Predecessors and Short History:
Founded
about 1530 by a scion of the Khurda family. Rulers were...
- Raja HARI SINGH Vidyadhar 1530/1594
- Raja LOKNATH RAY SINGH Bharamarbar 1594/1615
- Raja BALBHADRA RAY SINGH 1615/1641
- Raja NILAKANTH RAY SINGH 1641/1682
- Raja NRU SINGH Bhramarbar 1682/1708
- Raja KUNJA BEHARI Bhramarbar 1708/1728
- Raja BRAJA BEHARI Bhramarbar 1728/1741
- Raja DAMODAR Bhramarbar 1741/1743
- Raja TRILOCHAN SINGH Mahendra Bahadur 1743/1785 or 1756/1798
- Raja DAYANIDHI Mahendra Bahadur 1785/1796
- Raja RAM CHANDRA Mahendra Bahadur 1796/1807
- Raja KRISHNA CHANDRA Mahendra Bahadur 1807/1822
- Raja SHYAM CHANDRA Mahendra Bahadur 1822/1830
- Maharaja BHAGIRATH Mahendra Bahadur 1830/1877,
Maharaja
[cr.1869]
- Raja DINABANDHU Mahendra Bahadur 1877/1885, married a
Princess of
Bonai, and had issue.
- Raja SHURA PRATAP SINGH Dev Mahendra Bahadur (qv)
- Raja SHURA PRATAP SINGH Dev Mahendra Bahadur 1885/1918,
born 1884, succeeded 29th August 1885 (#1),
married 1902, Rani Krushna Priya Devi, daughter of Tikayat Nruparaj
Singh Deo of Seraikella, and had
issue, six sons.
He died 16th October 1918.
- Raja SHANKAR PRATAP SINGH Dev Mahendra Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumar Pattayet Sahib Narsingh Pratap Singh Deo
(+),
married Pattayet Rani Jatan Kumari Devi (+), daughter of Rao Bahadur Thakur SHIVNATH SINGHJI of Bera in Marwar, and his second wife, Rani
Narendar
Kanwar, and had issue.
- Kumar Arjendu Pratap Singh Deo, married Rajkumari
Chandra Kumari, daughter of Capt. Maharaj Mohan Singhji of Raoti, and
his wife, Rani Nain Kanwar
Sodisa,
and has issue, one son and two daughters.
- Rani Saheba Jogmaya Devi, married Maharaj Sahib Narpat
Singhji of Idar, and has issue.
- Raj Kumar Sri Shesh Pratap Singh Deo (+), married Raj
Kumari Mohan Devi (+), daughter of Rao RANJIT SINGHJI of Kushalgarh, Rajasthan, and had issue,
two
daughters and one son.
- Kumari Kamlesh Devi (Kolkata, India)
- Kumari Amaresh Devi, married Kumar Har Mohan Singh
Roy, retired General Manager of United Commercial Bank, and has issue,
three sons.
- Ambar Singh Roy, journalist, married and has issue.
- Arup Singh Roy (+), married, and had issue, one son.
- Anirudha Singh Roy
- Kumar Ranendra Pratap Singh Deo, married Rajkumari
Kavita Devi, daughter of Raja BRAJRAJ
KSHATRIYA BIRBAR
CHAMUPATI SINGH Mahapatra of Tigiria,
and his wife, Rani Rasmanjari
Devi, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
- Kumar Jeetendra Pratap Singh Deo, born 1969,
married Kumari Nabonita Devi, daughter of Thakur Gajendra Singh of Dhamotar, and his wife, Thakurain Devendra
Kumari, and has issue, one daughter.
- Kumari Mridvika, aged 7 years (2007).
- Kumari Aparna Devi, born 1972, married in
Pachlana, Kumar Vrish Kirti Rathore, and has issue, one daughter.
- Raj Kumar Brajesh Pratap Singh Deo (+), adopted by
Rajmata Indumati Dei of
Dompada, and succeeded there as Raja AMARENDRA MANSINGH Bhramabar
Rai, Raja Saheb of Dompada, married
Rani Pritam Kumari, daughter of Rao RANJIT SINGHJI of Kushalgarh in Rajasthan, and had
issue, one daughter.
- Rani Indira Devi, married Raja RAJENDRA CHANDRA MARDRAJ
HARICHANDAN of Nilgiri, and has issue,
two sons and one daughter.
- Raj Kumar Gaurendra Pratap Singh Deo (+),
married Raj Kumari Pratibha Devi of Raidihi, a Zamindari of
Kharswan, and has issue, three sons.
- Kumar Sailaja Shankar Singh Deo, married to Rajkumari
Jaishree Devi, daughter of Raja Birendra Bijoy Malla Ugal Sanda Deb of
Jhargram, and his wife, Rani Indira Debi, and has issue, two married
daughters.
