PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Predecessor
state was founded circa 1140. The chiefs of Rewa were Baghel Rajputs
descended
from the Solanki clan which ruled over Gujrat from the tenth to the
thirteenth
century. Vyaghra Deo, brother of the ruler of Gujarat, is said to have
made
his way into northern India about the middle of the thirteenth century
and obtained the fort of Marpha, 18 miles north-east of Kalinjar. His
son
Karandeo married a Kalchuri (Haihaya) princess of Mandla and received
in
dowry the fort of Bandhogarh which, until its destruction in 1597 by
Akbar
was the Baghel Capital. In 1298, Ulugh Khan, acting under orders of
emperor
Alauddin drove the last Baghel ruler of Gujrat from his country and
this
is believed to have caused a considerable migration of the Baghels to
Bandhogarh.
Until the 15th century the Baghels of Bandhogarh were engaged in
extending
their possessions and escaped the attention of the Delhi kings, in
1498-9,
Sikandar Lodi failed in his attempt to take the fort of Bandhogarh.
Rulers
were...
- Maharaja SHAKTIVAN Deo 1495/1500
- Maharaja VEER SINGH Deo 1500/1540, married and had issue.
- Thakur NADBHANU [Horildeo], third son, received the
estate of Beerha
as his patrimony in 1550, he was appointed a mansabdar with the
title of Horilshah by Emperor Humayun of Delhi.
- Maharaja VIRBHAN SINGH 1540/1555
- Maharaja RAMCHANDRA SINGH 1555/1592
- Maharaja DURYODHAN SINGH [Birbhadra Singh] 1593/1618
(deposed), 19th Raja of Bandhogarh, married 1618, a natural daughter of
Raja Badan Singh of Bhadawar, because of which he was expelled and
retired to Bhadawar.
- Maharaja VIKRAMADITYA 1618/1630, his accession gave rise to
disturbances,
Akbar
intervened and captured and dismantled the Bandhogarh fort in 1597
after
a siege of eight months. It is after this that the town of Rewa started
gaining in importance. It is said to have been founded by Raja
Vikramaditya
in 1618 (which perhaps means that he undertook the construction of
palaces
and other buildings there because the place had already assumed
importance
in 1554 when it was held by Jalal Khan son of emperor Shershah),
married and had issue, four sons.
-
Maharaja AMAR SINGH II (qv)
-
Kunwar Indra Singh, he was granted
Patharhat Estate.
-
Kunwar Sarup Singh, he was granted
Panasi Estate.
-
Kunwar Angad Rai, he was granted Chandiya Estate.
- Maharaja AMAR SINGH II 1630/1643, married and had issue.
- Maharaja ANOOP SINGH (qv)
- Raja FATEH SINGH, rebelled against his father and
established himself
in Sohawal.
- Maharaja ANOOP SINGH 1643/1660, married and had issue,
three sons.
- Maharaja BHAO SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Yashwant Singh, he was granted the Jagir of Gudh,
married and had issue, two sons.
- Kunwar Mukund Singh, he was granted the estate of
Semariya.
- Kunwar Anirudh Singh, adopted by his uncle adn
succeeded as Maharaja ANIRUDH SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Jhujhar Singh, he was granted the estate of
Ramnagar Itma.
- Maharaja BHAO SINGH 1660/1690, married 1stly, Maharani Ajab
Kunwar, daughter of Maharana RAJ SINGH I of Udaipur, married 2ndly, 1668, Maharani
Kunj Kumari, a daughter of Raikwar Thakur Sadan Singh of Nadan in Rewah
State, and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1690.
- Maharaja ANIRUDH SINGH 1690/1700, born as Kunwar Anirudh
Singh, son of Thakur Yashwant Singh of Gudh, adopted by his uncle;
married and had issue, one son.
- Maharaja AVADHUT SINGH (qv)
- Maharaja AVADHUT SINGH 1700/1755, the state was sacked by
Hirde
Shah of
Panna
in about 1731, causing the Raja to flee to Pratapgarh in Oudh; married
(amongst others), (a), Maharani Ratan Kumari Devi, married (b),
Maharani Sagun Kunwar, daughter of Umara-i-Uzzam
Maharaja Mahendra GOPAL SINGH of Bhadawar,
and his fifth wife, the
daughter of Raja Madho Singh Sirnet of
Bansi, and had issue, one son.
- Maharaja AJIT SINGH 1755/1809, married Maharani Kundan
Kunwar, died 1802, daughter of Chandel Thakur Vikram Singh of Silpatra,
and had issue, one son. He died 1809.
- Maharaja JAI SINGH 1809/1835, born 4th January 1765; in
1812 a body of Pindaris raided
Mirzapur
from
Rewa territory. Upon this Jaisingh was called upon to accede to a
treaty,
in which he acknowledged the protection of the British Government, and
agreed to refer all disputes with neighbouring chiefs to their
arbitration
and to allow British troops to march through or be cantoned in his
territories; married 1stly, a daughter of Gaharwar Raja Udhhat Singh of
Manda, married 2ndly, a daughter of Dikshit Raja Madhav Singh of
Goraiya, and had issue, three sons and one daughter. He died 1835.
- Maharaja VISHWANATH SINGH
- Babu Laxman Singh, he was granted the estate of
Madhavgarh estate, married and had issue, two sons.
- Kunwar Ran Bahadur Singh, married a daughter of Sirnet
Raja Prakash Singh of Bansi in U.P. He died sp.
- Kunwar (name unknown), succeeded his brother in
Madhavgarh, died without issue, and the estate was merged into Rewah.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharana JAWAN
SINGH of Udaipur.
- Kumari (name unknown), married 1834, Maharana
JAWAN SINGH of Udaipur.
