Bidwal

Bidwal (Hindi बिडवाल) is a village and former jagir (feudal estate) in Madhya Pradesh, western India.

The village is in Badnawar Mandal (21 km from the seat Badnawar), in Dhar District (30 km distance from seat Dhar) in Madhya Pradesh (232 km from state capital Bhopal. Other villages near Bidwal are Kod (4.7 km), Indrawal (5.7 km), Karod Kalan (6.4 km), Gajnod (7.1 km), Kanvan (8 km); towns near Tirla (30.2 km) and Sardarpur (32.2 km).

History

The jagir was a Hindu thakorate and thikana of the Rajput Dhar State, in Rajputana. It was founded by Thakur Fateh Singh, younger brother of Raja Ratan Singh of Ratlam State, a Rathore Rajput of the Fatehsinghaut clan. The estate consisted of eight villages in the Badnawar pargana, yielding an annual revenue of 51,000 Rupees in 1928.

Ruling Thakurs

  • Thakur JASWANT Singh, Thakur of Bidwal 1886/- , born 14 June 1881, educated at Daly College, Indore till 1898; Head of the Fatehsingot clan, married a niece of the Maharao of Bundi State
  • Thakur Saheb Dule Singhji, educated at Daly College, Indore; married 1916 at Mandawa, Shrimant Thakurani Saheba Ballabh Kunwarji, daughter of Thakur Inder Singh of Mandawa-Senior and his first wife, Thakurani Suraj Kanwar

The line is nominally continued.


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