PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Ancestor of the family was Rao Chandrabhan Chauhan, who aided Maharana
Sangram Singh
of
Udaipur, and was killed in battle in 1527 at Khanwa. For his support
his
descendants
were granted the Jagir of Bedla. Estate holders were...
- Rao CHANDRA BHAN, married and had issue. He died 1527 in
the Battle of Khanwa.
- Rao SANGRAM SINGH 1531/1535, married and had issue. He
died 1535 in the Siege of Chittor.
- Rao PRATAP SINGH I 1535/1558, married and had
issue. He died 1558.
- Rao BALBHADRA SINGH [Ballu Singh] 1558/1583, briefly held
the jagir of Begun, married and had
issue. He died 1583.
- Rao RAM CHANDRA I 1583/1608, married and had
issue. He died 1608.
- Rao SABAL SINGH (qv)
- Rao KESARI SINGH fl.1670, he was granted the
Jagir of Parsoli.
- Maharani Dev Kunwar, married Maharana AMAR SINGH II of
Udaipur, and had issue.
- Maharana SANGRAM SINGH II of Udaipur (qv)
- Rao SABAL SINGH 1608/1681, married and had
issue. He died 1681.
- Rao SULTAN SINGH 1681/1721, married and had
issue, five sons. He died 1721.
- Rao BAKHT SINGH I 1721/1738, married and had
issue. He died 1738.
- Rao RAM CHANDRA II 1738/1758, born 1731, married and had
adoptive issue. He died sp
1758.
- (A) Rao PRATAP SINGH II (qv)
- Rao PRATAP SINGH II 1758/1813, born as Kunwar Pratap
Singh, a descendant of Rao Sultan Singh, and succeeded by adoption in
1758; married and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1813.
- (A) Rao KESARI SINGH (qv)
- Rao KESARI SINGH 1813/1835, also Rao of Parsoli 1795/1813,
born as Kunwar Kesari Singh, son of Rao Sawant Singh of Parsoli, he succeeded by adoption in
1813; married a daughter of Ranawat Raja Saheb of Shahpura in Udaipur
State, and had issue. He died 1835.
- Rao Bahadur BAKHT SINGH II (qv)
- Rani Sringar Kanwar, married (as his first wife), Raj
Rana KIRTI SINGH II of Bari Sadri, and
had issue, four sons and three daughters.
- Rao Bahadur BAKHT SINGH II 1835/1880, born 19th October
1816, Rao Bahadur
[cr.1877],
C.I.E. [cr.1878], married Rani Fateh Kunwar, daughter of Raj Rana
BHAIRAV SINGH of Tana, and his first
wife, Rani Deep Kanwar,
and had issue. He died 4th February 1880.
- Rao Bahadur TAKHAT SINGH (qv)
- Rao Bahadur TAKHAT SINGH 1880/1892, Member
of the Mahand
Raj Sabha, Rao Bahadur [cr.1st January 1887](#1),
married 1stly, 1862, a daughter of the Bhati Thakur of Khejarla in
Jodhpur, married 2ndly, 1866, a daughter of
Chundawat Rawat Deep Singh of Athana in Gwalior State (a collateral
branch of
Begun in Udaipur State), and had issue. He died 9th June 1892.
- Rao Bahadur KARAN SINGH (by Rani Bhatianiji) (qv)
- Kunwar Raj Singh (by Rani Bhatianiji), born 3rd August
1871.
- Kunwar Roop
Singh, born 19th October 1871.
- Thakur Govind Singh, born 2nd September 1878, married and
had
issue.
- Capt. Rao MANOHAR SINGH, born
January 1904, educated
at Mayo College, Ajmer; Home Minister of Council in Udaipur, ADC to the
Maharana of Udaipur, PM of Udaipur, Rao [cr.1936], married and had
issue.
- Kunwar Madho Singh, educated in the
USA, gaining an
MBA, fl.1985
- Kunwarani Anand Kumari, married
Kunwar Ajatshatru
Singh of Bissau, and has issue.
- Rao Bahadur KARAN SINGH 1892/1900, born 11th May 1865, Rao
Bahadur
[cr.1896],
married
a daughter of the Thakur Saheb of Bhadrajun, and had issue.
- Rao NAHAR SINGH 1900/- , born 1895, educated at Mayo
College,
Ajmer.
- Rao MANOHAR SINGH fl.1954
- Rao RAGHUNATH SINGH (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Thakur Janak Singh Bedla, married Thakurani Dharmendra
Kumari, and had
issue.
- Kanwar Deepak Kumar Bedla, born 28th February 1971
in Baroda,
Gujarat,
educated at Mumbai University (Bachlor of Arts (Geography)), married
6th
May 1997 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Kanwarani Abha Kumari, and has issue.
- Baiji Lal Yadunandini Kumari, aged 6yrs (2003)
- Bhanwar Shatrujit Singh Bedla, aged 1 yr (2003)
- Rani Sahiba Chauhaniji
of Bedla, married Maharaj MADAN SINGH of Bhindar.
She died sp.
The help of Deepak Aggarwal is gratefully acknowledged, January 2009.
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