PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY: Guru Nanak Devji was a Surya Vanshi, a
descendant of Lord Ram through his son Khush, while the Sodhi’s are the
descendants
of Lord Ram through Luv.
Predecessors
were....
- Sri Baba GURU NANAK DEVJI ,
born 1469, married and had issue. He died 1539.
- Baba Shri Chand, Udasin, he renounced the world
and never married
- Baba LAXMI CHAND (qv)
- Baba LAXMI CHAND, born 1497, married and had issue. He
died 1556.
- Baba DHARAM CHAND, born 1524, married and had issue. He died
1618.
- Baba MANIK CHAND (qv)
- Baba Mehar Chand, married and had issue.
- Baba DATAR CHAND (qv)
- Baba Jagat Chand
- Baba Hans Raj
- Baba Anayat Chand
- Baba Gurdit Chand
- Baba DATAR CHAND, married and had issue.
- Baba PAHAR CHAND (qv)
- Baba Tara Chand
- Baba Fateh Chand
- Baba Uday Chand
- Baba PAHAR CHAND, married and had issue.
- Baba HARKARAN CHAND (qv)
- Baba Mansa Chand
- Baba Asa Chand
- Baba Suraj Chand
- Baba HARKARAN CHAND, married and had issue.
- Baba NIHAL CHAND (qv)
- Baba Harjass
- Baba Deep Chand
- Baba Sikhdev
- Baba NIHAL CHAND, married and had issue.
- Baba KALADHARI (qv)
- Baba Lajadhari
- Baba Kaur Singh
- Baba Dhram Singh
- Baba KALADHARI, he attracted a crowd of
followers who flocked to hear
his eloquent disquisition on the Granth Sahib, a book as
difficult of
understanding then as in the present day. Raja Ram Singh of Jaswal
granted him the revenue of seventy ghumaons
of land, he married and had issue. He died 1736.
- Baba AJIT SINGH (qv)
- Baba Sagar Chand
- Baba Avtar Chand
- Baba AJIT SINGH, he was the first Bedi to become a khalsa;
married Mata Sarupah Devi, and had issue. He died 1773 in Calcutta.
- Baba SAHIB SINGH 1773/1834, born 5th April 1756 at Dera
Baba Nanak, Gurdaspur
district, around 1770, his parents
shifted from Dera Baba Nanak to
Una, a town now in Himachal Pradesh in the Sivalik foothills, where the
family held extensive jagirs, succeeded to the ancestral
estate on the death of his father in 1773, he acquired great influence
in the Jalandhar Doab and the Majha
region and in 1794 he led a punitive campaign against the Afghan ruler
of Malerkotla, but
Patiala, Nabha, Jind and Kalsia troops intervened on behalf of the
Nawab and Sahib Singh withdrew after receiving a war indemnity, in 1798
he occupied Ludhiana and Mansuran, he led Sikh resistance to the Afghan
of northern India 1796-1798, he took part in the Battle of Bhasin in
March 1800, helping Maharaja Ranjit Singh against Gulab Singh Bhangi,
he was granted the whole of the Una Taluka in 1804 by Raja Ummed Singh
of
Jaswal, a grant which was
confirmed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1816 and about the same
time he received Nurpur Taluka from Sardar Budh Singh, later in his
life, Baba Sahib
Singh devoted himself entirely to preaching Guru Nanak's word,
travelling extensively in the Pothohar, Majha and Malva regions; he
married and had issue. He died 17th July 1834 at Una.
- Baba BISHEN SINGH (qv)
- Baba Tej Singh
- Baba BIKRAM SINGH of Una (in Hoshiarpur District) -/1863,
he fought in the Anglo-Sikh wars, he
was granted Talhatti by
Maharaja Sher Singh, and after the
annexation of the Jullundur Doab by the British
in 1846, Baba Bikram Singh was one of the few powerful Jagirdars left
in the area; he married and had issue. He died in exile at Amritsar in
1863.
- Baba SUJAN SINGH 1863/1919 of Una, born 1845, married
and
had issue.
He died 1919.
