Bhadaur (Jagir)

Information

DynastyPhulkian 
ClanSidhu
StatePunjab
Revenue₹ 92,724 annas 9
Villages96 (1947)
ReligionSikhism
Last Updated20th Nov, 2022

Present Head/Ruler

Raja AJAYPARTAP SINGH SIDHU, Raja of Bhadaur since 1997, born 23rd September 1947, married Rani Gurmit Kaur, daughter of Lt.-Colonel N. S. Kang of Kotla Shamaspur, Tehsil Samrala, Ludhiana, and has issue two children.

  • Rajkumar Prithvi Partap Singh Sidhu, born 14th November 1973, married Kumari Shweta Singh, and has issue, two sons and one daughter.
    • Kumari Rohini Singh, born 5th September 2004.
    • Kunwar Veer Partap Singh Sidhu, born 17th September 2008.
    • Kunwar Jai Partap Singh Sidhu, born 21st April 2012.
  • Rajkumari Pavitra Sidhu, married 2004, Shri Udaiveer Singh Mathoda.

Short History

Phul, the founder of the dynasty, was father of Ram or Rama, who was father of Chaudhuri Duna Singh, founder of Bhadaur in 1718. This estate is the biggest jagir in Patiala and probably the most prestigious. Became a feudatory state of Patiala in 1857. 

