KASHIPUR (Zamindari)

 
AREA:  ?? km2 PRIVY PURSE:  ??  ACCESSION:  ??
STATE:  Uttaranchal DYNASTY:  Rathore RELIGION:  Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER:  Raja KARAN CHAND SINGH BABA (Fort Kashipur, Mohalla Katora Tal, P.O. Kashipur, Distt. Nainital, Uttaranchal, India)
born 29th March 1947 in Lucknow, educated at St. Joseph`s College, Nainital and Senior Cambridge; Head of the Senior Line descended from the old Rajas of Kumaon, presides over the annual prayer at Almora's main temple dedicated to the Goddess Nanda Devi, Chairman of the Nagar Paliika in Kashipur 1986; Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1989/1991 and 1996/2001; Member of the Lok Sabha XIV 2004/-; Member of the Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests; Uttar Pradesh Power Lifting Champion (five times), winner of Strongest Man of U.P and Best Lifter Award; two times National Power Lifting Champion, held national records in Bench Press; Asia Championship; won two Silver and two Bronze Medals; Member of the Indian National Team that won the Asian Championship held in Indonesia in 1984; married 16th January 1974, Rani Mani Mala Devi, and has issue, 2 sons and 1 daughter.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Ancestors were Rajas of Kumaon. Rulers were....
  • Raja GUMAN SINGH, son of Kunwar Lal Singh of Kumaon,  fl.1828, married and had issue.
    • Raja SHIV RAJ SINGH (qv)
  • Raja SHIV RAJ SINGH, C.S.I., married and had issue. He died October 1886 (#1).
    • Raja HARI RAJ SINGH (qv)
    • Rajkumar Raghunath Singh, declared heir to the gaddi of Bashahr, but was removed from the succession after a short time.
  • Raja HARI RAJ SINGH, born 1857, Honourary Magistrate, married (a), the daughter of Shri Kupendra Bikram Shah of Nepal, married (b), daughter of Raja BALBIR SEN of Keonthal, and had issue.
    • Raja UDAY RAJ SINGH (qv)
  • Raja UDAY RAJ SINGH, married [sister of the two wives of King Tribhuvan of Nepal], and had issue.
    • Maharajkumari Bhagirath Devi, married February 1923, Lt.-Col. Sir Maharajkumar Dr. Vijayananda Gajapathi Raju of Vizianagram.
    • Rani Hira Kumari Devi, married June 1924, Raja PURNA CHANDRA Deo Harishchandra Jagadev of Surangi, and had issue, two sons and three daughters.
    • Maharajkumari Sita Devi [Rani Sita Devi of Kapurthala], born 1915, married 1928, Maharajkumar Karamjit Singh of Kapurthala, and had issue. She died 2002 at New Delhi.
    • Raja HARISH CHAND RAJ SINGH (qv)
    • Rajkumar Chandra Bhan Singh, married, Rajkumar Rani Rashal Manjari Devi of Ramgarh, and has issue.
      • Kumari Geeta Devi, born 1946, married Raj Kumar Shivendra Bahadur Singh, son of Maj. Raja Bahadur BIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGH of Khairagarh, and has issue.
      • Kanwar Akshob Singh, born 1947, educated at St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, married Shri Satwashilaraje Shahumaharaj Bhonsle, daughter of Chhatrapati Shri SHAHUMAHARAJ BHONSLE, Raja of Satara, and his wife, Rani Sumitraraje, and has issue, three children, a son and two daughters.
        • Kumari Aisha Singh, married to the son of Kanwar Rattanjit Singh of Kapurthala.
        • Kumari Amolika Singh, married to Shri Patankar of Karad.
        • Kumar Sheoraj Singh
      • Kunwar Rajive Singh, married Kunwarani Jyotsna Kumari, born 27th February 1958, daughter of Raja VIRBHADRA SINGH of Rampur-Bushahr, and has issue.
        • Kumari Yashodhara Manjari Devi, born 29th January 1984.
        • Bhanwar Aditya Raj Singh
  • Raja HARISH CHAND RAJ SINGH, married Rani Padma Devi, and had issue. 
    • Raja KARAN CHAND SINGH BABA (qv)
    • Daughter, married Shri Man Mohan Bikram Shah of Nepal, and has issue.
      • Kanwarani Sangita Rajya Lakshmi Devi, married Kanwar Kameleshwar Singh, born 21st November 1956, son of Kanwar Sher Singh of Chamba, and had issue, 2 daughters.
  • Raja KARAN CHAND SINGH BABA (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.167-168