Himmatsinhji (general)

Major-General Kumar Shri Himmatsinhji Juvansinhji Jadeja CIE (1897 - January 1973) was the first Lieutenant-Governor of Himachal Pradesh. A descendant of the rulers of Nawanagar State, he served with the Indian Army, reaching the rank of major-general. He was later a member of the two most recent predecessors of the lower house of the Parliament of India – the Central Legislative Assembly and the Constituent Assembly. He also played several first-class cricket matches, and was the nephew of Ranjitsinhji and brother of Duleepsinhji, both of whom played Test cricket.

Himmatsinhji was a son of Rajkumar Shri Juvansinhji (or Juwansinhji; 1871–1942). His father's family were prominent in Sarodar (or Sadodar), a village in Nawanagar State on Gujarat's Kathiawar peninsula. His paternal grandfather was descended from the Jam Sahibs of Nawanagar, and his paternal grandmother was a daughter of Takhatsinhji, the Maharaja of Jodhpur. Himmatsinhji's brothers included Duleepsinhji, a Test cricketer for England, and Digvijaysinhji, who succeeded the brothers' uncle, Ranjitsinhji, as ruler of Nawanagar. A cousin, Rajendrasinhji, was India's first Chief of the Army Staff, while a nephew, Daulatsinhji, was a member of the Jamnagar constituency in the Lok Sabha. Members of the family generally used the surname Jadeja where one was required.