Predecessors

  • Chaudhuri Sardar DUNA SINGH, Chaudhuri of Bhadaur, Sangrur etc. 1718/1729, married and had issue. He died 1726/1729.
    • Chaudhuri Bigha Singh (qv)
    • Sardar Dao Singh, died 1723.
    • Sardar Sangu Singh, died 1744.
    • Sardar Sukhu Singh, died 1765 and his widow married his brother Chaudhuri Bigha (qv).
    • Sardar Suma Singh, married three wives, and had issue, five sons. He died 1772.
      • Sardar Jassa Singh, he died sp.
      • Sardar Massa Singh, with his younger brothers, he was ancestor of the Sardar Sahibs of Rampuria and Kotlakoura.
      • Sardar Tek Singh
      • Sardar Charat Singh
      • Sardar Budh Singh
  • Chaudhuri BIGHA SINGH, Chaudhuri of Bhadaur 1729/1773, married 1stly, married 2ndly, married 3rdly, 1765, the widow of his brother Sardar Sukhu, and had issue. He died 1773.
    • Kanwar Gurdas Singh (by 1st wife), born 1742, died 1748.
    • Chaudhuri Chuhar Singh (by 2nd wife)(qv)
    • Sardar Mohar Singh (by 2nd wife), married and had issue. He died 1826.
      • Sardar Amrik Singh, married and had issue. He died 1826.
        • Sardar Dewa Singh, born 1803, married and had issue. He died 1857.
          • Sardar Narain Singh, born 1852, married Sardarni Basant Kaur, and had issue. He died 1872.
            • Sardar Balwant Singh, born 1872.
      • Sardar Samand Singh, married and had issue. He died 1836.
        • Sardar Achhal Singh, born 1832, married Sardarni Kishan Kaur. He died sp in 1879.
      • Sardar Sujan Singh, married and had issue. He died 1828.
        • Sardar Uttam Singh, married and had issue. He died 1855.
          • Sardar Attar Singh, born 1837, married Sardarni Shivkaran Kaur. He died sp in 1879.
    • Sardar Dal Singh (by 3rd wife), he was granted the jagir of Kot Duna (Revenue: 5,826Rs in 1870), married and had issue. He died 1793.
      • Sardar Jit Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kot Duna 1793/1818; married and had issue. He died 1818.
      • Sardar Mahtab Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kot Duna 1818/1834, born 1802, married and had issue. He died 1834.
        • Sardar Attar Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kot Duna 1834/1863, born 1832, married and had issue. He died 1863.
        • Sardar Kishan Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kot Duna 1863/-, born 1859.
        • Sardar Jodh Singh, born 1816, married and had issue. He died after 1870.
        • Sardar Lal Singh, born 1833.
          • Sardar Panjab Singh, born 1836, married and had issue.
          • Sardar Makhusudan Singh, born 1856.
            • Sardar Bhag Singh, born 1859.
  • Chaudhuri CHUHAR SINGH, Chaudhuri of Bhadaur 1773/1793, he fought alongside the Sikh forces and forced Amar Singh Thapa to retreat back to Nepal; married and had issue. He died 1793.
    • Sardar Dip Singh (qv)
    • Sardar Bir Singh, married and had issue. He died 1823.
      • Sardar Jawahar Singh, married and had issue. He died 1827.
        • Maharani Attar Kaur, married Maharaja Nau Nihal of Lahore. She died 1840.
      • Sardar Jaimal Singh, married and had issue. He died 1808.
        • Sardar Khazan Singh C.S.S., born 1805, married the elder daughter of Sardar Dhanna Singh of Malwai, and had issue. He died 1831.
          • Sardar Mahan Singh, born 1826, married and had issue. He died 1858.
            • Sardar Ishar Singh, born 1848, died 1866.
        • Sardar Nidhan Singh, born 1806, married and had issue. He died 1838.
          • Sardar Kehar Singh, born 1835, married and had issue.
            • Sardar Pratap Singh, born 1853, married and had issue.
              • Sardar Zorawar Singh, born 1887.
              • Sardar Nanak Singh
            • Sardar Auttar Singh, born 1863, married and had issue, two sons.
              • Sardar Madho Singh
              • Sardar Natha Singh
      • Sardar Jagat Singh, married and had issue. He died 1865.
        • Sardar Gulab Singh, died 1850.
        • Sardar Basawa Singh, died 1845.
        • Sardar Khem Singh, died 1846.
        • Sardar Narain Singh, died 1865.
        • Sardar Ajaipal Singh, born 1858, married and had issue. He died 1897.
          • Sardar Shamsher Singh, married and had issue.
            • Sardar Kirpal Singh
            • Sardar Kariar Singh
  • Sardar DIP SINGH, Sardar of Bhadaur 1793/1822, married and had issue. He died 1822.
    • Sardar Kharak Singh (qv)
  • Sardar KHARAK SINGH, Sardar of Bhadaur 1822/1858, married and had issue. He died 1858.
    • Mahamahopadhyaya, Maulana ul Fuzma Sardar Sir Attar Singh (qv)