- Kumar Bhawani Shankar Singh Deo, retired Executive
Director of National Aluminium Co. Ltd.; married Rajkumari Sucharumoni
Devi, daughter of Sri Raja Vyricharla DURGA PRASAD DEO Raju Bahadur
Garu of Kurupam, and his wife, Rani
Vyricharla Sobhalata Devi, and has issue, two sons.
- Kumar Sujit Singh Deo
- Kumar Sameer Singh Deo
- Kumar Biroja Shankar Singh Deo, married Kumar Rani
Alkananda Devi of Jodhpur, and has issue, two sons.
- Rajkumar Samarendra Pratap Singh Deo (+),
married Rajkumar Rani Nirmala Devi, daughter of the Thakur Saheb of
Eral in Gujarat, and had issue, one daughter.
- Kumari Gayatri Devi, married Kumar Sachindra Narayan
Singh Deo of Panchkote, and has issue, two daughters.
- Raja SHANKAR PRATAP SINGH Dev Mahendra Bahadur
1918/1965, born
15th November
1904 and succeeded 16th October 1918, educated at Cambridge College
(Senior), Rajkumar College,
Raipur
and Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (B.A.); topped in India in the Chiefs
College Diploma
Examinations in 1922, Member of the Chamber of Princes
1929/1946;
Member of the Orissa Legislative Assembly 1957/1961 and Member of the
Rajya
Sabha 1964/1965; Author of a number of books in Oriya and Hindi; Member
of standing
committee of Rural Council, Eastern State Agency; his interest in
philosophy led to Philosophical
research, discussion on Vedanta Philosophy, Bhakti Cultures and
Aurobindo Philosophy; married Rani Shrimati Ratna Prabha Devi, born
11th December 1909, died
27th April 2001, daughter of Raja ADITYA PRATAP
SINGH Deo of Seraikella,
and his wife, Rani Padmini Kumari Devi, and had issue, two sons. He
died 3rd August 1965.
- Brig.(retd) Raja KAMAKHYA PRASAD SINGH Deo Mahendra
Bahadur (qv)
- Raj Kumar Pattayet Matru Prasad Singh
Deo, married Pattayet Rani Basanti Devi, daughter of Kumar Govind
Pratap Singh Deo, of Nuagarh in Seraikella,
and has issue, two sons and
two daughters.
- Kumar Saheb Harsh Vardhan Singh Deo, married Kumar Rani
Chandrika Kumari, elder daughter of Maharaj Dileep Singh of Jobat, and his wife, Rani Bhubaneshwari
Devi, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
- Kumar Som Kirti Singh Deo, studying at Ooty
- Kumari Nilambika Kumari.
- Kumar Rani Padmini Devi, married to
Lt.-Col. Kumar Sanjay Shah Deo of Ratu (Chhota Nagpur), and has issue,
two daughters.
- Kumari Akansha
- Kumari Anukriti
- Kumar Sahib Rajiv Lochan, married
Kumar Rani Sushmita Devi, daughter of Kumar Kamkshya Pratap Singh Deo
of Panchkote.
- Kumar Rani Rukmini Devi, married to Kumar
Kirti Dev Singh of Nagod, and has
issue, one daughter.
- Brig.(retd) Raja KAMAKHYA PRASAD SINGH Deo Mahendra
Bahadur (see
above)
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born
6th August
1941 in Calcutta, B.Sc. (Hons) (Geology), B.L.D (Orissa), educated at
La
Martineire School and Jadavpur University, Calcutta and Ravenshaw
College,
Cuttack (Orissa). Member of the Rajya Sabha 1971 and member of the 4th,
7th, 8th, 10th, 11th and 13th Lok Sabha. Represented India in rowing;
Orissa
in hockey and rowing; Jadavpur University in hockey, football and
rowing;
Utkal University in cricket; a rugby player; conducts martial arts
competitions.
Member, Indian Parliamentary Delegations to Canada, 1989, Nepal, 1973
and
Zimbabwe, 1986. Commissioned in the Territorial Army in the Regiment of
artillery and fought in 1971 Indo-Pak war Operation Cactus); qualified
as 1st paratrooper of the Territorial Army in 1986, commanded the
Territorial
Army contingent in the Republic Day Parade, 1976; qualified instructor
in Army School of Mechanical Transport, 1976 and Infantry School, Mhow
1976; qualified as the 1st Asian as International Umpire in Rowing
1981;
conducted 9th Asian Games as umpire in 1982, World Championship in
1983,
1985, 1987 and 1989; Asian Games 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1994; Olympic
Games
1984, 1988; Chef De Mission, India Contingent to Olympics 1988; married
6th May 1962, Rani Savitri Devi (Krishna Devi), daughter of HH
Maharaja PRATAP KESARI DEO of Kalahandi,
and his wife, HH Maharani Kasturika Mohini Devi, and has issue, two
sons and
three daughters.