PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Phul, the founder of the dynasty, was father of Ram or
Rama, who was father of Chaudhuri Duna Singh, founder of
Bhadaur in 1718. This estate is the biggest jagir in
Patiala and probably the most prestigious. Became a
feudatory state of Patiala in 1857. Estate holders were...
- Chaudhuri Sardar
DUNA SINGH, Chaudhuri of Bhadaur, Sangrur
etc. 1718/1729, married and had issue. He died
1726/1729.
- Chaudhuri Bigha Singh (qv)
- Sardar Dao Singh, died 1723.
- Sardar Sangu Singh, died 1744.
- Sardar Sukhu Singh, died 1765 and his widow
married his brother Chaudhuri Bigha (qv).
- Sardar Suma Singh, married three wives, and had
issue, five sons. He died 1772.
- Sardar Jassa Singh, he died sp.
- Sardar Massa Singh, with his younger brothers,
he was ancestor of the Sardar Sahibs of Rampuria
and Kotlakoura.
- Sardar Tek Singh
- Sardar Charat Singh
- Sardar Budh Singh
- Chaudhuri BIGHA
SINGH, Chaudhuri of Bhadaur 1729/1773,
married 1stly, married 2ndly, married 3rdly, 1765, the
widow of his brother Sardar Sukhu, and had issue. He
died 1773.
- Kanwar Gurdas Singh (by 1st wife), born 1742, died
1748.
- Chaudhuri Chuhar Singh (by 2nd wife)(qv)
- Sardar Mohar Singh (by 2nd wife), married and had
issue. He died 1826.
- Sardar Amrik Singh, married and had issue. He
died 1826.
- Sardar Dewa Singh, born 1803, married and had
issue. He died 1857.
- Sardar Narain Singh, born 1852, married and
had issue. He died 1872.
- Sardar Samand Singh, married and had issue. He
died 1836.
- Sardar Achhal Singh, born 1832, died 1879.
- Sardar Sujan Singh, married and had issue. He
died 1828.
- Sardar Uttam Singh, married and had issue. He
died 1855.
- Sardar Attar Singh, born 1837, died 1879.
- Sardar Dal Singh (by 3rd wife), he was granted the
jagir of Kot Duna (Revenue: 5,826Rs in 1870),
married and had issue. He died 1793.
- Sardar Jit Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kot Duna
1793/1818; married and had issue. He died 1818.
- Sardar Mahtab Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kot Duna
1818/1834, born 1802, married and had issue. He
died 1834.
- Sardar Attar Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kot Duna
1834/1863, born 1832, married and had issue.
He died 1863.
- Sardar Kishan Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kot
Duna 1863/-, born 1859.
- Sardar Jodh Singh, born 1816, married and had
issue. He died after 1870.
- Sardar Lal Singh, born 1833.
- Sardar Panjab Singh, born 1836, married and
had issue.
- Sardar Makhusudan Singh, born 1856.
- Sardar Bhag Singh, born 1859.
- Chaudhuri CHUHAR
SINGH, Chaudhuri of Bhadaur 1773/1793, he
fought alongside the Sikh forces and forced Amar Singh
Thapa to retreat back to Nepal; married and had issue.
He died 1793.
- Sardar Dip Singh (qv)
- Sardar Bir Singh, married and had issue. He died
1823.
- Sardar Jawahar Singh, married and had issue. He
died 1827.
- Maharani Attar Kaur, married Maharaja Nau
Nihal of Lahore.
She died 1840.
- Sardar Jaimal Singh, married and had issue. He
died 1808.
- Sardar Khazan Singh C.S.S., born 1805, married
the elder daughter of Sardar Dhanna Singh of
Malwai, and had issue. He died 1831.
- Sardar Mahan Singh, born 1826, married and
had issue. He died 1858.
- Sardar Ishar Singh, born 1848, died 1866.
- Sardar Nidhan Singh, born 1806, married and
had issue. He died 1838.
- Sardar Kehar Singh, born 1835, married and
had issue.
- Sardar Pratap Singh, born 1853, married
and had issue.
- Kunwar (name unknown) Singh, born
1887.
- Sardar Uttar Singh, born 1863, married and
had issue, two sons.
- Sardar Jagat Singh, married and had issue. He
died 1865.
- Sardar Gulab Singh, died 1850.
- Sardar Basawa Singh, died 1845.
- Sardar Khem Singh, died 1846.
- Sardar Narain Singh, died 1865.
- Sardar Ajaipal Singh, born 1858.
- Sardar DIP SINGH,
Sardar of Bhadaur 1793/1822, married and had issue. He
died 1822.
- Sardar KHARAK SINGH,
Sardar of Bhadaur 1822/1858, married and had issue. He
died 1858.
