PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Also
known as Rampur Dharupur. Rulers include...
- Raja TEJ SINGH fl.1628
- .......
- Raja HANWANT SINGH, granted the title of Raja by the King
of Oudh in 1849,
married and had issue. He died 1885.
- Rajkumar Lal Pratap Singh, married and had issue. He died
vp
1857.
- Raja RAMPAL SINGH (qv)(#1).
- Rao Saheb Ramdeen Singh Ji, married and had issue.
- Rajkumari Sharda Kumari [Rani Sharda Kumari of Agori
Barhar], married (as his first wife), Raja SHARDA MAHESH PRASAD SINGH
SHAH of Agori Barhar, and had
issue.
- Daughter, married and had issue.
- Raja RAMPAL SINGH (qv)(#2).
- Raja RAMPAL SINGH 1885/1909, born 22nd August 1849 (#2)
or 1848 (#1) in Dharupur, Pratapgarh
District,
UP; married 1stly, Rani Subhag Kunwar, died about 1871 in London,
married
2ndly,
Rani Alice (an English lady), married 3rdly, Rani Radha (Muslim). He
died sp
28th February 1909 in Kalakankar.
- Raja AUDESH SINGH, married and had issue.
- Raja AVADESH SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Brijesh Singh [Brajesh Singh], married 1stly,
Kunwarani Laxmi Devi, married 2ndly, Leela (an Austrian lady), married
3rdly (as her third husband), Svetlana Alliluyeva [née Svetlana
Iosifovna Stalina], born 28th February 1926 in Moscow, daughter of
Joseph
Stalin [Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili] and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and
had issue. He
died 31st October 1966 and his cremated remains were returned to
Kalakankar.
- Kunwar Victor Singh (by Leela), Photographer (U.K.).
- Raja AVADESH SINGH, married Rani Lakshmi Kumari and had
issue.
- Raja DINESH SINGH (qv)
- Daughter, married (as his first wife), Raja LUV SHAH of Khairigarh,
and had issue.
-
 Raja DINESH SINGH,
born 19th July 1925 in Kalakankar, educated at Doon School, Dehradun,
U.P.,
Colvin College, Lucknow, U.P. and University of Lucknow, U.P. Member of
the India International Centre, Indian Council for Child Welfare,
Bharat
Krishak Samaj, Bharatiya Natya Sangh and Indian delegations to many
international
organisations such as FAO, ECAFE, ECOSOC and U.N. General Assembly;
Deputy
Minister in the Ministry of External Affairs 1962/66, Minister of State
in the Ministry of External Affairs 1966/67; Minister of Commerce
1967/69;
Minister of External Affairs 1969/70; Minister of Industrial
Development
and Internal Trade 1970/71; Minister of Water Resources in 1988;
Minister
of Commerce 1988/89 and Minister of External Affairs 1993/-; Member of
the Second Lok Sabha 1957/62, Third Lok Sabha 1962/67, Fourth Lok Sabha
1966/70, Fifth Lok Sabha 1971/77, Rajya Sabha 1977/82, Eighth Lok Sabha
1984/89, Ninth Lok Sabha 1989/91 and re-elected to the Rajya Sabha in
July
1993. Member of the following clubs: Cricket Club of India, Bombay,
Delhi
Gymkhana Club, New Delhi and Delhi Golf Club, New Delhi. Author of:
"Towards
New Horizons", 1971, "India and the Changing Asian Scene", 1973,
articles
in many magazines and National dailies; married Rani Neelima Kumari of Tehri-Garhwal, and had issue, six
daughters. He died 30th November 1995 in New Delhi.
- Maharani Rewa Kumari, married 1967, Maharaja
INDRAJITENDRA NARAIN SINGH
of Ramgarh, and has issue.
- Rajkumari Ravija Kumari [Rani Ravija Kumari of Delwara],
married Raj Rana VIKRAM SINGH of Delwara,
and has issue.
- Yuvrani Rajitha Devi, born 11th April 1950 in
Narendranagar,
Tehri-Garhwal,
married 9th May 1974 in Delhi to Yuvraj Anirudh Singh of Barwani.
- Rajkumari Renuka Devi, born 26th May 1952 in Mussoorie,
married 21st
January
1979 in New Delhi to Rajkumar Manvendra Singh of Barwani
and has issue.
- Rajkumari Ratna Devi, born 29th April 1959 in New
Delhi.
 B.Com.,
educated at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi. Member,
Pradesh Congress Committee (P.C.C.), Uttar Pradesh 1991/-, General
Secretary,
P.C.C., Uttar Pradesh 1996/-, member of the 11th and 13th Lok Sabha,
Member
of the Executive Committee, Congress Party in Parliament 1996/-, Member
of the Committee on Communications 1999/2000, Member of the
Consultative
Committee Ministry of Information Technology 2000/- ; Vice-President of
the Raja Avadesh Singh Memorial Educational Society, Pratapgarh; the
M.R.
Trust; and the Raja Hanumat Rampal Trust, Pratapgarh; Secretary of the
Madanmohan Malviya Post Graduate College, Pratapgarh; Manager of the
Hanumat
Inter College, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh; Chairperson of the Raja
Dinesh
Singh Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pratapgarh. Interests include.. gardening,
music, reading, travelling and photography, horse-riding and squash.
Member
of the Delhi Gymkhana Club; India International Centre; Rotary Club,
Garden
City, New Delhi; and Cricket Club of India, Mumbai; married 30th May
1987,
Yuvraj Shri Jai Singh Sisodia of Pratapgarh
and has issue.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Abha Kumari, married Vijay Singh of Khajurgaon, and has
issue, one daughter and one son.
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