Sitamau State

The Rajas of Sitamau are Rathore Rajputs descended from Maharaja Udai Singh of Jodhpur. The origin of the Sitamau State dates from the beginning of the 18th century when the revenues of Titrode pargana were granted by the Emperor Aurangzeb to Keshodas, a grandson of Raja Ratan Singh of Ratlam.
The town is surrounded by a wall with seven gates, and its foundation is ascribed to a Mīnā chief, Sātajī (1465). It fell later into the hands of the Gajmalod Bhumias. These Bhumias were Songara Rathors, who came into Malwa and leaves in Laduna Sitamau and took Sītāmau about 1500. About 1650 Mahesh Das Rathore , father of Ratan Singh, was journeying from Jhalor to Onkārnāth, and was forced to stop at Sītāmau, owing to his wife's illness. She died here, and he asked the Gajmalod Bhūmias for permission to erect a shrine to her memory, but they refused. He seized Sītāmau. The connection thus established between this place and the Rathore clan caused Ratan Singh to get it included in his grant of Ratlam.