About Kuchaman

Kuchaman City is a city and a municipality in Nagaur District in the Indian State of Rajasthan. The city has a few Havelis in the Shekhawati style and a fort overlooking city on a Hill top. This fort is about 1100 years old built 9th century AD by Rathore rulers Zalim Singh of the area. One can also look for beautiful fresco painting here on variable subjects. Flowers, Motifs, Hindu Mythology etc.Recently the shooting of the movie 'DRONA' starring Abhishek Bachan and Priyanka chopra was done in the fort which will further make this fort a huge tourist attraction. In 950 The Chauhans of Ajmer drove out the Gurjar Pratihars to open a new chapter in the history of Kuchaman Fort. in the following centuries the Gaurs won and controlled the fort until they surrendered it to the might of the Rathores. Being Suryavanshi K shatriyas who trace their lineage back to Lord Rama, the hero of the epic Ramayana, the Rathores brought to the fort their long and 470 A.D. with Nayal Pals conquest of Kanauj, near modern Kanpur in U.P. For seven long centuries.

Kuchaman

As of 2001 India census, Kuchaman City had a population of 1,50,566. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Kuchaman City has an average literacy rate of 59%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 46%. In Kuchaman City, 27% of the population is under 10 years of age.It is a famous town of Nagaur District in Rajasthan. Kuchaman is a developed town it is situated on the Jaipur Nagaur route. It is 145 Kilometers far from Jaipur and 101 Kilometers far from Ajmer. The main trade of the town is Salt and local business.There are many social societies are working in the town. Mainly Kuchaman Vikas Samiti, Lions club, Rotary club, Narayan Sewa Sansthan, Maulana Azad Educational Society, Madarsa Islamiya society and Mahaveer International. In education the town established mile stones for example Navodaya School, DIET, 10 senior secondary schools,10 secondary schools,20 upper primary schools, and many others societies.

Rulers Of Kuchaman :

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Thakur RAGHUNATH SINGH, 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 five wives and had issue, 2 sons. He died 1740 BS (circa 1683).
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Thakur KISHOR SINGH (qv)
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Kunwar Roop Singh

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Thakur KISHOR SINGH, married Thakurani Hadiji, and had issue.
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Thakur ZALIM SINGH (qv)

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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)
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Thakur SABHA SINGH [Sobhag Singh] (qv)
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Kunwar Chain Singh, established Mudrasan Jagir
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Kunwar Sarup Singh, established Bhadliya Jagir
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Kunwar Sultan Singh, established Dhankoli Jagir
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Kunwar Pahar Singh, established Deodana Jagir
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Kunwar Gian Singh, died young.
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Kunwar Dal Singh, died young.
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Rani Gulab Kanwar, married Raja GAJ SINGH of Khandela-Junior.

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

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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)

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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?]

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Thakur RANJIT SINGH fl.1832 or 1883/1917 BS, married Thakurani Raj Kanwar of Khood, and had issue.
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Thakurani Amrit Kanwar, married Thakur GOPAL SINGH of Mandawa-Senior .

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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.
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Thakur SHER SINGH (qv)
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Kunwar Sabal Singh, established the jagir of Bhagwanpura
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Kunwar Devi Singh, established the jagir of Plara

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Thakur SHER SINGH 1877/1916, Member of the State Council, married and had issue. He died 1916.
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Kunwar Bagh Singh, married 1stly, a Shekhawat lady of Danta, married 2ndly, a lady of Kalyanpur, and had issue. He died vp before 1916.
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Thakur NAHAR SINGH (by 1st wife) (qv)
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Kunwar Ummed Singh (by 2nd wife), established Panchota jagir at Shyamgarh.

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Thakur NAHAR SINGH 1916/1919, succeeded his grandfather in 1916, married 1stly, circa 1895, a lady from Bari-Sadri, married 2ndly, circa 1907, a daughter of Apji Sir Onkar Singh of Palaitah-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.
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Kunwar Amar Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1956 BS, died young.
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Kunwar Satya Narayan Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1959 BS, died young.
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Kunwar Pratap Singh (by 1st marriage), born 1962 BS, died young.
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Baisa Lad Kunwar (by 2nd marriage), born 1966 BS, died young, aged about 4 years.
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Raja HARI SINGH (by 2nd marriage) (qv)
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Raja PRATAP SINGH (by 3rd marriage) (qv)
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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.

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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, 1 son (died in infancy) and 3 daughters. He died 15th January 1956 in Jodhpur.
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Rajkumari Kamal Prabha (Princess Fancy), married 1945, Kunwar Udai Bhan Singh of Dhariawad-Mewar.
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Rajkumari Kamal Kumari
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Rajkumari Hansa Kumari

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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.
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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.
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Rajina Bisaria
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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, 2 daughters. (Sundernagar, New Delhi, India)
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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.
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Pia Singh D'mello, educated at St. Stephen's College, currently a practising lawyer.
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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.