DASPALLA (Princely State)

  
AREA:  1,471 km2 PRIVY PURSE:  33,500R  ACCESSION:  1st January 1948
STATE: Orissa  DYNASTY:  Bhanj RELIGION:  Hindu
VILLAGES:  485 POPULATION:  51,987 (1901)  REVENUE:  70,000Rs
     
PRESENT RULER:  Raja DIGVIJAY DEO BHANJ, 19th Raja Sahib of Daspalla since 19th June 2006. (Surya Bagh Palace, Visakhapatnam, Madras, India)
married 1984, Rani Prabha Devi, born 1963, daughter of Raja PRABODH CHANDRA DHIR DEB (+), Raja Saheb of Balarampur, and his wife, Rani Jogmaya Devi, and has issue, two sons.
  • Yuvraj Jaideep Deo Bhanj
  • Rajkumar Rajdeep Deo Bhanj
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Founded in the 15th century by a younger son of Raja Narayan Bhanj Deo of Baudh. Rulers were...
  1. Raja CHAKRADHAR DEO BHANHJ 1653/1701

  2. Raja PADMANAV DEO BHANJ 1701/1753

  3. Raja TRILOCHAN DEO BHANJ 1753/1775

  4. Raja MAKUNDA DEO BHANJ 1775/1795

  5. Raja GURI CHARAN DEO BHANJ 1795/1805

  6. Raja KRISHNA CHANDRA DEO BHANJ 1805/1845

  7. Raja MADHUSUDAN DEO BHANJ 1845/1861

  8. Raja NARSIMHA DEO BHANJ 1861/1873, married and had issue.
    • Raja CHAITAN DEO BHANJ (qv)
    • Raja NARAYAN DEO BHANJ (qv)

  9. Raja CHAITAN DEO BHANJ 1873/1896, born 1854, succeeded 21st January 1873 (#1), title of Raja was formally conferred on 21st May 1874.

  10. Raja NARAYAN DEO BHANJ 1896/1913, married and had adoptive issue issue. He died 1913.
    • (A) Raja KISHOR CHANDRA DEO BHANJ (qv)

  11. Raja KISHOR CHANDRA DEO BHANJ 1913/1960, born 16th April 1908 and succeeded 11th December 1913, granted ruling powers on the 3rd March 1930, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur (Diploma); M.L.A. (Orissa) 1952/1960, Minister in the Orissa Government, married Rani Ras Sundari Devi, only daughter of Raja DIBYASHANKAR SUDHAL DEB of Bamra, and had issue, three sons and one daughter. He died 16th January 1960.
    • Raja PURNA CHANDRA DEO BHANJ (qv)
    • Pattayet Bijoy Chandra Deo Bhanj, born 15th October 1933.
    • Rajkumari T.S. Devi, married Rajkumar T. S. Singh Deo (+) of Surguja, and has issue, three daughters.
    • Rajkumar Pramode Chandra Deo Bhanj, born 15th January 1938, married Kumar Rani Padma Devi of Chandrapur, Dist. Janjir-Champa, Chattisgarh, and has issue, one daughter.
      • Rajkumari Priya Deo Bhanj, married Lt.-Col. Jeet Singh Rawat of Jalali, Uttaranchal, and has issue, one daughter.
        • Kumari Aarushi

  12. Raja PURNA CHANDRA DEO BHANJ 1965/2006, born 1931, educated at Rajkumar College in Raipur and at A. V. N. College in Vizag (B.A.); Chairman of Daspalla Hotels Limited; President of the Ramakrishna Mission in Vizagapatnam and and chief patron of Utkal Sankrutika Samaj, contributed to the construction of the Jagannath temple on Daspalla Hills; Member of the General Council of the Rajkumar college, Raipur and Central advisory board on Anthropology; M.P. (Lok Sabha) 1962/1967, M.L.A. (Orissa) 1957/1961; Member of Waltair club, Bhubaneswar club, Vizag camera club, Diners club and Chelmsford club; interests and pastimes were Still Photography, Cine Photography, Big game hunting, Philately, Numismatics and also Reading, Writing short Oriya poems, horse riding and travelling; married 1949, Rani Kamala Devi, daughter of Sri Sri Sri Vyricharla Narayana Gajapathi Raju Bahadur Garu of Chemudu, and his wife, Rani Chandramani Devi, and had issue, one son and two daughters. He died 19th June 2006 at Visakhapatnam.
    • Raja DIGVIJAY DEO BHANJ (qv)
    • Rani Vyricharla Preeti Devi, married 30th January 1971, Sri Raja Vyricharla KISHORE CHANDRA DEO Raju Bahadur Garu of Kurupam, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
    • Thakurani Uttara Devi, married Thakur Mahipal Singh of Vadner in Nashik, Malegaon taluka, a hotelier with the Taj Group.

  13. Raja DIGVIJAY DEO BHANJ (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.111
NOTE: In 1913, Baishnab Charan Deo Bhanj, the cousin of the deceased Raja Narayan Deo tried to dethrone the new Raja (then a minor and the adopted son of Narayan Deo), with the help of the local Kandhas. He "excited their passions by telling them that if the Minor become chief, their lands would be measured and they would have to pay rent, and they would no longer be able to do as they pleased in the Forests and Jungles. On the other hand, if he become Raja, he would not interfere with them, and would divide amongst them half the savings of the late Chief. He took an oath to this effect and the Khonds in return swore to make him Chief, and to kill the Dewan if he stood in the way" (Para XI of the Judgement of John Gruning, dated 5-7-1915.