PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded
before 1549. Baraundha (or Pathar Kachhar) was a petty sanad state of
about
218 square miles. Formerly it was much larger, comprising most of the
present
Banda district of U.P., the family having held the country for at least
400 years. The name Pathar Kachhar was derived from its position on the
skirts of the Vindhayas. The ruling family claimed to be an old one and
to belong to the Raghuvansi clan of the solar division of Rajputs. The
original seat of the family was in Rasin in Banda district, originally
called Raja Vasini, Where there are many old remains. The early history
is, however, very obscure, During Bundela supremacy, the state appears
to have been held on a sanad from Hirdeshah of Panna. On the accession
of British to paramount power, Raja Mohkamsingh was recognised and
confirmed
in his territory by a sanad granted in 1807. Rulers were as follows...
-
Raja Prithvi Singh of Marpha in Banda
Dist., the
original seat of the dynasty, married and had issue.
-
Thakur MOHKAM SINGH (qv)
-
Kunwar Anant Singh of Shiamau.
-
Kunwar Kurudutt Singh of Kuluwan.
-
Kunwar Sarnet Singh of Bhagwantpur,
married and had
issue.
-
Thakur SARABJIT SINGH, adopted by
his uncle, see
below.
-
Thakur MOHKAM SINGH 1790/1827, adopted his nephew as his successor. He died sp
1827.
- Thakur SARABJIT SINGH 1827/1867,
married and had
issue, 2 sons.
-
Thakur DHARAMPAL SINGH (qv)
-
Raja Bahadur Thakur RAGHUBIR DAYAL
SINGH (qv)
-
Thakur DHARAMPAL SINGH 1867/1870,
married and had issue.
- Thakur CHHATARPAL SINGH (qv)
- Thakur CHHATARPAL SINGH 1870/1874,
died sp
1874.
- Raja Bahadur Thakur RAGHUBIR DAYAL
SINGH 1874/1886,
Raja Bahadur (personal) [cr.1877], adopted
a
distant relative as his successor. He died
sp 1886.
- Raja Bahadur Thakur PRATAP SINGH
(adoptive son) 1886/1930
(1908), born 1847, succeeded 18th August 1886 (#1),
married and had issue. He died 1930.
-
Rajkumar Raghuvansh Pratap Singh, overlooked in the succession because
of his part in the resistance movement.
-
Raja GAYA PRASAD SINGH (qv)
-
Raja GAYA PRASAD SINGH (1908)1930/1933, born 1865, died sp
1933.
- Raja RAM PRATAP SINGH 1933/aft 1970, adoptive son, a
descendant of Kunwar
Kurudutt Singh of Kuluwan (see above).
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