PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
At
the end of the 17th century, Jat Baija, Zamindar of the village of
Sansani
took advantage of the weakness of the Sultanate of Delhi to enlarge his
territory. His descendents, Churaman Singh and Badan Singh continued,
the
latter being the founder of the fortress of Bharatpur in 1724. The
rulers
were...
- Khan Chand, Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats, had issue.
- Jhujha Singh
- Bhajja Singh, Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats 1688/-, married
and had issue.
- Raja Ram, Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats -/1688, married
and had issue. He
died 4th July 1688.
- Brajraj Singh, married 1stly Indra Kaur, 2ndly Amrit
Kaur, daughter of
Chaudhri Chandra Singh of Chiksana and had issue.
- Churaman Singh (ex Amrit), Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats
-/1721, married
and had issue. He died October 1721.
- Mokham Singh, Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats 1721/1722
- Zulkaran Singh
- Than Singh
- Bakhtawar Singh
- Chand Singh
- Kirat Singh
- Sujan Singh
- Devi Singh
- Kiran Singh
- Ati Ram (ex Amrit)
- Gaj Singh
- Budh Singh
- Khushal Singh
- Bhav Singh (ex Amrit), married daughter of Achal Singh
of Sogharaia and
had issue.
- Roop Singh
- Thakur BADAN SINGH (see below)
- Thakur BADAN SINGH 1722/1756,
married
and had issue,
26 sons. He died July 1756 at Deeg.
- Maharaja SURAJ MAL (qv)
- Kanwar Pratap Singh
- Kanwar Akhai Singh
- Kanwar Balram Singh
- Kanwar Bijay Singh
- Kanwar Birnarayan Singh
- Kanwar Dalel Singh
- Kanwar Duleh Singh
- Kanwar Devi Singh
- Kanwar Guman Singh
- Kanwar Himmat Singh
- Kanwar Jodh Singh
- Kanwar Khushal Singh
- Kanwar Khem Karan Singh
- Kanwar Lal Singh
- Kanwar Man Singh
- Kanwar Medh Singh
- Kanwar Udai Singh
- Kanwar Sultan Singh
- Kanwar Sukh Ram Singh
- Kanwar Sakat Singh
- Kanwar Sabha Ram Singh
- Kanwar Ram Kishan Singh
- Kanwar Ram Bal Singh
- Kanwar Ram Prem Singh
- Maharaja SURAJ MAL 1756/1763, born
1707, created Raja
Brajendra Bahadur, married 14 wives, including, (a) Rani Kishori,
(b)
Rani Lakshmi, (c) Rani Hansia, (d) Rani Ganga, (e) Rani Kavaria, (f)
Rani
Khet Kumari and had issue. He died 25th December 1763.
- Kanwar Nahar Singh (ex Rani
Hansia)
- Maharaja JAWAHIR SINGH (ex Rani
Ganga) (qv)
- Maharaja RATAN SINGH (ex Rani
Ganga)
(qv)
- Maharaja NAWAL SINGH (ex Rani
Kavaria) (qv)
- Maharaja RANJIT SINGH (ex Rani
Khet
Kumari) (qv)
- Maharaja JAWAHIR SINGH 1763/1768,
died
1768.
- Maharaja RATAN SINGH 1768/1771 or
1768/1769
- Maharaja KESHRI SINGH (son) 1771 or
1769/1776, died
1776.
Kanwar NAWAL SINGH 1771/1776 (Regent),
died 1776.
- Maharaja RANJIT SINGH
1776/1805,
married and had
issue. He died 1805.
- Maharaja RANDHIR SINGH (qv)
- Maharaja BALDEO SINGH (qv)
- Maharaj Lachman Singh, married
and
had issue.
- Maharaja DURJAN SAL (qv)
- Maharaj Madho Singh
- Maharaj Umrao Singh
- Maharaj Bakhat Singh
- Maharaj Prithvi Singh
- Maharaja RANDHIR SINGH 1805/1823
- Maharaja BALDEO SINGH 1823/1825,
married and had
issue.
- Maharaja BALWANT SINGH (qv)
- Maharaja DURJAN SAL 1825/1826
(usurper)
- Maharaja BALWANT SINGH 1826/1853,
born
1819, died
1853.
- Maharaja JASHWANT SINGH 1853/1893,
born
1851, married
(amongst others) 1859, Rani Bishan Kaur of Patiala and had issue. He
died
25th December 1893.
- Maharaja RAM SINGH (qv)
- Rao Raja Raghunath Singh, born
1887,
educated at
Mayo College, Ajmer 1895/1905 (Class-Captain 1903/05), then with the
Imperial
Cadet Corps, Dehra Dun.
- SON (ex Rani Bishan Kaur), died
4th
December 1869.
- HH Shri Brijindar Sawai Maharaja
RAM
SINGH Bahadur
Jang 1893/1900, born 9th September 1872, married and had issue.
