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Dynasty

State

Madhya Pradesh

Gun Salutes

11

Agency

Central India Agency

Accession

15th June 1948

Revenue

INR 1,200,000 (1948)

Area

1,920 Square Kilometers km²

Population

140,000 (1948)

Privy Purse

INR 115,000

Hindi Name

नरसिंहगढ़

Last Updated

7th Jul, 2024

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HH Shri Huzur Maharaja Rajyavardhan Singh Sahib Bahadur, born , married Rajkumari Kalpaneshwari Devi, daughter of HH Raja Bijay Bhushan Singh Ju Deo of Jashpur, and his wife, HH Rani Jaya Kumari Devi, and has issue, two sons. Presently a BJP MLA from Narsinghgarh, previously he was MLA from 1985-1990 and a parliamentary secretary in Motilal Vohra Govt. (Bhanu Niwas Palace, Bhopal Road, Narsinghgarh 465669, Madhya Pradesh)
  • Maharaj Kumar Veer Vikram Singh, born in Indore, married Bhanwarani Neha Kumari of Delhi, and has issue.
    • Bhanwarbai Saheba Ujjaiti Kumari Singh, born .
    • Bhanwarbai Saheba Tvisha Kumari Singh, born .
    • Bhanwarbai Saheba Tavishi Kumari Singh, born .
  • Maharaj Kumar Vishwa Pratap Singh, born in Indore.
    • Bhanwarbai Sahiba Vanshika Singh, born .
    • Bhanwar Sahib Vrishdhwaj Singh, born .
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History

The State of Narsinghgarh was carved out of the state of Rajgarh by Paras Ramji, the younger brother of the then Ruler of Rajgarh, Rawat Mohan Singhji in 1681.
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Genealogy

