Present Head
- Yuvraj Divyaraj Singh, B.Com., M.B.A. (Convent educated) from Syndeham College and Hospitality Management from Switzerland. Married on 29th January 2013 to Vasundhra Raj Laxmi, daughter of Raja Raj Rajendra Pratap Deo of Nagar Untari. Elected as Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Sirmour constituency in 2013 and again re-elected in 2018.
- Yuvrajkumari Survandita Kumari
- Rajkumari Mohena Kumari, educated at Villa Theresa High School, Mumbai; St. Xavier's College and Jai Hind College in Mumbai. She lives in Mumbai with parents. She participated in Dance India Dance Competition (TV Show) in 2011-12 and stood 5th. Married on 14th October 2019 to Suyesh Rawat.
History
Predecessor state was founded circa 1140. The chiefs of Rewa were Baghel Rajputs descended from the Solanki clan which ruled over Gujrat from the tenth to the thirteenth century. Vyaghra Deo, brother of the ruler of Gujarat, is said to have made his way into northern India about the middle of the thirteenth century and obtained the fort of Marpha, 18 miles north-east of Kalinjar. His son Karandeo married a Kalchuri (Haihaya) princess of Mandla and received in dowry the fort of Bandhogarh which, until its destruction in 1597 by Akbar was the Baghel Capital. In 1298, Ulugh Khan, acting under orders of emperor Alauddin drove the last Baghel ruler of Gujrat from his country and this is believed to have caused a considerable migration of the Baghels to Bandhogarh. Until the 15th century the Baghels of Bandhogarh were engaged in extending their possessions and escaped the attention of the Delhi kings, in 1498-9, Sikandar Lodi failed in his attempt to take the fort of Bandhogarh.
Genealogy
- Maharaja VYAGHRA Deo [Vagh Rao]
- Maharaja KARAN Deo
- Maharaja SOHAG Deo
- Maharaja SARANG Deo
- Maharaja VILAS Deo
- Maharaja BHIMAL Deo
- Maharaja ANIK Deo [Ranik Deo]
- Maharaja VALAN Deo
- Maharaja DALKESHWAR Deo
- Maharaja MALKESHWAR Deo
- Maharaja VARIYAR Deo [Veerraj Deo]
- Maharaja BULLAR Deo
- Maharaja SINGH Deo
- Maharaja BHAIRAM Deo
- Maharaja NARHARI Deo
- Maharaja Bheera Deo (qv)
- Kunwar Janak Deo, he was granted Jiraunha Estate.
- Maharaja BHEER Deo
- Maharaja SHALIVAHAN Deo
- Maharaja Veer Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Nagmal Deo, he was granted Kevati Estate.
- Maharaja VEER SINGH Deo, Maharaja of Bandhogarh 1500/1540, married and had issue.
- Maharaja Virbhan Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Jamunibhaan Singh, he was granted Maihar Estate.
- Kunwar Chandrabhaan Singh
- Kunwar Rudra Pratap Singh, he was granted Sohagpur Estate.
- Thakur Nadbhanu [Horildeo], he received the estate of Beerha as his patrimony in 1550, he was appointed a mansabdar with the title of Horilshah by Emperor Humayun of Delhi.
- Maharaja VIRBHAN SINGH, Maharaja of Bandhogarh 1540/1555
- Maharaja RAMCHANDRA SINGH, Maharaja of Bandhogarh 1555/1592
- Maharaja DURYODHAN SINGH [Birbhadra Singh], 19th Maharaja of Bandhogarh 1593/1618 (deposed), his accession gave rise to disturbances, and Padshah Akbar of Delhi intervened, captured and dismantled the Bandhogarh fort in 1597 after a siege of eight months; married 1618, a natural daughter of Raja Badan Singh of Bhadawar, because of which he was expelled and retired to Bhadawar.
- Maharaja VIKRAMADITYA, Maharaja of Rewah 1618/1630, after the capture of the Fort of Bandhogarh, the town of Rewa, was founded by Raja Vikramaditya in 1618 (which perhaps means that he undertook the construction of palaces and other buildings there because the place had already assumed importance in 1554 when it was held by Jalal Khan son of emperor Shershah), and started gaining in importance; married and had issue, four sons.
- Maharaja Amar Singh II (qv)
- Kunwar Indra Singh, he was granted Patharhat Estate.
- Kunwar Kishun Singh, 2nd Thakur of Patharhat.
- Kunwar Kesari Singh, 3rd Thakur of Patharhat.
- Kunwar Umrao Singh, 4th Thakur of Patharhat.
- Kunwar Anant Singh, 5th Thakur of Patharhat.
- Kunwar Maharaj Singh, he was granted the Estate of Bardadeeh.
- Kunwar Nripnath Singh, he was granted the Estate of Kripalpur.
- Kunwar Anant Singh, 5th Thakur of Patharhat.