  • Mahamahopadhyaya, Maulana ul Fuzma Sardar Sir ATTAR SINGH, Rais-i-Azam of Bhadaur 1858/1896, born 1833, educated at Benaras University; he was rewarded with the title of Maulana ul Fuzma for his Arabic-Persian learning, he set up a library which he transferred to Ludhiana, when he moved there in 1878, and which after his death, was transferred to the Panjab Public Library at Lahore; elected a member of Anjumani Punjab in 1869 and Vice-President in 1880, also elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1869; appointed a member of the senate of the Panjab University College, Lahore, in 1870; member of the Bengal Philharmonical Society and also served on the Committee of Management of the Aitchison Chiefs’ College, Lahore; in recognition of his literary and political services he was awarded by the British with the title of Fazil ul Fuzala in 1877, C.I.E. in 1880 and K.C.I.E. in 1888, and he was rewarded with the title of Mahamahopadhyaya in 1887 for his eminent services in the promotion of Oriental learning, he was admitted to Knighthood in 1888, founder president of Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Ludhiana, established in 1884, he also took a leading part in the establishment of the Khalsa Diwan at Lahore of which he became patron-in-chief; in 1886 he had been nominated a member of the General Committee of the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) at Amritsar; in 1890, he was made vice president and trustee of the Khalsa College Establishment Committee and later vice president of the Khalsa College Council; married and had issue. He died 10th June 1896 in Ludhiana.
    • Sardar Bhagwant Singh (qv)
    • Sardar Balwant Singh, born 1855, he inherited about half of his father’s estate; married and had issue, two sons and one daughter. He died 1902 when his sons inherited his estate equally.
      • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur Sahiba, married [?Sardar Atma Singh, Head of the Jagiri Family of Mananwala]
      • Sardar Gurdial Singh, born 1899, married and had issue, two sons.
      • Sardar Nirpal Singh, born 1901.
  • Sardar BHAGWANT SINGH, Rais-i-Azam of Bhadaur 1896/1924, born 1852, married and had issue, three daughters and one son. He died 1924.
    • Raja Harchand Singh Sidhu (qv)
    • Rajkumari Bibiji Rajbans Kaur, married Rao Sahib Giriraj Singh of Kutchesar, Bulandshahar, Hapur, U.P. (see Kuchesar)
    • Rajkumari Bibiji Prasan Kaur [Sardarni Lady Prasan Kaur Majithia], married, Sardar Sir Sundar Singh Majithia (see Majithia family).
    • Rajkumari Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh of Hathras, near Aligarh and Mathura, U.P.
  • Raja HARCHAND SINGH, Rais-i-Azam of Bhadaur 1924/1934, born 1887, married 1stly, Rani Bakhtawar Kaur [Dalip Kaur], daughter of Harnam Singh Wala, Rampura Phul Dist., Bathinda, issue, one daughter and one son, married 2ndly, Rani Jagdish Kaur, died 1959, daughter of Mal Singh Wala, Dist. Bathinda, had issue, one daughter and one son. He died 1934.
    • Maj. Raja Ram Partap Singh Sidhu (by Rani Bakhtawar Kaur) (qv)
    • Rajkumari Ajmer Kaur (Rani Bakhtawar Kaur), born 1929, married Kunwar Sarjit Singh of Kuchesar, and had issue, two sons and one daughter. She died 1998.
      • Kunwar Digjit Singh
      • Kunwar Ajit Singh
      • Kumari Rosie Singh, she married Shri Kittu Khanna of Wah.
    • Rajkumari Birinder Kaur (by Rani Jagdish Kaur), married the Late Air Commodore Jaspal Singh, and has issue, a daughter.
      • Bibjii Trepan Kaur, married Sardar Harisimran Singh Sandhu
    • Rajkumar Simran Singh (by Rani Jagdish Kaur), born 14th October 1933, married Rajkumarani Kultaran Kaur, and has issue two sons.
      • Kanwar Kanwalinder Singh, born October 1965, died 19th January 1988.
      • Kanwar Amritinder Singh, born 20th February 1972, married Kanwarani Shona Manco, and has issue, two daughters.
        • Hartaran Kaur Sidhu, born 21st June 2007.
        • Japjyot Kaur Sidhu, born 4th January 2009.
  • Maj. Raja RAM PARTAP SINGH, Rais-i-Azam of Bhadaur 1934/1997, born 6th October 1921, educated at Aitchison Chiefs’ College, Lahore; Commandant Major Yadvinder Guards, Patiala State; HH Maharaja Yadvinder Singh of Patiala’s Bodyguard; he served in PEPSU and was chairman of the board of governors of Yadvindra Public School for 20 years; married Bibiji Surinder Kaur [Rani Surinder Ram Partap Singh Sidhu of Bhadaur], born 13th May 1924, died 21st May 1984, daughter of General Sardar Bahadur Sir Gurnam Singh of Jind State (and younger sister of Maharani Bhaktavar Kaur Sahiba of Patiala), and had issue. He died 14th October 1997.
    • Rajkumari Kiran Sidhu, born 16th April 1944, married Lt.-Col. Sardar Narjinder Singh, late of Skinners Horse, son of Major Sardar Joginder Singh of Manimajra, he was appointed guardian to (then) Yuvraj Yadvinder Singh of Patiala by HH Maharaja Bhupinder Singh and was commandant of the Rajindra Lancers in the Patiala State Forces and was the Sardar of Manimajra Jagir in Amballa district, he served as A.D.C. to HH Maharjadhiraj Bhupindar Singh of Patiala; and has issue, two sons.
      • Dr. Kanwar Govind Singh married Kanwarani Amardeep Kaur, daughter of Sardar Gurpreet Singh Jallewalia of Ahlawalpur Jagir in West Punjab.
      • Dr. Kanwar Gopal Singh, married Dr. Kanwarani Samrina Kaur, grandaughter of Sardar Jasbir Singh Veglia of Wacchoya Jagir in West Punjab.
    • Tikka Ajaypartap Singh Sidhu, succeeded as Raja Ajaypartap Singh Sidhu of Bhadaur (qv)
    • Rajkumar Udaypartap Singh Sidhu, born 3rd August 1950, married Rajkumarani Sonia Singh, daughter of Brigadier W. S. Choudhry of Karnal, and has issue, two children.
      • Kumari Mehar Sidhu
      • Kanwar Amanpartap Singh
  • Raja AJAYPARTAP SINGH SIDHU (see above)