PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Traditionally, the ancestor of the family was Raja Baikul Dev, son of
Raja Duleh Rai of Narwar (Dausa). The Rajas shifted their capital from
Indurkhi to Biswari to Lahar (now in Madhya Pradesh), and finally to
Rampur. One of his descendants was Raja Ram Shah, the founder of the
Rampura family, and who built a fort at Rampura in the late 16th
century, after defeating the Meaus, the original inhabitants of the
area. The area of the state originally consisted of 52 villages, which
extended from present Madhya Pradesh to the borders of districts
Jalaun, Etawah and Aurraiyya. Historically Rampura has been and
continues to be the base for the leader of the Kacahawa clan of Rajputs
of this area, which is referred to as Kacchawagarh. Rulers
were...
- Raja BAIKAL DEV, Raja of Indurkhi and later Biswari;
married and had issue.
- Raja INDRA PAL, Raja of Biswari, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Narsinghdeo
- Raja GIRDHAR PAL (qv)
- Kunwar Rajan Shah
- Raja GIRDHAR PAL, Raja of Biswari, married and had issue.
- Raja UDAL BRAHM, Raja of Biswari, married and had issue.
- Raja HANS RAO, Raja of Biswari, married and had issue.
- Raja RAM PAL, Raja of Biswari, married and had issue.
- Raja BIR PAL, Raja of Biswari, married and had issue.
- Raja RUP PAL, Raja of Biswari, married and had issue.
- Raja BHUWAN PAL (qv)
- Kunwar Ram Raj, the founder of Gopalpura
- Raja BHUWAN PAL, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja BHUPAL MAN, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja KARAN SHAH, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja RUDRA SHAH, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja BIRAM DEO, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue, four
sons.
- Raja NARHAR DEO (qv)
- Kunwar Sukhpat Deo, founder of either Sikri or Machand.
- Kunwar Pahar Deo, founder of either Sikri or Machand.
- Kunwar Banjan Deo, founder of Kaksis.
- Raja NARHAR DEO, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja HARISINGH DEO, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja BIRSINGH DEO, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja DHARMANGAD, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja BHARAMJIT, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja MAKAT MAN, Raja of Lahar, married and had issue.
- Raja RAM SHAH, he built the Rampura fort; married and had
issue.
- Raja PARBAT SINGH, married and had issue.
- Raja GAJ SINGH, married and had issue.
- Raja JASWANT SINGH, he received the Jagir of Rampura
comprising 46 villages in 1619 from the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir; this
was later taken by the Scindia ruler, except for 28 villages; married
and had issue.
- Raja CHHARTAR SINGH, married and had issue, three sons.
- Raja FATEH SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Kalyan Singh
- Kunwar Jit Singh
- Raja FATEH SINGH, married and had issue.
- Raja MADHO SINGH, he was confirmed in his possessions by
the British in 1844; he is said to have cut his wife’s head off for
snooping around during a darbar (court) session, the head was put in a
bag and hung in the temple, when it was finally opened in the 1940s’, a
coconut with a few blue bangles was found, since then blue bangles are
said to be unlucky for females of the family; he married and had issue.
- Raja MAN SINGH -/1873, conquered Gwalior for a day and
rendered valuable service to the British in 1857, later in June 1858,
his propertywas plundered by the rebels and the Raja narrowly escaped
death, on the restoration of order, he was granted a khilat of
5,000 rupees as well as a sanad; he adopted Kunwar Ram Singh of
Mai; married and had adoptive issue. He died 1873.
- Raja RAM SINGH 1873/1915, born 8th November
1866 (#1),
C.I.E. [cr. 1.1.1909] (#2), Honourary
Magistrate; married 1stly, Rani Saheba from Bansi (Sword Wife), died sp
after having adopted a son, married 2ndly, Rani Saheba from Khanpur,
married 3rdly, Rani Saheba from Sipai, and had issue. He died 7th March
1915.
- Kumari (name unknown) (by second marriage),
married into Umari.
- Kumari (name unknown) (by second marriage),
married into Kunadi.
- Raja CHITTAR SINGH (by third marriage) (qv)
- (A) Kumar (name unknown) [Lal Saheb of Tihar], he was
adopted by the Bansi Rani; married and had issue.
- Baisa Mankanthi Kumari, married Chandra Pal Singh of
Jatau, and had issue.
- Harinder Pal Singh, married Rooplata Singh, and
has issue, two children.
- Indrajit Singh, married Anuradha Singh
- Udajit Singh, married Anuparna Singh
- Jitendra Pal Singh, married Faith from England,
and has issue, three children.
- Pritam Singh, married Racheal.
- Radha Singh
- Priya Singh
- Thakurani Prafulla Kumari, married Gen. Thakur
Himmeth Singh of
Ajayrajpura, and has issue, one son.
- Raja CHITTAR SINGH 1915/1976, born 1914, succeeded at the
age of four
years, estate was managed by a British caretaker until he attained his
majority, awarded the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.); a well
known dog breeder and original Member of the Rampura Kennel Club;
married 1933,
Rani Shivraj Kunwar, daughter of Raja HARPAL SINGH of Singramau, born
1916, and had issue, one son and
one daughter. He died 1976.
- Raja SAMAR SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumari Kalpana Devi, married Thakur
Saheb VIRVIKRAMSINHJI MULVAJI of Lodhika-Senior,
and has issue.
- Raja SAMAR SINGH (see above)
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