PRESENT HEAD OF HOUSE:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Sardars belong to a Sandhu Jat family, descended from Sardar Deep Singh, the Mahant of the " Damdama Saheb" or resting-place of the Guru Govind Singh {see misl Shahidan). Succession is by primogeniture, with younger sons receiving maintenance only. Jarauli and Arjana were held equally by each of the three branches. Estate holders were...

• Sardar Chuhar Singh of Chang near Kasur, owning allegiance to the Shahidan misl, he was a close relation of the Bhangi Sardar, Rai Singh, the conqueror of Jagadhri and Dialgarh, and a prominent member of the Bhangi misl, he received the Jarauli area as his share of the spoils after the sack of Sirhind in January 1764, he retained ten villages for himself and made over the rest to his deputies, returning to Amritsar, he held charge of the Shahid Bunga for many years, married and had issue.

  • Sardar Karam Singh, 3rd Misldhar of the Shahidan misl, he succeeded to the family estates north of the Sutlej, which were confiscated by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, on his death without a male heir. He died 1808.

  • Sardar Mohar Singh (qv)

  • Dharam Singh, he had a share in the original territory, but he died without issue and his widow married his oldest brother.

• Sardar Mohar Singh, Jagirdar of Jarauli 1808/1845, he was placed in charge of the village of Jarauli, but most of the property was taken by Sardar Bhanga Singh of Thanesar, leaving him only Jarauli, Fatehgarh, Atarai and Arjana; in 1809, the property was brought under the protection of the British Government; married and had issue, the Sardars of Jarauli. He died 1845, leaving a will by which his 1st and 3rd sons received three tenths of the estate each, while the 2nd son received four tenths.

  • Sardar Jawahir Singh, married and had issue. He died 1857.

    • Sardar Santokh Singh, married and had issue.

      • Sardar Kishan Singh, born 1864, married and had issue. He died 1916.

        • Nau Nihal Singh, died 1901.

        • Sardar Pritam Singh, born 1896.

  • Sardar Jit Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Uggar Singh, married and had issue. He died 1851.

    • Sardar Har Bhagat Singh, married and had issue. He died 1881.

      • Sardar Gajendra Singh, born 1874, educated at Ambala Government School, married a daughter of Sardar Narayan Singh, Jagirdar of Khamanun, and had issue.

        • Sardar Richpal Singh, born 1890, married and had issue, three sons.

        • Sardar Gurdyal Singh, born 1894, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Shamsher Singh, born 1923.

• Sardar Jit Singh, Head of the Jarauili Shahids 1845/1852, married and had issue. He died 1852.

  • Sardar Bahadur Sardar Jwala Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Bishan Singh, died 1869.

• Sardar Bahadur Sardar Jwala Singh, Head of the Jarauili Shahids 1852/1918, born 1846 (or 1839), he succeeded to he title of Sardar as a hereditary distinction in the family; he held the village of Fatehgarh Atari as his sole possession; a Provincial Darbari; he was granted the title of Sardar Bahadur in 1892, in recognition of his services as an Honorary Magistrate; married and had issue. He died 1918.

  • Sardar Devendra Singh [Devinder], born 1867, married and had issue. He died 1905.

    • Sardar Rajendra Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Mahendra Singh [Mohindar], born 1876, married and had issue. He died 1904.

    • Sardar Harbans Singh, born 1899, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; married and had issue.

      • Sardar Balbir singh, born 1922.

• Sardar Rajendra Singh, Head of the Jarauili Shahids 1918/1925, born 1892, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; married and had issue. He died 1925.

  • Sardar Bhupendra Singh, born 1917.

  • Harendra Singh, born 1926.

• Sardar Bhupendra Singh, Head of the Jarauili Shahids 1925/-, born 1917.