PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The thikana was founded in 1677. From about 1780, the state was harrassed by Mahadji Scindia, who imprisoned Raja Balwant Singh and his son, Ajit Singh. Depradations continued to occur till 1818. Two years earlier, in 1816, General Jean Baptiste Filose, granted the district of Maksudangarh to Thakur Bairi Sal, whose descendants still hold the estate. In 1818, after the death of Raja Jai Singh, without an heir, disputes arose as to the succession, forcing the British to intervene. Estate holders were....

• Manik Rai of Sambhar, married and had issue.

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    • Dewansi, married and had issue.

      • Andal or Raja Ajai Singh, married and had issue.

        • Raja Garib Das of Gagraon, married and had issue.

          • Raja Lal Singh (continued below)

          • Raja Bijai Singh of Garha

      • Raja Jait Singh, married and had issue.

        • Raja Ugra Sen of Gagraon, married and had issue.

          • Raja Bahadur Amar Singh of Khilchipur, married and had issue (see Khilchipur).

        • Raja Gaj Singh of Asothar (see Asothar)

• Raja LAL SINGH, 1st Raja of Raghogarh 1677/1697, he founded the Fort of Raghogarh, which gave its name to the state, married and had issue.

  • Thakur Duner Singh, married and had issue.

    • Raja Vikramjeet Singh [aka Bikramajit Singh] (qv)

• Raja DHIRAJ SINGH, 2nd Raja of Raghogarh 1697/1726, married and had issue.

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), married in about February 1714, Sri Sawai Maharaja Jai Singh II Bahadur, Raja of Amber, and had issue.

• Raja GAJ SINGH, 3rd Raja of Raghogarh 1726/1729

• Raja VIKRAMJEET SINGH, 4th Raja of Raghogarh 1730/1744, married and had issue.

  • Raja Balbhadra Singh I (qv)

• Raja BALBHADRA SINGH I, 5th Raja of Raghogarh 1744/1770, married and had issue.

  • Raja Balwant Singh (qv)

  • Thakur Budh Singh, he was granted a tract of land by his brother in 1776, which later became the state of Maksudangarh, married and had issue (see Maksudangarh). He died 1795.

    • Thakur Durjan Sal, 3rd Thakur of Maksudangarh 1795/1811, considerably extended his possessions, founding a state of which the town of Bahadurgarh (later Istgarh in Gwalior), was the capital.

      • Thakur Bairi Sal, 4th Thakur of Maksudangarh 1816/1864, he adopted Kunwar Raghunath Singh, younger son of Raja Jaimandal Singh (see below), and had adopted issue.

        • (A) Thakur Raghunath Singh, 5th Thakur of Maksudangarh 1864/1907, born 1849 he succeeded by adoption in November 1865 ^(#1), the state was under the control of the Political Agent from 1880, due to mismanagement by the Thakur Saheb. He died sp in 1907.

• Raja BALWANT SINGH, 6th Raja of Raghogarh 1770/1797, married and had issue.

  • Raja Jai Singh (qv)

• Raja JAI SINGH, 7th Raja of Raghogarh 1797/1818, married and had issue. He died in 1818.

  • Raja Ajit Singh (qv)

  • Raja Dhokal Singh, married and had issue.

    • Thakur Bijai Singh, he was granted 52 villages which became the Garha Estate in 1843, married and had issue.

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        • Thakur Bhalbhadar Singh, Thakur of Garha 1881/-, born 1870.

• Raja AJIT SINGH, 8th Raja of Raghogarh 1818/1857, married and had issue.

  • Raja Jaimandal Singh (qv)

  • Thakur Chhatar Sal, he was granted 32 villages which became the Dharnaoda Estate in 1843, married and had issue.

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      • Thakur Bhim Singh, Thakur of Dharnaoda 1887/-, born 1859.

• Raja JAI MANDAL SINGH, 9th Raja of Raghogarh 1857/1900, born 1821, succeeded 1857 ^(#1), married (amongst others), Rajkumari Anand Kumari [Rani Anand Kumari of Raghogarh], daughter of Raja Udai Singhji of Banera, and his wife, Rani Jhaliji, and had issue.

  • Raja Vikramajit Singh (qv)

  • Rajkumar Raghunath Singh, he was adopted to Maksudangarh, and succeeded there as Thakur Raghunath Singh of Maksudangarh (qv).

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), married 1875, the Raja of Sheopur-Baroda.

• Raja VIKRAMAJIT SINGH, 10th Raja of Raghogarh 1900/1902, born about 1850, he was deposed in 1902 for maladministration, he married 1stly, Rani Daulat Kanwar, daughter of Raja Moti Singh of Rajgarh, married 2ndly, Rani Dip Kanwar, another daughter of Raja Moti Singh of Rajgarh, and had adoptive issue.

  • (A) Raja Bahadur Singh (qv)

• Raja BAHADUR SINGH, 11th Raja of Raghogarh 1902/1945, born 8th March 1891, he succeeded by adoption on 14th December 1902; married (a), Baijilal Krishna Kumari [Rani Krishna Kumari of Raghogarh], daughter of Raja Akshay Singh of Banera, and his third wife, Rani Shubhra Kumari, married (b), Baisaheb Manak Kunverba, daughter of Maharaj Saheb Dalel Singh of Kachhi-Baroda, and had issue.

  • Raja Balbhadra Singh (qv)

• Raja BALBHADRA SINGH II, 12th Raja of Raghogarh 1945/1967, born 1914, elected to the first Vidhan Sabha, married Rani Aparna Kumari, died 1986, daughter of Maharaja Bahadur Chandra Mouleshwar Prasad Singh of Gidhaur, and had issue. He died 1967.

  • Raja Digvijay Singh (qv)

  • Kunwar Laxman Singh, B.A. (Hons), educated at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi in Delhi, born 14th January 1955 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1990/92 and 1993/94, Member of the 10th (1994), 11th (1996), 12th (1998), 13th (1999) and 14th (2004) Lok Sabha, Member of the following committees.. Committee on Labour and Welfare 1996/97; Consultative Committee, Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources 1996/97; Committee on Human Resource Development and its Sub-Committee on Drug Control 1998/99; Consultative Committee, Ministry of Tourism 1998/99; Committee on Agriculture 1999/2004. Interests and pastimes include.. music, travelling, social work, meeting people and reading, squash and cricket; Member of the Yeshwant Club, Indore, Madhya Pradesh; represented Parliament XI in Cricket at Goa in 1996, married 1stly, 14th December 1978, Kunwarani Jagriti Kumari, daughter of Rajkumar Bikram Bahadur Singh of Khairagarh, and his wife, Rajkumar Rani Brijraj Kanwar, married 2ndly, 14th January 2002, Kanwarani Rubina Kumari [née Bal], and has issue, one son and one daughter.

    • Kunwar Aditya Vikram Singh, married 2012, Kunwarani Geetanjali Singh, daughter of Thakur Saheb Uday Bhanu Singh Panwar of Thikana Bhensola (Khachraud), and has issue, one son.

      • Bhanwar Devaditya Singh, born 2013.

• Raja DIGVIJAY SINGH, 13th Raja of Raghogarh (see above)

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