Present Head
Thakur Man Singh, 13th and present Thakur of Gopalpura.
History
Rulers of Gopalpura are descendants of Thakur Sahab Gopaldas, great grandson of Rao Bida of Bidasar. The Chief is an Umrao Noble of Bikaner State and enjoys Dohri Tazim and Kurab Hath in Bikaner Darbar, the estate was wrested by Thakur Saheb Tej Singhji from his elder brother Thakur Jaswant Singh, on demise of their father Thakur Saheb Gopaldas and later received honour of Dohri Tazim, consisted of 12 villages.
Genealogy
- Rao BIDA, he accompanied his brother, Rao Bika, and helped him establish his own kingdom of Bikaner; married (amongst others), established himself at Dronpur which was wrested from Mohils, which later was renamed as Bidasar, married and had issue
- Kunwar Udaikaran (qv)
- Kunwar Sansar Chand, succeeded to Padihara
- Thakur Udaikaran Singh, he was granted the estate of Dronapur, which later came into the possession of the descendants of his brother, Thakur Sansar Chandra of Padihara;
- Thakur Sansar Chandra, he was granted the estate of Padihara; married and had issue.
- Kunwar Sanga Singh (qv)
- Thakur Sanga Singh, Thakur Sahib of Padihara 1529/1544, he participated in various expeditions with Maharaja Lunkaran of Bikaner; married and had issue.
- Kunwar Gopal Das (qv)
- Thakur Gopal Das, Thakur Sahib of Padihara 1544/1609, he divide his estate between his three sons; married and had issues
- Kunwar Jaswant Singh, succeeded to Dronpur and became founder of Gopalpura and neighboring villages
- Kunwar Tej Singh, he was granted the estate of Chadwas, later wrested Gopalpura from his brother (qv)
- Kunwar Kesho Das, he was granted the estate of Bidasar.
- Thakur Tej Singh, he was granted the estates of Chadwas and Gopalpura, married and had issues.
- Kunwar Chanderbhan Singh, succeeded to combined estates of Charwas and Gopalpura, on his demise Charwas went to his brother and Gopalpura to his son (qv)
- Kunwar Ramchander Singh, succeeded to Charwas.
- Thakur Chanderbhan Singh, 1st Thakur of Gopalpura.
- Thakur Narayandas Singh, 2nd Thakur of Gopalpura.
- Thakur Himmat Singh, 3rd Thakur of Gopalpura.
- Thakur Karamsen Singh, 4th Thakur of Gopalpura, Tejsinghot Bida's had revolted against, Maharaja Sujan Singhji of Bikaner, but refused to join a faction aligned with Maharaja Ajit Singh of Marwar, who had laid a siege on Bikaner, he was imprisoned in Marwar, but later released on failure of ibid siege.
- Thakur Harnath Singh, 5th Thakur of Gopalpura
- Thakur Uday Singh, 6th Thakur of Gopalpura
- Thakur Bhopal Singh, 7th Thakur of Gopalpura. In 1833 AD, during the reign of Maharaja Ratan Singh of Bikaner, Bidawat Roop Singh of Lodhsar a Brigand became a menace and aligned with Marwar, a force was dispatched under Surana Lalchand to quell the rebellion, war ensued in Marwar and many prominent 'Sirdars' got martyred, Kunwar Bharat Singh (younger son of Thakur of Gopalpura), fought heroically and was martyred.
- Kunwar Mangal Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Bharat Singh, died in a battle against Marwar in 1833AD.
- Thakur Mangal Singh, 8th Thakur of Gopalpura
- Thakur Hamir Singh, 9th Thakur of Gopalpura, served with distinction during Sepoy Mutiny of 1857AD and provided reckonable services to Maharaja Sardar Singhji
- Thakur Devi Singh, 10th Thakur of Gopalpura, married and had no issue.
- (A) Kunwar Ram Singh (qv)
- Thakur Ram Singh, 11th Thakur of Gopalpura
- Thakur Jagmal Singh, 12th Thakur of Gopalpura
- Thakur Man Singh, 13th Thakur of Gopalpura (see above)