Banad

The Thikana of Banad, representing a prominent branch of the Bhati Rajput clan, was established in 1900 when Thakur Sangidaan Singh Ji, the grandson of Thakur Ratan Singh Ji of the Garah estate, was granted this fiefdom by Maharaja Sir Sardar Singh Ji of Jodhpur. As an integrated part of the princely state of Marwar during the British colonial era, the holders of the Banad estate administered local affairs and upheld traditional chivalric duties until the post-independence land reforms and the abolition of the jagirdari system in Rajasthan.