Indian Princely States

BIHAT (Princely State)

VILLAGES: 8 (1901)

AREA: 41.44 km²

LOCATION: Madhya Pradesh

AGENCY: Bundelkhand Agency 1802 - 1948

PRIVY PURSE: Rs5,600

REVENUE: Rs27,000 (1931)

DYNASTY: Bundela

ACCESSION: 1st Janauary 1950

RELIGION: Hindu

POPULATION: 4,565 (1931)

PRESENT RULER: Rao Sahib VIRENDRA SINGH Ju Deo, present Rao Sahib of Bihat (H.No.CH-10, Sector-C, 74, Scheme, Vijay Nagar, Indore 452008, Madhya Pradesh, India)

born 8th November 1939, educated at Daly College, Indore, married 21st June 1961, Rani Kumud Kumari, daughter of HH Maharawat Sir Ram Singhji II Bahadur, Maharawat of Pratapgarh, and has issue.

Kumari Usha Singh, married to Mr. Prashant Tiwari, son of the late Sushil Kumar Tiwari (Ex. Officer Excise).
Kumari Nandani Singh, married to Mr. Raghavendra Pratap Singh, son of Mr. Jagdish Singh Judeo (Retd. Commissioner, Varanashi, U.P.).

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1807 by Kunwar Aparbal Singh, son of Kunwar Khuman Singh and descendant of Kunwar Indrajit, a younger son of Raja Sohan Pal of Orchha (1251/1259). The Rao was allowed to maintain a military force of 5 cavalry, 75 infantry, and 1 gun (1893). Rulers were...

Rao APARBAL SINGH, 1st Rao of Bihat 1807/-, he was granted seven villages by Raja Hirde Sah of Panna, and obtained a sanad from the British Government in 1807.

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Diwan CHHATRI SINGH, held the village of Lohargaon, which was confirmed by a sanad in 1862.

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Rao MAHUM SINGH, Rao of Bihat 1872/-, born 16th November 1858 ⁽^#2^p.117), succeeded 9th April 1872 ⁽^#1⁾, educated at Rajkumar College, Nowgong; married and had issue.
- Diwan Bijai Bahadur Singh
- Diwan Raghuraj Singh

Rao BHANUPRATAP SINGH, Rao of Bihat -/1908, married and had issue. He died 25th January 1908.
- Rao Beer Singh Ju Deo (qv)
- Diwan Bhupat Singh, married and had issue.
  - Diwan Ranmat Singh, born in Bihat, educated at Rajkumar College, Nowgaon Dist., Chhatarpur, M.P.; he served as Tahsildar of Tahsil Badamalehara, Baxvaha and Shahnagar; married a daughter of the A.D.C. to the Maharaja of Sarila (and sister of Diwan Shri Jangbahadur Singh Ju Deo Parmar (married Rani Gayatri Devi Parmar (M.L.A. Badamalehara Vidhan Sabha Sheet, and an active social worker on behalf of women)), Minister in the Madhya Pradesh Government), and had issue, three sons and two daughters.
    - Kuwar Madho Singh, married and has issue.
    - Kuwar Devendra Singh, married the daughter of the Jagirdar of Durauha Princely Estate in Panna.
    - Kuwar Arvind Singh Ju Dev, married a daughter of Sawai Raja Rudra Pratap Singh Parmar, nephew of HH Sawai Maharaj Bhopal Singh of Ajaigarh, and has issue, three sons and two daughters.
      - Kuwar Brajendra Singh, born in Badamalehara and died in 1995.
      - Kumari Upma Raje, married Kuwarsaheb Shri Martand Singh Ju Dev, son of Diwan Ashok Kumar Singh of Kurra Kanakpur estate in Banda, U.P., and has issue, two daughters.
        Kumari Priyal Raje, born 8th December 2008.
        Kumari Manvi Raje, born 12th April 2012.
      - Kuwar Yogendra Pratap Singh Bundela, born 15th October 1980, educated at the Dr.Hari Singh Gour University in Sagar (B.A., M.A., B.Ed.), married and had issue.
      - Kuwar Sailendra Pratap Singh Bundela, born 1987 in Badamalehara, educated locally.
      - Kumari Sonam Raje Bundela, born in Badamalehara, educated in Jabalpur and Sagar University.
    - Kumari Badi Raja Munni Raja, married in 1953 in Bijawar, Kuwarsaheb Shri Bhawani Singh Ju Dev, a palace officer in Bijawar state, and had issue, four sons and four daughters.
    - Kumari Nanni Raja Urmila Raje, married in 1962 in Banda, U.P., and had issue, six sons and one daughter.
  - Kunwar Sardar Singh

Rao BIR SINGH Ju Deo, Rao of Bihat 1908/- , born 16th May 1902 ⁽^#2^p.36), educated at Daly College, Indore and at Mayo College, Ajmer and at Agricultural College, Cawnpore; he succeeded to the gadi on 25th January 1908 ⁽^#2^p.36); he was invested with full ruling powers on 15th January 1925 ⁽^#2^p.41), married 1stly, in May 1918, Rani Nawal Kunwar, daughter of Diwan Shriman Kunwar Shoba Singh (caste?) of Panna, a maternal uncle of Maharaja Yadvendra Singh of Panna; married 2ndly, in January 1939, Rani Pratap Kunwar, daughter of Thakur Shri Sursinhji Balsinhji of Khirasra, and had issue.
- Rao Sahib Virendra Singh Ju Deo (by Rani Pratap Kunwar) (qv)
- Rani Laxmi Kumari (by Rani Nawal Kunwar), married the late Rao Sahib Yadvendra Singh Ju Deo of Beri, and had issue.

Rao Sahib VIRENDRA SINGH Ju Deo, Rao of Bihat (see above)

1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.82

2. "Memoranda on The Indian States 1930", corrected up to 1st January 1930, Published by Authority, Calcutta. Government of India, Central Publication Branch. 1931.

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