PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1701 when Raja Kesho Das of Ratlam lost his state but was
compensated by the jagir of Sailana. Rulers were.......
- Raja KESHO DAS 1701/1748, during his reign in Ratlam prior
to 1701, an important Mughal officer was killed in Ratlam by
the state employees, as a result, the Mughal Emperor confiscated Ratlam
and Maharaja Keshav Das went to Sitamau, which was given in jagir to
him when he was forgiven by Padshah Aurangzeb, and he thus became the
1st Raja of Sitamau
in 1701, he married and had issue.
- Raja GAJ SINGH 1748/1752, married and had issue.
- Raja FATEH SINGH 1752/1802, married and had issue.
- Raja RAJ RAM SINH I 1802/1867, married and had issue.
- Rajkumar (name unknown)
Sinh, married and had issue.
- Raja BHAWANI SINH 1867/1885, married and had adoptive issue.
- (A) HH Raja BAHADUR SINH (qv)
- HH Raja BAHADUR SINH 1885/1899, born 1833, succeeded to the
gaddi by adoption on 8th
December 1885 (#1), married and had
adoptive issue.
- (A) HH Raja SHARDUL SINH (qv)
- HH Raja SHARDUL SINH 1899/1900, succeeded to the gaddi
by adoption in 1899.
- HH Raja Sir RAM SINH II Bahadur 1900/1967, adopted by his
predecessor, son of Thakur
DALEL SINH of Kachhi-Baroda,
born 1880, K.C.I.E. [cr.1911], married 1stly, 1902, HH Chauhaniji
Sahiba
died 1903, daughter of Maharawal Shri MOTISINHJI
JITSINHJI of Chhota-Udaipur,
married 2ndly, 1903, HH Rajawatiji Sahiba, died 1915, daughter of the
Thakur
of Baleri in Bikaner, married 3rdly, 1915, HH Natyaniji Sahib,
grand-daughter
of the Thakur of Marauli in Udaipur, and had issue. He died 25th May
1967.
- Rajkumar Dr. Raghubir Sinh, born 23rd February 1908,
M.A., LL.B.,
D.Litt.,
declined succession to the gaddi in favour of his eldest son,
President
of the Sitamau State Raiya Parishad (Legislature) 1939/1941 and
1945/1946,
Member of the Rajya Sabha 1952/1960, author of a large number of books
in Hindi and English; married HH Rani Mohan Kumari, daughter of Yuvraj
Man Singh of Pratapgarh,
and his second wife, Yuvrani
Bhuvaneshwari Devi, and had issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died 21st
February 1991.
- HH Raja KRISHAN SINH (qv)
- Kunwar Brijraj Singh, born 12th March 1939, married 6th
May 1967,
Kunwar
Rani Shrimati Rama Devi, daughter of HH Raja LAKSHMAN SEN of Suket, and his wife, HH Rani Kalawati.
He died 20th May 1967.
- Maharani (name unknown)
Kumari, married Maharawal DIGVIRENDRA SINGH of Bansda.
- Rani Rama Kumari, married Raja Ramkrishnaju Deo of
Jeypore (Orissa).
- H.E. Rajkumar Raghunath Sinh, born 6th February 1912,
with the Indian
Foreign
Service, serving as Ambassador to many countries around the world,
married
Raj Kumarani Indumati Sinh, and had issue.
- Kunwar Sahib Jay Sinhji, worked with Air India and
retired as the
Deputy
Commercial Director in 1997, married Kunwar Rani Sahiba Asha Kumari,
daughter
of the Raja Sahib of Chaugain in Bihar and his wife, Rani Sushila
Kumari
of Churhat, and has issue.
- Ajatshatru Sinhji, educated in the U.K., married 22nd
November 2002,
Kumari
Taruna Kumari, born 1972, daughter of Rajkumar Dalip Singh of Keonthal,
and his wife, Rajkumar Rani Mankya
Kumari, and has issue.
- Ambika Kumari [Tikka Rani Sahiba Ambika Kumari of
Mandi], born in
Lusaka,
Zambia, educated in Rome, Italy and the U.K. for five years, married
25th
November 2001, Tikka Omeshwar Singh of Mandi.
- Kunwar Sahib Ajai Sinhji, married Kunwarani Sahiba
Shashi Kumari of Palaitha
in Kotah, and has issue, two children.
- Ratan Sinh Rathore, married Rohini Singh from Una in
Himachal
Pradesh.
- Anshuman Sinh Rathore
- Kunwar Sahib Raj Sinhji, married Maharaj Kumari Sahiba
Brijraj Kumari, daughter of HH Maharajadhiraj Mirzan Maharao Shri
MADANSINGHJI
VIJAYRAJJI Sawai
Bahadur
of Kutch,
and his wife, HH
Maharani
Rajendra
Kunverba, and has issue.
- Dhananjay Sinh
- Baijilal Aparajita Kumari
- Baijilal Vijayeta Kumari
- Baijilal Abhilasha Kumari
- HH Raja KRISHAN SINH 1967/2008, joined the Indian Police
Service in 1959 and was a
distinguished officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. He had an abiding
interest
in equitation and owned a number of horses; he married HH Rani
Yogeshwari Kumari, daughter of Colonel HH 108 Sri Maharaj Adhiraj Raj
Rajeshwar Ravi Kula
Bushana-Mahi
Mahindra Yavadarya Kula Kamaldhivakara Chattis Rajkul Singar Maharana
Shri BHAGWAT SINGH Bahadur Hindua Suraj Hindupati of Udaipur, and his wife, HH
Maharani
Sushila Kunwari, and had issue. He died May 2008.
- Rajkumari Vindhyeshwari Kumari
- HH Raja PURANJAY SINH (qv)
- Rajkumar Mritunjay Sinh
- HH Raja PURANJAY SINH (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Princess of Sitamau, married Sawai Rao KESRI SINGH of Bijolian, and had issue.
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