PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Originally
part of the lands held by the Garha Mandla Gonds, and was taken by Raja
Chattar Sal, the founder of Panna. On the partition of territory among
his sons, Bijawar fell to Raja Jagat Rai as part of Jaitpur and he
later
granted it to his son in 1765. Rulers were...
- Raja BIR SINGH DEO 1765/1793, gradually
extended
his holdings by force of arms, but was killed fighting Ali Bahadur and
Himmat Bahadur of Banda, married and had issue. He died 1793
- Yuvaraj Dhaunkal Singh, died vpsp.
- Raja KESHRI SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Khuman Singh
Nawab HIMMAT BAHADUR 1793/1802 (Usurper)
- Raja KESHRI SINGH 1802/1810, the
state was restored
to Raja Kesri Singh by Himmat Bahadur, by a sanad in 1802, married and
had issue, 4 sons. He died 1810
- Raja RATAN SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Khet Singh, married and had
issue.
- Kunwar Shatrujit Singh
- Kunwar Maharaj Deo
- Raja RATAN SINGH 1810/1833, granted a
sanad confirming
his possession of the state in 1811, instituted state coinage. He died sp
1833.
- Raja LAKSHMAN SINGH 1833/1847, married and had issue.
- HH Maharaja Sawai BHAN PRATAP SINGH
Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharaja Sawai BHAN PRATAP SINGH
Bahadur 1847/1899, born 24th December 1842, succeeded 23rd November
1847 (#1),
granted a valuable khilat and a hereditary salute of eleven
guns
for his help to the British, during the Indian Mutiny in 1857, he was
granted
a sanad of adoption in 1862 and the titles of Maharaja
[cr.1866]
and Maharaja Sawai [cr.1877], but his maladministration placed the
state
into financial difficulties and an administrator was appointed in 1897,
he adopted Kunwar Sawant Singh, second son of the Maharaja Pratap Singh
Ju Deo of Orchha in 1898. He died sp
1899.
 HH Bharat Dharmendra Maharaja Sawai Sir SAWANT SINGH
Bahadur 1899/1940,
born 25th November 1877, K.C.I.E. [cr.1911], married HH Maharani
Kanchan Kunwar, sister of Rao Hira Singh Ju Dev of Karahia (father of
Kunwarani Usha Kumari (née Hirendra Kumari) of Ajaigarh). He died spl 30th
October
1940.
- HH Maharaja Sawai GOVIND SINGH 1940/1983, born 17th June
1934, son of
Kunwar
Malkhan Singh of Lakhanguwan and descendant of Raja Bir Singh Deo, 1st
Raja of Sarila, married HH Maharani Mohini Kumari of Wankaner, and had issue. He died 9th
July 1983 in New York.
- HH Maharaja Sawai JAI SINGH (qv)
- HH Maharaja Sawai JAI SINGH (see above)
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