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Dynasty

Gohil

State

Saurashtra

Accession

15^th February 1948

Revenue

INR 186,387

Villages

9 Area

106 Square Kilometers km²

Population

8,831 (1901)

Privy Purse

INR 77,500

Hindi Name

लाठी

Also known as

Latthi

Last Updated

27^th Apr, 2023

Wikipedia

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Present Head

Thakore Saheb Shri KIRTIKUMARASINHJI PRAHLADSINHJI, present Thakore Saheb of Lathi, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1962), married to Ushadevi , daughter of Thakore Shri Digvijaysinhji Hamirsinhji of Kharedi and has issue.

Kumar Shri Satyajitsinhji Kirtikumarsinhji
Kumari Shri Hemangini Devi, married Kumar Shri Falgunsinhji Dharmendrasinhji Jhala of Chuda, and has issue, 2 daughters.

History

The ancestor of the family was Thakore Sejakji, founding Thakore of Sejakpur who migrated to Kathiawar, about the year 1260, his fourth son, Thakore Saheb Sarangji, founded the predecessor state of Arthila and his descendants ruled there for four generations till Raja Mandalik of Junagadh conquered and sacked Arthila and slew Thakore Saheb Dudoji, the then ruling chieftain. The Gohils of Arthila then withdrew to Lathi which they held till the merger of the State in 1948. Lathi ranks as a Fourth Class state in Kathiawar. The Chief maintains a military force of 12 cavalry, 25 infantry and 10 guns (as of 1892).

Genealogy

Thakore Saheb SARANGJI SEJAKJI, 1^st Thakore Saheb of Arthila, married and had issue.
- generation
  - Thakore Saheb Nonghanji (qv)
.......
Thakore Saheb NONGHANJI, 3^rd Thakore Saheb of Arthila fl.1350, married and had issue.
- generation
  - Thakore Saheb Dudoji (qv)
......
Thakore Saheb DUDOJI, 4^th Thakore Saheb of Arthila, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Limshaji Dudoji [Jijibawa] (qv)
Thakore Saheb LIMSHAJI DUDOJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi
.......
Thakore Saheb Shri JIJIBAWA, Thakore Saheb of Lathi, married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Lakhaji Jijibawa (qv)
- Kumar Shri Prithiraj Jijibawa
Thakore Saheb Shri LAKHAJI JIJIBAWA, Thakore Saheb of Lathi 1750/-, during his reign, he suppressed the Kathis who had harassed the people of the region around Lathi; married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Dajirajji Lakhaji [aka Kumar Shri Amarsinhji Lakhaji] (qv)
- Thakore Saheb Shri Takhatsinhji Lakhajji (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharaja Gaekwad Damajirao Gaekwad Shamsher Bahadur of Baroda.
Thakore Saheb Shri DAJIRAJI LAKHAJJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi, married and had issue, one daughter.
- Kumari (name unknown), married HH Thakore Sahib Shri Dajirajji of Wadhwan.
Thakore Saheb Shri TAKHATSINHJI LAKHAJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi -/1878, born 1843, married and had issue.
- Kumar Shri Bhavsinhji Takhatsinhji, died a premature death whilst studying at Rajkumar College, Rajkot.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Sursinhji Takhatsinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Vijaysinhji Takhatsinhji, married and had issue.
  - Kumar Shri Pravinsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil, married and had issue.
    - Kumar Shri Arunkumar Pravinsinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1957), married Kumari Shri Kiran Kumari of Nagod.
      - Kumar Shri Yateendra Sinh, educated at Rajkumar College Rajkot (1982), married Kumari Shri Kiran Kumari and has issues, one daughter and a son.
        
