GANGWAL (Taluk)

 
 
AREA:  REVENUE:  ACCESSION: 
LOCATION:  Oudh (Bahraich Distt.)   RELIGION: Hindu
DYNASTY:  Janwar (Chandravanshi)    
     
PRESENT RULER:  Raja UDAI PRATAP SINGH, married 1968, Rani Gopal Kumari of Gopalpur, and has issue, four daughters. 
  • Rajkumari Jyotsna Singh, married Kunwar Madhur Mohan Singh Rathore of Babra.
  • Rajkumari Purnima Singh, married Tikka Saheb Rakesh Singh ji of Tharoch, Distt. Shimla in  Himachal Pradesh.
  • Rajkumari Archana Singh
  • Rajkumari Vandana Singh
PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY:  Ancestor was Bariar Shah, Risaldar, who was granted the fief of Ikauna circa 1324. Rulers were....
  • Raja MADHO SINGH, 7th in descent from Bariar Shah
  • Raja GANESH SINGH (brother)
  • Raja MAHA SINGH (grandson) fl.1627
  • Raja CHAIN SINGH (grandson) fl.1723
  • Raja PRATAP SINGH (brother), married and had issue.
    • Raja JASWANT SINGH (qv)
  • Raja JASWANT SINGH, married and had issue. He died 1769.
    • SON, married and had issue.
      • Raja KISHAN PRASAD SINGH (qv)
      • SON, married and had issue.
        • Raja HARSARAN SINGH (qv)
        • Raja SHITLA BAKHSH SINGH (qv)
        • Raja NARPAT SINGH (qv)
  • Raja KISHAN PRASAD SINGH, died sp.
  • Raja HARSARAN SINGH, died sp.
  • Raja SHITLA BAKHSH SINGH, married Sukhraj Kunwar and died sp.
  • Raja NARPAT SINGH, born 12th January 1822 (#1), representative of the elder branch of the Janwar Family (Balrampur, Oel, Kaimahra and Payagpur), married and had issue.
    • Raja SURYA PRAKASH SINGH (qv)
  • Raja SURYA PRAKASH SINGH, married Rani Itraj Kunwar (qv), died 1925. He died sp.
  • Rani Itraj Kunwar (widow) -/1925, died 1925.
  • Raja BISHESHWAR BUX SINGH 1925/1930, married and had issue. He died 16th October 1930.
    • Raja BAJRANG BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Dhuj Singh, married Kanwarani Bakhtraj Kuer. He died sp 1940.
  • Raja BAJRANG BAHADUR SINGH, married and had issue.
    • Raja RAM SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Luxman Singh 
    • Kunwar Shatrughan Singh 
    • Kunwar Bharat Singh, married Kunwarani Mandavi Devi, and had issue.
      • Kunwar Arun Pratap Singh, married 1983, Kuwarani Ragini Singh, daughter of Kunwar Sarbh Bhupendra Singh, and grand daughter of Maharaj Randeep Singh of Nahan (Sirmur), and has issue, two daughters.
        • Kumari Vasundhara Singh
        • Kumari Vijaya Singh
      • Kunwar Dharmendra Prasad Singh, later Maharaja Bahadur DHARMENDRA PRASAD SINGH of Balrampur, (adopted 28th February 1963 by Maharaja Bahadur Pateshwari Prasad Singh and Maharani Rajya Laxmi Kumari Devi of Balrampur).
      • Kunwar Raghunandan Singh.
      • Kumari Rani Sharda Singh [Rani Sharda Singh of Agori Barhar], born 1st July 1957, married 1982, Raja ABUSHAN BRAHAM SHAH of Agori Barhar, and has issue, one son and two daughters.
  • Raja RAM SINGH, married and had issue.
    • Raja UDAI PRATAP SINGH (qv) 
    • Kunwar Krishna Kumar Singh, married 1975, Lalasaheb Varuna Kumari of Ilaka Tala of Rewa Estate, and has issue, two sons. (B-1/205, Nirala Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India)
      • Kunwar Shiv Kumar Singh, married 12th February 2005, Kumari Gayatri Jadeja, daughter of Kumar Shri Jogendrasinhji Vijaysinhji of Lodhika-Jnr.
      • Kunwar Shyam Kumar Singh
  • Raja UDAI PRATAP SINGH (see above)
Courtesy of Maharaj Kumar Jayendra Pratap Singh, November 2002 and Kunwar Shyam Kumar Singh, August 2003.
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