HISTORY OF BHARATPUR PRINCY STATE

HISTORY OF BHARATPUR PRINCY STATE

BHARATPUR (Princely State) 

(17 gun salute) 

AREA: 5,123 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 502,000R ACCESSION: 7th April 1949
STATE: Rajasthan DYNASTY:  Sinsiniwar
Jat RELIGION:  Hindu 

PRESENT RULER:  HH Shri
Maharaja Shri Brajendra Sawai VISHVENDRA SINGH Bahadur Jang,
15th
Maharaja of Bharatpur (1995/-)(Moti
Mahal Palace, Bharatpur-321001, Rajasthan)




born 23rd June 1962 at Moti Mahal in Bharatpur, he succeeded his father on 8th July 1995; he served as Chairman, Zila Parishad, Distt.
Bharatpur, Rajasthan 1988/1989; Member
of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (for five years) 1989/1994;
Member
of the 9th (1989/1991), 13th (1999) and 14th (2004) Lok Sabha; Member
of
the Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests
1999/2004;
Member of the Committee on Personal, Public Grievance, Law &
Justice
2004; interests include wildlife, squash and tennis; he married on 15th
February
1989, HH Maharani Divya Kumari born 6th November 1963 in Lucknow,
daughter
of Raja Surendra Singh Ju Dev of Behri, B.A.,
educated at Isabella Thorburn College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh; Member
of
the Zila Parishad, Bharatpur;
Elected to the 11th Lok Sabha in 1996; on
12th May 2006, she was declared elected to the Vidhan Sabha from Deeg constituency
(BJP) in
a bye election as a result of the death of Shri Arun Singh (Rajkumar
Arun Singhji of Bharatpur, see below), and has
issue, one son.
Yuvaraj Anirudh Singh




PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: 
At the end of the 17th century, Jat Baija, Zamindar of the village of
Sansani took advantage of the weakness of the Sultanate of Delhi to enlarge his
territory. His descendents, Churaman Singh and Badan Singh continued
the expansion,

the latter being the founder of the fortress of Bharatpur in 1724. The
rulers were… Thakur Khan Chand, Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats, had issue.
Thakur Jhujha Singh
Thakur Bhajja Singh, Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats
1688/1695, married and had issue.

Thakur Raja Ram, Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats 1670/1688,
married and had issue. He died 4th July 1688.

Thakur Fateh Singh
Thakur Brajraj Singh, married 1stly, Indra Kaur, married
2ndly, Amrit Kaur, daughter of Chaudhri Chandra Singh of Chiksana, and had issue.

Thakur Churaman Singh (by Amrit Kaur), Chief of the
Sinsinwar Jats 1688/1721, married
and had issue. He died October 1721.

Thakur Mokham Singh, Chief of the Sinsinwar Jats
1721/1722, he disputed the succession with Thakur Badan Singh, who was
supported by Maharaja Jai Singh of Jaipur.

Thakur Zulkaran Singh
Thakur Than Singh
Thakur Bakhtawar Singh
Thakur Chand Singh
Thakur Kirat Singh
Thakur Sujan Singh
Thakur Devi Singh
Thakur Kiran Singh
Thakur Ati Ram (by Amrit Kaur)
Thakur Gaj Singh
Thakur Budh Singh
Thakur Khushal Singh
Thakur Bhav Singh (by Amrit Kaur), married a daughter
of Achal Singh of Sogharaia, and had issue.

Thakur Roop Singh
Raja BADAN SINGH (see below)
Raja BADAN SINGH,
1st Raja of Bharatpur 1722/1756,

Thakur of Deeg and founder of Bharatpur; he was granted the title of Brijraj
by Maharaja Jai Singh II on 23rd November 1722; he constructed the
Royal Palace and Gardens at Deeg as well as a temple at Dhir Samir ghat
of Vrindavan; he was also an accomplished poet; he married
25 Ranis, including Rani Devki of a Jat family from Kama, and had
issue,

26 sons. He died 7th June 1756 at Deeg.

Maharaja Suraj Mal (by Rani Devki) (qv)
Kanwar Pratap Singh, he was granted the estate of Weir
around 1739, and succeeded there as Raja Pratap Singh of Weir. He died
2nd November 1745.

Kanwar Akhai Singh
Kanwar Balram Singh
Kanwar Bijay Singh
Kanwar Birnarayan Singh
Kanwar Dalel Singh
Kanwar Duleh Singh
Kanwar Devi Singh
Kanwar Guman Singh
Kanwar Himmat Singh
Kanwar Jodh Singh
Kanwar Khushal Singh
Kanwar Khem Karan Singh
Kanwar Lal Singh
Kanwar Man Singh
Kanwar Medh Singh
Kanwar Udai Singh
Kanwar Sultan Singh
Kanwar Sukh Ram Singh
Kanwar Sakat Singh
Kanwar Sabha Ram Singh
Kanwar Ram Kishan Singh
Kanwar Ram Bal Singh
Kanwar Ram Prem Singh

Bibi (name unknown), married Rao Balram Singh of
Ballabgarh.


