PRESENT RULER: Dewan
ANIRUDDHA SINGH BHADAURIA, Dewan Saheb of Parna since June 1976. (Chhoti
Haveli, 23/296 Wazir Pura Agra - 282003, India)
born 9th July 1969 in Agra, educated at Agra University (B.Sc.);
married 20th November 2000, Rani Jayeshree Singh Baghela of Bhikampur
Thikana in Rewa, and has issue, one son and two daughters.
- Kunwar Chandrash Singh Bhadauria
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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The
Dewans of Parna are the head of the Athbhaiya section of the Bhadauriya
Rajputs. Kunwar Hriday Narayan, son of Maharaj Pratap Rudra of
Bhadawar,
was
the first dewan of Parna. The title and the estate was bestowed on him
by his brother, Raja Mukutman of Bhadawar, sometime in the latter part
of the 16th
century and was recognised as hereditary by the British Government in
1910. The dewans of Parna were also hereditary dewans of the Bhadawar
state.
- Dewan HRIDAY NARAYAN, eldest son of Raja PRATAP RUDRA of Bhadawar, and his wife, a
daughter of Raja Shyam Singh
Chandel of
Shivrajpur, he was overlooked in the succession, but was compensated by
his brother, with the estate of Parna and the title of Dewan, sometime
after 1550.
-
Dewan CHET SINGH -/1920, O.B.E., served as an honourary
magistrate within Parna; co- founder of the Central
Cooperative Bank (Parna) along with Raja Mahendra Maan Singh of
Bhadawar; honourary Managing Director of the Central
Cooperative Bank (Parna); member of the Agra
district board; he was awarded the Order of the British Empire
for
providing recruits during the first world war. He died 31st August 1920.
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