PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY: Predecessor state was founded in the fourteenth
century by Raja Sohan Pal of Biana and of Nasi. His descendant, Thakur
Chhatarbhuj Singh was founder of the present jagir of Awargarh in 1701.
Rulers
were....
- Thakur CHHATARBHUJ SINGH 1701/about 1750, originally the
Zamindar of Nari in the Chhata pargana; he settled in Jalesar during
the reign of Padshah Muhammed Shah of Delhi (1719/1748), married and
had issue.
- Thakur BIJAY SINGH 1750/1775, married and had issue.
- Thakur BAKHT SINGH 1775/1800, rendered military service to
the Maharaja of Bharatpur and the Thakur of Amargarh, and gradually
made himself an independent chief; he obtained a sanad from the
Maratha rulers authorising him to build a Fort at Awa; married and had
issue.
- Thakur HIRA SINGH 1800/1831, he constructed the fort at
Awa, originally started by his father; he rendered military assistance
to the British in their war with the Marathas, and they confirmed him
in his possessions; married and had issue.
- Raja PITAMBAR SINGH 1831/1850, the title of Raja
(traditionally stated to have been conferred by the Maharana of
Udaipur), was
formally recognized in 1838 as a hereditary distinction by Lord
Auckland; married and
had adoptive issue.
- (A)
Raja PRITHVIRAJ SINGH (qv)
- Raja PRITHVIRAJ SINGH 1850/1876, he was adopted by Raja
Pitambar Singh as his successor, born as Kunwar Prithviraj Singh, a
descendant of a brother of Thakur Bakht
Singh; he rendered valuable assistance to the British during the Mutiny
of 1857, by raising troops, attacking the insurgent villages,
restoring order to the area, collecting revenue and remitting it to
authorities in Agra; married and had issue. He died 1876.
- Raja CHHATARPAL SINGH (qv)
- Raja CHHATARPAL SINGH 1876/1884, succeeded as a minor;
married and had adoptive
issue. He died sp 1884.
- (A)
Raja BALDEO SINGH (qv)
- Raja BALDEO SINGH 1884/1892, born 10th July 1850 (#1) , he was adopted
by his cousin and predecessor, and succeeded on his death; married and
had adoptive issue.
- (A) Raja BALWANT SINGH (qv)
- Raja BALWANT SINGH 1892/1909, O.B.E., C.I.E., he donated
hundreds of acres of land in order to build a college which was named
after him as the Raja Balwant Singh College at Agra; married and had
issue. He died 1909.
- Raja SURAJ PAL SINGH (qv)
- Capt. Rao Krishna Pal Singh, married Rani Darshan Kumari,
died 1964, daughter of Rana RAGHUNATH CHAND of Mahilog,
and his first wife, Rani Rudar Devi, and
had issue. He died 1968.
- Rajkumari Indira Kumari, married 27th November 1941,
Maharajkumar
Pradyumna Singh
of Dungarpur.
- Raja SURAJ PAL SINGH 1909/-, married and had issue.
- Raja YOGENDRAPAL SINGH (qv).
- Raja YOGENDRAPAL SINGH, married Rani Satyawati Kumari,
daughter of
Rawat
JAI SINGH of Meja, and had issue.
- Rajkumar Jitendrapal Singh, born 1951, married 1974,
Kunwarani Prabha
Kanwar,
born 1951, daughter of Raj Rana HARI SINGH of Tana,
and his wife, Rani Marudhar Kanwar, and has issue.
- Kanwar Rishiraj Singh
- Rajkumari Bhoomija Kumari
- Raja ANIRUDH PAL SINGH, married Rani Anjali Devi, daughter
of Rai Sahib
Ranvir Singh of Reh (see Nurpur), and
had issue.
- Rajkumari Ambika Devi, born 1977, married Rajkumar Tushar
Singh [Kumar
Shri
Tusharsinhji Kanaksinhji] of Dumraon,
born 1970.
- Raja YADVENDRAPAL SINGH, married 5th February 1976, Rani
Shermishta
Kumari, born 6th September 1953, daughter of Maharaj BHEEMSINHA of Arnod, and his wife, Rani Pushpa
Kumari, and has issue.
- Kanwar Chander Pal Singh, born 26th January 1977 at Agra,
educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 26th January 2008, Kunwari
Vijeta of Sirsi near Guna, Madhya Pradesh.
- Kanwar Bhumendrapal Singh, born 5th February 1978 at
Agra,
educated
at
Daly College, Indore and St. John's College, Agra.
- Kunwari Padmini
Kumari, born 25th January 1981, educated at Mayo Girls College, Ajmer;
married 25th April 2008, Kunwar Kamakshya Raj Singh of Chhota Udaipur, Gujarat.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Thakurani Kamleshwari, married Thakur Shri Raj Singhji of Chickalana, Madhya Pradesh, and had
issue, three daughters.
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