PRESENT RULER:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Varsoda is a Fourth Class state situated on the Sabarmati River in the Sabar Kanatha district of the former Mahi Kantha. The Thakore of Varsoda claims descent from the Rajas of Anhilvada Patan (746/942) and shares an agnatic descent with the Thakores of Mansa. The date of the founding of the state is unrecorded. The Thakores are tributary chiefs, paying the Gaekwad ruler a yearly sum of Rs 1582-14-1 as ghasdana. The state holds no deed allowing adoption and in matters of succession it follows the rule of primogeniture. Rulers were...

• Thakore Shri SURAJMALJI, founder and 1st Thakore Shri of Varsoda, son of Raol Shri Jeysinhji Narmadsinhji of Ambasan (see Mansa).

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• Thakore Shri KISHANSINHJI, Thakore Shri of Varsoda, married and had issue.

  • Rani Raj Kanwar, married (as his first wife), Rawat Surya Mal II, Rawat of Jawas.

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• Thakore Shri (name unknown), ?Thakore Shri of Varsoda, 13 generations from founder, married and had issue.

  • Thakore Shri Gambhirsinhji (qv)

  • Thakore Shri Motisinhji (qv)

• Thakore Shri GAMBHIRSINHJI, Thakore Shri of Varsoda.

• Thakore Shri MOTISINHJI, Thakore Shri of Varsoda -/1858, married and had issue.

  • Thakore Shri Kishorsinhji Motisinhji (qv)

• Thakore Shri KISHORSINHJI MOTISINHJI, Thakore Shri of Varsoda 1858/1892, born 15th October 1840, he succeeded to the gadi on 4th March 1858 ^(#1), his seat is at Varsoda the chief town of the state; married and had issue. He died 1892.

  • Thakore Shri Surajmalji Kishorsinhji (qv)

• Thakore Shri SURAJMALJI KISHORSINHJI, Thakore Shri of Varsoda 1892/1919, born 30th October 1873, he succeeded to the gadi on 4th April 1892, married and had issue. He died 18th July 1919.

  • Thakore Shri Joravarsinhji Surajmalji (qv)

• Thakore Shri JORAVARSINHJI SURAJMALJI, Thakore Shri of Varsoda 1919/- , born 17th April 1914 ^{(#2)(#3 p.358)(#4 p.33)}, educated at Scott College, Sadra and at Mayo College, Ajmer; he succeeded to the gadi on 18th July 1919 ^{(#3 p.358)} under Agency Management while in his minority, he was invested with ruling powers on 13th December 1933 ^{(#3 p.363)}, married 20th May 1932, A.S. Dhanwant Kunverba, daughter of Thakore Shri Pravinsinhji Pratapsinghji of Bansda.

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Rani Jijiba Sahiba, married (as his first wife), Raj Sahib Gajsinhji Raisinhji of Dhrangadhra, and had issue.

• Rani Pran Kunwarba Sahiba, married (as his fourth wife), Raj Sahib Raisinhji III Jashwantsinhji of Dhrangadhra, and had issue.

• Thakore Sahib Shri Jaivijaysinhji of Varsoda, married Kumari Bai Sahib Shri Deviba Sahib [Rani Sahib Shri Deviba Sahiba of Varsoda], daughter of Kumar Sahib Shri Rohitkumar Solanki, and his wife, Rajkumari Bai Sahib Shri Mohinikumari, daughter of Thakore Sahib Shri Harpalsinhji Natvarsinhji Jhala of Charadi (see Dhrangadhra), and had issue.

  • Kumari Priyanka Kumari, married 2002, Kumar Shri Kirtiraj Singh of Nasvadi.

• Kumar Shri Bhupatsinh Mansinh Chavda

• Thakore Shri Shri Abhaisinh, married and had issue.

  • Kumari (name unknown), married 1884 (as his second wife), HH Maharao Kesri Singhji Bahadur of Sirohi, and had issue. She died 1887.