PRESENT HEAD:

The Raja Saheb of Jagmanpur, present acknowledged Head of all Sengar Rajputs (see Jagmanpur). The title of Raja is hereditary and dates from about 1100A.D.; it was recognized by the Peshwa in 1717, and acknowledged by the British Government.

SHORT HISTORY:

Like the Gautam clan it claims descent from Singhi Rishi, a Brahmin, who married a Rajput Princess and received a grant of a huge number of villages, extending from Kanauj to Manikpur. Puran Deo, the grandson of Singhi Rishi, migrated to the Deccan, and subsequently, several centuries later, the clan moved to Dhar in Malwa, and thence to Bandhugarh in Rewah, and Jagmohanpur on the Etawah border of Jalaun. There in 1065, was born Raja Bisukh Deo, who married a daughter of Maharaja Jai Chand of Kanauj. After the fall of that city, the Sengars took possession of the greater part of Etawah. ^(#1)

At the time of the fall of the Kingdom of Kanauj at the hands of Shihabuddin Muhammad Ghori, in 1194, the Sengar Rajputs ruled over that part of the country on either bank of the river Jumna which now forms the bulk of the Jalaun and Etawah district of the Agra Provence and is locally known after them by the name of Singarat (Sringa-Rashtra) or Singar-Ghar. It had by then been their stronghold for about 250 years. The Sengar Rajputs originated in Sarawan, approximately 17 kilometres from Jalaun City in Uttar Pradesh, and are now found mainly in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, and are one of the more important 36 Rajput clans. They are said to be descendants of Shringi Rishi, and his wife, Shanta, a sister of Lord Rama. Raja Karan Dev was the founder of Jagammanpur Kingdom and ancestor of all of the following states and estates.

STATES AND ESTATES:

Major states include, Jagmanpur (in Jalaun Dist.), Mau, Sarwan, Hardoi, Bhadekh, Bareh (in Etawah Dist.), Ruru (in Uttar Pradesh), Kakhauvatu, Kanta, Kursi, Kusmara Thikana, Lakhnesar (in Balia Dist.), Malhausi, and Bhikra.

BRANCHES:

The various branches of the Sengar Rajputs are as follows.

1. Hardoi

2. Bhikra

3. Kakaotu or Kakhauvatu

4. Bareh

5. Kanta

6. Sarwan

7. Malhausi

8. Ruru

9. Riniyan

10. Kursi

1. HARDOI in Jalaun District: Raja Gokul Singh was granted 27 villages, but was subsequently ejected by Govind Rao, the Governor of Jalaun, and was left the village of Hardoi, plus two others for his maintenance, married and had issue.

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     • Raja Pahup Singh, Raja of Haldoi, born 1813, married and had issue. He died 1890.

       • Raja (name unknown) Singh, Raja of Haldoi, he lost possession of Hardoi and became a pensioner of the money-lender who had foreclosed; married and had issue.

         • Raja Makund Singh, Head of the Sengar Rajputs of Hardoi, in the district of Jalaun; he succeeded his father in 1909; he holds the hereditary title of Raja, first conferred in 1095 A.D.; married a daughter of the Gaur Khanpur-Dilwal family.

2. BHIKRA: Rao Chet Singh of Bhikra

3. KAKHAUVATU: Rao Jodha Singh of Kakaotu or Kakhauvatu

4. BHAREH: Raja Niranjan Singh of Bareh in Etawah District, comprising 32 whole villages and three mahals, paying revenue of Rs. 29,193/- in Etawah. The title of Raja had been borne by the chieftains of the family since very ancient times, and had been admitted by the British Government since the cession of the district in 1801.

5. KANTA: Thakur Balbhadar Singh of Kanta in Unao district, a Taluqdar of Oudh and was also a Government Darbari, the estate comprised 9 villages and 2 pattis in the district and payed revenue of Rs 11,862/- .

6. SARWAN: Shri Dewan Maharaj Singh Ju Deo of Sarwan

7. MALHAUSI: Raja Lal Narain Singh of Malhausi

8. RURU: Raja of Ruru

9. RINIYAN: Rao of Riniyan

10. KURSI: Rawat of Kursi

11. MAU: it was incorporated into Rewah State in 1835, and converted into one of its tahsils. The Thakur Saheb of Naigarhi in Rewah State was a feudatory of Mau.