PRESENT RULER: Rani Indira
Devi, only daughter and child of Raja AMARENDRA MANSINGH
Bhramabar Rai,
adopted to Dompada and fourth son of Raja SHURA PRATAP SINGH Deo
Mahendra Bahadur of Dhenkanal; married
Raja RAJENDRA
CHANDRA MARDRAJ HARICHANDAN of Nilgiri,
and has issue, two sons
and one daughter.
- Raja JAYANT CHANDRA MARDRAJ HARICHANDAN of
Nilgiri, born 1956, educated at Hartley's School, Calcutta, at Stewart
School, Cuttack, at Rajkumar College, Raipur and is a graduate from BJB
College, Bhubaneswar; he is a very strong enthusiast and
activist in the Preservation of Wild Life; Life Member and former Vice
President of the Governing Council of Rajkumar
College, Raipur; Member of INTACH (Indian National
Trust of Art and Cultural Heritage); married Rani Manoj Manjari Devi,
eldest daughter of Raja KIRTI CHANDRA Deo Harishchandra
Jagadev
of Surangi, and his wife, Rani
Soubhagya Manjari Devi; she was educated at St. Joseph’s Convent and
Sailabala Women’s College, Cuttack and has a diploma in Interior
Decoration and a Post Graduate Degree in Psychological Counselling. She
is a Reiki Grandmaster (Reiki is a healing therapy recognized by the
W.H.O. as an alternate therapy). She is the Director of SVADHYAYA
FOUNDATION involved in Reiki teaching and practising. She is also a
Founder member of AOL Bhubaneswar Chapter. She is proud to have
represented AOL in World Faith Conference in 1999 as its youngest
delegate. She was associated with the Training Division of AMWAY
INTERNATIONAL, which was awarded for its express efforts at setting up
the Pick up Centre at Bhubaneswar. She is the Hereditary Trustee and
President of Nilgiri Debotar and is involved in many religious and
charitable services through it. She is a Trustee of VISAMO FOUNDATION
involved in educating brilliant children from BPL families. Besides
Social activities, her literary awards have been rewarded by Swami
Tejomayananda in Chinmay International Magzines. Some of her works have
been published in Asian Age, Sambad and Bhubaneswar Club Magazine of
which she was on the Editorial Board. She has addressed the Rotary Club
of Bhubaneswar on two occasions, once on Reiki and recently on Life
After Death; and has issue, one son.
- Yuvraj Janmajay Mardaraj, born
around 1986.
- Rajkumar Jagdish Chandra Mardaraj, State
Co-ordinator of
Reliance Group in Orissa, Member Bhubaneswar Club Ltd., married
Rajkumari Jyotshna Mardaraj, and has issue, two daughters.
-
Kumari Prakriti
-
Kumari Akriti
- Rajkumari Jaishree Devi, married Maharaj Dhruv
Narain Singh
of Shivrati, and has issue, one son.
- Maharaj Raghav Raj Singh of
Shivrati.
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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
An important Zamindari close to Bhubaneswar. The Raja of Banki in
Cuttack District, Orissa, established the Dompada Zamindari in
the 17th century, as a gift to his second son and made him the Raja of
Dompada. Dompada Zamindari is abundant in Forests and Wildlife. It is
close to Bhubaneswar, the Capital of Orissa, on the banks of the River
Mahanadi. The presiding deity of Dompada is Shree Giridhari Jew, whose
temple is located at Dompada. The present Chandaka-Dompada Wildlife
sanctuary,
particularly the elephant sanctuary is part of the old Dompada
Zamindari.
The rulers were ....
- Raja PURUSHOTTAM MANSINGH Bhramarbar Rai
- Raja RAGHUNATH MANSINGH Bhramarbar Rai, his Dewan was the
famous
freedom fighter of Orissa, Fakir Mohan Senapati; he married a
daughter of the Raja of
Tekkali (now in Andhra Pradesh).
- Raja BRAJENDRA MANSINGH Bhramarbar Rai, he reapppointed
the freedom fighter Vysya Kabi Fakir Mohan Senapati as his Dewan from
1894 to 1896; married 1stly,
a Princess of Parikud, married 2ndly, Rani Indumati Dei of Kanika, and
had
issue, one son and two daughters.
- Raja BHIBUDENDRA MANSINGH Bhramarbar Rai (qv)
- Raja BHIBUDENDRA MANSINGH Bhramarbar Rai, educated at
Rajkumar College, Raipur. He died unmarried, drowned while
swimming in the river Mahanadi at Kalika Prasad.
- Raja AMARENDRA MANSINGH Bhramabar Rai,
born 1912 as Rajkumar Brajesh Pratap Singh Deo, the fourth son of Raja
SHURA
PRATAP SINGH Deo Mahindra Bahadur of Dhenkanal,
he was adopted by Rajmata Indumati Dei of Dompada (see above); educated
at Mayo
College, Ajmer and Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack; he
ascended
the gaddi on winning the adoption case in the Privy Council (a
noted case in
Hindu Law) against Sanatan Singh of Dompada, his legal counsel was
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, who later became the first President of Pakistan,
he converted his residential Palace of 13 acres into a High School in
1958 and gifted it to his subjects, the people of Dompada. The school
is named after his wife and is named Pritam Kumari Bidya Mandir;
he married Rani
Pritam
Kumari, daughter of Rao RANJIT SINGHJI of Kushalgarh in Rajasthan, and
had issue, one daughter. He died 1994.
- Rani Indira Devi (see above)
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