)

  • Thakur Kishore Singh, received no share, was given 6000 Bigha Land (1 village) in Kuchaman from his brother. (by 4th Rani)

  • Thakur Amar Singh of Devli village. (by 3rd Rani)

• Thakur KISHOR SINGH, married Thakurani Hadiji, and had issue.

  • Thakur ZALIM SINGH (qv)

• Thakur ZALIM SINGH, founded Kuchaman in 1781 BS, married and had issue, 7 sons and at least 1 daughter. He died 9th May 1753 or April 1751 (Baisakh Krishna 7, 1809 BS)

  • Thakur SABHA SINGH [Sobhag Singh] (qv)

  • Kunwar Chain Singh, established Mudrasan Jagir

  • Kunwar Sarup Singh, established Bhadliya Jagir

  • Kunwar Sultan Singh, established Dhankoli Jagir

  • Kunwar Pahar Singh, established Deodana Jagir

  • Kunwar Gian Singh, died young.

  • Kunwar Dal Singh, died young.

  • Rani Gulab Kanwar, married Raja GAJ SINGH of Khandela-Junior.

• Thakur SABHA SINGH, born 1775 BS (circa 1718), succeeded on 26th April 1751 (Baisakh Shukla 1, 1807 BS), married and had issue, two sons. He died 28th October 1764 (Kartik Krishna 4, 1821 BS).

  • Thakur SURAJ MAL (qv)

  • Kunwar Jawan Singh, established Naka Ki Palri Jagir, married and had issue. He died in battle 31st August 1791 (Bhadra Shukla 2, 1847 BS).

• Thakur SURAJ MAL, born 15th December 1749 (Margashirsh Shukla 6,1806 BS), succeeded 13th November 1764 (Kartik Shukla 20, 1821 BS), married and had issue. He died in battle 21st March 1793 (Chaitra Shukla 9, 1849 BS)

• Thakur SHIVNATH SINGH, born 1831 BS (circa 1784), succeeded 1849 BS (circa 1793), (his younger brother, Kunwar Amani Singh, established the jagir at Phogri), married the daughter of Thakur DULEHA SINGH of Khachariawas, and had issue. [He died 1883 BS?]

• Thakur RANJIT SINGH fl.1832 or 1883/1917 BS, married Thakurani Raj Kanwar, daughter of Thakur RAJ SINGH of Khood, and his wife, Thakurani Sada Kanwar, and had issue.

  • Thakurani Amrit Kanwar, married Thakur GOPAL SINGH of Mandawa-Senior.

• Rao Bahadur Thakur KESRI SINGH 1857/1877 or 1917/1948 BS, granted K.C.I.E. and the title of Rao Bahadur in January 1877, married and had issue, three sons.

  • Thakur SHER SINGH (qv)

  • Kunwar Sabal Singh, established the jagir of Bhagwanpura

  • Kunwar Devi Singh, established the jagir of Plara

• Thakur SHER SINGH 1877/1916, Member of the State Council, married and had issue. He died 1916.

  • Kunwar Bagh Singh, married 1stly, a Shekhawat lady of Danta, married 2ndly, a lady of Kalyanpur, and had issue. He died vp before 1916.

    • Thakur NAHAR SINGH (by 1st wife) (qv)

    • Kunwar Ummed Singh (by 2nd wife), established Panchota jagir at Shyamgarh.

• Thakur NAHAR SINGH 1916/1919, succeeded his grandfather in 1916, married 1stly, circa 1895, Thakurani Nawal Kanwar, daughter of Raj Rana RAI SINGH III of Bari-Sadri, and his first wife, Rani Sardar Kanwar, married 2ndly, 1911, a daughter of Apji Sir Onkar Singh of Palaitha in Kotah, married 3rdly, 1915, Thakurani Deep Kunwar, daughter of Kunwar Lakshman Singh of Kanore, died 21st April 1958, and had issue. He died 1919 at Sikarwadi.

  • Kunwar Amar Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1956 BS, died young.

  • Kunwar Satya Narayan Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1959 BS, died young.

  • Kunwar Pratap Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1962 BS, died young.

  • Baisa Lad Kunwar (by 2nd marriage), born 1966 BS, died young, aged about 4 years.

