gadarmala is a "thikana" (titled estate or "jagir") held by the descendants of puranmal, the eleventh son of maharana pratap singh i (1572–1597). their title is "baba". the parent house was mangrop (magrop), which was given to puranmal. two generations later, puranmal's grandson, mohkam singh, received the village of gurla as a "jagir" from his father, nath singh of mangrop. mohkam singh gave one of his sons, amar singh, the "jagir" of gadarmala, which is an offshoot of gurla.