BONAI (Princely State)

  
AREA: 8,907 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 80,000R  ACCESSION: 15th April 1948
STATE: Orissa  DYNASTY: Kadamba RELIGION: Hindu
  POPULATION: 24,026 (1892)  
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja Saheb KADAMBA KESHRI CHANDRA DEO
married Rani Saheba Geeta Kumari Devi, born 29th October 1930, died 17th December 2002, daughter of Lal Sahib Prafulla Chandra Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj, and his wife, Rani Prafulla Kumari Devi of Bastar, and has issue, two sons and three daughters.
  • Tikayet Kiran Kesari Deo, died young, unmaried.
  • Yuvraj Bir Keshari Deo, Member of the Executive Committee of Rajkumar College at Raipur; married Yuvrani Sushmeshwari Devi, daughter HH Raja BIJAY BHUSHAN SINGH Ju Deo of Jashpur, and his wife, HH Rani Jaya Kumari Devi, and has issue, one son and one daughter. 
  • Rajkumari Jaishree Devi (+)
  • Rajkumari Minakshi Devi, married Samarendra Singh Deo, Zamindar of Madanpur-Rampur, and has issue, two daughters.
  • Rajkumari Enakshi Devi, married Shankar Singh Adhikari, Vice-Principal of Rajkumar College, Raipur; and has issue.
    • Kamakshi Devi, born about 1987.
  
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Rajas of Bonai share an agnatic descent with the rulers of Seraikhella, Kharsawan and Rairakhol. Rulers were...
  • Raja DAYANIDHI CHANDRA DEO 1804/1851
  • Raja CHANDRA DEO 1851/1876
  • Raja BAHADUR INDRA DEO 1876/1898, born about 1836, succeeded 12th September 1876 (#1), married and had issue. He died 1898.
    • Raja NILAMBAR CHANDRA DEO (qv)
    • Pattayat Bishambhar Deo
    • Lal Hari Krishna Deo
  • Raja NILAMBAR CHANDRA DEO 1898/1902, married and had issue. He died 1902.
    • Raja DHARANI DHAR DEO Deb (qv)
    • Lal Bir Chandra Deo, adopted by the Raja Saheb of Rairakhol and succeeded there as Raja BIR CHANDRA JADUMANI DEO JANAMUNI (see Rairakhol)
    • Lal (name unknown) Deo, married and had issue.
      • Tikayat Keshari Deo, born 1928, adopted by his uncle as his intended successor.
    • Rani Swarna Manjari Devi, married Raja PITAMBER DEB of Aul, and had issue, one daughter.
  • Raja DHARANI DHAR DEO Deb 1902/- , born 6th January 1884 and succeeded 19th February 1902, adopted his brother's son as his heir; married and had issue.
  • Raja Saheb KADAMBA KESHRI CHANDRA DEO (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Rani Krishnapriya Devi, daughter of the Raja of Bonai, married Raja Mitrabhanu Sai of Sambalpur.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.89