PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
about 1005 (traditional date). Rulers were..
- Raja RAGHUNATH SAI 1005/1040
- Raja PRATAPNARAYAN DEO I 1040/1072
- Raja BIRABAR DEO 1072/1108
- Raja JUGASAI DEO I 1108/1142
- Raja UDENARAYAN DEO 1142/1173
- Raja HARICHANDRA DEO 1173/1201
- Raja RAMACHANDRA DEO 1201/1234
- Raja GOPINATH DEO 1234/1271
- Raja BALABHADRA DEO 1271/1306
- Raja RAGHURAJ DEO 1306/1337
- Raja RAISINGH DEO I 1337/1366
- Raja HARIA DEO 1366/1400
- Raja JUGASAI DEO II 1400/1436
- Raja PRATAPNARAYAN DEO II 1436/1468
- Raja HARIRUDRA DEO 1468/1496
- Raja ANKU DEO 1496/1528
- Raja PRATAP DEO 1528/1564
- Raja RAGHUNATH DEO 1564/1594
- Raja BISWAMBHAR DEO 1594/1627, married and had issue.
- Raja RAISINGH DEO II (qv)
- Raja RAISINGH DEO II 1627/1658, married and had issue.
- Raja DUSMANT DEO (qv)
- Sri Padman Singh, Zamindar of Thuamul.
- Raja DUSMANT DEO 1658/1693, married and had issue.
- Raja JUGASAI DEO III (qv)
- Sri Bishwanath Singh
- Sri Pratap Rai Singh, Zamindar of Dadpur.
- Raja JUGASAI DEO III 1693/1721, married and had issue.
- Raja KHADAG RAI DEO (qv)
- Sri Mohan Rai Singh, Zamindar of Koksara.
- Sri Bhramarbar Deo, Zamindar of Lanjigarh.
- Sri Nathu Singh, Zamindar of Chhorlagarh.
- Sri Chakradhar Singh, Zamindar of Khariyar.
- Raja KHADAG RAI DEO 1721/1747, married and had issue.
- Raja RAISINGH DEO III (qv)
- Sri Pratap Singh, Zamindar of Baldhiamal.
- Sri Keshari Singh, in rebellion.
- Raja RAISINGH DEO III 1747/1771, married and had issue.
- Raja PURUSOTTAM DEO 1771/1796, married and had issue.
- Raja JUGASAI DEO IV (qv)
- Sri Bishwanath Deo, Zamindar of Lanjigarh.
- Sri Sunder Singh, Zamindar of Dadpur.
- Raja JUGASAI DEO IV 1796/1831, married and had issue.
- Raja FATEH NARAYAN DEO (qv)
- Raja FATEH NARAYAN DEO 1831/1853, married and had
issue.
- HH Raja Bahadur UDIT PRATAP DEO (qv)
- Sri Krishna Deo
- Sri Gopinath Deo, Zamindar of Dadpur.
- HH Raja Bahadur UDIT PRATAP DEO 1853/1881, Raja Bahadur
[cr.1877],
granted
a permanent salute of 9 guns in 1878, married with issue. He died 7th
April
1881 (#1).
- HH Raja Bahadur RAGHU KESARI DEO (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married Maharaja UDIT
NARAYAN SINGH Deo of Seraikella,
and had issue, four sons.
- Rajkumari Giriraj Kumari [Rani Giriraj Kumari of Bamra],
married 1871, Raja BASUDEV of Bamra, and
had issue. She died about 1873.
- HH Raja Bahadur RAGHU KESARI DEO 1881/1897, born 1871,
married and had
issue. He died 20th October 1897.
- HH Maharaja BRIJ MOHAN DEO (qv)
- HH Maharaja BRIJ MOHAN DEO 1897/1939, born 14th May
1896, O.B.E.,
educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; married 1916, Rajkumari
Suratarangini Devi [HH Maharani Suratarangini Devi of Kalahandi], only
daughter of
Raja
SATCHITANANDA TRIBHUBAN DEB of Bamra,
and
had issue. He died 19th September 1939.