- Lt.Col. HH Shri Maharaja
Brajendra
Sawai KISHEN SINGH
Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaj Giriraj Singh
-
 Lt.Col.
HH Shri Maharaja Brajendra Sawai KISHEN SINGH Bahadur 1900/1929, born
4th
October 1899, K.C.S.I. [cr.1926], married the sister of the Maharaja of
Faridkot
and had issue. He died 27th March 1929.
- HH Shri Maharaja Sawai VRIJENDRA
SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumar Gajendra Singh, died
1940.
- Maharajkumar Edward Man Singh,
born
1922, married
a Princess of Kagal, and had issue. He died 1985.
- Rajkumari Krishnendra Kaur,
born
10th April 1954,
married 26th April 1982, Shri Vijay Singh of Sirohi, and has issue.
- Maharajkumar Giriraj Saran Singh,
M.P.(Lok Sabha)
from Mathura, serving two terms, married 1stly, January 1942
(div.1958),
Maharajkumari Sushila Devi of Kapurthala,
born 14th December 1918 at Kapurthala, died 1974 in Simla, married
2ndly,
1962, Mrs. Pamela Singh (divorced from her first husband), and had
issue.
He died December 1969.
- Rajkumar Anup Singh, born 25th December 1942, educated
at Bishop Cotton
School, Simla and Cornell University in the U.S.A., studying a course
in
agricultural management, married 1stly, 1969 (div. 1974), Kumari Vijaya
Kumari, born 1951, daughter of Thakur Gopal Singh of Bhajji State, a
forest
range officer better known as Mooshoo Mian, married 2ndly, May 1980,
Surrinder
Kaur, born 1946, a Sikh lady from Shahzadpur jagir in Haryana, no
issue.
- Rajkumar Arun Singh [Prince Oogie],
born 13th February
1947, educated
at Bishop Cotton
School, Simla and at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University; M.L.A.
(three times) from Deeg constituency in Bharatpur District, first
elected
M.L.A.in 1993 as an independent. He was twice an independent M.L.A. and
the third time he stood and won from the I.N.L.D. party ticket. He died
unmarried 15th
March 2006 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital of
kidney
failure. His body was taken to
Bharatpur on the same day, and he was given a state funeral (as he was
an
M.L.A.) at the Bharatpur Royal Cemetary.
- Col. HH Shri Maharaja Sawai
VRIJENDRA
SINGH Bahadur
1929/1995, born 1st December 1918, married 1stly June 1941, Maharani
Shri
Jayachamundammani of Mysore, died 1954,
married 2ndly (divorced 1972), Maharani Videh Kaur of the Urs family of
Mysore, died 1985, by whom he had issue. He died 8th July 1995.
- Maharajkumari Parvat Kaur,
married
Kanwar Harinderjit Singh,
and has issue, 2 sons and one daughter.
- Kanwar Jagjit Singh, married Kanwarani Padmani
Kumari of Jasdan.
- Maharajkumari Pushpendra Kaur,
married Rana Krishna
Shamsher (no issue).
- Maharajkumari Renuka Kaur,
married
Kanwar Mahinder
Singh (no issue).
- Maharajkumari Deergh Kaur [HH
Maharani Deergh Kaur], married 12th December 1970 at Bharatpur, HH
Maharaja HANUWANT SINGH Malvinder Bahadur of Nabha,
and has issue, two sons.
- Maharajkumari Rohini/Ganga Kaur,
married Sardar Rabindra
Bir Singh Grewal, son of Princess Ruby Rajbir Kaur of Jind, and has issue, one son, Kanwar Govind
Singh Grewal.
- HH Shri Maharaja VISHVENDRA SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- HH Shri Maharaja VISHVENDRA SINGH
Bahadur (see
above)
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born 23rd
June 1962 at Moti Mahal, Bharatpur. Succeeded his father 8th July 1995.
Chairman, Zila Parishad, Distt. Bharatpur, Rajasthan 1988/89,
member
of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (for five years) 1989/94, member
of the 9th (1989/1991), 13th (1999) and 14th (2004) Lok Sabha, member
of
the Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests
1999/2004,
Member of the Committee on Personal, Public Grievance, Law &
Justice
2004; interests include wildlife, squash and tennis. Married 15th
February
1989, HH Maharani Divya Kumari born 6th November 1963 in Lucknow,
daughter
of Raja SURENDRA SINGH Ju Dev of Behri, B.A.,
educated at Isabella Thorburn College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Member
of
the Zila Parishad, Bharatpur.
Elected to the 11th Lok Sabha 1996. On
12th May 2006, she was declared elected to the Vidhan Sabha from Deeg constituency
(BJP) in
a bye election as a result of the death of Shri Arun Singh (Rajkumar
Arun Singhji of Bharatpur, see below), and has
issue, one son.