  • Raja PARAS RAMJI, Raja of Narsinghgarh 1681/1695, son of Raja Chhatar Singh of Umatwara; Diwan of Rajgarh 1660/1681 and founder of Narsinghgarh in 1681, a just and a capable Ruler, he named his state after Shri Narsingh Bhagwan, who was his deity and aradhya Dev; afterwards he founded the town of Narsinghgarh and transferred his capital there and constructed the temple of his aradhya Dev Shri Narsingh Bhagwan, he also constructed a tank known as Paras Ram Sagar, married and had issue.
    • Rawat Dalel Singhji (qv)
  • Rawat DALEL SINGHJI, Rawat of Narsinghgarh in 1695, married and had issue. He died .
    • Rawat Moti Singhji (qv)
  • Rawat MOTI SINGHJI, Rawat of Narsinghgarh 1695/1751, married and had issue. He died .
  • Rawat KHUMAN SINGHJI, Rawat of Narsinghgarh 1751/1766, during his rule, Mughul power declined in Malwa and the Marathas gained the ascendancy; he married and had issue.
    • Rawat Achal Singhji (qv)
  • Rawat ACHAL SINGHJI, Rawat of Narsinghgarh 1766/1795, a brave and wise ruler, he married the daughter of the Maharana of Udaipur, and had issue. He died .
    • Rawat Sobhagh Singhji (qv)
  • Rawat SOBHAGH SINGHJI, Rawat of Narsinghgarh 1795/1827, his reign witnessed the advent of the British in Malwa and also the signing of treatise and engagements between the Ruling Princes of Malwa and Sir John Malcolm, who represented the British Government; he married the niece of Maharana Udaipur, and had issue. He died .
    • Rajkumar Chain Singhji, born , courageous, brave and intelligent, he was placed in charge of the administration of the state due to the illness of his father, but he fell foul of the British Government and a battle ensued at Sehore in 1824, a town about 37 kilometers west of Bhopal, in he which he died fighting valiantly, married and had adoptive issue. He died in battle in 1824 at Sehore.
      • (A) HH Raja Hanwant Singhji (qv)
  • HH Raja HANWANT SINGHJI, Raja of Narsinghgarh 1827/1873, Raja (Hereditary)[cr. xx.5.1872], as the nearest heir and rightful successor to the gaddi, he was adopted from Batkhera by the dowager Rani of the late Rawat Saheb with the consent of Sirdars of Narsinghgarh State in 1827; a generous, noble and high-minded Ruler with a great administrative capabilities for which he was rewarded with a salute of 11 guns and the style of His Highness by the British Government, he married and had issue. He died in .
    • Rajkumar Bhawani Singhji, married Rajkumari Rukmani Kumari, born , daughter of Raja Shivnath Singh of Khetri, and had issue. He died vp before 1873.
      • HH Raja Pratap Singhji (qv)
    • HH Raja Mehtab Singhji (qv)
    • Rajkumar Chhatrashalji
    • Rajkumari Bijai Kunwar Bai Sahiba, married HH Maharaja Jashwant Singhji II of Jodhpur, and had issue.
  • HH Shri Huzur Raja PRATAP SINGHJI, Raja of Narsinghgarh 1873/1890, succeeded his grandfather in March 1873 (on this occasion, Maharaja Holkar demanded the succession nazrana, but his claim was not admitted by the British Government). In 1880, he abolished all transit duties on salt passing through his territories. On January 1, 1885, he abolished all transit duties within his territory, with the exception of opium, and in the same year, contributed Rs. 56,000 towards the construction of the Biaora-Sehore road. He attended the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi in 1877. He visited England in 1887, and during his visit, he was received by Queen-Empress Victoria. Hon. D.C.L. (Uni of Edinburgh, 1887). Married 1890, Rani Fateh Kanwar, a niece of Maharaja Shri Jaswant Singhji of Jodhpur. He died without issue in April 1890 and was succeeded by his uncle, Mehtab Singh.
  • HH Raja MEHTAB SINGHJI, Raja of Narsinghgarh 1890/1895, succeeded 28th June 1890, the only surviving son of Raja Hanwant Singhji, he was as capable as his father, and often toured his state every year and dispensed even-handed justice to all his subjects on the spot, whenever it was required. He died sp 1895.
  • HH Shri Huzur Raja Sir ARJUN SINGHJI Sahib Bahadur, Raja of Narsinghgarh 1895/1924, selected by the Government of India from Bhatkhera as successor, born , educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and Daly College, Indore; trained with the Imperial Cadet Corps in Dehradun; K.C.I.E., married 1stly, 1907, HH Rani Shiv Kunwarji, daughter of HH Raja Sir Jashwant Singhji Bahadur of Sailana, D.B.E.(civil) [cr.1924], married 2ndly, a Princess of Talsana in Gujarat, and had issue, one son and three daughters. He died .
    • HH Shri Huzur Raja Sir Vikram Singhji Sahib Bahadur (by Rani Shiv Kunwarji) (qv)
    • Rajkumari Damyanti Kumaribai Sahiba [HH Maharani Damayanti Devi of Jaisalmer] (by Rani Shiv Kunwarji), married 1926 (as his first wife), HH Maharajadhiraj Maharawal Girdhar Singhji of Jaisalmer, and had issue. She died .
    • Rajkumari Hemant Kumaribai Sahiba [Rani Hemant Kanwar of Jubbal] (by Rani Shiv Kunwarji), born in Narsingarh, married 31st January 1932, Raja Rana Digvijay Chandra of Jubbal, and had issue. She died in Delhi.
