PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Rulers
were....
- Raja BAIJNATH SHEKHAR DEO -/-
- Raja INDRA SHEKHAR DEO 1804/1820
- Raja PARSHARAM SHEKHAR DEO 1820/1827
- Raja JAGADEV SHEKHAR DEO 1833/1852
- Raja CHANDRABHANU SHEKHAR DEO 1852/1858
- Raja MADAN MOHAN SHEKHAR DEO 1859
- Raja DANARDAN SHEKHAR DEO 1860/1865
- Raja RAGHUNATH SHEKHAR DEO 1858/1917, 18th Raja Saheb of
Gangpur, born 1849 in the
collateral Kharposhdar family of Birbira, succeeded
28th November
1858 (#1), married
and
had issue. He died 1917
- Tikayet Harinath Shekhar Deo, married and had issue.
- Raja BHAWANI SHANKAR SHEKHAR DEO (qv)
- Patayet Gauri Shankar Shekhar Deo, married and had
issue.
- Kumar Bikram Shekhar Deo, married and had issue.
- Pattayet Rani Rajshree Devi, married
23rd June 1988, Rajkumar Pattayet Narayan Chandra Deo of Jarada, and has issue, one son.
- Kumar Rani Lalita Devi, married Kumar Dhirendra
Narain Singh Deo of 'Nua Pacca II', and had issue, one daughter and
three sons. (see Seraikella)
- Raja BHAWANI SHANKAR SHEKHAR DEO 1917/1930, born 14th May
1898 and succeeded
10th June 1917 (#2), married Shrimati
Dowager
Rani Janaki Rathnayammarjee of Kurupam,
Regent of Gangpur 1930/1944, C.B.E. [cr.1945], and had issue.
- Raja BIR MITRA PRATAP SHEKHAR DEO (qv)
- Raja BIR UDIT PRATAP SHEKHAR DEO (qv)
- Raja BIR MITRA PRATAP SHEKHAR DEO 1930/1938, born 1920,
succeeded in 1930, died sp
1938.
- Raja BIR UDIT PRATAP SHEKHAR DEO 1938/1967, born 1923,
educated at Mayo
College, Ajmer and Nagpur University, M.L.A. (Orissa), Minister in the
Government of Orissa, died 1967.
- Raja BIRENDRA SHEKHAR DEO (qv)
- Pattayet Bharatendra Shekhar Deo, educated at Rajkumar
College, Raipur; M.L.A. (Orissa); married Pattayet Rani Padmini Devi of
Kharsawan, and had issue. He died 199x.
- Raja SAMARENDRA SHEKHAR DEO (qv)
- Raja BIRENDRA SHEKHAR DEO 1967/- , married 1stly, Rani
Sudha Devi, daughter of Raja Bajendra Singh of Patiala, married 2ndly, (div.) (as her
first husband), Rajkumari Pratima
Devi, second daughter of Raja PRASANNA CHANDRA DEO of Jarada (see Talcher), and his wife, Rani Swarna
Prabha Manjari Devi.
- Raja SAMARENDRA SHEKHAR DEO (see above)
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