PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in 1673. Rulers
were....
- Raja DHIRAJ SINGH 1697/1726
- Raja VIKRAMJEET SINGH 1730/1744
- Raja BALBHADRA SINGH I 1744/1770
- Raja BALWANT SINGH 1770/1797, granted a tract of land to
his brother,
Budh Singh,
in 1776, which later became the state of Maksudangarh, married and had
issue.
- Raja AJIT SINGH 1818/1857, married and had issue.
- Raja JAI MANDAL SINGH (qv)
- Raja JAI MANDAL SINGH 1857/1900, born 1821, succeeded 1857 (#1
), married (amongst others), Rajkumari Anand Kumari [Rani Anand
Kumari of Raghogarh], daughter of Raja UDAI SINGH of Banera, and his wife, Rani Jhaliji, and
had issue.
- Raja BIKRAMAJIT SINGH (qv)
- Raja BIKRAMAJIT SINGH 1900/1902
- Raja BAHADUR SINGH 1902/1945, married Baijilal
Krishna Kumari [Rani Krishna Kumari of Raghogarh], daughter of Raja
AKSHAY SINGH of Banera, and his third
wife, Rani Shubhra Kumari, and had issue.
- Raja BALBHADRA SINGH (qv)
- Raja BALBHADRA SINGH II 1945/1967, born 1914, elected to
the
first Vidhan
Sabha, married Rani Aparna Kumari, daughter of Maharaja Bahadur CHANDRA
MOULESHWAR PRASAD SINGH of Gidhaur,
died 1986, and has 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, 1 son and 1 daughter.
- Raja DIGVIJAY SINGH (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, and has issue, 4 daughters.