BALRAMPUR (Taluqdari)

  
AREA: 3,945 km2 REVENUE: 4,000,000Rs  ACCESSION DATE: 1956
STATE: Oudh  DYNASTY: Janwar RELIGION: Hindu
VILLAGES:  316 POPULATION: 500,000  
     
PRESENT RULER: Maharaja Bahadur DHARMENDRA PRASAD SINGH (1964/-)
born 1958, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 6th March 1980, Maharani Vandana Rajya Lakshmi, born 1959, daughter of Lt. Col. Shri Ina Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and has issue.
  • Maharaj Kumar Jayendra Pratap Singh, born 29th December 1980, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; married February 2008, Rajkumari Maha Sodha, daughter of Kunwar Hamir Singh of Amarkot.
  • Maharaj Kumari Vijayshree Singh, born 21st April 1984.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The biggest Taluqdari in Oudh, founded by Kunwar Balram Das in about 1600, younger son of Raja Madho Singh, the Raja of Ikauna, and after whom the state was named. Rulers were..
  • Raja NAWAL SINGH 1777/-, one of the greatest warriors of the Janwars, repeatedly in conflict with the Nawab of Oudh, defeated, though never completely subjugated.
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  • Raja ARJUN SINGH
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  • Raja JAI NARAIN SINGH -/1836 , died 1836.
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  • HH Hon. Maharaja Bahadur Sir DIGVIJAY SINGH 1836/1882, born 1818, conspicuous for his loyalty to the British authorities during the Indian Mutiny in 1857, as a reward for his loyalty, large estates in Gonda and Bahraich were made over to him, he was awarded the K.C.S.I. and granted the title of Maharaja Bahadur, he also received a personal salute of 9 guns, President of the British Indian Association 1861/1882, married HH Maharani Indra Kunwar, died 1893. He died sp 27th May 1882.
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  • HH Maharani Indra Kunwar 1882/1886, adopted Kunwar Bhagwati Prasad Singh. She died 1893.
    • (A) Maharaja Bahadur Sir BHAGWATI PRASAD SINGH (qv)

    BOARD OF REVENUE 1886/1893

    COURT OF WARDS 1893/1900

  • Maharaja Bahadur Sir BHAGWATI PRASAD SINGH 1900/1921, born 19th July 1879, K.C.I.E. [cr.1906], K.C.S.I., premier Talukdar of Oudh after the Maharaja of Kapurthala, President of the British Indian Association 1906/1917 and 1920/1921, married and had issue. He died 25th May 1921.
    • Maharaja Bahadur Sir PATESHWARI PRASAD SINGH (qv)
    • Daughter (6th), married 16th January 1929, Capt. HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi Mahamahodya Pancha-Srijukta Maharaja Manikya Sir BIR BIKRAM KISHORE DEV VARMAN Bahadur of Tripura.
  • Maharaja Bahadur Sir PATESHWARI PRASAD SINGH 1921/1964, born 2nd January 1914, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; Kt. [cr.1941], under control of the Court of Wards 1921/1936, married 1932, Maharani Rajya Laxmi Kumari Devi, born 1918, died 1999, daughter of HH Maharaja Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal. He died sp 1964 and was succeeded by his adoptive son from Gangwal.
    • (A) Kunwar Dharmendra Prasad Singh, son of Kunwar Bharat Singh of Gangwal, adopted by Maharaja Bahadur Sir Pateshwari Prasad Singh, and succeeded as Maharaja Bahadur DHARMENDRA PRASAD SINGH of Balrampur (qv)
     
  • Maharaja Bahadur DHARMENDRA PRASAD SINGH (see above)
Courtesy of Maharaj Kumar Jayendra Pratap Singh, November 2002.
 
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