Thakorsa Digvijaysinhji Zala - Limbdi

                Thakorsa  Digvijaysinhji Zala - Limbdi

                                              

        Digvijaysinhji was born on 10-7-16 and he studied at Rajkumar College, Rajkot and Eaton College, England.  Those who taught him during the study were also very impressed.  He was also enlisted in the Imperial Cadet Corps of Dehradun Military College.  The etiquette and discipline of the army became so strong that on some occasions they wore the cadet's attire and sought permission from the British government to wear that attire, and when they were allowed to do so, they wore the occasional attire.  He was so interested in the Imperial Cadet Corps and his attire that people constantly recognized him as a soldier of this cadet corps.  He was the eldest son of Dolatsinhji, the 7th ruler of Limbdi and was also known as Divijyasinhji alias Dadasaheb.  He was sitting on the throne on 17-10-190.  In 1910, his first marriage was to Maharaja Kesari Singhji's concubine Nand Kunwarba of Idar, his second marriage was to Jadeja's concubine Pravin Kunwarba in 1914.  Thakor Chhatrasalji was born to him from Pravin Kunwarba.  While Nandkunwarba had a son named Ramrajendrasinhji and two daughters.  But Ramrajendrasinhji died prematurely on Samvat 15 Bhadarva Sud-2 at the age of 16, so his grandfather Dolatsinhji built a hospital named Ramsagar Lake, Ramrajpar village and Ramrajendrasinhji after him to keep his memory fresh.  Digvijay Singhji was very clever, eloquent and agile enough to build relationships with the same man.  Maharaja Harisinhji of Kashmir and Nawab Tale Muhammad Khanji of Palanpur were his special friends.  When Jam Saheb from Nawanagar went to attend the meeting of the League of Nations, he took Digvijay Singhji with him as his personal minister.  When he was Yuvraj himself, he founded the Ghanshyam Singhji Club in Limbdi.  He left his 11-month-old son in Mumbai on Monday 7-1-191 due to an incurable disease.  But his body was brought to the capital Limbdi and cremated in Limbdi and his canopy was erected in the cemetery with a marble inscription engraved on it, from which the time of his birth, death and reign is known.  Another incident that took place when he died was that Miss Sharp, an English lunatic from Limbdi who had written Dolatsinhji's biography in English and called Dolatsinhji the breadwinner, also died that night along with Digvijaysinhji.  There were 20 villages with full government in Limbdi state and only 6 villages with revenue government in 181 AD.  12,9 in 181 and 12,3 in 1901.  11,09 in 1911.  11.5 in 181.  In 1911, it was 12,605.