Asope (Thikana)

Information

DynastyRathore
ClanKumpawat
StateJodhpur
Villages4
ReligionHinduism
Hindi Nameआसोप
Also known asAsop
Last Updated23rd Apr, 2021

Present Ruler/Head

Raja VIJENDER SINGHJI, present and 19th Raja Sahib of Asope, born 1948, married in 1974 to Kunwarani Savitri Kumari, daughter of Thakur Trilok Singh in Haldwani, U.P.

Short History

The founder of the clan was Rao Kumpa of Marwar, a brother of Rao Jodha and great-grandson of Rao Ranmal, whose fourth son, Rao Mandan Singh, was granted the estate of Asope. Thakur Raj Singh, who was fourth in descent, was the father of Thakur Nahar Singh (Pirthi Singh), ancestor of Thakur Kani Ram, founder of the Thikana.

Predecessors

  • Rao MANDAN SINGH, 1st Thakur of Asope, married and had issue, seven sons. He died 1593.
    • Thakur Khinvkaran (qv)
  • Thakur KHINVKARAN, 2nd Thakur of Asope 1593/1608, married and had issue, six sons. He died 1608.
    • Thakur Kanh Singh (qv)
    • Thakur Raj Singh (qv)
    • Thakur Kishan Singh, he was granted the estate of Barlu; married and had issue.
      • Thakur Mukan Singh of Barlu, born 1609; married and had issue.
        • Thakur Jait Singh of Barlu, born 1627; married and had issue.
          • Thakur Ram Singh (see below)
  • Thakur KANH SINGH, 3rd Thakur of Asope 1608/1611, born 1583, the thikana was resumed by Maharaja Gaj Singh of Mewar and was granted to a younger brother,
  • Thakur RAJ SINGH, 4th Thakur of Asope in 1611.
  • Thakur RAJ SINGH, 5th Thakur of Asope 1611/1640, born 1586; married and had issue, eight sons. He died 1640.
  • Thakur PIRTHI SINGH [alias Nahar Khan], 6th Thakur of Asope 1640/1658, married and had issue, nine sons. He died 1658.
    • Thakur Suraj Mal (qv)
    • Kunwar Jai Singh, died 1666 in South India.
  • Thakur SURAJ MAL, 7th Thakur of Asope 1658/1680, married and had issue. He died 1680.
    • Thakur Kirat Singh (qv)
    • Kunwar Moti Singh, he was granted an appanage for his maintenance.
  • Thakur KIRAT SINGH, 8th Thakur of Asope 1680/1707, born 1653, he fell into disfavor with Maharaja Ajit Singh of Mewar in 1707, and the thikana was granted to Thakur Ram Singh, originally of Barlu.
  • Thakur RAM SINGH, 9th Thakur of Asope 1707/- and -/1726, son of Thakur Jait Singh of Barlu (see above), he was granted the estate of Asope after Thakur Kirat Singh was removed by the Maharaja of Mewar; the estate was later confiscated and regranted afterwards to his son in 1726; married and had issue.
    • Thakur Kani Ram (qv)
    • Thakur Sardar Singh of Badlu and Nadsar (second son), married and had issue. He died 1725.
      • Thakur Prithvi Singh of Rajlani, married and had issue. He died 1747.
        • Thakur Anop Singh (second son), married and had issue. He died 1792.
          • Thakur Narain Das, married and had issue. He died 1801.
          • Thakur Jeevan Das of Netaria, died 1803.
          • Thakur Hindu Singh of Barnia (third son), married and had issue.
            • Thakur Guman Singh, adopted by his uncle, Thakur Jeevan Das of Netaria, married and had issue.
              • Thakur Daulat Singh of Netaria, married Thakurani Batianiji Roop Kanwar, and had issue.
                • Kunwar Chain Singh (third son), adopted by Thakur Shivnath Singh (see below), and succeded in 1873 as Rao Bahadur Thakur Chain Singh of Asope.
