PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The ancestor of the family was Rao Chandrabhan Chauhan (of Mainpuri?), who aided Maharana Sangram Singh of Udaipur, and was killed in battle in 1527 at Khanwa. For his support his descendants were granted the Jagir of Bedla. Estate holders were...

1. Rao CHANDRA BHAN, married and had issue. He died 1527 in the Battle of Khanwa.

   • Rao Sangram Singh (qv)

2. Rao SANGRAM SINGH 1531/1535, married and had issue. He died 1535 in the Siege of Chittor.

   • Rao Pratap Singh I (qv)

3. Rao PRATAP SINGH I 1535/1558, married and had issue. He died 1558.

   • Rao Balbhadra Singh (qv)

4. Rao BALBHADRA SINGH [Ballu Singh] 1558/1583, briefly held the jagir of Begun, married and had issue. He died 1583.

   • Rao Ram Chandra I (qv)

5. Rao RAM CHANDRA I 1583/1608, married and had issue. He died 1608.

   • Rao Sabal Singh (qv)

   • Rao Kesari Singh fl.1670, he was granted the Jagir of Parsoli.

   • Maharani Dev Kunwar, married Maharana Amar Singhji II of Udaipur, and had issue.

     • Maharana Sangram Singhji II of Udaipur (qv)

6. Rao SABAL SINGH 1608/1681, married and had issue. He died 1681.

   • Rao Sultan Singh (qv)

7. Rao SULTAN SINGH 1681/1721, married and had issue, five sons. He died 1721.

   • Rao Bakht Singh I (qv)

8. Rao BAKHT SINGH I 1721/1738, married and had issue. He died 1738.

   • Rao Ram Chandra II (qv)

9. Rao RAM CHANDRA II 1738/1758, born 1731, married and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1758.

   • (A) Rao Pratap Singh II (qv)

10. Rao PRATAP SINGH II 1758/1813, born as Kunwar Pratap Singh, a descendant of Rao Sultan Singh, and succeeded by adoption in 1758; married and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1813.

    • (A) Rao Kesari Singh (qv)

11. Rao KESARI SINGH 1813/1835, also Rao of Parsoli 1795/1813, born as Kunwar Kesari Singh, son of Rao Sawant Singh of Parsoli, he succeeded by adoption in 1813; married a daughter of Ranawat Raja Saheb of Shahpura in Udaipur State, and had issue. He died 1835.

    • Rao Bahadur Bakht Singh II (qv)

    • Rani Sringar Kanwar, married (as his first wife), Raj Rana Kirti Singhji II of Bari Sadri, and had issue, four sons and three daughters.

12. Rao Bahadur BAKHT SINGH II 1835/1880, born 19th October 1816, Rao Bahadur [cr.1877], C.I.E. [cr.1878], married Rani Fateh Kunwar, daughter of Raj Rana Bhairav Singh of Tana, and his first wife, Rani Deep Kanwar, and had issue. He died 4th February 1880.

    • Rao Bahadur Takhat Singh (qv)

13. Rao Bahadur TAKHAT SINGH 1880/1892, Member of the Mahand Raj Sabha, Rao Bahadur [cr.1st January 1887]^(#1), married 1stly, 1862, a daughter of the Bhati Thakur of Khejarla in Jodhpur, married 2ndly, 1866, a daughter of Chundawat Rawat Deep Singh of Athana in Gwalior State (a collateral branch of Begun in Udaipur State), and had issue. He died 9th June 1892.

    • Rao Bahadur Karan Singh (by Rani Bhatianiji) (qv)

    • Kunwar Raj Singh (by Rani Bhatianiji), born 3rd August 1871.

    • Kunwar Roop Singh, born 19th October 1871.

    • Thakur Govind Singh, born 2nd September 1878, married and had issue.

      • Maj.-Gen. Rao Manohar Singh (qv)

14. Rao Bahadur KARAN SINGH 1892/1900, born 11th May 1865, Rao Bahadur [cr.1896], married a daughter of the Thakur Saheb of Bhadrajun, and had issue.

    • Rao Nahar Singh (qv)

15. Rao NAHAR SINGHJI 1900/- , born 1895, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer.

16. Maj.-Gen. Rao MANOHAR SINGHJI M.B.E., born January 1904, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; Home Minister of Council in Udaipur, Aide de Camp to the Maharana of Udaipur, Prime Minister of Udaipur, Rao [cr.1936], married and had issue. He died 1984.

    • Kunwar Ragunath Singhji, married Kawarani Samand Kuwar. He died sp in the 1960's.

    • Baisa Shankar Kumari, married in Doongri (Jaipur), to Major Durga Das Singhji Nathawat.

    • Baisa Himmat Kumari, married in Salumbar (Udaipur,Mewar) to Late Rawal Pushpender Singhji.

    • Baisa Anand Kumari, married Kunwar Ajatshatru Singh of Bissau, and has issue.

    • Rao Madhav Singhji (qv)

    • Kunwarani Anand Kumari, married Kunwar Ajatshatru Singh of Bissau, and has issue.

    • Thakur Janak Singhji Bedla, married Thakurani Dharmendra Kumari, and had issue. He died 1986.

      • Thakur Deepak Kumar Bedla, born 28th February 1971 in Baroda, Gujarat, educated at Mumbai University (B.A., Geography), married 6th May 1997 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Kanwarani Abha Kumari, and has issue.

        • Baiji Lal Yadunandini Kumari, aged 6yrs (2003)

        • Kunwar Shatrujit Singh Bedla, aged 1 yr (2003)

    • Thakur Vijai Singhji Bedla, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, married Kanwarani Sugan Kumari Bedla, and has issue, two children.

      • Baisa Negeshwari Kumari, born 1980, educated at Girl's School, Mayo College, Ajmer, married Kunwar Ramratan Singhji of Palkai, Kota.

      • Kunwar Karan Vijay Singh Bedla, born 1988, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer.

17. Rao MADHAV SINGHJI, born 1946, educated in the USA, gaining an M.B.A. from Ohio University in 1968, married 1970, Rani Saheba Durga Kiran Kumari from Neri, Uttar Pradesh, died 2003, and had issue, one son and two daughters. He died 2008.

    • Baisa Savita Kumari

    • Baisa Tarkeshwari Kumari

    • Rao Himmat Singh Bedla (qv)

18. Rao HIMMAT SINGH BEDLA (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Rani Sahiba Chauhaniji of Bedla, married Maharaj MADAN SINGH of Bhindar. She died sp.