PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The thikana was founded in 1673. Estate holders
were....
- Raja LAL SINGH,
1st Raja of Raghogarh 1673/1697
- Raja DHIRAJ SINGH,
2nd Raja of Raghogarh 1697/1726
- Raja GAJ SINGH,
3rd Raja of Raghogarh 1726/1729
- Raja VIKRAMJEET
SINGH, 4th Raja of Raghogarh 1730/1744
- Raja BALBHADRA
SINGH I, 5th Raja of Raghogarh 1744/1770,
married and had issue.
- Raja Balwant Singh (qv)
- Raja Budh Singh, he was granted a tract of land by
his brother in 1776, which later became the state of
Maksudangarh, married and had issue (see
Maksudangarh). He died 1795.
- Raja BALWANT SINGH,
6th Raja of Raghogarh 1770/1797, married and had
issue.
- Raja JAI SINGH,
7th Raja of Raghogarh 1797/1818, died sp 1818.
- Raja AJIT SINGH,
8th Raja of Raghogarh 1818/1857, married and had
issue.
- Raja Jaimandal Singh (qv)
- Raja JAI MANDAL
SINGH, 9th Raja of Raghogarh 1857/1900, born
1821, succeeded 1857 (#1),
married (amongst others), Rajkumari Anand Kumari [Rani
Anand Kumari of Raghogarh], daughter of Raja Udai
Singhji of Banera, and
his wife, Rani Jhaliji, and had issue.
- Raja Bikramajit Singh (qv)
- Rajkumari (name
unknown), married 1875, the Raja of
Sheopur-Baroda.
- Raja BIKRAMAJIT
SINGH, 10th Raja of Raghogarh 1900/1902
- Raja BAHADUR SINGH,
11th Raja of Raghogarh 1902/1945, born 8th March 1891,
succeeded 14th December 1902; married (a), Baijilal
Krishna Kumari [Rani Krishna Kumari of Raghogarh],
daughter of Raja Akshay Singh of Banera, and his third
wife, Rani Shubhra Kumari, married (b), Baisaheb Manak
Kunverba, daughter of Maharaj Saheb Dalel Singh of Kachhi-Baroda, and
had issue.
- Raja Balbhadra Singh (qv)
- Raja BALBHADRA
SINGH II, 12th Raja of Raghogarh 1945/1967,
born 1914, elected to the first Vidhan Sabha, married
Rani Aparna Kumari, died 1986, daughter of Maharaja
Bahadur Chandra Mouleshwar Prasad Singh of Gidhaur, and had issue.
He died 1967.
- Raja Digvijay Singh (qv)
-
 Kanwar
Laxman
Singh, B.A. (Hons), educated at St. Stephen’s
College, University of Delhi in Delhi, born 14th
January 1955 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Member of
the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1990/92 and
1993/94, Member of the 10th (1994), 11th (1996),
12th (1998), 13th (1999) and 14th (2004) Lok Sabha,
Member of the following committees.. Committee on
Labour and Welfare 1996/97; Consultative Committee,
Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources 1996/97;
Committee on Human Resource Development and its
Sub-Committee on Drug Control 1998/99; Consultative
Committee, Ministry of Tourism 1998/99; Committee on
Agriculture 1999/2004. Interests and pastimes
include.. music, travelling, social work, meeting
people and reading, squash and cricket; Member of
the Yeshwant Club, Indore, Madhya Pradesh;
represented Parliament XI in Cricket at Goa in 1996,
married 1stly, 14th December 1978, Kanwarani Jagriti
Kumari, daughter of Rajkumar Bikram Bahadur Singh of
Khairagarh, and
his wife, Rajkumar Rani Brijraj Kanwar, married
2ndly, 14th January 2002, Kanwarani Rubina Kumari
[née Bal], and has issue, one son and one
daughter.
- Kanwar Aditya Vikram Singh
- Raja DIGVIJAY SINGH,
13th Raja of Raghogarh (see above)
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born 28th February 1947 in Indore, Madhya
Pradesh , B.E. (Mechanical), educated at Daly College and
S.G.S.I.T.S., Indore (Engineering graduate) and at St.
Stephen's College, Delhi; at school he was an outstanding
sportsman in cricket, hockey and soccer, he also was the
national squash champion, the youngest ever to win; he
entered politics in 1971 and was elected Member of State
Legislative Assembly (M.P.) in 1977, President of MP
Congress Committee 1984, Minister of State and later a
Cabinet Minister under the M.P. Government in 1980-1984,
elected as an MP in 1984 and 1991; general secretary of
the Congress in Assam and Maharashtra, 25th Chief Minister
of Madhya Pradesh 1993/2003 (two terms); married 11th
December 1969, Rani Asha Kumari, died 27th February 2013
in New Delhi, after a prolonged illness, daughter of
Thakur Dr. Jagdev Singh of Ambotah in Himachal Pradesh,
and his wife, a daughter of Raja Chattar Singh, Raja of
Basantpur (see Baghal),
and has issue, four daughters and one son.