  • Raja HARI SINGH (by 2nd marriage) (qv)

  • Raja PRATAP SINGH (by 3rd marriage) (qv)

  • Baisa Chain Kunwar (by 3rd marriage), born 1918, married 1936, a son of Raja Kushal Pal Singh Jadon of Kotla and was widowed in September of the same year.

• Raja HARI SINGH 1919/1956, born 26th September 1912, succeeded 1919, installed in 1931, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; member of the famous Jodhpur Polo Team, married 1925, Rani Dhariawa Kanwar, daughter of the Thakur Shivnath Singh of Bera, and had issue, one son (died in infancy) and three daughters. He died 15th January 1956 in Jodhpur.

  • Rajkumari Kamal Prabha (Fancy), married 1945, Kunwar Udai Bhan Singh of Dhariawad in Mewar.

  • Rajkumari Hans Prabha Kumari, married Mr. Mathur

  • Rajkumari Sneh Prabha Kumari, married Thakur Saroj Singhji, Naigarhi, M.P.

• Raja PRATAP SINGH 1956/1993, born 3rd May 1917, installed on 13th February 1956, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer 1923/1932, at Prayag University, Allahabad 1932/1934 and Lincoln College, Oxford University, England 1938/1940 and 1945/1947, married 18th February 1942 in Lucknow, Rajkumari Prem Kumari, daughter and only child of Raja Jagan Nath Baksh and Rani Trailokya Kumari of Rehawan state in Uttar Pradesh, and had issue, three daughters. He died 1993 in Lucknow.

  • Rajkumari Kiran Prabha (Naina), born 13th April 1944 at Nainital, educated at Loreto Convent, Lucknow; married to Raj Bisaria, Professor of English at Lucknow University, and has issue, a daughter.

    • Rajina Bisaria

  • Rajkumari Priti Pratap Singh, born October 1948 in Jaipur (sep'd.), educated at St. Mary's, Nainital and Maharani Gayatri Devi School, Jaipur; married His Excellency Late Rudolf D'mello, former Ambassador of India to Cuba, and has issue, two daughters. (Sundernagar, New Delhi, India)

    • Indiritta Singh D'mello, born 1972, educated at the University of Oxford, U.K., and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (Executive MBA); worked with the Eastern Shipping Company, and is presently in business in New Delhi.

    • Pia Singh D'mello, educated at St. Stephen's College, currently a practising lawyer.

  • Rajkumari Rajlakshmi, born in 1956 in New Delhi, married 21st February 1977 at Lucknow, Rajkumar Narvir Shah of Tehri-Garhwal, and has issue, a son and a daughter.

    • Kumari Smriti Shah, born 31st March 1979, married Kunwar Nagendra Singh Rathore, and has issue, two children. (Delhi and Kuchaman)

      • Dhruvaryaa Rathore

      • Anouska Rathore

    • Kunwar Vivekraj Shah, born 27th January 1981, presently working and residing in New York.

PRESENT RULER: VACANT since 1993 (Hotel Kuchaman Fort, Nagaur District, Rajasthan)

Double Tazim, Sirayat, Sardar of Marwar Darbar, Kurab Hath, First Class Judicial Powers.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The estate was earlier known as Kuchbandhiyon ki dhani. Ancestor of the family was Thakur Zalim Singh, 3rd son of Thakur Kishore Singh of Deoli in Maroth (as per different source, he received no appanage or share in Maroth State). The estate initially had one village of Kuchaman of 6000 bigha land granted by his brother Thakur Hutti Singh of Panchota Mahal; later some more villages of Panchota were added to the estate eg. Shyamgarh, and the number of villages increased to 14, 19 and 26 respectively, and the revenue raised to Rs. 55,000 (1877), and 1 lac (1947). The Chief is a First Class Sirayat (Premiere Noble) of Jodhpur and the only Noble allowed to mint coins. The estate is impartible and the rule of succession is primogeniture. Estate holders were.....

• Thakur KISHOR SINGH, 1st Thakur of Deoli (Badi), 7th son of Maharajadhiraj Maharaja Raghunath Singh Rathore of Maroth, and his fourth queen, married and had issue.

