Chuda State

Chuda (Hindi Name चुड़ा) was a minor Hindu Rajput princely state, named after its seat, presently a town of Surendranagar municipality in Gujarat, western India.

History

The princely state was founded in 1707 when Kumar Shri Abhaisinhji Madhavsinhji, a younger brother of Thakore Sahib Shri Arjansinhji Madhavsinhji of Wadhwan, became its first Thakur Shri|Thakur (Thakore) Shri]]. This branch of the Jhala Rajput clan dynasty ruled 14 villages, covering 202 Square Kilometers km². The state had a population of 11,333 in 1921, yielding 160,000Rs of state revenue.

During the British raj, it was a third class state under the colonial Eastern Kathiawar Agency.

It ceased to exist on 15th February 1948 by accession to newly independent India's Saurashtra state. The privy purse was fixed at 51,250 Rupees. The Rajput line of nominal Thakurs in continued.

Thakur Shris

• 1707 - 1747 Abhasinhji Madhavsinhji (died 1747)
• 1747 - 1768 Raisinhji Abhasinhji, son of the above (d. 1768)
• 1768 - 1780 Gajsinhji Raisinhji, son of the above (d. 1780)
• 1780 - 1820 Hathisinhji Gajsinhji, son of the above (d. 1820)
• 1820 - 1830 Abhasinhji Hathisinhji, son of the above
• 1830 - 1854 Raisinhji Abhasinhji, son of the above
• 24 July 1854 - 13 Jan 1908 Bacharsinhji Raisinhji, son of the above (b. 1840 - d. 1908)
• 22 Feb 1908 - 20 Jan 1921 Jorawarsinhji Bacharsinhji, son of the firstborn son of the above (b. 1886 - d. 1921)
• 20 Jan 1921 - 1947 Bahadursinhji Jorawarsinhji, son of the above, ?last ruler (b. 1909 - d. ....)
• 20 Jan 1920 - 7 Feb 1929 .... -Regent
• Dharmendrasinhji Bahadursinhji, son of the above
• ? - ? Krishnakumarsinhji Dharmendrasinhji, son of Bahadursinhji

External links and Sources

• IndianRajputs, with coat of arms, genealogy and Google map
• Indian Princely States on www.uq.net.au, as archives on web.archive.org, with genealogy
• WorldStatesmen - India - Princely states A-J

Coordinates: 22°29′00″N 71°44′00″E / 22.4833°N 71.7333°E / 22.4833; 71.7333