    • Rajkumari Basant Kumaribai Sahiba [Rani Basant Kumari of Indargarh] (by the Talsana Rani), she married Raja Sumer Singhji of Indargarh in Rajasthan.
  • HH Shri Huzur Raja Sir VIKRAM SINGHJI Sahib Bahadur, Raja of Narsinghgarh 1924/1957, K.C.I.E. [cr.1941], born and succeeded 23rd April 1924, invested with full ruling powers in 1929; educated at Daly College, Indore, and Mayo College, Ajmer; he was generally acknowledged by all as a kind hearted and highly respected Ruler who enjoyed good standing amongst his brother Princes and Rulers of India; he signed the Instrument of Accession to the Dominion of India on 15th August 1947 and concluded an agreement to form Madhya Bharat on 15th June 1948 with other rulers; he was engaged to Maharajkumari Jeet Kunwarba Sahiba, daughter of HH Maharao Swaroop Ram Singhji of Sirohi, but the princess fell ill the very morning of the marriage and died just before the marriage ceremony, he married 1929, HH Rani Dev Kumariji, daughter of HH Maharajadhiraj Mirzan Maharao Shri Vijayarajji Khengarji Sawai Bahadur of Kutch, and his wife, HH Maharani Shri Padmakunwar Ba Sahiba, he adopted Kunwar Bhanuprakash Singhji, son of Maharaj Prabhunath Singhji of Dhuwankheri in 1942. He died sp 17th July 1957 dearly loved and respected by all his subjects.
  • HH Shri Huzur Maharaja BHANUPRAKASH SINGHJI Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Narsinghgarh from 17th July 1957 to 24th January 2019. Born , son of Maharaj Prabhunath Singhji of Dhuwankheri, uncle of HH Shri Huzur Maharaja Sir Vikram Singhji, who adopted him in the 1942, he succeeded to the gadi on 17th July 1957; educated at Mayo College Ajmer, Daly College, Indore and St. John’s College, Agra; entered politics in 1962 and fought the general election as an Independent candidate and won both the Assembly seat from Narsinghgarh and the Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh, Convener of the Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress to 1966, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Communications in 1966, he donated the Arjun Niwas Palace, to be used as a college for post-graduate classes in Arts, Science and Commerce, appointed as Secretary to the Central Citizens Council in 1966, elected to the 4th Lok Sabha in 1967 and was appointed a deputy Minister in the Ministry of Industrial Development, Internal Trade and Company Affairs, appointed to the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals and Mines and Metals in 1970, delegate from India to the World Conference of the Working People’s Socialist Union in Belgrade in 1966, Leader of the Indian Delegation to the Second Session of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) held at Vienna in April 1968, led the official Indian Delegation for Small Scale Industries to Japan in 1969, Convener of the Madhya Pradesh Rashtra Bhasha Prachar Samiti and President of the All India Rajput Parishad, President of the Board of Governors of the Daly College Indore 1971/1980, appointed as the Governor of Goa and Administrator of Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli from 18th March 1991 to 4th April 1994, the Maharaja Sahib is widely travelled and is interested in sports, particularly hockey and cricket, a lover of wild life, he was a keen Shikari in his earlier days; he married Rajkumari Lakshmi Kumari [HH Maharani Lakshmi Kumari of Narsinghgarh], daughter of Maharajkumar Shri Bijai Singhji of Bikaner, and has issue, five sons and an adopted daughter. He died on in Indore after a prolonged illness.
    • Maharajkumar Shiladitya Singh, born , married Rajkumari Madhulika Kumari (div. 1980), born , daughter of Maharaja Mahendra Ripudaman Singh of Bhadawar, and his wife, Maharani Braj Shree Devi, and has issue, two daughters.
      • Maharajkumari Sahiba Yogeshwari Kumari [HH Maharani Yogeshwari Kumari of Ajaigarh], born , married HH Sawai Maharaja Ajayraj Singh of Ajaigarh (div. 2011), married 2ndly to Sameer Parikh, living in Mumbai.
      • Maharajkumari Sahiba Poornamrita Kumari, born .
    • Maharajkumar Rajyavardhan Singh (qv)
    • Maharajkumar Giri Ratna Singh, born , married Rajkumari Gayatri Kumari of Gabhana, U.P., daughter of Rajkumar Raghuraj Singhji, and grand daughter of Captain Raja Devraj Singhji, and has issue, one son.
      • Bhanwar Saheb Divya Ratna Singh, born .
    • Maharajkumar Bhagyaditya Singh, born , married Kumari Yashodhara Kumari from Ujjain (div. 1995), and has issue, one daughter.
      • Bhanwarbai Sahiba Shraddha Kumari
    • Maharajkumar Yashovardhan Singh, born , he renounced the World and became a Sanyasi at the age of 22 years and succeeded to the gadi of his guru Avadhoot Bhagwan Ram in 1992 at Aghorpeeth Shri Sarveshwari Samooh Sansthan Devsthanam (Awadoot Bhagwan Ram Kushta Seva Ashram, Padav, Varanasi - 221102, U.P.); he is now known as Gurupad Sambhav Ramji.
  • HH Shri Huzur Maharaja Rajyavardhan Singh Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Narsinghgarh (see above)
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