Baghela

The Baghelas were a Rajput clan of Solanki, or Chalukya, stock, whose name survives in Baghelkhand, east of Bundelkhand. They traced their line to Vyaghra Dev, a kinsman of the Vaghela rulers of Gujarat, who took the fort of Marpha; his son Karan Deo married a Kalachuri princess and received Bandhogarh as her dowry, making it their capital.

The chief Sohag Deo founded Sohagpur, and the clan enlarged its holdings for two centuries. In 1498 and 1499 Sikandar Lodi failed to storm Bandhogarh. Veer Singh Deo rode with Rana Sanga against Babur at Khanwa in 1527, and the court of Ramchandra Singh kept the musician Tansen and the wit Birbal before they joined Akbar.

After an eight-month siege Akbar's forces took and dismantled Bandhogarh in 1597. In 1618 Vikramaditya Deo founded Rewa and moved the capital there; Rewa accepted British protection by treaty in 1812.