Tarkhedi

The Thikana of Tarkhedi represents an influential cadet branch of the Rathore dynasty of Jhabua, tracing its ultimate ancestral lineage back to Rao Varsinghji (also known as Rao Bhirji), the fifth son of Rao Jodha, the illustrious founder of Jodhpur. This historic estate was carved out of the Jhaknaoda Thikana—a prominent fief of Jhabua—when the territory was granted as an appanage to Thakur Chandrabhan Singhji, the younger son of the ruling Thakur of Jhaknaoda, thereby establishing the younger house of Tarkhedi. Throughout the colonial era, the estate operated as a guaranteed feudal holding under the administrative umbrella of Jhabua State within the Central India Agency. Following India's independence and the subsequent integration of princely states in 1947, Tarkhedi was merged into the Union of India, initially becoming a part of the Madhya Bharat covenanting state before being incorporated into the modern state of Madhya Pradesh in 1956.