- Babu Balbhadra Singh, he was granted the estate of
Amarpatan; married Rani Chhavinath Kunwari, daughter of Gaharwar Thakur
Manbodh Singh of Kaithaha estate in Rewah (a relation of the Raja Saheb
of Manda in U.P.), and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married 1837, Maharaja
SARDAR SINGH of Bikaner.
-
Maharajkumari Sahodar Kunwar, married 1823, Maharana
JAWAN SINGH of Udaipur.
- Maharaja VISHWANATH SINGH 1835/1854, born 1789, married and
had issue, one sons and three daughters. He
died 1854.
- HH Maharaja RAGHURAJ SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumari (name unknown), married Maharaja RAM
SINGH II of Jaipur.
- Maharajkumari (name unknown), married Maharaj
Mahabat
Singh of Jodhpur.
- Maharajkumari Subhadra Kumari, married 2nd July 1821,
Yuvraj (later) Maharana JAWAN SINGH of Udaipur.
 HH Maharaja RAGHURAJ SINGH
Bahadur 1854/1880, born 1831, Maharaja Raghuraj Singh helped the
British in quelling the
uprisings
in the neighbouring Mandla and Jabalpur districta in the mutiny
of 1857, and in Nagod which
is
now a part of Satna district, for this, the Maharaja was rewarded by
restoration
to him of the Sohagpur (Shahdol) and Amarkantak parganas, which had
been
seized by the Marathas in the beginning of the century, Maharaja
[cr.1857];
married eight wives, including 1stly, 1845, daughter of Bisen Raja of
Bhadri in Oudh, married 2ndly, 1851, HH Maharani Sobhag Kanwar,
daughter of Maharana SARDAR SINGH of Udaipur,
and had issue, one son and several daughters. He died 5th February 1880.
- Lt.Col.
HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja Sir VENKAT RAMAN
RAMANUJ PRASAD SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumari Vishnuprasad Kunwar, born 1846, married
1864, Maharaj
Kishore Singh of Jodhpur.
- Maharajkumari (name unknown), married 1903, HH
Maharao Raja Sir RAGHUBIR
SINGHJI Sahib
Bahadur
of Bundi. She died 1904.
- Lt.Col.
HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja Sir VENKAT RAMAN
RAMANUJ PRASAD SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur 1880/1918,
born 23rd
July 1876, G.C.S.I. [cr.1897], married 1stly, 1892, HH Maharani Shivraj
Kumari Devi, died 1917, daughter of Maharaja
Sir RADHA PRASAD SINGH Bahadur of Dumraon
in Bihar, married 2ndly, HH Maharani Gulab Kumari, died 1913, daughter
of HH Maharaja Sir RANJIT SINGH
of Ratlam, married 3rdly, 1904, HH Maharani
Keerat Kumari, daughter of General Parihar Thakur Bakhsh Singh of
Thikana Jhagarpur in U.P., and
had issue, two sons and one daughter. He died 3rd November 1918.
- HH Bandhvesh Maharaja Sir GHULAB SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumar Ravendra Ramanuj Prasad Singh (by Maharani
Keerat Kumari), born 10th
January 1917; died 10th June 1940.
- HH Maharani Sudarshan
Prasad Kumari, born 5th September 1906, married 18th April 1922, HH
Maharajadhiraj Sri SADUL SINGH
of Bikaner, and had issue. She died
19th December 1971.
- Major-General HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri
Maharaja Sir GHULAB SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur
1918/1946 (deposed 30th
January 1946), born 12th March 1903, G.C.I.E. [cr.1.1.1931], K.C.S.I.
[cr. 1.1.1927], married 1stly, 25th June 1919, HH
Bandhveshwari Shri Maharani Sahiba Samrajyi Kunwar, born 1903, died
1954, daughter of HH Maharaja Dhiraj Maharaja Sri Sir SARDAR SINGHJI
Bahadur
of Jodhpur,
married 2ndly, 18th February 1925, HH Maharani Ballabh Kumari,
daughter of Lt.-Col. HH Umdae Rajhae Buland Makan Maharajadhiraja
Maharaja Sir
MADAN
SINGH Bahadur
of Kishangarh, and had issue, one
son. He
died
13th April 1950.
- HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja
MARTAND SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur (qv)
 HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja
MARTAND SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur 1946/1995, born 15th March
1923, elected to
the
Fifth, Seventh and Eighth Lok Sabha representing Rewa Parliamentary
Constituency
of Madhya Pradesh during 1971-1977 and 1980-1989. An agriculturist and
businessman by profession, he was Raj Pramukh of Vindhya Pradesh. He
was
a very popular and active social worker. As a philanthropist, he built
hospitals, dispensaries and organised camps for providing medical aid
to
indigent and sick people. He donated his palace at Satna and other
properties
for establishment of educational institutions like Banaras Hindu
University
and College in Satna. A widely travelled person, he evinced keen
interest
in the fields of sports, education, photography, archaeology and
wildlife
preservation. He established and developed National Park at Bandhogarh.
He had served as a member of All India Wildlife Preservation Board and
as the Director of Madhya Pradesh Udyog Vikas Nigam, Bhopal. He also
made
special efforts for development of irrigation, industries, transport,
electrification
and rail services in his area, married 1943, HH Maharani Praveen
Kunverba, born 1926, daughter of HH Maharajadhiraj Mirzan Maharao Shri
VIJAYARAJJI
KHENGARJI
Sawai
Bahadur
of Kutch, and his wife, HH
Maharani
Shri
Padmakunwar Ba Sahiba, and had issue. He died
20th November
1995 at Rewah.
- HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja
PUSHPRAJ SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur (qv)
- HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja
PUSHPRAJ SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur (see above)
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