Maharaja Brajendra SURAJ
MAL Bahadur, 2nd Maharaja of Bharatpur 1756/1763, born
about February 1707, created Raja

Brajendra Bahadur, married 14 wives, including, 
(a), Rani Hansia,
daughter of Chaudhary Ratiram of Jatwara, married 

(b), Rani Lakshmi, married 
(c), 21st March 1750, Rani Kishori Devi,
daughter of Chaudhary Kanshi Ram Sorot of Hodal, married 
(d), Rani Ganga, married (e), Rani Kavaria, married 

(f), Rani Khet Kumari, and had issue. He died 25th December 1763.
Kanwar Nahar Singh (by Rani Hansia)
Maharaja Jawahir Singh (by Rani
Ganga) (qv)
Maharaja Ratan Singh (by Rani
Ganga) (qv)
Maharaja Nawal Singh (by Rani
Kavaria) (qv)
Maharaja Ranjit Singh (by Rani
Khet Kumari) (qv)


Maharaja JAWAHIR SINGH,
3rd Maharaja of Bharatpur 1763/1768,
died
1768.


Maharaja RATAN SINGH,
4th Maharaja of Bharatpur 1768/1771 or
1768/1769, married and had issue.
Maharaja Keshri Singh (qv)


Maharaja KESHRI SINGH,
5th Maharaja of Bharatpur 1771 or
1769/1776, died 1776.
Kanwar NAWAL SINGH, Regent of Bharatpur 1771/1776,
died 1776.



Maharaja RANJIT SINGH,
6th Maharaja of Bharatpur
1776/1805,
married and had
issue. He died 1805.
Maharaja Randhir Singh (qv)
Maharaja Baldeo Singh (qv)
Maharaj Lachman Singh, married
and
had issue.
Maharaja Durjan Sal (qv)
Maharaj Madho Singh
Maharaj Umrao Singh
Maharaj Bakhat Singh
Maharaj Prithvi Singh


Maharaja RANDHIR SINGH,
7th Maharaja of Bharatpur 1805/1823


Maharaja BALDEO SINGH,
8th Maharaja of Bharatpur 1823/1825,
married and had
issue.
Maharaja Balwant Singh (qv)


Maharaja DURJAN SAL,
9th Maharaja of Bharatpur 1825/1826
(usurper)


Maharaja BALWANT SINGH,
10th Maharaja of Bharatpur 1826/1853,
born
1819, married and had issue. He died
1853.
Maharaja Jashwant Singh (qv)


Maharaja JASHWANT SINGH,
11th Maharaja of Bharatpur 1853/1893,
born 1851, married 1stly, 1859, Maharani Bishan Kaur, daughter of Maharaja
Narendra Singh of Patiala, 

married 2ndly, Maharani Darya Kaur, and had issue. He
died 12th December 1893.

Maharajkumar (name unknown) Singh (by Rani Bishan Kaur),
died 4th December 1869.
Maharaja Ram Singh (qv)

Rao Raja Raghunath Singh, born
1887, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer 1895/1905 (Class-Captain 1903/1905), then with the Imperial Cadet Corps, Dehra Dun; he was appointed to the Bharatpur State Council in 1911. He died after 1930.


HH Shri Brijindar Sawai Maharaja RAM
SINGH Bahadur Jang, 12th Maharaja of Bharatpur 1893/1900, born 9th September 1872 at Lohagarh, Bharatpur;

installed 25th December 1893, deposed (#1);
married 1stly, HH Maharani Kishan Kaur,
married 2ndly, HH Maharani Giriraj Kaur, and had issue, two sons and
two daughters. He died 1929.

Lt.Col.
HH Shri Maharaja Shri Brajendra Sawai Kishen Singh Bahadur Jang (qv)
Maharaj Giriraj Singh
Maharajkumari Gajindar Kaur
Maharajkumari Gokul Kaur


Lt.Col.
HH Shri Maharaja Shri Brajendra Sawai KISHEN SINGH Bahadur Jang,
13th Maharaja of Bharatpur
1900/1929, born 4th October 1899, K.C.S.I. [cr.1926]; he was responsible for a number of reforms in the state of Bharatpur, including a reorganization of the
army in 1919, 

Hindi was made the state language, primary education was
made compulsory, Ayurvedic hospitals were set up, an exhibition to
promote trade and arts was set up on an annual basis, the introduction
of a system of participation of public in state affairs
through credit banks, issuing society and village panchayat acts was
started, the Brij-mandal in Shimla was established, and Social Reform
Acts were enacted; he presided over the Jat Mahasabha
Adhiveshan organized at Pushkar in 1925; married a daughter of Kunwar
Gajindar Singh of Faridkot, and had issue. He
died 27th March 1929.