- Baba RAM KISHAN SINGH 1919/- of Una, born 1874,
married
and had
issue.
- Baba SANWAL SINGH of Una, born 1898, married and
had
issue.
- Baba SARABJOT SINGH, present Head of the
family (Una), married Bibiji Neera Kaur.
- Baba BISHEN SINGH of Kallar 1834/1839, married
and had issue. He died 1839.
- Baba ATTAR SINGH, he married and had issue. He was
murdered on
25th
November 1839.
- Baba Sampuran Singh, with his brother, he
inherited
jagirs
in the jalandhar Doab along with 41 villages in Dipalpur tahsil of of
Gugera,
later Montgomery (Sahival) district; 14 of these villages were resumed
by the British on the annexation of the Punjab in 1849.
- Baba Raja Sir KHEM SINGH BEDI (qv)
- Baba Raja Sir KHEM SINGH BEDI (Photo)
©,
K.C.I.E. [cr.1898],
C.I.E. [cr.1879], 14th spiritual head of the Sikh community, born on 21
February
1832 at Kallar, a small town in Rawalpindi district, now in Pakistan;
in 1857 he assisted the
British in quelling a local revolt in Gugera district distingushing
himself in the battle for which recieved a khill'at or robe of honour of the
value of 1,000
rupees and a double barreled rifle; a philanthropist, with his help at
least fifty schools for boys and girls were established in the Punjab,
he donated
substantial sums for religious and charitable purposes; he was
appointed a magistrate
in 1877 and an honorary munsif in 1878, he was nominated to the
Viceroy's Legislative Council
in 1893, and again in 1897 when the Indian council Act was extended to
the Punjab; he married and had issue. He died at Montgomery on 10th
April
1905.
- Baba Raja Sir GURBAKSH SINGH (qv)
- Baba Hara Singh, married and had issue.
- Kanwar Mahindar Singh, married and had issue.
- Unknown, married and had issue.
- Gitanjali Devi, married Malvinder Singh Sodhi.
- Baba Ujagar Singh, married and has issue.
- Tika Sant Singh
- Shamshere Singh Bedi, served as Flying Officer with the
R.I.A.F. in Burma; married and had issue.
- Karan Singh Bedi
- Ashok Singh Bedi
- Ravi Singh Bedi, married and has issue.
- Brig. Manmohan Singh Bedi
- Baba Kartar Singh of Haridwar, married and has issue.
- Baba Avtar Singh, married and has issue.
- Baba Hardit Singh, married and has issue.
- Tika Jagjit Singh
- Kanwar Mahindar Singh, poet.
- Kanwar Lejinder Singh
- Kanwar Surinder Singh
- [Daughter,
married Sodhi Tikka Ramnarain Singh of Anandpur, and had issue. She
died 1939.
- Daughter,
married Sardar DARSHAN SINGH of Vahali,
born 1891, (he married 2ndly, a
daughter of Bedi Ram Rakha Singh of Rampur
and grand-daughter of Sodhi Narindar Singh Kuraliwala of Anandpur) and
had
issue.]
- Unknown, married and had issue.
- Daughter, married Raja JAGAT KUMAR SINGH of Sahaspur, and had issue.
- Baba Raja Sir GURBAKSH SINGH 1905/1946 of Kallar, born
1862, married and
had issue, three sons and one daughter. He died 1946.
- Baba SURINDER SINGH (qv)
- Baba Daya Singh, he was the first Indian (along with
Iskander Mirza, later President of Pakistan) to pass out of the Royal
Military College at Sandhurst; Indian High Commissioner to Australia
1948/1951 and Chief Commissioner of Coorg State 1952/1956; he married
and had issue. He died 1975.
- Baba Dhanwant Singh, married and has issue, one son.
- Rani Kaushalya Devi, married Sodhi Harnam Singh of
Sodhinagar.
- Baba SURINDER SINGH 1946/- of Kallar, born 1897, married
and had issue, six sons.
- Baba (name unknown) Singh, married and had issue.
- Baba GAJINDER SINGH BEDI (qv)
- Baba GAJINDER SINGH BEDI (see above)
|
