DATIA (Princely State)

(15 gun salute)

  
AREA:  2,362 km2 PRIVY PURSE:  154,300R  ACCESSION:  1st January 1950
STATE:  Madhya Pradesh  DYNASTY:  Bundela  RELIGION:  Hindu
  POPULATION: 173,759 (1901) REVENUE: 400,000Rs
     
PRESENT RULER:  HH Maharaja Lokendra RAJENDRA SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur, 13th Maharaja of Datia since October 2006.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Founded in 1626. Rulers were...
  1. Rao BHAGWAN RAO 1626/1656, received Datia and Baroni from his father (Raja BIR SINGH DEO of Orchha) in 1626 and established his own state. He died 1656.

  2. Rao SUBHA KARAN 1656/1683, died 1683

  3. Rao DALPAT SINGH 1683/1706 (#2)

  4. Rao RAMCHANDRA SINGH 1706/1733, died 1733

  5. Rao INDRAJIT SINGH 1733/1762

  6. Rao SHATRUJIT SINGH 1762/1801 (#3)

  7. Raja PARICHHAT SINGH 1801/1839, Raja [cr.1820's]

  8. Raja BIJAI SINGH Bahadur 1839/1857, born 1826, died 1857.

  9. HH Maharaja Lokendra Sir BHAWANI SINGH Bahadur 1857/1907, K.C.S.I., Maharaja (Hereditary) [cr.1865], Maharaja Lokendra [cr.1877], enjoyed a personal gun salute of 19 granted in 1906, born 13th August 1846 (1854 #1), succeeded 20th November 1857, belonged to the Bhasnai branch of the Orchha Royal Family. He died 4th August 1907.

  10. Hon. Lt.Col. HH Maharaja Lokendra Sir GOVIND SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur (1886-1951)Hon. Lt.Col. HH Maharaja Lokendra Sir GOVIND SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur 1907/1951, born 1886, G.C.I.E. [cr.1932], K.C.S.I. [cr.1918], Vice President of the St John Ambulance Association and Patron of the Red Cross Society, married 1stly, 1902, a daughter of the Jagirdar of Manpura-Gwalior, married 2ndly, a daughter of Thakur Sahib of Sayla, married 3rdly, a daughter of the Thakur of Suara-Datia, and had issue. He died 1951.

  11. HH Maharaja Lokendra BALBHADRA SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur 1951/1978 , born 1907, married and had issue. He died 29th March 1978.

  12. HH Maharaja Lokendra KRISHAN SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur 1978/2006, married and had issue. He died October 2006.
    • HH Maharaja Lokendra RAJENDRA SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur (qv)
    • Maharajkumar Ghanshyam Singh, former Member of the Legislative Assembly in Madhya Pradesh, President of the Datia District Congress Committee.
    • Maharajkumar (name unknown) Singh, married and had issue.
      • Rajkumari Ksheerja Kumari, married January 2008, Rajkumar Harvashvardhan Singh, son of Tikka Pramod Singh of Baghal, and his wife, Tikka Rani Poornima Devi.
    • Maharajkumari Gayatri Kumari [now Rajmata Gayatri Kumari of Khilchipur], married 20th May 1970, Raja Rao Bahadur BHARTENDRA SINGH of Khilchipur, and has issue.

  13. HH Maharaja Lokendra RAJENDRA SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur (see above)
Other Members:
  • (Maharajkumar?) Balram Singh, married Maharajkumari Urmila Kumari of Pratapgarh, born 1937.
  • Rani Sahib Gargi Devi, married Rao HARSHVARDHAN SINGH of Vijayanagar.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.111
2. "Dictionnaire de Civilisation Indienne" - Editions Bouquins)
3. http://www.booksmatter.com/b0932900895.htm (thanks to Lionel Gagnant)