  • Thakur Sher Singh, 2nd Thakur of Deoli (Badi).

  • Thakur Sagat Singh, son of Thakur Kesari Singh Mertia, married and had issue, the Thakurs of Meethri (Mithdi), Khairap (Kerap or Kairap) and Khardiya. (Meethari Fort, Nagaur, Rajasthan)

    • Kunwar Nahar Singh of Mithari, participated in battle against Rajadhiraj Bakhat Singh of Nagore (Jodhpur). He assisted his father and uncle Thakur Zalim Singh Raghunath Singhot Mertia of Kuchaman.

    • Kunwar Ram Singh

  • Thakur Zalim (by Thakurani Hadiji), Thakur of Kuchaman.

    • Thakur Sambhu Singh, Thakur of Kuchaman.

      • Thakur Surajmal, Thakur of Kuchaman.

        • Thakur Shivnath Singh, Thakur of Kuchaman, married and had issue, two sons.

          • Thakur Ranjit Singh, Thakur of Kuchaman.

            • Thakur Kesri Singh, Thakur of Kuchaman.

              • Thakur Devi Singh, Thakur of Kuchaman.

              • Thakur Madho Singh, Thakur of ?.

                • Thakur Sabal Singh

              • [Thakur Bane Singh]?

          • Thakur Baldev Singh, Thakur of?

        • Thakur Harnath Singh, Thakur of Palara (Palada).

          • Thakur Sagtidan, Thakur of Palara.

            • Thakur Durjan Sal, Thakur of Palara.

        • Thakur Lichman Singh, Thakur of Nimbi.

          • Thakur Birad Singh, Thakur of Nibi.

            • Thakur Sanwat Singh, Thakur of Nimbi.

              • Thakur Medh Singh, Thakur of Nimbi.

      • Thakur Jawan Singh, Thakur of Altawa.

        • Thakur Hanwant Singh, Thakur of Altawa.

          • Thakur Ramnath Singh, Thakur of Altawa.

            • Thakur Bakhtawar Singh, Thakur of Altawa.

              • Thakur Shiv Singh, Thakur of Altawa.

    • Thakur Pahar Singh, Thakur of Piplad.

      • Thakur Ratan Singh, Thakur of Piplad.

        • Thakur Sadul Singh, Thakur of Piplad.

          • Thakur Bisan Singh, Thakur of Piplad.

            • Thakur Ram Singh, Thakur of Piplad.

      • Thakur Karan Singh, Thakur of Lapolai.

        • Thakur Amar Singh, Thakur of Lapolai.

          • Thakur Chatar Singh, Thakur of Lapolai.

            • Thakur Nathu Singh, Thakur of Lapolai.

      • Thakur Gokaldas, Thakur of Rohisda.

        • Thakur Jaswant Singh, Thakur of Rohisda.

    • Thakur Sarup Singh, Thakur of Bhadaliya.

      • Thakur Jorawar Singh, Thakur of Bhadaliya.

        • Thakur Dhirat Singh, Thakur of Bhadaliya.

          • Thakur Bairisal, Thakur of Bhadaliya.

            • Thakur Inder Singh, Thakur of Bhadaliya.

              • Thakur Surakh Singh, Thakur of Bhadaliya.

                • Thakur Sultan Singh, Thakur of Bhadaliya.

                • >> Thakur Narayan Singh, Thakur of Bhadaliya.

      • Thakur Fateh Singh, Thakur of Jaba Sisodia.

        • Thakur Mangal Singh, Thakur of Jaba Sisodia.

          • Thakur Medh Singh, Thakur of Jawa Sisodia.

            • Thakur Sawai Singh, Thakur of Jaba Sisodia.

    • Thakur Surtan Singh, Thakur of Dhankoli.

      • Thakur Lal Singh, Thakur of Dhankoli.

        • Thakur Shivdan Singh, Thakur of Dhankoli.

          • Thakur Hukum Singh, Thakur of Dhankoli.

            • Thakur Pirthi Singh, Thakur of Dhankoli.

              • Thakur Sagati Singh, Thakur of Dhankoli.

                • Thakur Pabudan, Thakur of Dhankoli.