    • Kunwar Rugnath Singh (third son), he was granted the estate of Gajsinghpura, married and had issue. He died 1747.
      • Thakur Sangram Singh of Hingol, married and had issue. He died 1799.
        • Thakur Bhagwat Singh of Hingoli, married and had issue.
          • Thakur Mohabat Singh of Hingoli, married and had issue.
            • Kunwar Shivnath Singh, he was adopted by the widow of Thakur Bakhtawar Singh (see below), and succeeded in 1836 as Thakur Shivnath Singh of Asope.
  • Thakur KANI RAM, 10th Thakur of Asope 1726/1775; born 1690, married and had issue. He died 1775.
    • Kunwar Dalpat Singh, born 1718, married and had issue. He died 1755.
      • Thakur Mahesh Das (qv)
  • Thakur MAHESH DAS, 11th Thakur of Asope 1775/1790, born 1745; married and had issue. He died 1790.
    • Thakur Ratan Singh (qv)
    • Thakur Kesari Singh (qv)
  • Thakur RATAN SINGH, 12th Thakur of Asope 1790/1796, born 1761, he died 1796.
  • Thakur KESARI SINGH, 13th Thakur of Asope 1796/1823, born 1776, married and had issue. He died 1823.
    • Thakur Bakhtawar Singh (qv)
  • Thakur BAKHTAWAR SINGH, 14th Thakur of Asope 1823/1836, born 1819, married Thakurani Phool Kunwar, daughter of Thakur Magh Singh of Diggi, and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1836.
    • (A) Thakur Shivnath Singh (qv)
  • Thakur SHIVNATH SINGH, 15th Thakur of Asope 1836/1873, born 1829 as Kunwar Shivnath Singh, son of Thakur Mohabbat Singh of Hingoli, he was adopted by the widow of Thakur Bakhtawar Singh as successor; married 1846, Thakurani Chand Kanwar, daughter of Thakur Gambhir Singh of Jhalamand in Jodhpur; and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1873.
    • (A) Rao Bahadur Thakur Chain Singh (qv)
  • Rao Bahadur Thakur CHAIN SINGH, 16th Thakur of Asope 1873/1925, born 1860, as Kunwar Chain Singh, third son of Thakur Daulat Singh, son of Thakur Guman Singh of Barnia (see above), he was adopted by Thakur Shivnath Singh as his successor, Rao Bahadur [cr.1911], Member of the Panchayat Court 1874, Member of the State Council 1884, Joint Judge of Sardaran Court in 1894, Member of the Consultative Council 1911; Maharaja Jaswant Singh was much pleased with him and honoured him by visiting Asope in Samvat 1944 wwith Maharani Sahiba and his brothers and by staying there for three days; appointed as a Guide to His Excellency the Right Honorable Gilbert Lord Minto (Viceroy and Governor-General of India) when he visited Jodhpur in 1908; accompanied Maharaja Sumer Singh to the Coronation Durbar of 1911 at Delhi; served Their Highnesses Maharaja Jaswant Singh, Sardar Singh, Sumer Singh and Umaid Singh; married 1878, Thakurani Son Kanwar, daughter of Rao Bahadur Thakur Mangal Singhji of Garhi in Alwar, and had issue. He died on 4th November, 1925.
    • Rao Bahadur Thakur later Raja Fateh Singh (qv)
  • Raja FATEH SINGH, 17th Thakur of Asope 1925/1953, born 1st September 1884, Rao Bahadur [cr.1933], married 1stly, 1901, Rani Ratan Kumari, died sp in 1904, daughter of Khangarot Thakur Karan Singh of Harsoli in Jaipur, married 2ndly, 1906, Rani Saubhagya Kumari [Sobhag Kanwar], born 27th January 1888, daughter of Thakur Bhagwant Singh of Mandawa Line II, and his wife, Thakurani Suraj Kanwar, she had issue, four daughters, married thirdly, 1916, Rani Suraj Kumari, daughter of Urjanot Bhati Thakur Moti Singh of Rampura in Jodhpur, and had issue, three sons and six daughters. He died 1953.