        Kumari Shri Mandavi Singh
        
        Kumar Shri Jai Sinh
      - Kumar Shri Virendra Sinh
      - Kumar Shri Kalpendra Sinh
  - Kumar Shri Natwarsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil
    - Kumar Shri Raghurajsinhji Natwarsinhji
  - Kumar Shri Gambhirsinhji Vijaysinhji Gohil, married and had issue.
    - Kumar Shri Janakkumar Gambhirsinhji Gohel, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1951).
    - Kumar Shri Jayendrasinhji Gambhirsinhji Gohel, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1951), married 1965, Kumari Shri Jyoti Devi, eldest daughter of Thakore Saheb Mahendrasinhji Jorawarsinhji of Mengni, and his wife, Thakorani Nirmala Kunverba Saheba, and had issue.
      - Kumar Shri Amarsinhji Jayendrasinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1983)
      - Kumar Shri Udaysinhji Gohel, educated at Maharaja SayajiRao University, and is unmarried.
    - Kumari Shri Kanak Kumari, educated at Sophia, Mt Abu (with Masters in English Literature), married Kumar Shri Bhupendrasinhji Jadeja of Kutchh, and has issues, two daughters.
      - Kumari Shri Kushal Kumari Jadeja
      - Kumari Shri Padmini Kumari Jadeja
Thakore Saheb Shri SURSINHJI TAKHTSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi 1878/1900, born 1875, he succeeded to the gadi as a minor on 4^th November 1878, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot to 1891; he was a poet and published a number of works, still popular today viz. Kalapi-no-Kekarav, Harirji Gohel, Mala and Mudrika; married 1^stly, Thakorani Rajba of Roha (Kutch), married 2^ndly, Thakorani Anandiba of Kotda Sangani, and had issue. He died 1900.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Pratapsinhji Sursinhji (qv)
Thakore Saheb Shri PRATAPSINHJI SURSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi 1900/1918, born 21^st April 1891, succeeded to the gaddi on 10^th June 1900, married and had issue. He died 14^th October 1918.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Prahladsinhji Pratapsinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Mangalsinhhji Pratapsinhji Gohil
- Kumar Shri Harishchandrasinhji Pratapsinhji Gohil
Thakore Saheb Shri PRAHLADSINHJI PRATAPSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi 1918/-, born 31^st March 1912 and succeeded 14^th October 1918, he was a man of literary bent and contributed to Gujarati literature under the pseudonym of Rajhansa; married and had issue.
- Thakore Saheb Shri Bhupendrasinhji Prahladsinhji (qv)
- Kumar Shri Dharmendrasinhji Prahladsinhji Gohil
- Thakore Saheb Shri Kirtikumarasinhji Prahladsinhji (qv)
- Kumari Shri Niladevi, married Maharajkumar Divya Dip Singh of Dumraon.
Thakore Saheb Shri BHUPENDRASINHJI PRAHLADSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1950), married Thakorani Durgaraje, and had issue.
- Kumari Chanchallaraje (Rani Mruganainaraje Mrugendrasinh Ghatge of Kagal-Junior), married 16^th May 1979, Meherban Shrimant Rajamanya Rajashri Mrugendrasinh Ajitsinh Ghatge Sarjerao Deshmukh, 5^th and present Chief of Kagal-Junior, and has issue.
- Rajkumari Sanyuktadevi, married to Rajkumar Puranchandrasingh Jhala of Chuda
- Rajkumari Priyalakshmiraje, married to Shrimant Raghunathraje Naiknimbalkar of Phaltan.
Thakore Saheb Shri KIRTIKUMARASINHJI PRAHLADSINHJI, Thakore Saheb of Lathi (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:

Kumar Shri Mahendrasinhji Jitendrasinhji, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1967)
Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji, married 18^th March 1994 (as her second husband), Rajkumari Pratima Devi, born 6^th June 1956, daughter of Raja Prasanna Chandra Deo of Jarada, and his wife, Rani Swarna Prabha Manjari Devi.
Kumar Shri Narendrasinhji Chandrasinhji Gohil B.Com., Bayat of Lathi, Teacher, born 3^rd November 1984 in Lathi, married 3^rd November 2008 in Lathi, Kumari Nanbhu, and has issue, one son.
- Kumar Nilrajsinh Narendrasinhji Gohil.