PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The Royal
Family of Kasmanda is descended from Raja Salivahan who defeated Raja
Vikramaditya
in 78AD. Rulers were...
- Thakur THANE SINGH, came to District Sitapur, Oudh in 1628
and settled
in Bari and Pirnagar. He died 1668.
- Thakur Shah Mal GANESH RAI, settled in Sujalia, District
Sitapur, Oudh.
- Thakur DAMAN SINGH RAI, he died 1746.
- Thakur NEWAZ SHAH 1746/1821, he died 1821.
- Thakur BHAWANI SINGH 1821/1842, settled in Kasmanda,
District Sitapur,
Oudh. He died 1842.
- Thakur JAWAHIR SINGH Sahib 1842/1910, born 1821, married
daughter of
the
Thakur of Bania Mau, Sitapur District, Oudh and had issue. He died 1910.
- Raja Bahadur SURAJ BAKSH SINGH Sahib 1910/1948, born 1868,
Taluqdar of
Kasmanda-Basaidih Estate, O.B.E., MLA, President of the British-Indian
Association, married the daughter of Raja GANGA RAM SHAH of Khairigarh,
Kheri District, Oudh and had issue. He died 1948.
- Yuvraj Dewakar Prakash Singh, born October 1903,
Honourary Magistrate
and
Honourary Munsif till 1937, married the daughter of the Raja Bahadur
Raja PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH of Pratapgarh,
Pratapgarh
District,
Oudh and had issue, 3 children (one died young). He died vp
1947.
- Raja DINESH PRATAP SINGH (qv)
- Yuvarajkumari Savita Kumari alias Abha Raja,
born 1923, married
the Raja of Katesar, Sitapur District, Oudh.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) [Maharani Sahiba of
Vizianagram], married Maharaja Sahib Pusapati Sir ALAKA
NARAYANA GAJAPATI Raju
Manea Sultan
Bahadur of Vizianagaram,
Andhra Pradesh.
- Raja DINESH PRATAP SINGH (see above)
Courtesy of Rajkumar Dinraj Pratap Singh, October
2002 |
born 1927, former MP, married
the daughter of Raja BIRENDRA
BIKRAM SINGH
of Payagpur, Bahraich District, Oudh
and
has issue.