The Rao Sirdar lineage is not a fact of paper — it is a discipline of memory. Our itihaas lives in bahis kept by village purohits, in the grant-lines of ancestral sanads, in songs of the charan poets, and in the daily practice of dharma, vidya, and shaurya.
What follows is a brief chronology compiled by the central committee. Names await confirmation from the ancestral archives; we ask members to write to the karyalaya with records, recollections, and corrections.
Kaalkram — Chronology
- c. 13th century
Founding of the line
The Rao Sirdar lineage emerges from the martial clans of Marwar — keepers of the fort, the temple, and the word. Ancestral jagirs are granted for service to the durbar.
- 16th — 17th century
Commanders of Marwar
Our forefathers serve as commanders and diplomats across Marwar, Mewar, and Shekhawati — raising forts, negotiating treaties, and patronising poets of the ḍiṅgala tradition.
- 18th century
Statesmen of the durbar
Members of the clan rise to the diwani and faujdari of the Marwar durbar. Temples are raised at ancestral villages; the first samaj records are compiled in bahis.
- 19th century
Scholar-poets & patrons
A flowering of scholarship — poets, Sanskritists, and chroniclers of our clan contribute to the courts of Jodhpur, Bikaner, and Jaipur. Sanad grants preserve the record.
- 20th century
Swadeshi & the new republic
Sons of the samaj join the Swadeshi movement and the Indian Army; daughters enter the freedom struggle and the first generation of civil service. The Akhil Bharatiya Samaj is constituted in 1978.
- Today
A dispersed dharma
Members across India and the diaspora — soldiers, scholars, entrepreneurs, artists.