PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Originally
a Jagir (or Zamindari), but elevated to a Princely State in 1898. The
rulers
were....
Thakur KANHAYALAL fl.1887
Lal UMRAO SINGH, died 19th February 1891 (#1).
- Raja KAMAL NARAYAN SINGH 1898/1908, Thakur from 1891/1898,
Raja
(Hereditary)
[cr.1898], born 1867 (1879 #1).
- Raja LAL BAHADUR SINGH 1908/1918, married and had issue.
- Maj. Raja Bahadur BIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumar Bikram Bahadur Singh, educated at Rajkumar
College, Raipur; was the first Officer of
Imperial Police (Scotland Yard, England); married Rajkumari Brijraj
Kanwar of Dundlod,
and had issue.
- Kunwarani Jagriti Kumari,
married
14th December 1978,
Kunwar Lakshman Singh of Raghogarh, and has issue.
- Maj. Raja Bahadur BIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGH 1918/- , born 9th
November
1914
and succeeded 22nd October 1918, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur
(Diploma
1932), Ewing Christian College, Allahabad and Mayo College, Ajmer;
M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh) for four terms, married
Rani Padmavati Devi of Pratapgarh,
born 17th July 1918 in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh and
had issue.
- Raja RAVINDRA BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
-
 Rajkumar
Shivendra
Bahadur Singh, born 7th January 1943 in Nagpur, Maharashtra, B.A.,
educated
at Doon School, Dehradun and Bombay University, Bombay; elected to the
Lok Sabha for three terms, agriculturist,
Political and Social worker, Musician and Management Consultant,
married
19th April 1968, Kumari Geeta Devi, born 1946, State Social Welfare
Minister, daughter of Rajkumar Chandra Bhan Singh of Kashipur, and
had issue, two sons. He
died 1998.
- Kunwar Bhawani Bahadur Singh
- Rajkumari Indira Devi, died young.
- Rani Sharda Kumari, married 5th
February 1955, Rawal
CHAKRAPANI SINGH of Bissau, and has
issue.
- Raja RAVINDRA BAHADUR SINGH (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari Rashmi Devi
- Shri Lal Shankar Bahadur Singh, educated at Rajkumar
College, Raipur; represented the University
Lawn Tennis Team which visited Sri Lanka in
1950.
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