HH Shri Maharaja Shri Brajendra Sawai Vrijendra Singh
Bahadur Jang (qv)
Rao Raja Gajendra Singh [Girendra Raj Singh], died
1940. Rao Raja Edward Man Singh,
born 1922, married
Rani Anant Mala, Princess of Kagal Junior, and had issue, three
daughters. He died 1985.
Rajkumari Girrendra Kaur, born 5th November 1946,
married 23rd May 1972, Brig. Jitendra Pal Singh of Saidpur, and has
issue, one son and one daughter.
Kumari Gauri Singh
Kanwar Gaurav Singh
Rajkumari Ravindra Kaur, born 4th June 1952, unmarried.
Rajkumari Krishnendra Kaur, born 10th April 1954,
married 26th April 1982, Kanwar Vijay Singhji of Sihi, and has issue,
one son and one daughter.
Kumari Ambika Singh
Kanwar Dushyant Singh
Rao Raja Giriraj Saran Singh,
M.P.(Lok Sabha)
from Mathura, serving two terms, married 1stly, January 1942
(div.1958),
Maharajkumari Sushila Devi of Kapurthala,
born 14th December 1918 at Kapurthala, died 1974 in Simla, married
2ndly,
1962, Mrs. Pamela Singh (divorced from her first husband), and had
issue.
He died December 1969.
Rajkumar Anup Singh, born 25th December 1942, educated
at Bishop Cotton
School, Simla and Cornell University in the U.S.A., studying a course
in
agricultural management, married 1stly, 1969 (div. 1974), Kumari Vijaya
Kumari, born 1951, daughter of Thakur Gopal Singh of Bhajji State, a
forest
range officer better known as Mooshoo Mian, married 2ndly, May 1980,
Surrinder
Kaur, born 1946, a Sikh lady from Shahzadpur jagir in Haryana, no
issue.
Rajkumar Arun Singh [Prince Oogie],
born 13th February
1947, educated
at Bishop Cotton
School, Simla and at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University; M.L.A.
(three times) from Deeg constituency in Bharatpur District, first
elected
M.L.A.in 1993 as an independent. He was twice an independent M.L.A. and
the third time he stood and won from the I.N.L.D. party ticket. He died
unmarried 15th
March 2006 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital of
kidney
failure. His body was taken to
Bharatpur on the same day, and he was given a state funeral (as he was
an
M.L.A.) at the Bharatpur Royal Cemetary.
Maharajkumari Bibiji Kusum Kaur, married 1933, Kanwar
Surendra Pal Singh of Unchagaon, District Bulandshar in the United
Provinces.
Maharajkumari Bibiji Padma Kaur, married Kunwar
Brijendra Singh
of Moradabad Distt.


Col. HH Shri Maharaja
Shri Brajendra Sawai VRIJENDRA
SINGH Bahadur Jang, 14th Maharaja of Bharatpur
1929/1995, born 1st December 1918; Member of the Lok Sabha 1962/1971;
married 1stly June 1941,
Yuvarajkumari Jaya Chamunda Ammani Avaru [HH the
Maharani of Bharatpur], died 1954,
daughter of HH Yuvaraja Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar of Mysore, and his wife,  HH Yuvrani
Kempu Cheluvammanniyavaru, married 2ndly, 1961 (div. 1972), HH Maharani
Videh Kaur of the Urs family of
Mysore, born 1933, died 1985, by whom he had issue. He died 8th July
1995.
Maharajkumari Parvat Kaur,
married
Kanwar Harinderjit Singh,
and has issue, two sons and one daughter.
Kanwar Jagjit Singh, born before 1961, married
Kanwarani Padmani
Kumari of Jasdan.
Maharajkumari Pushpendra Kaur,
married Rana Krishna
Shamsher (no issue).
Maharajkumari Renuka Kaur,
married
Kanwar Mahinder
Singh (no issue).
Maharajkumari Deergh Kaur [HH
Maharani Deergh Kaur of Nabha], married 12th December 1970 at
Bharatpur, HH
Maharaja Hanuwant Singh Malvinder Bahadur of Nabha,
and has issue, two sons.
Maharajkumari Rohini/Ganga Kaur,
married Sardar Rabindra
Bir Singh Grewal, son of Maharajkumari Ruby Rajbir Kaur of Jind, and has issue, one son.
Kanwar Govind
Singh Grewal
HH Shri Maharaja Shri Brajendra Sawai Vishvendra Singh
Bahadur Jang (qv)


HH Shri Maharaja Shri
Brajendra Sawai VISHVENDRA SINGH
Bahadur Jang, 15th Maharaja of Bharatpur (see
above)