PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1626. Rulers were...
- Rao BHAGWAN RAO 1626/1656, received
Datia and Baroni
from his father (Raja BIR SINGH DEO of Orchha)
in 1626 and established his own state. He died 1656.
- Rao SUBHA KARAN 1656/1683, died 1683
- Rao DALPAT SINGH 1683/1706 (#2)
- Rao RAMCHANDRA SINGH 1706/1733,
died
1733
- Rao INDRAJIT SINGH 1733/1762
- Rao SHATRUJIT SINGH 1762/1801 (#3)
- Raja PARICHHAT SINGH 1801/1839,
Raja
[cr.1820's]
- Raja BIJAI SINGH Bahadur 1839/1857,
born 1826, married 1sty, Senior Rani, died 1858, married 2ndly, Junior
Rani, and had illegitimate issue. He died spl 1857.
- Kunwar Arjun Singh, favoured for adoption as successor by
the Junior Rani.
- HH Maharaja Lokendra Sir BHAWANI
SINGH
Bahadur 1857/1907,
K.C.S.I., Maharaja (Hereditary) [cr.1865], Maharaja Lokendra [cr.1877],
enjoyed a personal gun salute of 19 granted in 1906, born 13th August
1846
(1854 #1),
succeeded 20th
November 1857, belonged to the Bhasnai branch of the Orchha Royal
Family, descended from Kunwar Har Singh Deo, brother of Raja Bir Singh
Deo of Orchha, married and had issue,
one son.
He died 4th August 1907.
- Hon. Lt.Col. HH Maharaja Lokendra Sir GOVIND SINGH
Ju Dev Bahadur (qv)
-
 Hon. Lt.Col. HH Maharaja Lokendra Sir GOVIND SINGH
Ju Dev Bahadur 1907/1951, born 1886, G.C.I.E. [cr.1932], K.C.S.I.
[cr.1918],
Vice President of the St John Ambulance Association and Patron of the
Red
Cross Society, married 1stly, 1902, a daughter of the Jagirdar of
Manpura-Gwalior,
married 2ndly, a daughter of Thakur Sahib of Sayla,
married 3rdly,
a daughter
of the Thakur of Suara-Datia, and had issue. He died 1951.
- HH Maharaja Lokendra BALBHADRA
SINGH Ju
Dev Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumar Jashwant Singh
- HH Maharaja Lokendra BALBHADRA
SINGH Ju
Dev Bahadur
1951/1978 , born 1907, married and had issue. He died 29th March 1978.
- HH Maharaja Lokendra KRISHAN SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur
1978/2006,
married and had issue. He died October 2006.
- HH Maharaja
Lokendra RAJENDRA SINGH Ju Dev
Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumar Harishchandra Singh, former Joint Director
C.B.I., married Rani Uma Kumari, and has issue.
- Maharajkumar Ghanshyam Singh, former Member of the
Legislative
Assembly in Madhya Pradesh, President of the Datia District Congress
Committee, married and has
issue.
- Rajkumari Ksheerja Kumari, married January
2008, Rajkumar
Harvashvardhan Singh, son of Tikka Pramod Singh of Baghal, and his
wife, Tikka Rani Poornima Devi.
- Maharajkumari Gayatri Kumari [now Rajmata Gayatri Kumari
of
Khilchipur],
married 20th May 1970, Raja Rao Bahadur BHARTENDRA SINGH of Khilchipur,
and has issue.
- Rani Sahib Gargi Devi, married Rao
HARSHVARDHAN SINGH
of Vijayanagar.
- HH Maharaja
Lokendra RAJENDRA SINGH Ju Dev
Bahadur (see
above)
Other Members:
- (Maharajkumar?) Balram Singh,
married
Maharajkumari
Urmila Kumari, daughter of HH Maharawat Sir RAM SINGH II Bahadur of Pratapgarh, born
1937.
- ?Kunwar Sahib of Datia, married Rajkumari
Srikala Devi, only daughter of Raja JITAMITRA SINGH DEO of Khariar, and his wife, Rani Rajshree
Devi.
- Kumari Prabha
Devi, married Rajkumar Ranvijay Singh of Koti in Himachal Pradesh, born 1946,
died 14th January 1996, and has
issue, two daughters.
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