PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The holders are Bundela Ponwars claiming descent from the great
Agnikula
clan of Paramaras. The ancestor of the Beri jagirdars was Diwan Mahma
Rai
of Karaiha in Gwalior, whose son, Diwan Achharaj Singh migrated to
Sandi
in Jalaun District, at the end of the eighteenth century. Rulers
were.....
- Diwan ACHARJYA SINGH [Achharaj Singh] 1753/-,
Jagirdar of
Beri, married the daughter of Maharaja JAGAT RAI of Jaitpur, and
received
a jagir worth 12 lakhs, including the villages of Umri, Dadri and
Chili,
married and had issue, 4 sons.
- Diwan KUMAN SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Gandharab Singh, married and
had issue.
- Kunwar Raoju Singh, married and had
issue.
- Kunwar Umrao Singh
- Kunwar Vijay Singh
- Diwan KUMAN SINGH -/1780, married and had
issue. He died
1780.
- Rao JUGAL PRASAD SINGH (qv)
- Rao JUGAL PRASAD SINGH 1780/1814,
received
a sanad from Nawab Ali Bahadur Banda, confirming him in his
possession
of the three villages (see above), however on the establishment of
British
supremacy, he was, in 1809, confirmed in his possession of Umri only.
Two
years later, in 1811, his claim to the two other villages was admitted,
but due to an inexpediency, they were exchanged for land of equal
value,
including the village of Beri.
- Rao PHERAN SINGH (adoptive son)
1814/1857, married and had issue.
- Rao VISHWANATH SINGH (qv)
- Rao VISHAWANATH SINGH 1857/1861,
adopted his
nephew as his successor. He died sp 1861.
- Rao VIJAY SINGH 1861/1880, born 14th
February 1848,
succeeded 18th March 1862 (#1),
married and had issue.
- Rao RAGHURAJ SINGH 1880/1904, married and had issue.
- Rao LOKENDRA SINGH 1904/1945, educated at Daly College,
Indore;
- HH Raja YADVENDRA SINGH 1945/1984, born 1918, married
Rajkumari Laxmi Kumari [HH Rani
Laxmi
Kumari of Beri],
daughter of Rao BIR SINGH Ju Deo of Bihat,
and
had issue. He died 1984.
- HH Raja SURENDRA SINGH Ju Deo (qv)
- Rajkumar Brijendra Singh, born 1944.
- HH Raja SURENDRA SINGH Ju Deo (see above)
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