PRESENT RULER: Raja RAVINDRA SINGH, 5th Diwan Sahib of Garrauli since 17th September 1964.

born 19th February 1957; educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 1983, Rani Poornima Jamwal of Akhnoor in Jammu, and has issue.

• Yuvraj Raghvendra Singh, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and presently (2009) undertaking an M.B.A. degree course at the R.M.I.T., Melbourne, Australia; married 7th November 2011, Yuvrani Sunandita Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Jitendra Singh Chandel of Ramgarh in Haryana, and his wife, Kanwarani Roopa Kumari.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The ancestor of the family was Raja Rudra Pratap of Orchha. One of his sons became the Raja of Mahewa and was father of Thakur Bhagwan Das of Mahewa. The latter was grandfather of the celebrated Maharajadhiraja Chhatrasal, who was responsible for greatly increasing the power and wealth of the various Bundela rulers. The younger son of Thakur Bhagwan Das, was granted the estate of Garrauli and was the ancestor of the Garrauli branch of the Bundela dynasty. The Diwan Bahadur maintains a military force of 2 cavalry, 56 infantry and 4 guns. Rulers were...

• Raja RUDRA PRATAP, Raja Saheb of Orchha 1501/1531, he managed to increase his lands considerably during the confusion caused by Padshah Baber's invasion; married and had issue. He died 1531.

  • Thakur Udyajit Singh of Mahewa, married and had issue.

    • Thakur Bharti Chandra, married and had issue.

      • Thakur Bhagwan Das, married and had issue.

        • Thakur Champat Rai, married and had issue. He died after 1649.

          • Maharajadhiraja Chhatrasal, born 1649, died 1731.

        • Thakur Man Shah, ancestor of the Satgharia branch, including the Garrauli Royal Family, married and had issue.

          • Thakur Indraman, married and had issue.

            • Thakur Shahman, married and had issue.

              • Thakur Parvat Singh [Pratap Singh], married and had issue.

                • Thakur Anirudh Singh, married and had issue.

                • >> Thakur Jeet Singh [Ajeet Singh/Jeet Shah], married and had issue.

                • >> >> Thakur Bhagwant Singh, married and had issue.

                • >> >> Diwan Gopal Singh (continued below)

1. Diwan GOPAL SINGH, 1st Diwan Sahib of Garrauli -/1831, he obtained a sanad from the British Government in 1812, married and had issue. He died 1831.

   • Diwan Bahadur Parichhat Singh [Parikshit Singh] (qv)

2. Diwan Bahadur PARICHHAT SINGH, 2nd Diwan Sahib of Garrauli 1831/1884, Diwan Bahadur [cr. 17.10.1844], married and had issue. He died 1884.

   • Kunwar Randhir Singh, married and had issue. He died vp on 20th December 1883.

     • Raja Diwan Bahadur Chandrabhan Singh (qv)

   • Kunwar Venkata Rao

3. Raja Diwan Bahadur CHANDRABHAN SINGH, 3rd Diwan Sahib of Garrauli 1884/1946, born 2nd April 1883 ^(#1), succeeded his grandfather on 19th October 1884; educated at Rajkumar College, Nowgong; Hon. Captain of Chhatrasal Infantry (Panna) 1925; married a daughter of the Jagirdar of Semaria in Panna State (whose brother was Rao Prithipal Singh of Semaria), and had issue, two sons and three daughters. He died 20th November 1946.

   • Raja Raghuraj Singh (qv)

   • Thakur Pratap Singh, born 1919, married and had issue.

     • Thakur Pushpendra Singh

     • Thakur Prithvi Singh, married and has issue.

       • Kuwarani Pallavi Singh, born 22nd June 1980, married 23rd January 2007, Kunwar Manuraj Singh Chauhan, born 22nd December 1979 at Lucknow, son of Thakur Ranvir Singh Chauhan, and his wife, Thakurani Bibha Shah, daughter of Raja Luv Shah of Khairigarh.

     • Thakur Pradeep Singh

     • Thakur Padam Pratap Singh

     • Kunwarani Pushpa Kumari, married 1966, Rajkumar Brijendra Singh of Beri, and has issue, three daughters.

   • Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja Chhatrapratap Singh of Khod Manpura.

   • Rajkumari (name unknown), married Kunwar Jangiraja of Jharkua in Panna State.

4. Raja RAGHURAJ SINGH, 4th Diwan Sahib of Garrauli 1946/1964, born 16th January 1910,

5. Raja RAVINDRA SINGH, 5th Diwan Sahib of Garrauli (see above)