    • Thakur Chain Singh, Thakur of Sudrasan.

      • Thakur Salam Singh, Thakur of Sudrasan.

        • Thakur Jiwan Singh, Thakur of Sudrasan.

          • Thakur Bakhtawar Singh, Thakur of Sudrasan.

    • Thakur Dal Singh, Thakur of Aachhojai.

      • Thakur Sardar Singh, Thakur of Aachhojai.

        • Thakur Lakhdhir Singh, Thakur of Aachhojai.

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• Thakur ZALIM SINGH [Jalam Singh], 1st Thakur of Kuchaman 1725/1753, he married and had issue, seven sons and at least one daughter. He died 9th May 1753 or April 1751 (Baisakh Krishna 7, 1809 BS) in the battle of Bilara.³

  • Thakur Sabha Singh (qv)

  • Kunwar Chain Singh, he was granted Mudrasan Jagir (Sudrasan)

  • Kunwar Sarup Singh, he was granted Bhadliya Jagir

  • Kunwar Sultan Singh, he was granted Dhankoli Jagir

  • Kunwar Pahar Singh, he was granted Deodana Jagir

  • Kunwar Gian Singh, died young.

  • Kunwar Dal Singh, died young.

  • Rani Gulab Kanwar, married Raja Gaj Singh of Khandela-Junior.

• Thakur SABHA SINGH [Sobha, Sobhag or Sambhu Singh], Thakur of Kuchaman, born 1775 BS (circa 1718), succeeded on 26th April 1751 (Baisakh Shukla 1, 1807 BS), married and had issue, two sons. He died 28th October 1764 (Kartik Krishna 4, 1821 BS).

  • Thakur Suraj Mal (qv)

  • Kunwar Jawan Singh, established Naka Ki Palri Jagir, married and had issue. He died in battle 31st August 1791 (Bhadra Shukla 2, 1847 BS).

• Thakur SURAJMAL [Surya Mal], Thakur of Kuchaman, born 15th December 1749 (Margashirsh Shukla 6,1806 BS), succeeded 13th November 1764 (Kartik Shukla 20, 1821 BS), married and had issue. He died in battle 21st March 1793 (Chaitra Shukla 9, 1849 BS)

  • Baisa Mertaniji, married Rao Raja Bakhtawar Singh, 2nd Rao Raja of Alwar.

• Thakur SHIVNATH SINGH, Thakur of Kuchaman, born 1831 BS (circa 1784), succeeded 1849 BS (circa 1793), renowned for his victory over Jaipur Military Commanders, (his younger brother, Kunwar Amani Singh, established the jagir at Phogri), married the daughter of Thakur Duleha Singh of Khachariawas, and had issue. [He died 1883 BS?]

• Thakur RANJIT SINGH, Thakur of Kuchaman fl.1832 or 1883/1917 BS, married Thakurani Raj Kanwar, daughter of Thakur Raj Singh of Khood, and his wife, Thakurani Sada Kanwar, and had issue.

  • Thakurani Amrit Kanwar, married Thakur Gopal Singh of Mandawa-Senior.

• Rao Bahadur Thakur KESRI SINGH C.I.E., Thakur of Kuchaman 1857/1877 or 1917/1948 BS, he was granted the title of Rao Bahadur on 1st January 1877, married and had issue, three sons.⁴

  • Thakur Sher Singh (qv)

  • Kunwar Sabal Singh, established the jagir of Bhagwanpura

  • Kunwar Devi Singh, established the jagir of Plara

• Thakur SHER SINGH, Thakur of Kuchaman 1877/1916, Member of the State Council, married and had issue. He died 1916.

  • Kunwar Bagh Singh, married 1stly, a Shekhawat lady of Danta, married 2ndly, a lady of Kalyanpur, and had issue. He died vp before 1916.

    • Thakur Nahar Singh (by 1st wife) (qv)

    • Kunwar Ummed Singh (by 2nd wife), established jagir at Shyamgarh. [adopted into junior branch of Panchota Family?]

