PRESENT RULER: Darbar Shri VIKRAMWALA VIRAWALA Saheb, Chief of Vadia (-/-)

educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1968); married and has issue, two children.

• Kumar Amar Wala

• Kumar Jai Wala

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A Third Class State, the ruling family is descended from the Virani branch of the Wala division of the Kathi clan. The State was a part of the Jetpur Taluka. It was in the time of Wala Shri Mulu Naja, who was third in descent from Vira Wala (Virani branch), that the Ruling Families of Jetpur came into contact with the British. He had entered into the engagements with Colonel Walker on behalf of all the shareholders of Jetpur. The State followed the rule of primogeniture for succession. The powers of the State were: Criminal : Seven years of rigorous imprisonment and 10,000Rs fine. Civil: Up to 20,000Rs. Rulers were....

• Darbar Shri VIRA NAJA WALA, married and had issue.

  • Darbar Shri KANTHAD VIRA WALA (qv)

  • Kumar Shri Kumpa Vira Wala, died sp.

  • Kumar Shri Oghad Vira Wala, ancestor of the Darbar Shris of Wala-Bilkha (Kanthad Wala Estate).

• Darbar Shri KANTHAD VIRA WALA, married and had issue.

  • Darbar Shri DEVA KANTHAD WALA (qv)

  • Darbar Shri BHAYA KANTHAD WALA of Jetpur.

• Darbar Shri DEVA KANTHAD WALA, married and had issue.

  • Darbar Shri JIVAN DEVA WALA (qv)

  • Kumar Shri Golan Deva Wala, died sp.

  • Kumar Shri Raning Deva Wala, married and had issue.

    • Kumar Shri Ram Raning Wala

• Darbar Shri JIVAN DEVA WALA, Chief of Vadia -/1875; married and had issue. He died 24th February 1875.

  • Kumar Shri Kanthad Jivan Wala, died sp.

  • Darbar Shri BAWA JIVAN WALA (qv)

COURT OF WARDS 1875/1895

• Darbar Shri BAWA JIVAN WALA, Chief of Vadia 1875/1930, born 11th July 1874, installed 12th December 1895, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; married and had issue. He died 7th September 1930.

  • Darbar Shri SURAG BAWA WALA Saheb (qv)

• Darbar Shri SURAG BAWA WALA Saheb, Chief of Vadia 1930/1950, born 15th March 1904 and succeeded 7th September 1930, married 1921, Bai Shri Kunverbaisahib of Mekada and had issue, two sons and two daughters, including. He died 16th May 1950.

  • Yuvaraj Shri Krishnakumar Surag Wala, born 1931, died vpsp 27th January 1950.

  • Darbar Shri VIRAWALA SURAGWALA Saheb (qv)

  • Kumari Indu Wala, married Shri J. A. Shekhwa, and had issue.

    • Shri Hemendra Shekhwa, born 3rd June 1946, married 1981, Kumari Manju Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Hari Singh of Baghat, and his wife, Kanwarani Rama Kumari, and has issue.

      • Vishwajit Shekhwa, born 1984.

• Darbar Shri VIRAWALA SURAGWALA Saheb, Chief of Vadia 1950/-; educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1952); married Rani Pushpa Devi, and had issue, three children.

  • Darbar Shri VIKRAMWALA VIRAWALA Saheb (qv)

  • Kumari Aruna Wala [Mrs. Aruna Trada], married Shri J. J. Trada, and has issue, two children.

    • Trishay Trada

    • Rahul Trada

  • Kumar Shri Uday Sinh Wala, born 28th December 1963 in Bombay, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1980) and at the University of Mumbai, India (Bachelor of Commerce), married 17th November 1993, Simeron Ghei, and has issue, one daughter.

    • Kumari Shri Diya Wala, born 1st April 1995.

    • Kumari Aanya Wala

• Darbar Shri VIKRAMWALA VIRAWALA Saheb (see above)