VILLAGES: 52
AREA: 217.56 km2
STATE: Bombay
ACCESSION: 10th June 1948
RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 15,727 (1941)
PRESENT RULER:
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Ancestors were the former Raos of Chandrawati near Mount Abu. Predecessor state founded by Thakore Jaspal who migrated from Chandrawati to Hadol in the Mahi Kantha in or around 1227 and in the 17th century, Thakore Prithvirajji moved to Ghodwada, having received a grant of that and neighboring lands. The state is a Third Class state in the former Mahi Kantha and follows the rule of primogeniture. Rulers were.....
Thakore Shri HINDUSINHJI PRATAPSINHJI of Sardoi, 1st Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1795/1801
Thakore Shri SALAMSINJI, 2nd Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1801/18xx
Thakore Shri RAISINHJI, 3rd Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 18xx/1850
Thakore Shri DAULATSINHJI, 4th Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1850/1875
Thakore Shri UMEDSINHJI DAULATSINHJI, 5th Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1875/1882, born 1854, died 1882.
STATE MANAGER 1882/1894
Thakore Shri HIMMATSINHJI UMEDSINHJI, 6th Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1882/1916, born 1873/1876, succeeded 6th October 1882 ( #1 ). He died sp in 1916.
Thakore Shri TAKHATSINHJI, 7th Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1916/1927, born 27th December 1861, married and had issue.
Thakore Saheb Shri Sartansinhji Takhatsinhji (qv)
HH Maharani Parmariji Sahiba, married (as his ninth wife), before 1916, Colonel HH Maharao Raja Shri Sir Raghubir Singhji Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Bundi.
STATE MANAGER 1927/1929
Thakore Saheb Shri SARTANSINHJI TAKHATSINHJI, 8th Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1927/-, married and had issue.
Thakore Saheb Shri Vinaysinhji Sartansinhji (qv)
Kumari Shri (name unknown), married Rao Shri Himmatsinhji Jashwantsinhji Sahib of Pol State in Gujarat, and had issue.
Thakore Saheb Shri VINAYSINHJI SARTANSINHJI, 9th Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1927/1955, born 1909, married and had issue. He died 9th December 1955.
Thakore Saheb Shri Harnathsinhji Vinaysinhji (qv)
Kumar Shri Natwarsinhji Vinaysinhji, married and had issue.
Kumar Shri Dharmendrasinhji Natwarsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1969)
Kumar Shri Parakramsinhji Natwarsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1969)
Kumar Shri Kirtisinhji Natwarsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1973)
Thakore Saheb Shri HARNATHSINHJI VINAYSINHJI, 10th Thakore Shri of Mohanpur 1955/1985, died 25th June 1985.
(see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
Kumari Tuleshwari Devi [HH Rani Tuleshwari Devi of Suket], married (as his third wife), HH Raja Sir Bhim Sen of Suket.
Kumar Shri (name unknown), married Kumari Meenakunvarba, daughter of Kumar Shri Jitendrasinhji Khushalsinhji of Mandva, and his wife, Kumari Premkunvarba, and has issue.
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 322
The help of John Duncan McMeekin is gratefully acknowledged, January 2011.