PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1785, the rulers were..
- Raja SONE SHAH 1785/1816 , married and
had issue,
five sons. He died 1816.
- Raja PRATAP SINGH (eldest son) (qv)
- Kunwar Bakht Singh (fifth son), made
over his jagir
to his brother and received a cash allowance of 2,250Rs monthly,
married
and had issue.
- Kunwar (name unknown)
Singh, married and had issue.
- Raja JAGAT RAJ SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Raja PRATAP SINGH Bahadur 1816/1854,
granted the
title of Raja Bahadur in 1827. He died sp 1854 (#2).
- Raja JAGAT RAJ SINGH Bahadur 1854/1867,
born 1846,
granted a sanad of adoption in 1862, married and had issue. He
died
1867.
- HH Maharaja Sir VISHWANATH SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharaja Sir VISHWANATH SINGH
Bahadur 1867/1932,
born 29th August 1866, succeeded 14th November 1866 (#1)(#3),
commenced to administer his state in 1887 and received enhanced
criminal
powers in 1894, Maharaja (Personal)[cr. 1895], (Hereditary) [cr.1919],
married 1stly, 1884, a daughter of HH Maharaja PRATAP SINGH of Orchha,
died sp 1920, married 2ndly, a lady from Paigram, and had
issue.
He died 1932.
- HH Maharaja BHAWANI SINGH Bahadur (by 2nd marriage) (qv)
- HH Maharaja BHAWANI SINGH Bahadur 1932/2006, born 1921,
educated at Daly College, Indore; Head of the
Bundelkhand
Ponwars or Pamars, a local section of the great Agnikula clan which
separated
from the parent branch in the 13th century, married a daughter of
Thakur Shankar
Pratap Singh Karaiya, a noble of Charkhari State, and had issue. He
died 2006.
- Yuvaraj Balwant Singh, married Yuvrani Kumkum Kumari,
daughter of HH
Maharaja
Mahendra NARENDRA SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur of Panna,
and had issue, 1 son. He died 1990.
- HH Maharaja BIKRAM SINGH
Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharaja BIKRAM SINGH
Bahadur (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Shankar Pratap Singh [alias Munna
Raja], uncle of Vikram Singh [alias Nati Raja]
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