RAIRAKHOL (Princely State)

  
AREA: 2,157 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 29,700Rs  ACCESSION: 1st January 1948
STATE: Orissa DYNASTY: Rathore RELIGION: Hindu
VILLAGES: 319 POPULATION: 26,888 (1901) REVENUE: 55,000Rs (1904)
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja HARI SHANKER CHANDRA JADUMONI DEO JENAMANI B.Sc., Raja of Rairakhol since 7th April 1975. (Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India)
Raja Hari Shanker Deo Janamuniborn 24th June 1941 in Calcutta, educated  at Hill Grange High School, Bombay, at Col. Brown's Cambridge School, Dehradun, at St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun and at St. George's College, Mussoorie, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Agra University; Life Member of the General Council, Rajkumar College Society, Raipur, Chattisgarh; married 1stly, Rani Shri Parvati Kumari Devi, daughter of HH Maharao ABHAI SINGHJI Bahadur of Sirohi, married 2ndly, 20th June 1987 at Dehradun, Rani Sri Sudha Raje Devi, daughter of the late Rao M. P. Singh of Pali, Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh, and has issue.
  • Rajkumari Nivritti Deo, born July 1988; presently (2009) in IIIrd year medicine (M.B.B.S.) at China Medical University, Shenyang, P.R. China.
  • Yuvaraj Nav Chandra Deo, born 10th August 1989, presently (2009) studying in the Ist. year for a degree in IT and Computers at Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Rajas of Rairakhol, Bonai, Seraikella and Kharsawan are descended from four brothers who were Rathore rajputs from Rajasthan, and the state was formerly subordinate to Bamra until the 18th century. Rulers were... 
  • Raja BISHAN CHANDRA DEO JANAMUNI, 14th Raja of Rairakhol 1825/1900, born 1818, succeeded 1825 (#1), married and had issue. He died 1900.
    • Tikait Babu Kristi Chandra Deo [married and had issue. He died vp before 1900.]
      • Raja GAURA CHANDRA DEO JANAMUNI (qv)
  • Raja GAURA CHANDRA DEO JANAMUNI 1900/1906, born 1870, he adopted Lal Bir Chandra Deo, younger son of Raja NILAMBAR CHANDRA DEO of Bonai. He died 1906.
  • Raja BIR CHANDRA JADUMANI DEO JANAMUNI 1906/1973, born 1894 and succeeded 3rd July 1906, son of Raja NILAMBAR CHANDRA DEO of Bonai; educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; married the fifth daughter of Raja PRATAP RUDRA SINGH of Sonepur, and had issue. He died 14th November 1973.
    • Raja GIRISH CHANDRA JADUMONI DEO JENAMANI (qv)
    • Rani Nagendra Kumari (+), married Raja Bahadur ANIRUDHA PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI of Padrauna, and had issue.
  • Raja GIRISH CHANDRA JADUMONI DEO JENAMANI 1973/1975, born 19th August 1914, married December 1937, Rani Shada Rajya Laxmi Kumari Devi, youngest daughter of Supradipta Manyabara Cdg. Gen. HH Shri Tin Maharaja Sir Mohun Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Nepalese Army and Maharaja of Lambjung and Kaski, and his wife, HH Bada Maharani Dikshya Kumari Devi, and had issue. He died 7th April 1975.
    • Raja HARI SHANKER CHANDRA JADUMONI DEO JENAMANI (qv)
  • Raja HARI SHANKER CHANDRA JADUMONI DEO JENAMANI (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 433