    • Raja Devi Singh (qv)
    • Kunwar Bhawani Singh (second son), born 23rd October 1930, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 1945, Kunwarani Jatan Kanwar, daughter of Thakur Harnath Singh of Jakhan, and had issue, five sons and one daughter. He died 1988.
      • Kunwar Narendra Singh, born 1949, married a daughter of Thakur Laxman Singh of Arooka in Jaipur.
      • Kunwar Raghubir Singh, married daughter of Ranawat Thakur Bahadur Singh, brother of Thakur Jagat Singh of Jhalamand in Jodhpur.
      • Kunwar Mahendra Singh, married a daughter of Sodha Thakur Gulab Singh, originally of Amarkot.
      • Kunwar Satyendra Singh, married to Maharajkumari Harendra Kumari, daughter of HH Maharaja Sri BHUPENDRASINHJI VIRBHADRASINHJI of Lunawada.
      • Kunwar Brijraj Singh, married a daughter of the Thakur Sahib of Lasani in Udaipur.
      • Baisa Laxmi Kumari, married into the Hinta family of Udaipur.
    • Kunwar Sajjan Singh (third son), born 8th February 1933; married 1948, Kunwarani Sire Kanwar, daughter of Thakur Guman Singh (brother of Thakur Harnath Singh of Jakhan), and had issue, two sons and one daughter. He died 1994.
      • Baisa Kanchan Kumari, born 1949, married in Shekhawati, died 1989.
      • Kunwar Kishor Singh, born 1953, married Shekhawat Kunwarani Indra Singh of Poonkh.
      • Kunwar Yashwant Singh, born 1955.
    • Baisa Mohan Kanwar (eldest daughter), married 1924, Kunwar Kirat Singh, eldest son of Rajawat Thakur Jaswant Singh of Bagru in Jaipur.
    • Baisa Sajan Kanwar (second daughter), married 1926, Kunwar Sultan Singh, eldest son of Rajawat Thakur Balwant Singh of Padam Pura.
    • Baisa Anop Kunwar (third daughter), married Kunwar (later Rawat) Hari Singhji of Bansi in Udaipur, and had issue.
    • Baisa Sugan Kanwar (fourth daughter), married 1930, Thakur Bhairu Singh of Khejarla.
    • Baisa Swarup Kumari (fifth daughter), married 1930, Kunwar Jagat Singh, eldest son of Ranawat Thakur Vijay Singh of Jhalamand.
    • Baisa Basant Kumari (sixth daughter), married 1934, Raja Rajendra Singh of Madhusudan Garh in M.P.
  • Raja DEVI SINGHJI, 18th Raja Sahib of Asope since 1953. Born 24th October 1927; one of eight Premier Nobles of Marwar (Sirayat); educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 1945, Rani Krishna Kumari, died 1995, fourth daughter of HH Maharana Sri Bhawanisinhji Hamirsinhji of Danta, and has had issue, two sons and four daughters.
    • Kunwar Vijender Singh, born 1948, married 1974, Kunwarani Savitri Kumari, daughter of Thakur Trilok Singh in Haldwani, U.P.
    • Kunwar Prithvi Singh, born 1953, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1972); married 1988, Kunwarani Raj Shree, daughter of Jhala Rana Natwar Singh of Susner in M.P. He died 1990.
    • Baisa Narendra Kumari [alias Ambika Rani] (eldest daughter), born 1946, married 1974, Raja Rajendra Nath Shah in Nainital.
    • Baisa Vinod Kumari (second daughter), born 1951.
    • Baisa (name unknown) Kumari (third daughter), died in childhood.
    • Baisa Pratima Kumari (fourth daughter), born 1964, married Kunwar Ranvijay Singh, son of Maharaj Laxmaneshwar Singh.
  • Raja VIJENDER SINGH, 19th Thakur of Asope (see above)