PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
ancestor
of the family was Raja Rudra Pratap of Orchha. One of his
sons became the Raja of Mahewa and was father of Thakur
Bhagwan Das of Mahewa. The latter was grandfather of the
celebrated Maharajadhiraja Chhatrasal, who was responsible
for greatly increasing the power and wealth of the various
Bundela rulers. The younger son of Thakur Bhagwan Das, was
granted the estate of Garrauli and was the ancestor of the
Garrauli branch of the Bundela dynasty. The Diwan Bahadur
maintains a military force of 2 cavalry, 56 infantry and 4
guns. Rulers were...
- Raja RUDRA PRATAP,
Raja Saheb of Orchha
1501/1531, he managed to increase his lands
considerably during the confusion caused by Padshah
Baber's invasion; married and had issue. He died 1531.
- Thakur Udyajit Singh of Mahewa, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Bharti Chandra, married and had issue.
- Thakur Bhagwan Das, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Champat Rai, married and had issue.
He died after 1649.
- Maharajadhiraja Chhatrasal, born 1649,
died 1731.
- Thakur Man Shah, ancestor of the Satgharia
branch, including the Garrauli Royal Family,
married and had issue.
- Thakur Indraman, married and had issue.
- Thakur Shahman, married and had issue.
- Thakur Parvat Singh [Pratap Singh],
married and had issue.
- Thakur Anirudh Singh, married and
had issue.
- Thakur Jeet Singh [Ajeet
Singh/Jeet Shah], married and had
issue.
- Thakur Bhagwant Singh, married
and had issue.
- Diwan Gopal Singh (continued
below)
- Diwan GOPAL SINGH,
1st Diwan Sahib of Garrauli -/1831, he obtained a sanad from the
British Government in 1812, married and had issue. He
died 1831.
- Diwan Bahadur Parichhat Singh [Parikshit Singh]
(qv)
- Diwan Bahadur
PARICHHAT SINGH, 2nd Diwan Sahib of Garrauli
1831/1884, Diwan Bahadur [cr. 17.10.1844], married and
had issue. He died 1884.
- Kunwar Randhir Singh, married and had issue. He
died vp on 20th December 1883.
- Raja Diwan Bahadur Chandrabhan Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Venkata Rao
- Raja Diwan Bahadur CHANDRABHAN SINGH,
3rd Diwan Sahib of Garrauli 1884/1946, born 2nd April
1883 (#1),
succeeded his grandfather on 19th October 1884;
educated at Rajkumar College, Nowgong; Hon. Captain of
Chhatrasal Infantry (Panna) 1925; married a daughter
of the Jagirdar of Semaria in Panna State (whose
brother was Rao Prithipal Singh of Semaria), and had
issue, two sons and three daughters. He died 20th
November 1946.
- Raja Raghuraj Singh (qv)
- Thakur Pratap Singh, born 1919, married and had
issue.
- Thakur Pushpendra Singh
- Thakur Prithvi Singh, married and has issue.
- Kuwarani Pallavi Singh, born 22nd June 1980,
married 23rd January 2007, Kunwar Manuraj Singh
Chauhan, born 22nd December 1979 at Lucknow, son
of Thakur Ranvir Singh Chauhan, and his wife,
Thakurani Bibha Shah, daughter of Raja Luv Shah
of Khairigarh.
- Thakur Pradeep Singh
- Thakur Padam Pratap Singh
- Kunwarani Pushpa Kumari, married 1966, Rajkumar
Brijendra Singh of Beri,
and has issue, three daughters.
- Rajkumari (name
unknown), married Raja Chhatrapratap Singh
of Khod Manpura.
- Rajkumari (name
unknown), married Kunwar Jangiraja of
Jharkua in Panna State.
- Raja RAGHURAJ SINGH,
4th Diwan Sahib of Garrauli 1946/1964, born 16th
January 1910,
- Raja RAVINDRA SINGH,
5th Diwan Sahib of Garrauli (see above)
The help of Deepak Aggarwal is gratefully
acknowledged, July 2011.
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