• Thakur NAHAR SINGH, Thakur of Kuchaman 1916/1919, succeeded his grandfather in 1916, married 1stly, circa 1895, Thakurani Nawal Kanwar, daughter of Raj Rana Rai Singhji III of Bari-Sadri, and his first wife, Rani Sardar Kanwar, married 2ndly, 1911, a daughter of Apji Sir Onkar Singh of Palaitha in Kotah, married 3rdly, 1915, Thakurani Deep Kunwar, daughter of Kunwar Lakshman Singh of Kanore, died 21st April 1958, and had issue. He died 1919 at Sikarwadi.

  • Kunwar Amar Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1956 BS, died young.

  • Kunwar Satya Narayan Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1959 BS, died young.

  • Kunwar Pratap Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1962 BS, died young.

  • Baisa Lad Kunwar (by 2nd marriage), born 1966 BS, died young, aged about four years.

  • Raja Hari Singh (by 2nd marriage) (qv)

  • Raja Pratap Singh (by 3rd marriage) (qv)

  • Baisa Chain Kunwar (by 3rd marriage), born 1918, married 1936, a son of Raja Kushal Pal Singh of Kotla and was widowed in September of the same year.

• Raja HARI SINGH, Thakur of Kuchaman 1919/1956, born 26th September 1912, succeeded 1919, installed in 1931, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; member of the famous Jodhpur Polo Team, married 1925, Rani Dhariawa Kanwar, daughter of the Thakur Shivnath Singh of Bera, and had issue, one son (died in infancy) and three daughters. He died 15th January 1956 in Jodhpur.

  • Rajkumari Kamal Prabha (Princess Fancy), married 1945, Kunwar Udai Bhan Singh of Dhariawad in Mewar.

  • Rajkumari Hans Prabha Kumari, married Mr. Mathur.

  • Rajkumari Sneh Prabha Kumari, married Thakur Saroj Singhji, Naigarhi, M.P.

• Raja PRATAP SINGH, Thakur of Kuchaman 1956/1993, born 3rd May 1917, installed on 13th February 1956, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer 1923/1932, at Prayag University, Allahabad 1932/1934 and Lincoln College, Oxford University, England 1938/1940 and 1945/1947, married 18th February 1942 in Lucknow, Rajkumari Prem Kumari, daughter and only child of Raja Jagan Nath Baksh and Rani Trailokya Kumari of Rehwan Taluqadari near Rai Barielly in Uttar Pradesh, and had issue, three daughters. He died 1993 in Lucknow.

  • Rajkumari Kiran Prabha (Princess Naina), born 13th April 1944 at Nainital, educated at Loreto Convent, Lucknow; married to Raj Bisaria, Professor of English at Lucknow University, and has issue, a daughter.

    • Rajina Bisaria

  • Rajkumari Priti Pratap Singh, born October 1948 in Jaipur (sep'd.), educated at St. Mary's, Nainital and Maharani Gayatri Devi School, Jaipur; married His Excellency Late Rudolf D'mello, former Ambassador of India to Cuba, a Goan Christian Congressman, and has issue, two daughters. (113, Sunder nagar, near Delhi Zoo, New Delhi, India)

    • Indiritta Singh D'mello, born 1972, educated at Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi, the University of Oxford, U.K., and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (Executive MBA); worked with the Eastern Shipping Company, and is presently in business in New Delhi, married 2009, Manu Tripathi, a Bangalore based radio professional.

    • Pia Singh D'mello, educated at St. Stephen's College, currently a practising lawyer.

  • Rajkumari Rajlakshmi, born in 1956 in New Delhi, married 21st February 1977 at Lucknow, Rajkumar Shri Narvir Shah of Tehri-Garhwal, and has issue, a son and a daughter.

    • Kumari Smriti Shah, born at New Delhi, 31st March 1979, married 2001 at New Delhi, Kunwar Nagendra Singh Rathore, and has issue, two children. (Delhi and Kuchaman)

      • Dhruvaryaa Rathore

      • Anouska Rathore

    • Kunwar Shri Vivekraj Shah, born at N. Delhi, 27th January 1981, worked in New York, heir to the Kuchaman Fort, married 4th December 2011 at Lucknow, Kunwarani Charu Pratap of Rampur Mathura, U.P.

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Thakur (name unknown) of Kuchaman, married Shekhaniji of Gangiasar in Jhunjhunu.