* Besides the above-named Chiefs of Classes III. and IV., there are in Kattywar 18 jurisdictional Talukdars of Class V., 43 of Class VI., and 17 of Class VII. There is also the small State of Jafarabad, containing 12 villages and an excellent port, belonging to the Nawab (Sidi) of Jinjira, who is allowed to rank in Kattywar as a 2nd Class Chief. These smaller Talukdars are mostly Bhayads of the Jhareja and Jhalla houses, or either Kuchar or Wala Kathis. The Wala Kathis own the great State of Jetpur, which has a revenue of about ten lakhs; but it is divided among eighteen shareholders, none of whom are important enough to have more than 5th Class jurisdiction. Umra (1597). Jaggat Singh (1628). (b) In this reign Akbar attacked Chittôr and took it: the people of Mewar during the famine of 1661. It (e)Jai Singh (1681). is about 12 miles in circumference. (e) Jai Singh constructed the Jai Summand or Deybar Lake, the largest lake in India, about 30 miles in circumference. (f) Bhim Singh had a beautiful daughter, for whose hand the princes of Jaipur and Jodhpur engaged in a disastrous war; the Rana, not willing to incur the resentment of the unsuccessful suitor, caused his daughter to be poisoned. A curse was then uttered on the line of Bappu Rawal,and of the ninety children born to Bhim, only one survived him, and he died childless. A like fate attended his three successors. Hamir (1772). Umra (1700). Sungram Singh (1716). Jaggat Singh II. (1734).. Pertab II. (1752). Raj Singh II. (1755). 1 Ursi Singh (1762.) Nahar Singh. Bhim Singh. Sirdar Singh. Sher Singh Sadul Singh. Samrat Singh. Surdan Singh. Sajjan Singh. Maharana Sajjan Singh (1874). some the family is traced to the Persian Naushirvan, and by Sir Thomas Roe to Porus, the opponent of Alexander. |