PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1765. The rulers were...
- Raja GUMAN SINGH 1765/1792, nephew of Raja Pahar Singh of
Jaitpur, and
was succeeded by his own nephew.
- Raja BAKHT SINGH 1792/1793 and 1807/1837, married and
had issue. He died 21st
June
1837.
- Raja MADHO SINGH (qv)
- Raja MAHIPAT SINGH (qv)
Nawab ALI BAHADUR 1793/1802 (usurper)
Nawab SHAMSHER BAHADUR 1802/1804 (usurper)
Raja LAKSHMAN DADA 1804/1807 (usurper)
- Raja MADHO SINGH
1837/1849, died 1849.
- Raja MAHIPAT SINGH 1849/1853, married and had
issue, as well
as secondary issue. He died 22nd June 1853.
- Raja VIJAY SINGH (qv)
- HH Sawai Maharaja Sir RANJOR SINGH Sahib Bahadur (by a
secondary wife)
(qv)
- Raja VIJAY SINGH 1853/1855, died 12th September 1855.
INTERREGNUM 1855/1859
- HH Sawai Maharaja Sir RANJOR SINGH Sahib Bahadur
1859/1919, born 29th
September
1848 (#1) (1844),
Sawai
Maharaja [cr.1877], K.C.I.E. [cr.1897], married and had issue. He died
1919.
- HH Sawai Maharaja BHOPAL SINGH (qv)
- Maharajkumar Jaipal Singh, born 1874.
- Maharaj Pakshapal Singh Ju Dev, married and had
issue.
- Lt.-Col. Sawai Maharajkumar Deshpal Singh Ju Dev, born
24th June 1914, educated at Daly College, Indore (1921/1928), the
Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun (1928/1931),
completed his majors in L.L.M. from Bombay University; worked as Deputy
Political Officer during British services, served as Deewan of
Chhatarpur and Baraundha states. Former President of the All Indian
Kshatriya Maha Sabha (royal sabha of princely states) at
Delhi; Captain of the Western Coal Mines cricket team; married Rani
Gayatri Devi of Basaratpur, and had issue.
- Sawai Rajkumar Ajayveer Singh, educated at Madhav
Engineering College
(B.Eng.); married Rajkumari Ajaya (Bundela), and has issue.
- Rajkumari Vijya Bundela, married Kunwar Vikram
Singh.
- Rajkumari Harshita Bundela
- Sawai Rajkumar Ashit Varn Singh Bundela, born 7th May
1953 at Ajaigarh, educated (B.Sc.), married Rajkumari Anjana (Bundela)
(née Rajniesh Singh), daughter of Sri Kunwar Ram Singh Deo of
Barai, and
his wife, Kunwarani Usha Kumari (née Hirendra Kumari), daughter
of Sri Rao Hira Singh Ju Deo of Karahia and niece of HH Maharaja
Sir SAWANT SINGH of Bijawar, and has
issue.
- Sawai Rajkumar Hraday Shah Bundela, born 26th
November 1981.
- Rajkumari Sanyogita Bundela, born 20th March 1986.
- Sawai Rajkumar Anil Kumar Singh, married Rajkumari
Arpana Raje, daughter of Rao Gulab Singh Ju Dev of Jharkua, and has
issue.
- Rajkumari Vashundera Bundela, born 23rd September
19xx.
- Kunwar Madhvendra Singh Bundela, born 13th November
1998.
- Flt.-Lt. (ret'd.) Sawai Rajkumar Neel Burn Singh
Bundela,
born November 1964, formerly an officer in the Indian Airforce, married
Rajkumari Renu Singh, daughter of Thakur Sahib Sambhu Saran Singh of
Rai-Bareli, and has issue.
- Kunwar Jaiditya Singh Bundela, born 10th September
1999.
- Sawai Rajkumar Jayant Singh Bundela, married
Rajkumari Jaya Singh,
daughter of Kunwar Mangal Singh of Barai, and has issue.
- HH Sawai Maharaja BHOPAL SINGH 1919/1942, born 13th
November 1866, succeeded his father on the gaddi on 7th June 1919; married
1882, HH Maharani Beni Kunwar,
daughter of Musahib Ranjore Singh of Chauka in Charkhari State, and
had issue, an only son. He died
1942.
- HH Sawai Maharaja PUNYA PRATAP SINGH (qv)
- HH Sawai Maharaja PUNYA PRATAP SINGH 1942/1958, born August
1884,
succeeded his father on the gaddi
in 1942; married 1907, HH Maharani Rukmini Devi, daughter
of HH Swasti Sir Raja KIRTI SHAH of Tehri Garhwal, and had
issue. He died 1958.
- Rani Indira Devi, married Raja AJAI VARMA SINGH of Pawayan, and had issue.
- Rani Savitri Devi, born 1910, married 1923, Raja
SHRINIWAS PRASAD SINGH
of Jagdishpur, and had issue. She
died
1958.
- Rani Girija Devi, married Raja BAJRANG BAHADUR SINGH of Bhadri, Lieutenant Governor of Himachal
Pradesh 1955/1963.
- HH Sawai Maharaja DEVENDRA VIJAYA SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumar Bhupendra Vijay Singh, adopted by Rao ARIMARDAN
SINGH of Jigni and succeeded there as Rao BHUPENDRA VIJAY SINGH of Jigni
.
- HH Sawai Maharaja DEVENDRA VIJAYA SINGH 1958/1984, born
1913, married
Kunwari Shri Sushil Kunwarba, the eldest daughter of HH Maharaja Sahib
Shri INDRASINHJI PRATAPSINHJI of Bansda, and
had issue. He died 1984.
- Yuvaraj Kaushalendra Singh, born 1934, married Yuvarani
Hansa Devi, daughter of Lt. HH
Maharaja Shri Sir KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVSINHJI
of Bhavnagar, and had issue. He died
1982.
- HH Sawai Maharaja AJAYRAJ SINGH (qv)
- Maharaj Mahipendra Singh, born 1935, married Rani Prabha
Kumari,
daughter of Maharajkumar Chandikeshwar Saran Singh Deo, and his wife,
Maharajkumar Rani Saheb Bhupeswari Kumari of Surguja, and has issue.
- Rajkumar Shailendra Singh, born 1969, married Rajkumar
Keerti Malini Devi, daughter of Sirdar Rama Chandra Raj Urs (adopted
son of Rajkumari Leelavati and Sirdar Basava Raj Urs), and
Maharajkumari Gayatri Devi Yavaru, eldest daughter of HH Maharaja Shri
Sir
JAYA CHAMARAJA WADIYAR Bahadur of Mysore.
- Kunwar Varunendra Singh, born 2005.
- Maharaj Surendra Singh, born 1940, married and has
issue.
- Rajkumar Tarunendra Singh, born 1971,
married Baiji
Lal Shobal De, daughter of Kunwar Kirti Vardhan Singh of Khandela-Junior, and his wife,
Kunwarani
Rudrani Kumari, and has issue, one daughter.
- HH Sawai Maharaja AJAYRAJ SINGH (see above)
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