Editing Ranjitsinhji (section)

===Heir to the throne===
In 1856, Vibhaji's son, Kalubha, was born, becoming heir to Vibhaji's throne. However, as Kalubha grew, he established a reputation for violence and terror. Among his actions were an attempt to poison his father and a multiple rape.{{sfn|Wilde|1999|p=12}}{{sfn|Wilde|1999|p=24}} Consequently, Vibhaji disinherited his son in 1877 and, having no other suitable heir, followed custom by adopting an heir from another branch of his family, that of Jhalamsinhji. The first selected heir died within six months of being adopted,{{sfn|Wild|1934|p=12}} either through fever or poisoning on the orders of Kalubha's mother.{{sfn|Kincaid|1931|p=12}}{{sfn|Ross|1983|p=24}} The second choice, in October 1878, was Ranjitsinhji. Vibhaji took him to [[Rajkot]] to secure the approval of the ruling British and the young boy lived there for the next 18 months before joining the [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot|Rajkumar College]], supported through this time by an allowance from Vibhaji.{{sfn|Wilde|1999|pp=13–14}} Being discouraged by the ambition of Ranjitsinhji's family and the conduct of Jiwansinhji, Vibhaji never completed the adoption of Ranjitsinhji and continued trying to produce his own heir.{{sfn|Wild|1934|pp=14–15}} The prospect of Ranjitsinhji's accession seemed to vanish in August 1882 when one of the women of Vibhaji's court gave birth to a son, Jaswantsinhji.{{sfn|Wilde|1999|p=9}}

Ranjitisinhji's later version of events, reported by his biographer Roland Wild, was that his adoption had been carried out in secret, for fear of Vibhaji's wives. According to Wild, "The boy's father and grandfather watched the ceremony which was officially recorded by the India Office, the Government of India, and the Bombay Government."{{sfn|Ross|1983|p=9}}{{sfn|Standing|1903|p=13}} However, there is no record of any such event, which Simon Wilde says, "suggests, fairly conclusively, it never happened."{{sfn|Wilde|1999|p=16}} Roland Wild and [[Charles Augustus Kincaid|Charles Kincaid]], who wrote a book in 1931 which also put forward Ranjitsinhji's perspective, also said that Jaswantsinhji was not a legitimate heir, either through not being Vibhaji's son or through his mother not being legally married to Vibhaji.{{efn|Among the claims against Jaswantsinhji's mother were that she was ineligible for marriage to Vibhaji as a Muslim, that she was pregnant before meeting Vibhaji, and that she was a prostitute.{{sfn|Ross|1983|p=23}} Part of the reason for these claims was that many Rajputs believed that, for Vibhaji, only marriage to another Rajput was acceptable. {{sfn|Wilde|1999|pp=11–12}}}} However, the claims are either demonstrably wrong or not corroborated by the records.{{efn|Ranjitsinhji, ruler of Nawanagar between 1907–1933, had a disputed succession. Born in 1872 to a Jadeja family of Sarodar, Ranjitsinhji had no legal claim to the throne. The Jam, Vibhaji, ruler of Nawanagar, made him heir apparent to the throne after he decided to disinherit his son, Kalubha, on charges of misdemeanor.{{sfn|Wild|1934|p=56}}}} The British authorities, unhappy to discover Ranjitsinhji was never adopted and impressed by his potential at the college, initially tried to persuade Vibhaji to retain Ranjitsinhji as his heir but the Jam Sahib insisted Jaswantsinhji should succeed him. In October 1884, the Government of India recognised Jaswantsinhji as Vibhaji's heir, but the [[Governor-General of India|Viceroy]], [[George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon|Lord Ripon]], believed that Ranjitsinhji should be compensated for losing his position.{{sfn|Wilde|1999|pp=16–19}}