- Kunwar Umrao Singh, 4th Thakur of Patharhat.
- Kunwar Kesari Singh, 3rd Thakur of Patharhat.
- unknown, he was granted the Estate of Rampur Chaurasi.
- Kunwar Daljeet Singh, he was granted the Estate of Bagha.
- Kunwar Amri Singh, he was granted the Estate of Phutaundha.
- Kunwar Kishun Singh, 2nd Thakur of Patharhat.
- Kunwar Sarup Singh, he was granted Panasi Estate.
- Kunwar Mangad Rai, he was granted Chandiya Estate.
- Maharaja AMAR SINGH II, Maharaja of Rewah 1630/1643, married and had issue.
- Maharaja Anoop Singh (qv)
- Raja Fateh Singh, he rebelled against his father and established himself in Sohawal.
- Maharaja ANOOP SINGH, Maharaja of Rewah 1643/1660, married and had issue, three sons.
- Maharaja Bhao Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Yashwant Singh, he was granted the Jagir of Gudh, married and had issue, two sons.
- Kunwar Mukund Singh, he was granted the estate of Semariya.
- Kunwar Anirudh Singh, adopted by his uncle adn succeeded as Maharaja Anirudh Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Jhujhar Singh, he was granted the estate of Ramnagar Itma.
- Kunwar Pahar singh, he was granted Estate of Deora, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Hindu Singh, Thakur of Estate Deora (Deoraj Nagar), married and had issue.
- Kunwar Rachpal Singh Judeo, he was granted the Estate of Mankeshar.
- Kunwar Hindu Singh, Thakur of Estate Deora (Deoraj Nagar), married and had issue.
- Kunwar Pahar singh, he was granted Estate of Deora, married and had issue.
- Maharaja BHAO SINGH, Maharaja of Rewah 1660/1690, married 1stly, Maharani Ajab Kunwar, daughter of Maharana Raj Singhji I of Udaipur, married 2ndly, 1668, Maharani Kunj Kunwar, daughter of Thakur Sadan Singh Raikwar (Raikwar is a branch of Rathore dynasty) of Nadan in Rewah State, and had adoptive issue. He died sp 1690. One of his daughters married Raja Surya Mal of Banera in Udaipur State.
- Maharaja ANIRUDH SINGH, Maharaja of Rewah 1690/1700, born as Kunwar Anirudh Singh, son of Thakur Yashwant Singh of Gudh, adopted by his uncle; married and had issue, one son.
- Maharaja Avadhut Singh (qv)
- Maharaja AVADHUT SINGH, Maharaja of Rewah 1700/1755, the state was sacked by Hirde Shah of Panna in about 1731, causing the Raja to flee to Pratapgarh in Oudh; married (amongst others), (a), Maharani Ratan Kumari Devi, married (b), Maharani Sagun Kunwar, daughter of Umara-i-Uzzam Maharaja Mahendra Gopal Singh of Bhadawar, and his fifth wife, the daughter of Raja Madho Singh Sirnet of Bansi, and had issue, one son.
- Maharaja Ajit Singh (qv)
- Maharaja AJIT SINGH, Maharaja of Rewah 1755/1809, married Maharani Kundan Kunwar, died , daughter of Chandel Thakur Vikram Singh of Silpatra, and had issue, one son. He died .
- Maharaja Jai Singh (qv)
- Maharaja JAI SINGH, Maharaja of Rewah 1809/1835, born ; in 1812 a body of Pindaris raided Mirzapur from Rewa territory. Upon this Jaisingh was called upon to accede to a treaty, in which he acknowledged the protection of the British Government, and agreed to refer all disputes with neighbouring chiefs to their arbitration and to allow British troops to march through or be cantoned in his territories; married 1stly, a daughter of Gaharwar Raja Udhhat Singh of Manda, married 2ndly, a daughter of Dikshit Raja Madhav Singh of Goraiya, and had issue, three sons and one daughter. He died .
- Maharaja Vishwanath Singh Bahadur (qv)
- Babu Laxman Singh, he was granted the estate of Madhavgarh estate, married and had issue, two sons.
- Kunwar Ran Bahadur Singh, married a daughter of Sirnet Raja Prakash Singh of Bansi in U.P. He died sp.
- Kunwar (name unknown), succeeded his brother in Madhavgarh, died without issue, and the estate was merged into Rewah.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharana Jawan Singhji of Udaipur.
- Kumari (name unknown), married 1834, Maharana Jawan Singhji of Udaipur.
- Babu Balbhadra Singh, he was granted the estate of Amarpatan; married Rani Chhavinath Kunwari, daughter of Gaharwar Thakur Manbodh Singh of Kaithaha estate in Rewah (a relation of the Raja Saheb of Manda in U.P.), and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married 1837, Maharaja Sardar Singhji of Bikaner.
