PRESENT HEAD: The Raja Saheb of Adharganj and Head of the Senior Branch of the Bachgoti Clan of Patti

STATES AND/OR ESTATES: Adharganj, Asal, Atarsand, Athgawan, Bhadaiyan, Bhiti, Dalippur, Daryapur, Dashrathpur, Daundia Khera, Hirdharpur, Isanpur, Jalalpur Bilkhar, Khajurahat, Kurwar, Mahrupur, Paroma, Patti Saifabad I, Patti Saifabad II, Raipur Bichaur, Rampur, Rasuiyan, Reona, Samrathpur, Sirsi, Sheosat, Sujakhar, Ujhla, Uriadih Jamtali, etc.

BRANCHES: Raja Bariar Singh was the founder of five Chauhan branches, viz. Chauhan proper, Rajkumar, Rajwar, Bachgoti and Khanzada (Muslim) clans. The Durgbansi branch were also descendants of the Bachgoti clan.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The name of the clan is derived from Vatsa or Batsa, the name of the Rishi who founded the gotra to which the clan belongs. They claim descent from the Mainpuri Chauhans who fled from Delhi around 1248 (traditional date), under their leader, Raja Bariar Singh, who was descended from Rao Chahir Deo, who belonged to the Chauhan Dynasty, and settled in Sultanpur district of Oudh, and there displaced the Bilkharias of Kot Bilkhar in Patti. The clan was found mainly in the Jaunpur, Sultanpur, Fyzabad and Pratapgarh Districts of the Province of Oudh, and the North-West Provinces.^(#1)

• Raja Sangat, he was a great-grandnephew of Maharajadhiraj Parmeshwara Prithviraj III, Raja of Ajmer and Delhi, married and had issue, 22 sons. [Compare below]

  • Rao Asal

  • Rao Gogai

  • Rao Ghatam Deo

  • Rao Raj Shah, married and had issue.

    • Rao Bhup Singh, ancestor of the Bachgoti clan of Dikauli/Dikoli

      • Taluqdar of Dikoli, ancestor of the Rajas of Kurwar, Bhiti and Khajurahat

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        • Rao Makat Rai, ancestor of the Taluqdars of Katawan and Mahmudpur

        • Rao Jaichand Raj, married and had issue.

          • Rao Tilok Chand, he converted to Islam and was ancestor of the Khanzada Clan

    • Diwan Chakrasen Rai, ancestor of the Bachgoti clan of Dallippur-Patti

    • Rao Ishri Singh of Bhaddyan, ancestor of the Rajkumar clan of Faizabad district.

• Raja Bariar Singh, possibly a Mainpuri Chauhan, he fled his home after the fall of Delhi and established himself at Jamnawan in 1248 and afterwards at Bhadaiyan in Sultanpur district; married 1stly, a daughter of Raja Ramdeo of Jalalpur-Bilkhar, married 2ndly, a daughter of Raja Man Singh of Jaipur (sic), and had issue, the Chauhan, Rajkumar, Rajwar, Bachgoti and Khanzada clans. He lived around 1248 or 1196.

  • Babu Ghunghe Singh [aka Gajraj Singh] (by 1st wife), married and had issue, the Rajwar clan of pargana Chanda in Sultanpur district.

  • Babu Ghatam Deo [aka Ghatam Rai] (by 1st wife), ancestor of Bachgotis of Bahra, Kanupur and Mahrupur in Pratapgarh district.

  • Babu Asal Rai (by 1st wife), ancestor of Bachgotis of Asal in Sultanpur district.

  • Babu Raj Shah [aka Raj Singh] (by 2nd wife), fourth son, married and had issue, three sons.

  • Babu Ishri Singh [aka Asre or Asneh Singh], the Rajkumar clan of Meopur and Deara, married and had issue. (see Rajkumar Clan)

  • Babu Rup Singh, married and had issue, the Bachgoti clan of Kurwar etc. and the Khanzada branch of Hasanpur.

    • • Babu Jura Rai, married and had issue.

        • Babu Jai Chand, married and had issue.

          • Raja Tilok Chand Tatar Khan, he was forcibly converted to Islam under the name of Tatar Khan and was granted the title of Khan-i-Azam; he established a series of forts at Khiron (Sathanpur), Sangrampur and Rai Bareilly; said to have married 300 wives, including a Princess of Rewah and a Princess of Mainpuri, and had issue, "a family as countless as the sands of the sea". He lived around the middle of the 15th century.

            • Raja Fateh Singh, he was born before his fathers conversion and retained the right to the Bachgoti designation, married and had issue, the Taluqdars of Dhamaur.

            • Rai Amba, married and had issue.

              • Rai Bidad, he lived at Gajanpur, married and had issue.

                • Rai Dudhich, he converted to Islam, and was the ancestor of all the Muslim Bhale Sultans.

            • Rai Mardan Singh

            • Raja Bazid Khan, he was brought up as a Muslim, married and had issue, the Muslim Khanzada Bachgotis.

              • Raja Hasan Khan, 1st Raja of Hasanpur, founder of the Taluq named after himself; he rose high in the favour of Sher Shah, who granted him the title of Badshah Duyam Masnad Ala, and was raised to the position of the premier Raja of Oudh, with the power of conferring the title of Raja on whom he was pleased with, though remaining within the limits of banaudha; married and had issue. (see Hasanpur)

      • Raja Pirthipal Singh, Taluqdar of Kurwar, married and had issue. (see Kurwar)

  • Diwan Chakrasen Rai [aka Chakrapati], Taluqdar of Jalalpur-Bilkhar, ancestor of the Bachgoti clan of Pratapgarh, married and had issue, two sons.

    • • Rai Bahubar Singh, ancestor of the Taluqdars of Atarsand till 1794.

      • Rai Goshain Singh, Taluqdar of Jalalpur-Bilkhar, married and had issue, four sons.

        • Rai Hamirdeo, ancestor of the Taluqdars of Sirsi

        • Rai Karampal, ancestor of the Taluqdars of Ujhla

        • Rai Lakhan Sen, ancestor of the Taluqdars of Sheosat and/or Hirdharpur.

        • Rai Harbans Rai, Taluqdar of Jalalpur-Bilkhar, married and had issue, two sons who divided the estate between them.

          • Rai Dingar Singh, he succeeded to the eleven-twentieths share of Jalalpur-Bilkhar, henceforth known as Dalippur taluqa, married and had issue. see Dalippur (Adharganj).

          • Rai Nahar Singh, he succeeded to the nine-twentieths share of Jalalpur-Bilkhar, henceforth known as Patti taluqa, married and had issue. (see Patti Saifabad).