- Mahamahopadhyaya, Maulana ul Fuzma Sardar Sir
Attar Singh (qv)
- Mahamahopadhyaya,
Maulana ul Fuzma Sardar Sir ATTAR SINGH,
Rais-i-Azam of Bhadaur 1858/1896, born 1833, educated
at Benaras University; he was rewarded with the title
of Maulana ul Fuzma for his Arabic-Persian
learning, he set up a library which he transferred to
Ludhiana, when he moved there in 1878, and which after
his death, was transferred to the Panjab Public
Library at Lahore; elected a member of Anjumani Punjab
in 1869 and Vice-President in 1880, also elected a
member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1869;
appointed a member of the senate of the Panjab
University College, Lahore, in 1870; member of the
Bengal Philharmonical Society and also served on the
Committee of Management of the Aitchison Chiefs'
College, Lahore; in recognition of his literary and
political services he was awarded by the British with
the title of Fazil ul Fuzala in 1877, C.I.E.
in 1880 and K.C.I.E. in 1888, and he was
rewarded with the title of Mahamahopadhyaya in
1887 for his eminent services in the promotion of
Oriental learning, he was admitted to Knighthood in
1888, founder president of Sri Guru Singh Sabha,
Ludhiana, established in 1884, he also took a leading
part in the establishment of the Khalsa Diwan at
Lahore of which he became patron-in-chief; in 1886 he
had been nominated a member of the General Committee
of the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) at Amritsar; in
1890, he was made vice president and trustee of the
Khalsa College Establishment Committee and later vice
president of the Khalsa College Council; married and
had issue. He died 10th June 1896 in Ludhiana.
- Sardar Bhagwant Singh (qv)
- Sardar Balwant Singh, born 1855, married and had
issue, one daughter. He died 1902.
- Sardar BHAGWANT
SINGH, Rais-i-Azam of Bhadaur 1896/1924, born
1852, married and had issue, three daughters and one
son. He died 1924.
- Raja Harchand Singh Sidhu (qv)
- Rajkumari Bibiji Rajbans Kaur, married Rao Sahib
Giriraj Singh of Kutchesar, Bulandshahar, Hapur,
U.P. (see Kuchesar)
- Rajkumari Bibiji Prasan Kaur [Sardarni Lady Prasan
Kaur Majithia], married, Sardar Sir Sundar Singh
Majithia (see Majithia
family).
- Rajkumari Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married Raja
Mahendra Pratap Singh of Hathras, near Aligarh
and Mathura, U.P.
- Raja HARCHAND SINGH,
Rais-i-Azam of Bhadaur 1924/1934, born 1887, married
1stly, Rani Bakhtawar Kaur [Dalip Kaur], daughter of
Harnam Singh Wala, Rampura Phul Dist., Bathinda,
issue, one daughter and one son, married 2ndly, Rani
Jagdish Kaur, died 1959, daughter of Mal Singh Wala,
Dist. Bathinda, had issue, one daughter and one son.
He died 1934.
- Maj. Raja Ram Partap Singh Sidhu (by Rani
Bakhtawar Kaur) (qv)
- Rajkumari Ajmer Kaur (Rani Bakhtawar Kaur), born
1929, died 1998.
- Rajkumari Birinder Kaur (by Rani Jagdish Kaur),
married the Late Air Commodore Jaspal Singh, and has
issue, a daughter.
- Bibjii Trepan Kaur, married Sardar Harisimran
Singh Sandhu
- Rajkumar Simran Singh (by Rani Jagdish Kaur), born
14th October 1933, married Rajkumarani Kultaran
Kaur, and has issue two sons.
- Kanwar Kanwalinder Singh, born October 1965,
died 19th January 1988.
- Kanwar Amritinder Singh, born 20th February
1972, married Kanwarani Shona Manco, and has
issue, two daughters.
- Hartaran Kaur Sidhu, born 21st June 2007.
- Japjyot Kaur Sidhu, born 4th January 2009.
 Maj. Raja RAM PARTAP SINGH,
Rais-i-Azam of Bhadaur 1934/1997, born 6th October
1921, educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore;
Commandant Major Yadvinder Guards, Patiala State; HH
Maharaja Yadvinder Singh of Patiala's Bodyguard;
married Bibiji Surinder Kaur [Rani Surinder Ram Partap
Singh Sidhu of Bhadaur], born 13th May 1924, died 21st
May 1984, daughter of General Sardar Bahadur Sir
Gurnam Singh of Jind State (and younger sister of
Maharani Bhaktavar Kaur Sahiba of Patiala), and had
issue. He died 14th October 1997.
- Rajkumari Kiran Sidhu, born 16th April 1944,
married Lt.-Col. Sardar Narjinder Singh, late of
Skinners Horse, son of Major Sardar Joginder Singh
of Manimajra, he was appointed guardian to (then)
Yuvraj Yadvinder Singh of Patiala by HH Maharaja
Bhupinder Singh and was commandant of the Rajindra
Lancers in the Patiala State Forces and was the
Sardar of Manimajra Jagir in Amballa district, he
served as A.D.C. to HH Maharjadhiraj Bhupindar Singh
of Patiala; and has issue, two sons.
- Dr. Kanwar Govind Singh married Kanwarani
Amardeep Kaur, daughter of Sardar Gurpreet Singh
Jallewalia of Ahlawalpur Jagir in West Punjab.
- Dr. Kanwar Gopal Singh, married Dr.
Kanwarani Samrina Kaur, grandaughter of Sardar
Jasbir Singh Veglia of Wacchoya Jagir in West
Punjab.
- Tikka Ajaypartap Singh Sidhu, succeeded as Raja
Ajaypartap Singh Sidhu of Bhadaur (qv)
- Rajkumar Udaypartap Singh Sidhu, born 3rd August
1950, married Rajkumarani Sonia Singh, daughter of
Brigadier W. S. Choudhry of Karnal, and has issue,
two children.
- Kumari Mehar Sidhu
- Kanwar Amanpartap Singh
- Raja AJAYPARTAP
SINGH SIDHU (see above)
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