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- Mewar — the Sisodia house — Dynasty · seat of the Sisodias at Chittor, then Udaipur · Mewar — the Sisodia houseAlone among the great Rajput houses, the Sisodia ranas of Mewar refused matrimonial alliance with the Mughal imperial house — a refusal Tod records as holding from Rana Pratap's generation to the close of Mughal rule, and one that survived even Rana Amar Singh's submission to Jahangir.
- Rana Sanga (Sangram Singh I) — Person · r. 1509 – 1527 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseSanga succeeded as the third of Rana Raemall's sons after his two elder brothers died in non-age, acceding in S. 1565 (A.D. 1509), and was succeeded by his son Ratan Singh II.
- Ratan Singh II — Person · r. 1530 – 1531 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseRatan Singh II succeeded his father Rana Sanga and, after a five-year reign, was killed by mutual sword-blows with the Hara prince of Bundi during the Aheria hunting festival, a feud provoked by a broken marriage arrangement.
- Vikramaditya of Mewar — Person · r. 1531 – 1535 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseVikramaditya succeeded his brother Ratan Singh II; his rule ended amid noble unrest, and his death was announced by the cries of the females as the changi was raised over the head of Banbir.
- Banbir (Vanvir) — Person · r. 1535 – 1537 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseBanbir, an illegitimate son of Prithiraj (son of Rana Raemall), was raised to the throne of Chitor by Mewar's nobles after Vikramaditya's death, and was deposed when the concealed heir Udai Singh was revealed, after which he was permitted to retire with his family to the Deccan.
- Udai Singh II — Person · r. 1541 – 1572 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseUdai Singh II, a son of Rana Sanga hidden in infancy from Banbir, was restored to the throne of Mewar (ascending in S. 1597, A.D. 1541-2) and died at Gogunda four years after the loss of Chitor, at the age of forty-two.
- Rana Pratap (Pratap Singh) — Person · r. 1572 – 1597 · Mewar — the Sisodia housePratap was girded with the sword and hailed king of Mewar by the hereditary premier and nobles in place of his father's brief nominee Jagmall, and died content after urging his chiefs never to build permanent dwellings until Mewar's independence was recovered.
- Amar Singh I — Person · r. 1597 – 1620 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseAmar Singh I, whom his father Pratap had already marked as his son and eldest heir, succeeded him in S. 1653 (A.D. 1597), and in old age abdicated by placing the tika on his own son Karan Singh II's forehead before retiring to the Nauchauki palace until his death.
- Karan Singh II — Person · r. 1621 – 1628 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseKaran Singh II was designated heir by his father Amar Singh I's abdication, succeeded in S. 1677 (A.D. 1621), and died after eight years of tranquil rule, being succeeded by his son Jagat Singh I.
- Jagat Singh I — Person · r. 1628 – 1652 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseJagat Singh I succeeded his father Karan Singh II in S. 1684 (A.D. 1628) and, after a reign devoted to building at Udaipur, was succeeded by the elder of his two sons by a princess of Marwar, Raj Singh.
- Raj Singh I — Person · r. 1654 – 1680 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseRaj Singh I, the elder of Jagat Singh I's two sons, mounted the throne of Mewar in S. 1710 (A.D. 1654) and was succeeded by Jai Singh.
- Jai Singh — Person · r. 1681 – 1698 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseJai Singh took possession of the Gaddi of Mewar in S. 1737 (A.D. 1681) succeeding Raj Singh I; after his son Amar Singh II's rebellion was settled by a treaty at the shrine of Eklinga, his reign closed some twenty years after his accession.
- Amar Singh II — Person · r. 1700 – 1710 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseAmar Singh II, son of Jai Singh, rebelled against his father and was reconciled by a treaty at the shrine of Eklinga before succeeding him as Rana in S. 1756 (A.D. 1700), dying in A.D. 1710.
- Sangram Singh II — Person · r. 1710 – 1734 · Mewar — the Sisodia houseSangram Singh II succeeded Amar Singh II as Rana of Mewar in 1710, the year Crooke's bracketed correction gives against Tod's own stated 1716.
- Prithiraj Mewar — Person · named on the page as father of Banbir (Vanvir) · Mewar — the Sisodia houseIllegitimate son; Prithiraj was a son of Rana Raemall and brother of Rana Sanga, not a register ruler of this sweep.
- Rana Raimal — Person · named on the page as the Rana whom Sanga succeeded · Mewar — the Sisodia houseNamed on Tod's page only as the Rana of Mewar whom Sanga succeeded in 1509.