PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  The
ancestor
of the family was Rao Chandrabhan Chauhan, who aided Maharana
Sangram Singh
of
Udaipur, and was killed in battle in 1527 at Khanwa. For his support
his
descendants
were granted the Jagir of Bedla. Estate holders were...
- Rao CHANDRA BHAN,
1st Rao
Saheb of Bedla -/1527; married and had issue. He died 1527 in
the Battle of Khanwa.
- Rao SANGRAM SINGH,
2nd Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1527/1535, married and had issue. He
died 1535 in the Siege of Chittor.
- Rao PRATAP SINGH I,
3rd Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1535/1558, married and had
issue. He died 1558.
- Rao BALBHADRA SINGH
[Ballu Singh], 4th Rao
Saheb of Bedla 1558/1583, he briefly held
the jagir of Begun, married and had
issue. He died 1583.
- Rao RAM CHANDRA I,
5th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1583/1608, married and had
issue. He died 1608.
- Rao Sabal Singh (qv)
- Rao Kesari Singh fl.1670, he was granted the
Jagir of Parsoli.
- Maharani Dev Kunwar, married Maharana Amar Singhji II of
Udaipur, and had issue.
- Maharana Sangram Singhji II of Udaipur (qv)
- Rao SABAL SINGH,
6th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1608/1681, married and had
issue. He died 1681.
- Rao SULTAN SINGH,
7th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1681/1721, married and had
issue, five sons. He died 1721.
- Rao BAKHT SINGH I,
8th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1721/1738, married and had
issue. He died 1738.
- Rao RAM CHANDRA II,
9th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1738/1758, born 1731, married and had
adoptive issue. He died sp
1758.
- (A) Rao Pratap Singh II (qv)
- Rao PRATAP SINGH II,
10th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1758/1813, born as Kunwar Pratap
Singh, a descendant of Rao Sultan Singh, and succeeded by adoption in
1758; married and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1813.
- (A) Rao Kesari Singh (qv)
- Rao KESARI SINGH,
11th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1813/1835, also Rao of Parsoli 1795/1813,
born as Kunwar Kesari Singh, son of Rao Sawant Singh of Parsoli, he succeeded by adoption in
1813; married a daughter of Ranawat Raja Saheb of Shahpura in Udaipur
State, and had issue. He died 1835.
- Rao Bahadur Bakht Singh II (qv)
- Rani Sringar Kanwar, married (as his first wife), Raj
Rana Kirti Singhji II of Bari Sadri, and
had issue, four sons and three daughters.
- Rao Bahadur BAKHT SINGH
II, 12th Rao
Saheb of Bedla 1835/1880, born 19th October
1816, Rao Bahadur
[cr.1877],
C.I.E. [cr.1878], married Rani Fateh Kunwar, daughter of Raj Rana
Bhairav Singh of Tana, and his first
wife, Rani Deep Kanwar,
and had issue. He died 4th February 1880.
- Rao Bahadur Takhat Singh (qv)
- Rao Bahadur TAKHAT SINGH,
13th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1880/1892, Member
of the Mahand
Raj Sabha, Rao Bahadur [cr.1st January 1887](#1),
married
1stly,
1862, a daughter of the Bhati Thakur of Khejarla in
Jodhpur, married 2ndly, 1866, a daughter of
Chundawat Rawat Deep Singh of Athana in Gwalior State (a collateral
branch of
Begun in Udaipur State), and had issue. He died 9th June 1892.
- Rao Bahadur Karan Singh (by Rani Bhatianiji) (qv)
- Kunwar Raj Singh (by Rani Bhatianiji), born 3rd August
1871.
- Kunwar Roop
Singh, born 19th October 1871.
- Thakur Govind Singh, born 2nd September 1878, married and
had
issue.
- Maj.-Gen. Rao Manohar Singh (qv)
- Rao Bahadur KARAN SINGH,
14th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1892/1900, born 11th May 1865, Rao
Bahadur
[cr.1896],
married
a daughter of the Thakur Saheb of Bhadrajun, and had issue.
- Rao NAHAR SINGHJI,
15th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
1900/- , born 1895, educated at Mayo
College,
Ajmer.
- Maj.-Gen. Rao MANOHAR
SINGHJI M.B.E., 16th Rao
Saheb of Bedla,
born
January 1904, educated
at Mayo College, Ajmer; Home Minister of Council in Udaipur, Aide de
Camp to the
Maharana of Udaipur, Prime Minister of Udaipur, Rao [cr.1936], married
and had
issue. He died 1984.
- Kunwar Ragunath Singhji, married Kawarani Samand Kuwar.
He died sp in the 1960's.
- Baisa Shankar Kumari, married in Doongri (Jaipur), to
Major Durga Das Singhji Nathawat.
- Baisa Himmat Kumari, married in Salumbar (Udaipur,Mewar)
to Late Rawal Pushpender Singhji.
- Baisa Anand Kumari, married
Kunwar Ajatshatru
Singh of Bissau, and has issue.
- Rao Madhav Singhji (qv)
- Thakur Janak Singhji Bedla, married Thakurani Dharmendra
Kumari, and had
issue. He died 1986.
- Thakur Deepak Kumar Bedla, born 28th February
1971
in Baroda,
Gujarat,
educated at Mumbai University (B.A., Geography), married
6th
May 1997 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Kanwarani Abha Kumari, and has issue.
- Baiji Lal Yadunandini Kumari, aged 6yrs (2003)
- Kunwar Shatrujit Singh Bedla, aged 1 yr (2003)
- Thakur Vijai Singhji Bedla, educated at Mayo College,
Ajmer, married Kanwarani Sugan Kumari Bedla, and has issue, two
children.
- Baisa Negeshwari
Kumari, born 1980, educated at Girl's School, Mayo College, Ajmer,
married Kunwar Ramratan Singhji of Palkai,
Kota.
- Kunwar Karan Vijay Singh Bedla, born 1988, educated at
Mayo College, Ajmer.
- Rao MADHAV SINGHJI,
17th Rao
Saheb of Bedla, born 1946, educated in the
USA, gaining an
M.B.A. from Ohio University in 1968, married 1970, Rani Saheba Durga
Kiran Kumari from Neri, Uttar Pradesh, died 2003, and had issue, one
son and two daughters. He died 2008.
- Baisa Savita Kumari
- Baisa Tarkeshwari Kumari
- Rao Himmat Singh Bedla (qv)
- Rao HIMMAT SINGH BEDLA,
18th Rao
Saheb of Bedla
(see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Rani Sahiba Chauhaniji
of Bedla, married Maharaj MADAN SINGH of Bhindar.
She
died sp.
The help of Deepak Aggarwal is gratefully acknowledged,
January 2009. |