.on("click", function(){
     var myId = $(this).attr("id");
     $("#studentGrid").jqGrid.setSelection(myId, true);
});

$("#studentGrid").jqGrid({
                url: '<c:url value="/students/studentjsondata"/>',
                datatype: 'json',
                height: 'auto',
                colNames:['id','First Name', 'Last Name', 'Other Name' ,'Date Of Birth', 'Gender'],
                colModel:[
                        //Bla Bla Bla
                ],
                rowNum:10,
                autowidth: true,
                pager: '#pager',
                sortname: 'id',
                viewrecords: true,
                sortorder: "desc",
                caption:"Students",
                emptyrecords: "Empty Records",
                subGrid: true,
                /* <![CDATA[ */
                onSelectRow: function(id){
                    if((lastsel != 0)&&(id!==lastsel)){
                        $("#studentGrid").jqGrid('collapseSubGridRow', lastsel);
                    }
                    lastsel=id;
                }/* ]]> */ ,
                subGridOptions: {
                    "plusicon" : "ui-icon-triangle-1-e",
                    "minusicon" : "ui-icon-triangle-1-s",
                    "openicon" : "ui-icon-arrowreturn-1-e",
                    "reloadOnExpand" : true,
                    "selectOnExpand" : true
                },
                subGridRowExpanded: function(subgrid_id, row_id) {
                    //Bla Bla Bla
                }
    });

{'page':'1', 'records':'1', 'total':'1', 'rows':[{'id':'7385', 'cell': ['Max', 'Payne', '', 'September 16, 2012', 'Male']}]}


.on("click", function(){
  var myNewData = eval('(' + $(this).attr("griddata") + ')');
  $("#studentGrid").jqGrid('setGridParam', { datatype: 'local', data: myNewData}).trigger('reloadGrid');
 });

.on("click", function(){
    $("#studentGrid").jqGrid('setGridParam', { jsonReader: { repeatitems: false }, datatype: 'jsonstring', datastr: $(this).attr("griddata")}).trigger('reloadGrid');
});

$("#studentGrid").jqGrid('setGridParam', {    jsonReader : {
root: "rows",
page: "page",
total: "total",
records: "records",
repeatitems: true,
cell: "cell",
id: "id",
userdata: "userdata",
subgrid: {root:"rows",
repeatitems: true,
cell:"cell"
 }
} , datatype: 'json', datastr: null});