PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in the 16th Century. This was a small sanad state of about 213 square
miles,
separated into two sections by the Kothi state. Its founder, Fatehsingh
was one of the two sons of Maharaja Amarsingh of Rewa. He had revolted
against his father in the sixteenth century. Originally the state was
of
considerable extent including Birsinghpur, Kothi and other tracts in
the
neighbourhood. On the rise of Panna under Chhatrasal, Sohawal became a
tributary but retained its independence. Later on, however, Jagatrai
and
Hardeshah, sons of Chhatrasal, actually seized much of its territory,
while
the Kothi chief, taking advantage of these disturbances, threw off his
allegiance, and attacked and killed the Sohawal chief, Prithipal Singh.
On the establishment of British supremacy in nineteenth century,
Sohawal
was first held to be subordinate to Panna. But a separate sanad was
granted
to Rais Amansingh in 1809 on the ground that, the state had existed
before
Chhatrasal's rise to power and had remained independent throughout the
supremacy of Ali Bahadur of Banda.
- Rais FATEH SINGH, founder of Sohawal, son of Raja AMAR
SINGH of Rewah,
fl.16th century.
- ......
- Rais PRITHIPAL SINGH fl.1700
- ......
- Rais Lal AMAN SINGH 1809/-
- Rais RAGHUNATH SINGH -/1830
INTERREGNUM 1830/1833
- Rais AMAN SINGH 1833/1840
- Rais SHEO SINGH 1840/1865
- Raja SHER JANG BAHADUR SINGH 1865/1899, born 5th January
1853, succeeded
1st November 1865 (#1), the title of Raja
was
granted as a personal distinction only.
- Raja BHAGWANT RAJ BAHADUR SINGH 1899/1930 C.I.E. [cr.1916],
born 7th August
1878 and succeeded 23rd November 1899.
- Raja JAGENDRA BAHADUR SINGH 1930/-
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