Bhanejda literally means village of the Sister's Son, so called because this village was given from the Kathi-state (Sudamda-)Dhandhalpur to the Chieftain's nephew, a fellow Kathi caste of the sub-tribe of Bhambhla, by whose descendants it is held till British period.[1]
It was ruled by a Kathi Chieftain. It had a population in 1901 of 421, yielding a state revenue of 1,702 Rupees (1903–04, mostly from land), paying a tribute of 126 Rupees, to the British and the Sukhdi State.