RAMGARH (Zamindari)

AREA: 12,950 km2 PRIVY PURSE: xx  ACCESSION: xx
Villages: 3,672 REVENUE: 1,500,000Rs POPULATION: 900,000
STATE: Bihar (Hazaribagh Distt.) DYNASTY: Rathore RELIGION: Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER: Maharaja SAURABH NARAIN SINGH Bahadur, Raja Bahadur of Ramgarh since 17th October 2008, (Raj Bungalow, Post Office and District Hazaribagh, Bihar, India)
born 21st January 1975, educated at The Modern School, Delhi; The Doon School, Dehra Dun; University of Delhi (B.A.) and University of Western Australia (M.B.A.); Member of the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha 2005/- from Hazaribagh, Congress Party; married 8th December 2001, Rani Ujwala Prabha, daughter of Raja RUDENDRA BIKRAM SINGH of Payagpur.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Rulers were...
  • Maharaja BAGHDEO 1368/1402, established himself at Urda in the Pargana of Karanpura.
  • Maharaja KIRAT SINGH 1402/1459
  • Maharaja RAM SINGH I 1459/1537, died 1537.
  • Maharaja MADHO SINGH 1537/1554
  • Maharaja JAGAT SINGH 1554/1604
  • Maharaja HIMMAT SINGH 1604/1661, moved the seat to Badam.
  • Maharaja RAM SINGH II 1661/1677, died 1677.
  • Maharaja DALEL SINGH 1677/1724, moved the seat to Ramgarh. He died 1724.
  • Maharaja BISHAN SINGH 1724/1763, died 1763.
  • Maharaja MAKAND SINGH 1763/1772
  • Maharaja TEJ SINGH Bahadur 1772/1774 , married and had issue.
    • Maharaja PARAS NATH SINGH Bahadur (qv)
    • Maharaj Kumar Jaisri Singh, married and had issue.
      • Maharaj Kumar Medini Singh
      • Maharaj Kumar Bhawani Singh
      • Maharaj Kumar Rudra Singh
    • Maharaj Kumar Bodh Singh, married and had issue.
      • Maharaj Kumar Jenardan Singh, married and had issue.
        • Maharaj Kumar Brahm Narain Singh, married and had issue.
          • Maharaj Kumar Hit Narain Singh
          • Maharaj Kumar Udit Narain Singh
          • Maharaj Kumar Swarup Narain Singh
          • Maharaja NAM NARAIN SINGH (qv)
  • Maharaja PARAS NATH SINGH Bahadur 1774/1784, married and had issue.
    • Maharaja MANI NATH SINGH Bahadur (qv)
    • Maharaj Kumar Bhagwan Singh, married and had issue.
      • Maharaj Kumar Thakur Dass Singh
    • Maharaj Kumar Digvijay Singh
  • Maharaja MANI NATH SINGH Bahadur 1784/1811, married and had issue. He died 1811.
    • Maharaja SIDH NATH SINGH Bahadur (qv)
  • Maharaja SIDH NATH SINGH Bahadur 1811/1835, married and had issue. He died 1835.
    • Maharaja LAKSHMI NATH SINGH Bahadur (qv)
    • Maharaja SHAMBHU NATH SINGH Bahadur (qv)
    • Maharaja RAM NATH SINGH Bahadur (qv)
  • Maharaja LAKSHMI NATH SINGH Bahadur 1835/1841
  • Maharaja SHAMBHU NATH SINGH Bahadur 1841/-
  • Maharaja RAM NATH SINGH Bahadur -/1866, married and had issue. He died 1866.
    • Maharaja TRILOK NATH SINGH Bahadur (qv)
  • Maharaja TRILOK NATH SINGH Bahadur 1866 (for 2 months), born posthumously 1866, died 1866 aged 2 months.
  • Maharaja NAM NARAIN SINGH Bahadur 1866/1899, took charge of the estate from the Court of Wards on the 23rd November 1873, he was granted the title of Raja on 24th May 1889 (#1) as a personal distinction, married Maharani Ram Kauri, died 30th November 1910, and had issue. He died 6th February 1899.
    • Maharaja RAM NARAIN SINGH Bahadur (qv)
    • Maharaj Kumar Rameshwar Narain Singh
  • Maharaja RAM NARAIN SINGH Bahadur 1899/1913, Raja [cr.1905] as a personal distinction, married Maharani Rikinath Kaur, and had issue. He died 26th January 1913.
    • Maharaja LAKSHMI NARAIN SINGH Bahadur (qv)
  • Maharaja LAKSHMI NARAIN SINGH Bahadur 1913/1919, married, 1914, a daughter of Raja NARPAT SINGH of Porahat, and had issue. He died 10th April 1919.
    • Maharaja KAMAKHYA NARAIN SINGH Bahadur (qv)
    • Lt. Dr. Maharajkumar Basant Narain Singh, born 9th April 1918 at Padma, M.R.A.S. (England), F.R.E.S., F.R.H.S. (London), M.A.M.N.H., M.N.G.S. (USA), educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur and at Mayo College, Ajmer; Member of the Executive Committee of the Bihar Landholder's Association, Vice-President of the Rural Reconstruction Association in Hazaribagh, District Scout Commissioner for Hazribagh, Chief Secretary of Ramgarh Raj, Honorary Lieutenant of the 1st Battalion of the Bihar Regiment, four times elected to the Lok Sabha from Hazaribagh, married Maharajkumari Vijaya Raje Puar, born 16th September 1919, daughter of  Lt. Col. HH Maharaja Shri Sir UDAJIRAO II PUAR Bahadur of Dhar, and had issue, 1 son and 1 daughter.
  • Maharaja KAMAKHYA NARAIN SINGH Bahadur 1919/1970, born 10th August 1916, granted ruling powers 10th August 1937, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur and at Mayo College, Ajmer; Vice-President of the Bihar Landholder's Association and the All-India Kshatriya Mahasabha; Member of the Managing Committee and General Council of Rajkumar College; Member of the Executive Body of the Bihar War Committee, married February 1936, Maharani Lalita Rajya Lakshmi Devi, daughter of Supradipta Manyabara Lt.Gen. Maharajkumar Singha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and his wife, Maharani Rama Rajya Lakshmi Devi; and had issue. He died 1970 in Calcutta.
    • Maharaja INDRA JITENDRA NARAIN SINGH Bahadur (qv)
  • Maharaja INDRA JITENDRA NARAIN SINGH Bahadur 1970/2008, born 27th January 1938, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur and  at Mayo College, Ajmer; twice elected to the Bihar Vidhan Sabha from Bahri; married 11th May 1967, Maharani Rewa Kumari (now Rajmata of Ramgarh), daughter of Raja DINESH SINGH of Kalakankar, and his wife, Rani Neelima Kumari, and had issue, two sons. He died 17th October 2008.
    • Tika Saurabh Narain Singh, succeeded as Maharaja SAURABH NARAIN SINGH Bahadur (qv)
    • Rajkumar Vaibhav Narain Singh, born 16th September 1984, educated at The Doon School, Dehra Dun, at the University of Delhi (B.A.) and at City University, London (M.A.).
  • Maharaja SAURABH NARAIN SINGH Bahadur (see above)
 
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