KEONJHAR (Princely State)

  
AREA:  8,019 km2 PRIVY PURSE:  111,500R  ACCESSION:  1st January 1948
STATE:  Orissa  DYNASTY:  Kachhawa (Bhanja) RELIGION:  Hindu
  POPULATION: 215,612 (1892)   
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja Shri ANANT NARAYAN BHANJA Deo
married and has issue.
  • Rajkumar Dhananjay Narayan Bhanja Deo
  
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:   Founded sometime in the first half of the 12th century, the founder being Jati Singh (Jyoti Bhanj), brother of Adi Singh (Adi Bhanj, founder of the state of Mayurbhanj) (#2). Rulers were..
    Raja GOVIND BHANJ fl.1480
    ......

  1. Raja JAGANNATH BHANJ 1688/1700

  2. Raja RAGHUNATH BHANJ 1700/1719

  3. Raja GOPINATH BHANJ 1719/1736

  4. Raja NARSINGH NARAYAN BHANJ 1736/1757

  5. Raja DANESHWAR NARAYAN BHANJ 1757/1758

  6. Raja JAGATESHWAR NARAYAN BHANJ 1758/1762

  7. Raja PRATAP BALBHADRA BHANJ 1764/1792 or 1762/1797, married and had issue.
    • Raja TRIBIKRAM BHANJ, adopted by the Raja of Mayurbhanj.

  8. Raja JANARDAN BHANJ 1794/1825 or 1797/1832

  9. Raja GADADHAR NARAYAN BHANJ Deo 1825/1861 or 1832/1861, married the sister of Raja Bahadur CHAKRADHAR SINGH Deo of Seraikella. He died spl March 1861.

  10. Maharaja DHANURJAI NARAYAN BHANJ Deo 1861/1905, born 27th July 1849, succeeded 4th September 1861 (#1), married and had issue.
    • Raja GOPINATH NARAYAN BHANJ Deo (qv)

  11. Raja GOPINATH NARAYAN BHANJ Deo 1905/1926, married and had issue. He died 12th August 1926.
    • Raja Shri BALBHADRA NARAYAN BHANJ Deo (qv)
    • Chotrai Saheb Shri Laxmi Narayan Bhanja Deo, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; Member of the Lok Sabha; married and had issue.
      • Raja Shri ANANT NARAYAN BHANJA Deo (qv)
    • Rajkumari (name unknown), married (as his first wife), Raja KISHOR CHANDRA DEO SAMANT of Athmalik.

  12. Raja Shri BALBHADRA NARAYAN BHANJ Deo 1926/- , born 26th December 1905 and succeeded 12th August 1926, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; married Rani Manoj Manjari Devi, a daughter of the Raja of Kharsawan, and had issue, one son and one daughter.
    • Raja Shri NRUSINGH NARAYAN BHANJ Deo (qv)
    • Rani Swarna Prabha Manjari Devi, married Raja PRASANNA CHANDRA DEO, Raja Saheb of Jarada, second son of Raja HRUDAYA CHANDRA Dev Birabar Harichandan Mahapatra of Talcher, and had issue, three daughters and two sons. She died 2005.

  13. Raja Shri NRUSINGH NARAYAN BHANJ Deo fl.1970, married (div.), to a princess of Rajkot, no issue.

  14. Raja Shri ANANT NARAYAN BHANJA Deo (see above)

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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.242
2. S. N. Sarkar in "Maharaja Sri Ram Chandra Bhanj Deo" gives the following as the origin of the state, Jai Singh, a relative of the ruler of Jaipur, came to Puri with his two sons, defeating the local chief named Mayurdhwaja, and  was succeeded in Mayurbhanj by his elder son, and in Keonjhar by his younger son. This occurred  in 618AD.