PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Maharaja Chattarsal of the Bundela clan conquered the area now known as
Bundelkhand from the Mughals in the 17th century. One of his grandsons,
Raja Pahar Singh of Jaitpur, received Sarila. Rulers
were...
- Raja AMAN SINGH 1755/1788, son of
Raja
Pahar Singh
of Jaitpur, built Sarila Fortress, married and had issue, 2 sons. He
died 1788.
- Raja TEJ SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Khet Singh
- Raja TEJ SINGH 1788/1818, married and had issue, 2 sons.
- Raja ANIRUDH SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Budh Singh
- Raja ANIRUDH SINGH 1818/1842, married and had issue.
- Raja HINDUPAT SINGH 1842/1871, married twice and died sp
1871.
- Raja KHALLAK SINGH 1871/1882, son of Kunwar Samar
Singh, son of
Kunwar
Bakht Singh (descendant of Raja Jagatraj Singh of Jaitpur), adopted to
Sarila gaddi, married and
had issue. He died 1882.
- Raja PAHAR SINGH 1882/1898, born 1875, succeeded 19th
August 1882 (#1), married and had issue.
He died 1898.
- Maharaja MAHIPAL SINGH Ju Deo (qv)
- Raja MAHIPAL SINGH Ju Deo 1898/1983, C.S.I.
[cr.1939], born
posthumously
11th September 1898, invested with ruling powers 5th November 1919,
educated
at Daly College, Indore; represented small princely states at the First
and Second Indian
Round Table Conferences in London 1931 and 1932; Secretary of the
General
Council and Working Committee, Daly College; he signed the Instrument
of Accession of Sarila State to the Indian Union in 1947 and the merger
Agreement of 1948, by which he gave up his powers, Sarila State ceased
to exist and later merged into Uttar Pradesh, he married 1919, Rani
Bhawani
Kunwar, a daughter of the Thakur of Basela, and had issue, 5 sons and 3
daughters. He died January 1983.
- Raja NARENDRA SINGH Ju Deo (qv)
- HH Maharajadhiraj JAYENDRA SINGH Ju Deo (+), succeeded to
Charkhari in 1942 by
adoption (Charkhari's separate status also ended in 1948).
- Maharaj Virendra Singh Ju Deo (+), married Rani
Veena
Kumari, daughter
of Thakur Bhagirath Singh of Khatipura in Jaipur State, and had issue.
- Maharaj Upendra Singh Ju Deo [Prince Nati], educated at
The Doon
School,
Dehra Dun, India and the Institute Ceasar Ritz, Switzerland; married
(div. 2007), Rani
Nanki Singh, daughter of Dr. Ravi Singh and Anjali Singh, educated at
Aiglon
College, Switzerland and L.S.E., London.
- Rajkumari Archana Kumari, educated at Welham Girls
School, Dehra Dun,
India
and LSR College Delhi, Group Editor of Cross Section Publications.
- Rajkumari Arpana Kumari, educated at Welham Girls
School, Dehra Dun,
India
and LSR College Delhi, married Maharaj Yaduvendra Singh of Samode,
and has issue.
- Maharaj Nripendra Singh Ju Deo (+), married Rani
Kumudni
Kumari, and
had
issue.
- Rajkumari Mandira Kumari, married Ajay Khaitan.
- Maharaj Abhay Singh, married Rani Himani Kumari, and
has issue.
- Thakurani Sushil Kumari, married Thakur Shivraj Singh of
Khatipura in
Jaipur,
and has issue, two daughters.
- Thakurani Joy Kumari, married Thakur
Shri
KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI
DHARMENDRASINHJI, Thakur of Chuda.
- Rani Vibha Kumari, married Shri
Saurya
Shumsher Jung Bahadur
Rana of Nepal.
- Rajkumari Saral Kumari (+)
- Rani Rajendra Kumari, married Raja Dilawer Singh of
Gamph, and has
issue,
two children.
- Rajkumari Preeti Kumari, married
Kunwar
Gajendra Singh of Khimsar
in Jodhpur State, and has issue.
- Kunwar Jaideep Singh (+)
- Rajkumar Devendra Singh, married Rani Sushma Kumari.
- Raja NARENDRA SINGH Ju Deo (see above)
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born
2nd January 1927 as heir to the Raja of Sarila, a Princely State in
Central India, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, Allahabad University
and Magdalene College, Cambridge; former officer of the Indian Foreign
Service 1948/1985, ADC in 1948 to Lord Mountbatten, Governor-General of
India, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Indian Delegation to the
U.N. in New York 1963/1965, Officer on Special Duty, Kashmir Affairs
1967/1968,
Joint Secretary dealing with Pakistan and then UN affairs in the
External
Affairs Ministry 1968/1972, Special Delegate to the Indian
Delegation
to the UN during the Bangladesh crisis and war in 1971, Ambassador to
Spain
1972/1974; Ambassador to Brazil 1974/1977; Ambassador to Libya, with
concurrent
accreditation to Malta 1977/1981; Ambassador to Switzerland with
concurrent
accreditation to the Vatican 1981/1982 and Ambassador to France
1982/1985,
from which post he retired from the Indian Foreign Service. Served as
Chairman
of the Board of Nestle India Ltd. from 1994 to 2000 and is now Chairman
(Emeritus) of Nestle India Ltd. He has also been Adviser to the
European
Round Table (of leading Industrialists) Brussels. He has contributed
articles
on political affairs in the Internal Herald Tribune, The Times of India
and other foreign and Indian journals. Author of the book "The Shadow
of the Great Game; The Untold Story of India's Partition", published by
Harper Collins, India, 2005 and best seller in the Non Fiction
Category. He played in the Ranji Trophy Cricket Tournament for
Rajasthan
in 1944/1945 and for Uttar Pradesh in 1945/1946, married 1stly, 1945
(sep.'d. February 1947, div.), Rani Rohini Devi of Ali Rajpur,
married 2ndly, 17th
May
1955 in Dhera Dun (div.1959), Countess Rita von Oberndorff, born 29
October
1930 in 's-Gravenhage, married 3rdly, June 1972 in Madrid, Kumari
Shefali
Kunwar [Rani Shefali Kunwar of Sarila], born 1950, daughter of
the late Raja Dhian Singh of Sheikhupura
Estate, now in Pakistan, and has issue.