- Tikayet Rani Kusum Manjari Devi, married Tikayat
Nrupendra Narayan Singh Deo, eldest son and heir of Maharaja ADITYA
PRATAP SINGH Deo of Seraikella, and
had issue, six sons and four daughters. She died 1990.
- HH Maharaja PRATAP KESARI DEO (qv)
- Rani Jyoti Manjari Devi, maried Raja BHANUGANGA TRIBHUBAN
DEB of Bamra, and had issue, two sons
and one daughter.
- Rani Soubhagya Manjari Devi, married to Raja ANUP SINGH
DEO of Khariar, and had issue, three sons
and five daughters.
- Maharajkumar Bira Kesari Deo, born 1927, I.Sc., B.L.D.
(Orissa), Member
of the Orissa Legislative Assembly 1957/1967 and the Rajya Sabha
1967/1976,
married Maharajkumari Manjushree Devi, daughter of Kumar Saheb Nagendra
Singh Deo of Nua Pacca II (see Seraikella),
and has issue, two daughters and four sons. (Post
Office, Bhawanipatna, Kalahandi, Orissa)
- HH Maharaja PRATAP KESARI DEO 1939/- , born 5th October
1919 and
succeeded
19th September 1939, married HH Maharani Kasturika Mohini Devi,
daughter of Sri Gajapati Raja RAMCHANDRA DEB IV of Puri,
and his wife, Rani
Chandramani Pattamahadei, and had issue. He died after 1977.
- HH Maharani Savitri Devi, married 6th May 1962,
Brig.(retd) HH Maharaja
KAMAKHYA PRASAD SINGH DEO Mahendra Bahadur of Dhenkanal, and has issue.
- HH Maharaja UDIT PRATAP DEO (qv)
 Pattayet Bikram
Kesari Deo, born 26th November 1952 in Bhawanipatna, Distt. Kalahandi,
Orissa, educated at St. Stephen’s College and the University of Delhi
(B.A.),
Member of the 12th (1998), 13th (1999) and 14th (2004) Lok Sabha as
well
as of various committees 1985 to the present day. Vice-President,
B.J.P.,
Orissa 1999/-, President of the Kalahandi Law College and various
Colleges
and High Schools in Orissa; Member of the Braja Mohan Sahitya Samiti
and
Wildlife and Environment Conservation Society, Kalahandi. Interests
include
reading, listening to music, wildlife photography and visiting national
parks, sanctuaries and places of heritage, Life Member of the NRAI,
Delhi
Gymkhana Club and Bhubaneswar Club; and Member of the Kalahandi Cricket
Club, married 3rd May 1974, Pattayet Rani Shrimant Nayanshree Devi,
daughter of Sri Gajapathi Maharaj BIRA KISHORE DEB, Raja Saheb of Puri,
and his wife, Maharani Suryamani
Pattamahadei, and
has issue, one son and two daughters.
- Kumari Arundhati Devi [Rani Arundhati Devi of Bamra],
married Raja NITISH
GANGA
DEB, Raja Saheb of Bamra, and has issue,
two sons.
- Yuvrani Aparajita Devi, married Yuvraj Gopal Narayan
Singh Deo of Kharsawan, and has issue,
one son.
- Kumar Saheb Arka Kesari Deo, married Kumar Rani
Malavika Devi of Unni, H.P., and has issue, one son.
- Maharajkumari Geeta
Devi (Rani Geeta Devi of Sanjeli), married Raja MANVENDRA
SINGH of Sanjeli, died 24th November
2006 at Indore, after a prolonged illness; and has issue, two
daughters.
- HH Maharaja UDIT PRATAP DEO (see above)
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educated
at Rajkumar
College, Raipur; Member of the Executive Committee of Rajkumar College
at
Raipur, M.L.A. (Orissa), married HH Maharani Padma Manjari Devi,
daughter of HH
Maharaja Shri PRADEEP CHANDRA BHANJ DEO of Mayurbhanj, and his wife, HH Maharani
Bharati
Rajya Lakshmi Devi, and has issue.