Sharma, J.—The following two questions have been referred to this Full Bench:—

(1) Whether decision by the Rajpramukh in the matter of recognition of a successor to a jagir is liable to be challen-gee by a civil suit ?

(2) If the answer to the above question be in the negative. whether the remedy of the unsuccessful litigant lies by a petition to this Court under Art. 226, or the matter is one to which the provisions of Art. 363 of the Constituti6n would apply ?

2. These questions arise out of an application under Art. 226 of the Constitution by the petitioner Thakur Bahadursingh challenging the order of the Rajpramukh of Rajasthan (hereinafter to be referred to as the Rajpramukh) dated the 16th of September 1952 by which the respondent No. 2 Basant Singh was recognised as successor to the late Jagirdar Thakur Gopalsingh of Digwara in Alwar District on the ground that sanction for his adoption had been given by the Rajendra Shashan of the erstwhile Alwar State. It has been alleged in the petition that Th. Sheodan Singh the father of Gopalsingh as well as of petitioner was Jagirdar of -/6/-share in the jagir of Digwara and that on his death his eldest son Gopalsingh succeeded to the ja

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