PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The predecessor
state was Umatwara, whose chief received the title of
Rawat in 1448.
The
state was divided between the two sons of the then Rawat
in 1681, one
receiving Narsinghgarh
and the other Rajgarh. Rulers were...
- Rawat CHHATAR SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1621/1638, married and had issue.
- Rawat Mohan Singh (qv)
- Rawat Paras Ramji, disputed the succession of his
brother,
and founded the Princely State of Narsinghgarh.
- Rawat MOHAN SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1638/1697, died 14th April 1714.
- Rawat AMAR SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1697/1740
- Rawat NARPAT SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1740/1747
- Rawat JAGAT SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1747/1775
- Rawat HAMIR SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1775/1790
- Rawat PRATAP SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1790/1803
- Rawat PRITHVI SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1803/1815, married and had issue.
- Rawat Newal Singh (qv)
- Thakur Khok Singh, he was briefly in charge of the
state
from 1846 to November 1847.
- Rawat NEWAL SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1815/1831, he adopted his nephew;
married
and had adoptive issue. He committed suicide in 1831.
- (A) Rawat Moti
Singh
(qv)
- Rawat MOTI SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1831/1871, due to his mismanagement,
the state was
placed in the care of his uncle and the Diwan until
November 1847, when
a British officer subordinate to the Political Agent
in Bhopal was
appointed, the Rawat took charge again in 1856 and in
1871 he converted
to Islam,
see
next line.
- Nawab MUHAMMAD ABD
al-WASIH KHAN (aka Rawat Moti Singh), Rawat
of Rajgarh
1871/1880, born 1814, he was granted the title of
Nawab by the British
government in 1872; he abolished all transit duties on
salt in 1880;
married and had issue. He died in October 1880.
- Rawat Bakhtawar Singh (qv)
- HH Raja Rawat Sir Bane Singh (qv)
- Rawat BAKHTAWAR
SINGH,
Rawat of Rajgarh 1880/1882, married and had issue. He
died in November 1882.
- HH Raja Rawat Balbhadra Singh (qv)
- HH Raja Rawat
BALBHADRA
SINGH, Rawat of Rajgarh 1882/1902, born 1857,
succeeded 6th July
1882 (#1), he was granted
the title of
Raja as a hereditary distinction on 1st January 1886,
married
Rani
Uday Kunwar, daughter of Thakur Takhat Singhji of Namli in Ratlam, and had
issue. He died spm
in 1902.
- Thakurani Jadhav Kunwar, married Thakur Jodh
Singhji of Ghanerao,
and had issue.
- HH Raja Rawat Sir
BANE
SINGH, Rawat of Rajgarh 1902/1916, born 1857,
K.C.I.E.
[cr.1908] (#2), married
and had issue.
- HH Raja Rawat Sir Birendra Singh Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumari Lakshmi Kumari, died after 1947.
- Rani Man Kanwar Sahiba, maerried Maharaj Shri Bhim
Singhji Sahib, son of Maharaj Arjun Singhji of
Jodhpur [1876-1933]
- HH Raja Rawat Sir
BIRENDRA
SINGH Bahadur, Rawat of Rajgarh 1916/1936,
born 17th
Janaury 1892,
succeeded 10th January 1916; K.C.I.E.
[cr.1918],
married (amongst others) (a), HH Rani Songariji,
married (b), a
daughter of Cdg. Gen. Maharajkumar Padma Jung Bahadur
Rana of Lambjung
and Kaski (see Nepal),
and
had issue, one son and
a number of daughters. He died 26th October 1936 (#3).
- HH Raja Rawat Bikramaditya Singh Bahadur (qv)
- HH Raja Rawat
BIKRAMADITYA
SINGH Bahadur, Rawat of Rajgarh 1936/-, born
posthumously on 18th December 1936 and succeeded at
birth on 18th December 1936 (#4),
married HH Rani Indra Kumari, daughter of HH Maharao
Shri Bhim Singhji
II
Bahadur of Kotah, and
his wife, HH
Maharani
Shiv Kumari.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kanwar Ram Pratap Singh of Jagir Kila Amargarh
(collateral
branch of Rajgarh family), married Rajkumari Amba
Devi,
daughter of Rana Krishen Chand of Kuthar,
and his wife, Rani Krishna Devi, and has issue, four
children.
- Kumar Abhay Singh
- Kumari Prithi Kumari
- Kumar Viki Singh
- Kumari Ira Kumari
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