PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
state was founded
in 1765 by Kunwar Guman Singh, a great grandson of Maharajadhiraja
Chhatrasal of Mahewa (see Orchha). The
Maharaja, in 1893, was allowed to maintain a military force of 97
cavalry, 544 infantry and 13 guns. The
rulers were...
- Raja GUMAN SINGH,
1st Raja of Ajaigarh 1765/1792, formerly
Raja of Banda, he was the nephew of Raja Pahar Singh of
Jaitpur, and
was succeeded by his own nephew; married and had issue. He died 1792.
- Raja BAKHT SINGH,
2nd Raja of Ajaigarh 1792/1793 (deposed) and 1807/1837, Raja of
Banda 1792/1798; he was driven from his territory by Nawab Ali Bahadur,
who allowed the Raja an allowance of 2 rupees daily, he was granted a
pension of 3,000Rs p.m., by the British when they occupied Bundelkhand
in 1803, they later restored him to some of his original territory in
1807, and granted him a sanad, and later the same year the usurper was
made to hand over the
fort of Ajaigarh; married and
had issue. He died 21st
June
1837.
- Raja Madho Singh (qv)
- Raja Mahipat Singh (qv)
Nawab ALI BAHADUR, Raja of Ajaigarh
1793/1802 (usurper)
Nawab SHAMSHER BAHADUR, Raja of
Ajaigarh 1802/1804 (usurper)
Raja LAKSHMAN DADA, Raja of Ajaigarh
1804/1807 (deposed)
(usurper), the British forced him to surrender Ajaigarh Fort, and the
state was returned fully to Raja Bakht Singh.
- Raja
MADHO SINGH,
3rd Raja of Ajaigarh
1837/1849, died 1849.
- Raja
MAHIPAT SINGH,
4th Raja of Ajaigarh 1849/1853, married
and had
issue, as well
as secondary issue. He died 22nd June 1853.
- Raja Vijay Singh (qv)
- HH Sawai Maharaja Sir Ranjor Singhji
Sahib Bahadur (by a
secondary wife)
(qv)
- Raja
VIJAY SINGH,
5th Raja of Ajaigarh 1853/1855, he died during his minority on 12th
September 1855 and the state escheated to the British Government.
INTERREGNUM 1855/1858, Ajaigarh escheated
to the British Government, but in 1858 after the Mutiny, the late
Raja's mother was allowed to adopt Kanwar Ranjor Singh, who the
succeeded to the state.
REGENT The Rajmata of Ajaigarh
1858/1868
- HH Sawai Maharaja Sir
RANJOR SINGH Sahib
Bahadur K.C.I.E.,
C.S.I., 6th Raja of Ajaigarh 1859/1919, born 29th
September
1848 (#1), he
succeeded to the Raj on 9th September 1859,
the title of Sawai
Maharaja was recognized in 1877 at the Delhi Durbar on the occasion of
the proclamation of Her Majesty as Empress of India, K.C.I.E.
[cr.1897], married and had issue. He died
1919.
- HH Sawai Maharaja Bhopal Singh Sahib
Bahadur (qv)
- Diwan Senapati Maharajkumar Jaipal Singh, born
1874.
- Maharaj Pakshapal Singh Ju Deo,
Dewan (Prime
Minister) of Ajaigarh; married and had
issue
- Col. Sawai Maharaj Sahib Deshpal
Singh Ju Deo, born
24th June 1914, educated at Daly College, Indore (1921/1928), at the
Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun (1928/1931),
and
completed his majors in L.L.M. from Bombay University; worked as Deputy
Political Officer during British services, served as Dewan of Ajaigarh
and also was appointed Dewan for revamp of Chhatarpur and Baraundha
State's under the British
Raj; President of the All Indian
Kshatriya Maha Sabha (Hightest Royal
Assembly Association of Princely States of India) at
Delhi; a keen sportsman, Captain of the Western Coal Mines cricket
team; married Rani
Gayatri Devi of Basaratpur Estate, Uttar Pradesh, and had issue.
- Sawai Rajkumar Ajayveer Singh Ju
Deo, educated at
Madhav
Engineering College
(B.Eng.); married Rajkumar Rani Ajaya (Bundela), and has issue.
- Rajkumari Vijya Bundela, married
Kunwar Vikram
Singh.
- Rajkumari Harshita Bundela
- Sawai Rajkumar Ashit Varn Singh
Bundela B.Sc., born
7th May
1953 at Ajaigarh, married Rajkumar Rani Anjana (Bundela)
(née Rajniesh Singh), daughter of Sri Kunwar Ram Singh Deo of
Barai, Uttar Pradesh, and
his wife, Kunwarani Usha Kumari (née Hirendra Kumari), daughter
of Sri Rao Hira Singh Ju Deo of Karahia and niece of HH Maharaja
Sir Sawant Singhji of Bijawar, and has
issue.
