PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The thikana was founded in 1673. Estate holders
were....
- Raja LAL SINGH,
1st
Raja of Raghogarh 1673/1697
- Raja DHIRAJ SINGH,
2nd Raja of Raghogarh 1697/1726
- Raja GAJ SINGH,
3rd
Raja of Raghogarh 1726/1729
- Raja VIKRAMJEET
SINGH,
4th Raja of Raghogarh 1730/1744
- Raja BALBHADRA
SINGH I,
5th Raja of Raghogarh 1744/1770, married and had
issue.
- Raja Balwant Singh (qv)
- Raja Budh Singh, he was granted a tract of land by
his brother
in 1776, which later became the state of
Maksudangarh, married and had
issue (see Maksudangarh). He died 1795.
- Raja BALWANT SINGH,
6th Raja of Raghogarh 1770/1797, married and had
issue.
- Raja JAI SINGH,
7th
Raja of Raghogarh 1797/1818, died sp
1818.
- Raja AJIT SINGH,
8th Raja of Raghogarh 1818/1857, married and had
issue.
- Raja Jaimandal Singh (qv)
- Raja JAI MANDAL
SINGH,
9th Raja of Raghogarh 1857/1900, born 1821, succeeded
1857 (#1), married
(amongst others), Rajkumari Anand
Kumari [Rani Anand
Kumari of Raghogarh], daughter of Raja Udai Singhji of
Banera, and his wife,
Rani Jhaliji, and
had issue.
- Raja Bikramajit Singh (qv)
- Rajkumari (name
unknown),
married 1875, the Raja of Sheopur-Baroda.
- Raja BIKRAMAJIT
SINGH,
10th Raja of Raghogarh 1900/1902
- Raja BAHADUR SINGH,
11th Raja of Raghogarh 1902/1945, born 8th March 1891,
succeeded 14th December 1902; married (a), Baijilal
Krishna Kumari [Rani Krishna Kumari of Raghogarh],
daughter of Raja
Akshay Singh of Banera,
and his third
wife, Rani Shubhra Kumari, married (b), Baisaheb Manak
Kunverba,
daughter of Maharaj Saheb Dalel Singh of Kachhi-Baroda, and
had issue.
- Raja Balbhadra Singh (qv)
- Raja BALBHADRA
SINGH II,
12th Raja of Raghogarh 1945/1967, born 1914, elected
to
the
first Vidhan
Sabha, married Rani Aparna Kumari, died 1986, daughter
of Maharaja
Bahadur Chandra
Mouleshwar Prasad Singh of Gidhaur,
and had issue. He died 1967.
- Raja Digvijay Singh (qv)
-
 Kanwar
Laksman
Singh, B.A. (Hons), educated at St. Stephen’s
College,
University of Delhi
in
Delhi, born 14th January 1955 in Indore, Madhya
Pradesh. Member of the
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1990/92 and
1993/94, Member of the
10th (1994), 11th (1996), 12th (1998), 13th (1999)
and 14th (2004) Lok
Sabha, Member of the following committees..
Committee on Labour and
Welfare
1996/97; Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Non-Conventional Energy
Sources
1996/97; Committee on Human Resource Development and
its Sub-Committee
on Drug Control 1998/99; Consultative Committee,
Ministry of Tourism
1998/99;
Committee on Agriculture 1999/2004. Interests and
pastimes include..
music,
travelling, social work, meeting people and reading,
squash and
cricket;
Member of the Yeshwant Club, Indore, Madhya Pradesh;
represented
Parliament
XI in Cricket at Goa in 1996, married 1stly, 14th
December 1978,
Kanwarani
Jagriti Kumari, daughter of Rajkumar Bikram Bahadur
Singh of Khairagarh,
and his wife, Rajkumar Rani Brijraj
Kanwar, married 2ndly, 14th January 2002, Kanwarani
Rubina Kumari
[née Bal],
and
has issue, one son and one daughter.
- Raja DIGVIJAY SINGH,
13th Raja of Raghogarh (see above)
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born 28th February
1947 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh , B.E. (Mechanical),
educated at Daly
College
and S.G.S.I.T.S., Indore (Engineering graduate) and at St.
Stephen's
College, Delhi; at school he was an outstanding sportsman
in
cricket, hockey and soccer, he also was the national
squash champion, the youngest ever
to win; he entered politics in
1971 and was elected Member of
State Legislative
Assembly (M.P.) in 1977, President of MP Congress
Committee 1984, Minister of State and later a Cabinet
Minister
under the M.P. Government in 1980-1984, elected as
an MP in 1984 and 1991; general secretary of the Congress
in Assam and
Maharashtra, 25th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
1993/2003
(two terms);
married
11th December 1969, Rani Asha Kumari, daughter of Thakur
Dr. Jagdev
Singh of Ambotah in Himachal Pradesh, and his wife, a
daughter of Raja
Chattar Singh, Raja of Basantpur (see Baghal),
and has issue, four daughters and one son.