PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY:
Originally, the predecessor state was the Kingdom of the Silavamsis,
which
lost its independence in 1571, becoming tributary to the Qutbshahi
Sultans
of Golconda. Rulers were....
- Sri Raja VINAYAK DEO 1443/1476, Raja of Nandapur, founder
of Jeypore/Jeypur
about 1450, descendant of Raja Kanaka Sena, King of Jammu, married and
had
issue. He died 1476.
- Sri Raja VIZIACHANDRA KRISHNA DEO (qv)
- Sri Raja VIZIACHANDRA KRISHNA DEO 1476/1510, died 1510.
- Sri Raja BHARIVA DEO 1510/1527, born 1486, died 1527.
- Sri Raja VISHWANADHA DEO 1527/1571, married and
had issue.
- Sri Raja BALARAMA DEO (qv)
- Sri Raja BALARAMA DEO 1571/1597, married and
had issue.
- Sri Raja YESHOVANTA DEO (qv)
- Sri Raja YESHOVANTA DEO 1597/1610
- Sri Raja KRISHNA DEO 1610/1648, born about 1592, died 1648.
- Sri Maharaja VIKRAM DEO I 1648/1669, transferred the
capital from
Nandapur to
Jeypore
and constructed a fort there, married and had issue.
- Sri Maharaja KRISHNA DEO (qv)
- Sri Raja Yeshovanta Deo, married and had issue.
- Son, married and had issue.
- Sri Maharaja RAGHUNATH KRISHNA DEO
- Sri Maharaja KRISHNA DEO 1669/1672, married and had issue.
- Sri Maharaja VISHWAMBHARA DEO I (qv)
- Sri Maharaja MALLAKIMARDHANA KRISHNA DEO (qv)
- Sri Maharaja HARI DEO (qv)
- Sri Maharaja BALARAMA DEO I (qv)
- Sri Maharaja VISHWAMBHARA DEO I 1672/1676, died sp
1676.
- Sri Maharaja MALLAKIMARDHANA KRISHNA DEO 1676/1681
- Sri Maharaja HARI DEO 1681/1684, died 1684.
- Sri Maharaja BALARAMA DEO I 1684/1686
- Sri Maharaja RAGHUNATH KRISHNA DEO (adoptive son)
1686/1708, married and had issue.
- Sri Maharaja RAMCHANDRA DEO I (qv)
- Sri Maharaja BALARAMA DEO II (qv)
- Sri Maharaja VISHWAMBHARA DEO II (qv)
- Sri Maharaja LALA KRISHNA DEO (qv)
- Sri Maharaja VIKRAM DEO II (qv)
- Sri Maharaja RAMCHANDRA DEO I 1708/1711, died 1711.
- Sri Maharaja BALARAMA DEO II 1711/1713, died 1713.
- Sri Maharaja VISHWAMBHARA DEO II 1713/-
- Sri Maharaja LALA KRISHNA DEO 1752/1758
- Sri Maharaja VIKRAM DEO II 1758/1779, acquired the
additional Zamindari
of Panchipenta, married and had issue.
- Sri Maharaja RAMCHANDRA DEO II (qv)
- Sri Maharaja RAMCHANDRA DEO II 1779/1825, married and had
issue. He died 1825
- Sri Maharaja VIKRAM DEO III (qv)
- Sri Maharaja VIKRAM DEO III 1825/1860, married and had
issue.
- Sri Maharaja RAMCHANDRA DEO III (qv)
- Sri Maharaja RAMCHANDRA DEO III 1860/1889, born 1843,
married Maharani
Lakshmi Devi Rajeshwari, and had issue. He died 1889.
- Sri Sri Sri Maharaja VIKRAM DEO IV (qv)
 Sri Sri Sri Maharaja VIKRAM DEO IV Azem Maharaja Yujad
ud-daula
Mahabat
Assar Yedal Yemeenay Salatnut Samsamay Killapathay Islam Sri Jhadkhand
Badusha 1889/-, born 1875, educated privately, confirmed in the
succession
on 27th November 1895, granted the title of Maharaja for personal
use in 1896, married 1893, a Princess of Chhota-Nagpur, and had issue.
- Sri Sri Sri Maharaja RAMCHANDRA DEO IV, born 31st
December 1893,
married
1913, Shri Lakshmi Patta Maharani, daughter of Maharaja BHAGWATI PRASAD
of Balrampur.
- Sri Maharaja KRISHNA CHANDRA DEO 1920/1931, died June 1931.
- Sri Maharaja VIKRAM DEO V 1931/1951, born 1869 in Sri
Mukhalingam,
pro-Chancellor
of both Andhra (1937/1951) and Utkal Universities, donating annually,
money
towards the recurring expenses of the AU College of Science and
Technology,
as a result, it was renamed the Jeypore Vikrama Deo College of Science
and Technology in his honour. He died spm 1951.
- Sri Maharaja RAMA KRISHNA DEO (maternal grandson) 1951/-
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