PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in the 15th century, the 11th largest Princely State by area.
Rulers
were...
- Raja ANNAM DEV 1324/1369, traditional founder, brother of
the
Kakatiya Raja of
Warangal,
Pratap Rudra Dev, said to have established himself at Bastar
under the protection of the goddess, Danteshwari, still the family
deity.
- Raja HAMIR DEV 1369/1410
- Raja BHAITAI DEV 1410/1468
- Raja PURUSHOTTAM DEV 1468/1534, 4th Ruler.
- .....
- Raja PRATAP RAJ DEV 1602/1625, married and had issue,
extinct in the
3rd generation,
- Raja DIGPAL DEO 1680/1709
- Raja RAJPAL DEO 1709/1721, descended from the younger
brother of Raja
Pratap Raj
Dev, married 1stly, a Baghela Princess, married 2ndly, a Chandel
Princess,
and had issue.
- Rajkumar Dakhin Singh (by 1st wife)
- Raja DALPAT DEO (by 2nd wife) (qv)
- Rajkumar Pratap Singh (by 2nd wife)
- Raja DALPAT DEO 1731/1774, married (amongst 7 wives),
1stly, a daughter of Raja GOOR SAI DEO of Kanker,
and had issue.
- Rajkumar Ajmer Singh (by 1st wife), usurped the gaddi
for
a short time.
- Raja DARYAO DEO (by 2nd wife) (qv)
- Raja DARYAO DEO 1774 and 1777/bef 1819, married and had
issue.
- Raja MAHIPAL DEO fl. 1819
- Raja BHOPAL DEO 1830/1853
- Raja BHAIRAM DEO 1853/1891, born 21st May 1839, succeeded
27th August 1853 (#1),
married and had issue. He died 1891.
- Raja RUDRA PRATAP DEO (qv)
- Maharanidhirani Padmalaya
Devi, married Maharajadhiraj NAHAR DEO of Kanker,
and had issue.
- Raja RUDRA PRATAP DEO 1891/1921, born 1885, installed
January 1908,
educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; married 1stly, Rani Kusumlata
Devi, daughter of Raja Sir BASUDEV SUDHOL Deb of Bamra, she
died 18th August 1911, married 2ndly, Rani Chandra Kumari, she died sp,
and had issue, one son and one daughter. He died
1921.
- Yuvaraj (name unknown) (by Rani Kusumlata Devi),
died at the age of ten months.
- Rani Prafulla Kumari Devi (by Rani Kusumlata Devi) (qv)
- Rani Prafulla Kumari Devi 1921/1936, born 10th February
1910,
married 1927, Lal Sahib Prafulla Chandra Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj, born 23rd May 1909, Member
of the
Lok Sabha, died 5th March 1959, and had issue. She died 28th February
1936 in London.
- Rajkumari Kamla Devi (by Rani
Prafulla Kumari Devi), born 2nd February 1928, married in Bijwa U.P.
She died 1st January 1954.
- Maharaja PRAVIR CHANDRA BHANJ DEO
(qv)
- Rajkumari Geeta Kumari Devi,
born 29th October 1930, married Raja Saheb
KADAMBA KESHRI
CHANDRA DEO of Bonai, and had issue. She died
17th December 2002.
- Maharaja VIJAY CHANDRA BHANJ DEO
(qv)
- Maharaja PRAVIR CHANDRA BHANJ DEO 1936/1966, born 12th
March/25th June
1929,
educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; succeeded
28th October 1936, deposed by the Indian authorities in 1961, M.L.A.
(Madhya Pradesh), married 4th
July 1961, Maharani Shubhraj Kumari, born 1930, daughter of Rao Sahib
UDAYA
SINGH of Patan, died sp 11th
September
1996. He died sp 25th March 1966 (#2).
- Maharaja VIJAY CHANDRA BHANJ DEO 1966/1970, born 4th March
1934,
married Maharani Hitendra Kumari, daughter of Thakur Saheb
SURENDRASINHJI KARANSINHJI of Sayla, and
had
issue. He died 12th April 1970.
- Maharaja BHARAT CHANDRA BHANJ DEO (qv)
- Maharajkumar Shri Devesh Chandra Bhanj Deo (+), married
and
had issue.
- Rajkumar Mohit Chandra Bhanj Deo
- Rajkumari Juhika Devi Bhanj Deo
- Maharajkumar Shri Harihar Chandra Bhanj Deo, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1974); a practising
lawyer in the
capital Jagdalpur, married and had issue.
- Rajkumar Suryaveer Chandra Bhanj Deo
- Rani Saheba Puspa Devi, married Raja RAJENDRA CHANDRA DEB
Birabara Harichandan Mahapatra, 25th Raja Saheb of Talcher, and has issue, two sons.
- Maharaja BHARAT CHANDRA BHANJ DEO 1970/1996, born 1954,
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1972); married and had issue. He
died 1996.
- Maharaja KAMAL CHANDRA BHANJ DEO (qv)
- Rajkumari Gayatri Devi Bhanj Deo
- Maharaja KAMAL CHANDRA BHANJ DEO (see above)
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born about 1984,
presently (2007) studying at Coventry
University, U.K.