- Sawai Rajkumar Hraday Shah
Bundela, born 26th
November 1981; a philanthropist by nature
and President and Royal Guardian of Prince Hraday Shah Foundation;
married 12th December 2008, Rajkumar Rani Padmini Kumari, daughter of
Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Parmar of Daharra (Family of Jagir Jharkua,
Panna),
Bundelkhand, and his wife, Kunwarani Mithlesh Kumari, and has issue,
one daughter.
- Kumari Sahiba Mohana, born 9th
September 2009.
- Rajkumari Sanyogita Bundela, born
20th March 1986.
- Sawai Rajkumar Anil Kumar Singh,
married Rajkumar
Rani
Arpana Raje, daughter of Rao Gulab Singh Ju Dev of Jharkua, and has
issue.
- Kumari Vashundera Bundela, born
23rd September
19xx.
- Kunwar Madhvendra Singh Bundela,
born 13th November
1998.
- Flt.-Lt. (ret'd.) Sawai Rajkumar
Neel Burn Singh
Bundela,
born November 1964, formerly an officer in the Indian Airforce, married
Rajkumar Rani Renu Singh, daughter of Thakur Sahib Sambhu Saran Singh
from
Rai-Bareli, and has issue.
- Kunwar Jaiditya Singh Bundela,
born 10th September
1999.
- Sawai Rajkumar Jayant Singh
Bundela, married
Rajkumar Rani Jaya Singh,
daughter of Kunwar Mangal Singh of Barai, and has issue.
- HH Sawai Maharaja BHOPAL
SINGH Sahib
Bahadur K.C.I.E., 7th
Raja of Ajaigarh 1919/1942,
born 13th
November 1866, succeeded his father on the gaddi on 7th June 1919; married
1882, HH Maharani Beni Kunwar,
daughter of Musahib Ranjore Singh of Chauka in Charkhari State, and
had issue, an only son. He died
1942.
- HH Sawai Maharaja Punya Pratap Singh
Sahib Bahadur (qv)
- HH Sawai Maharaja PUNYA
PRATAP SINGH
Sahib Bahadur, 8th
Raja of Ajaigarh 1942/1958, born August
1884,
succeeded his father on the gaddi
in 1942; married 1907, HH Maharani Rukmini Devi, daughter
of HH Swasti Sir Raja Kirti Shah of Tehri Garhwal, and had
issue. He died 1958.
- Rani Indira Devi, married Raja Ajai
Varma Singh of Pawayan, and had issue.
- Rani Savitri Devi, born 1910, married
1923, Raja
Shriniwas Prasad Singh
of Jagdishpur, and had issue. She
died
1958.
- Rani Girija Devi, married Raja Bajrang
Bahadur Singh of Bhadri, Lieutenant
Governor of Himachal
Pradesh 1955/1963.
- HH Sawai Maharaja Devendra Vijaya Singh
Sahib
Bahadur(qv)
- Rajkumar Bhupendra Vijay Singh, adopted
by Rao Arimardan
Singh of Jigni and succeeded there as Rao Bhupendra Vijay Singh of Jigni.
- HH Sawai Maharaja DEVENDRA
VIJAYA SINGH
Sahib Bahadur, 9th
Raja of Ajaigarh 1958/1984, born
1913, married
Kunwari Shri Sushil Kunwarba, the eldest daughter of HH Maharaja Sahib
Shri Indrasinhji Pratapsinhji of Bansda, and
had issue. He died 1984.
- Yuvaraj Kaushalendra Singh, born 1934,
married Yuvarani
Hansa Devi, daughter of Lt. HH
Maharaja Shri Sir Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavsinhji
of Bhavnagar, and had issue, four
children. He died
1982.
- Kumari Mrinalini Devi born 1960.
- Kumari Shivranjini Devi born 1965.
- HH Sawai Maharaja Ajayraj Singh Sahib
Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaj Prithviraj Singh, born 1978.
- Maharaj Mahipendra Singh, born 1935,
married Rani Prabha
Kumari,
daughter of Maharajkumar Chandikeshwar Saran Singh Deo, and his wife,
Maharajkumar Rani Saheb Bhupeswari Kumari of Surguja, and has issue.
- Rajkumar Shailendra Singh, born 1969,
married Rajkumari
Keerti Malini Devi, daughter of Sirdar Rama Chandra Raj Urs (adopted
son of Rajkumari Leelavati and Sirdar Basava Raj Urs of Mysore), and
Maharajkumari Gayatri Devi Yavaru, eldest daughter of HH Maharaja Shri
Sir
Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahadur of Mysore.
- Kunwar Varunendra Singh, born
2005.
- Maharaj Surendra Singh, born 1940,
married and has
issue.
- Rajkumar Tarunendra Singh, born 1971,
married Baiji
Lal Shobal De, daughter of Kunwar Kirti Vardhan Singh of Khandela-Junior, and his wife,
Kunwarani
Rudrani Kumari, and has issue, one daughter.
- HH Sawai Maharaja AJAYRAJ
SINGH Sahib
Bahadur, 10th Raja of Ajaigarh (see above)
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