PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Originally
a Jagir (or Zamindari), but elevated to a Princely State in 1898,
related to the Rajas of Chhota-Nagpur. The
rulers
were....
Lal FATEH SINGH 1833/1874
Lal UMRAO SINGH 1874/1891, died 19th February 1891 (#1).
- Raja KAMAL NARAYAN SINGH 1898/1908, born 1867 (#1), succeeded as Thakur,
granted the title of Raja
as a Hereditary distinction in 1898, married and had issue. He died 7th
October 1908.
- Raja LAL BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumari Bhuvaneshwari Kumari, married Raja Bahadur RAM
GOPAL SINGH of Manda in the United
Provinces.
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married Shri Kharag Jung
Bahadur Rana (brother of the Rani Sahiba of Khairagarh)
- Raja LAL BAHADUR SINGH 1908/1918, born June 1889, formally
installed 13th December 1912, married and had issue. He died October
1918.
- Maj. Raja Bahadur BIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumar Bikram Bahadur Singh, born December 1915,
educated at Rajkumar
College, Raipur; was the first Officer of
Imperial Police (Scotland Yard, England); married Rajkumari Brijraj
Kanwar, daughter of Rawal HARNATH SINGHJI Bahadur
of Dundlod,
and his wife, Rani
Sireh Kanwar, and had issue.
- Kunwarani Jagriti Kumari,
married
14th December 1978,
Kunwar Lakshman Singh of Raghogarh,
and has issue.
- Maj. Raja Bahadur BIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGH 1918/- , born 9th
November
1914
and succeeded 22nd October 1918, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur
(Diploma
1932), Ewing Christian College, Allahabad and Mayo College, Ajmer;
M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh) for four terms, married
Rani Padmavati Devi, born 17th July 1918 in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh,
daughter of Raja Bahadur Raja PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH of Pratapgarh,
and
had issue.
- Raja RAVINDRA BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
-
 Rajkumar
Shivendra
Bahadur Singh, born 7th January 1943 in Nagpur, Maharashtra, B.A.,
educated
at Doon School, Dehradun and Bombay University, Bombay; elected to the
Lok Sabha for three terms, agriculturist,
Political and Social worker, Musician and Management Consultant,
married
19th April 1968, Kumari Geeta Devi, born 1946, State Social Welfare
Minister, daughter of Rajkumar Chandra Bhan Singh of Kashipur, and his wife, Rajkumar Rani
Rashal Manjari Devi, and
had issue, two sons. He
died 1998. (Lal Niwas, P.O. Dungargarh,
Distt.
Rajnandgaon, Madhya Pradesh)
- Kunwar Bhawani Bahadur Singh
- Rajkumari Indira Devi, died young.
- Rani Sharda Kumari, married 5th
February 1955, Rawal
CHAKRAPANI SINGH of Bissau, and has
issue.
- Raja RAVINDRA BAHADUR SINGH (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari Rashmi Devi
- Shri Lal Shankar Bahadur Singh, educated at Rajkumar
College, Raipur; represented the University
Lawn Tennis Team which visited Sri Lanka in
1950.
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