PRESENT RULER: Rawat Sawai HARI SINGHJI II, 19th Rawat Saheb of Begun (Fort Begun, P.O. Begun, Distt. Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India)

First Class Umrao, married 1stly, Rani Kanchan Kunwar, died 4th April 1969, daughter of Thakur Govind Singhji of Raipur, and his wife, Thakurani Vallabh Kunwar, married 2ndly, 9th September 1970, Rani Suraj Kanwar, daughter of Rana Pratap Singh of Guda Malani, and has issue.

• Kanwarani Pravin Kunwar (by Rani Kanchan Kunwar) (+) [Rani Pravin Kunwar of Begun], married Kunwar Ghanshyam Singh, later Raj Rana Ghanshyam Singhji of Bari-Sadri.

• Kunwar Maha Singh (by Rani Kanchan Kunwar), married Kanwarani Sanyokta Kanwar, daughter of Kunwar Jaideep Singh of Ladana.

• Kanwarani Uma Kanwar (by Rani Kanchan Kunwar), married Kunwar Rajvir Singh of Amarkot.

• Kunwar Madhav Singh (by Rani Kanchan Kunwar), married 1994, Kanwarani Annapurna Kanwar, born 1967, daughter of Thakur Guninidhan Singh of Talaogaon.

• Kunwar Ajay Raj Singh (by Rani Suraj Kanwar), married Kanwarani Rohini Kunwar, daughter of Rawal Kishan Singh of Jasol.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: An off-shoot of Salumber. Rulers were...

1. Rawat GOVIND DAS, son of Rawat Khengar of Salumber, he was the founder of the estate and is said to have been killed in an engagement with Mirza Shahrukh, one of Akbar's generals near Jawad (later in the Nimach district of Gwalior).

2. Rawat MEGH SINGH I fl.1608, he defeated the Imperial army under Mahabat Khan at Untala, later his estate was (briefly) given to Ballu Chauhan of Bedla; he was given the mansab of four hundred Jat and two hundred Sawar, and the Pargana of Malpura in Jaipur by Emperor Jahangir of Delhi.

3. Rawat RAJ SINGH

4. Rawat MAHA SINGH I, married and had issue.

   • Rani Takhat Kanwar, married (as his first wife), Rao Nahar Singhji of Parsoli.

5. Rawat MOKHAM SINGH

6. Rawat UDAI SINGH

7. Rawat KUSHAL SINGH

8. Rawat BHUPAL SINGH

9. Rawat ALLU SINGH [Allaji]

10. Rawat ANUP SINGH I

11. Rawat HARI SINGH I

12. Rawat DEVI SINGH

13. Rawat Sawai MEGH SINGH II

14. ??Rawat Sawai PRATAP SINGH

15. Rawat Sawai MAHA SINGHJI II -/1824 and 1839/1866, became a religious mendicant at the shrines of Nathdwara and Kankroli, but he resumed management of the estate on his sons death, married and had issue. He died 1866.

    • Rawat Sawai Kishore Singhji (qv)

    • Kanwar Madho Singh, married 1848, Kanwarani Chaman Kanwar, committed sati in 1861, daughter of Raj Rana Kirti Singhji II of Bari-Sadri, and his first wife, Rani Sringar Kanwar. He died 1861.

    • Rawat Sawai Megh Singhji III (qv)

16. Rawat Sawai KISHORE SINGHJI 1824/1839, murdered in 1839.

17. Rawat Sawai MEGH SINGHJI III 1866/1905, born about 1857, married 1879, Rani Chand Kanwar, daughter of Maharaj Shri Balwant Singh, Rao of Dattigaon, and his third wife, Rani Gulab Kanwar, and had issue.

    • Rawat Sawai Anup Singhji II (qv)

18. Rawat Sawai ANUP SINGHJI II 1905/-, born 1889, he adopted Kunwar Hari Singh, son of Maharaj Shri Gopal Singhji of Anoopura, and his wife, Rani Dolat Kunwar, daughter of Raja Khuman Singhji of Ralayata; married Rani Mohan Kanwar, born 22nd January 1894, daughter of Kunwar Devi Singh of Parsoli, and his first wife, Kunwarani Gulab Kanwar, and had adoptive issue.

    • (A) Rawat Sawai Hari Singhji II (qv)

19. Rawat Sawai HARI SINGHJI II (see above)