- Maharajkumari Sahodar Kunwar, married 1823, Maharana Jawan Singhji of Udaipur.
- Maharaja VISHWANATH SINGH Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewah 1835/1854, born , married and had issue, one sons and three daughters. He died .
- HH Maharaja RAGHURAJ SINGH Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewah 1854/1880, born (or 1834), Maharaja Raghuraj Singh helped the British in quelling the uprisings in the neighbouring Mandla and Jabalpur district in the mutiny of 1857, and in Nagod which is now a part of Satna district, for this, the Maharaja was rewarded by restoration to him of the Sohagpur (Shahdol) and Amarkantak parganas, which had been seized by the Marathas in the beginning of the century, Maharaja [cr.1857]; married eight wives, including 1stly, 1845, daughter of Bisen Raja of Bhadri in Oudh, married 2ndly, 1851, HH Maharani Sobhag Kanwar, daughter of Maharana Sardar Singhji Bahadur of Udaipur, and had issue, one son and several daughters. He died .
- Lt.Col. HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja Sir Venkat Raman Ramanuj Prasad Singh Ju Deo Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumari Vishnuprasad Kunwar, born , married 1864, Maharaj Kishore Singh of Jodhpur.
- Maharajkumari (name unknown) [HH Maharani (name unknown) Sahiba of Bundi], married 2nd February 1903, Colonel HH Maharao Raja Shri Sir Raghubir Singhji Sahib Bahadur of Bundi. She died in Bundi.
- Lt.-Col. HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja Sir VENKAT RAMAN RAMANUJ PRASAD SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewah 1880/1918, born , G.C.S.I. [cr.1897], married 1stly, 1892, HH Maharani Shivraj Kumari Devi, died , daughter of Maharaja Sir Radha Prasad Singhji Bahadur of Dumraon in Bihar, married 2ndly, HH Maharani Gulab Kumari, died , daughter of HH Maharaja Sir Ranjit Singhji of Ratlam, married 3rdly, 1904, HH Maharani Keerat Kumari, daughter of General Parihar Thakur Bakhsh Singh of Thikana Jhagarpur in U.P., married 4thly HH Maharani Chandeliji (name unknown) of Hardi under Rewah, and had issues, two sons and one daughter. He died .
- Major-General HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhvesh Shri Maharaja Sir Ghulab Singh Ju Deo Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumar Ravendra Ramanuj Prasad Singh (by Maharani Keerat Kumari), born ; died .
- HH Maharani Sudarshan Prasad Kumari, born , married 18th April 1922, HH Maharajadhiraj Sri SADUL SINGH of Bikaner, and had issue. She died .
- Major-General HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja Sir GHULAB SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewah 1918/1946 (deposed 30th January 1946), born , G.C.I.E. [cr.1.1.1931], K.C.S.I. [cr. 1.1.1927], married 1stly, 25th June 1919, HH Bandhveshwari Shri Maharani Sahiba Samrajyi Kunwar, born , died , daughter of HH Maharaja Dhiraj Maharaja Sri Sir Sardar Singhji Bahadur of Jodhpur, married 2ndly, 18th February 1925, HH Maharani Ballabh Kumari, daughter of Lt.-Col. HH Umdae Rajhae Buland Makan Maharajadhiraja Maharaja Sir Madan Singhji Bahadur of Kishangarh, and had issue, one son. He died .
- HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja Martand Singhji Ju Deo Bahadur (qv)
- HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja MARTAND SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewah 1946/1995, born , elected to the Fifth, Seventh and Eighth Lok Sabha representing Rewa Parliamentary Constituency of Madhya Pradesh during 1971-1977 and 1980-1989. An agriculturist and businessman by profession, he was Raj Pramukh of Vindhya Pradesh. He was a very popular and active social worker. As a philanthropist, he built hospitals, dispensaries and organised camps for providing medical aid to indigent and sick people. He donated his palace at Satna and other properties for establishment of educational institutions like Banaras Hindu University and College in Satna. A widely travelled person, he evinced keen interest in the fields of sports, education, photography, archaeology and wildlife preservation. He established and developed National Park at Bandhogarh. He had served as a member of All India Wildlife Preservation Board and as the Director of Madhya Pradesh Udyog Vikas Nigam, Bhopal. He also made special efforts for development of irrigation, industries, transport, electrification and rail services in his area, married 1943, HH Maharani Praveen Kunverba, born , daughter of HH Maharajadhiraj Mirzan Maharao Shri Vijayarajji Khengarji Sawai Bahadur of Kutch, and his wife, HH Maharani Shri Padmakunwar Ba Sahiba, and had issue. He died at Rewah.
- HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja Pushpraj Singh Ju Deo Bahadur (qv)
- HH Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja PUSHPRAJ SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewah (see above)
