KHAIRIGARH-SINGHAI (Taluk)

 
AREA:  REVENUE:  ACCESSION: 
LOCATION:  Oudh (Kheri Distt.) DYNASTY:  Kacchawa RELIGION:  Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER:  Raja AKSHAY BIKRAM SHAH, Talukdar of Khairigarh-Singhai since October 2000. (The Palace, Singhai, District Lakhimpur-Kheri, U.P., India)  or (Singhai House, 16 Mohini Road, Dalanvalla, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India)
born 14th January 1977 in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal.
PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY: Rulers were....
  • Raja GANGA RAM SHAH, married and had issue.
    • Raja RHUNDAJ SHAH (qv)
    • Daughter, married Raja Bahadur SURAJ BAKSH SINGH Sahib of Kasmanda.
  • Raja RHUNDAJ SHAH, married and had issue.
    • Raja INDRA BIKRAM SHAH (qv)
      
  • Raja INDRA BIKRAM SHAH -/1885, married (a), Rani Raj Kunwar, married (b), Rani Surat Kunwar, born 1866, daughter of Thakur Bhup Shah of Achan in Nepal. He died sp 1885 (#1).
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  • Raja PRITHVI DHWAJ SHAH 1885/-, died sp, succeeded by his first cousin, who was his nearest living male relative.
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  • Raja PRATAP BIKRAM SHAH -/1964, born 1898, married 1914, Maharajkumari Bhuvan Rajya Lakshmi Devi, born 1900, daughter of HH Shri Tin Maharaja Dev Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and had issue, three children. He died 1964 in Lucknow.
    • Raja LUV SHAH (qv) 
    • Rajkumar Kush Shah, born 1917, died 1947.
    • Rajkumari Gita Shah, born in 1926, married Lt. General (retd.) Rajkumar Jasbir Singh of Jind, born in 1926, Military Secretary to the Government of India, retired from the Indian Army in 1984, and had issue. She died November 2005 (Dehra Dun, India)
  • Raja LUV SHAH 1964/1988, born 20th February 1915, married 1stly, sister of Raja Dinesh Singh of Kalakankar, married 2ndly, Rani Meenakshi Devi, born 22nd October 1926, daughter of Kanwar Badri Singh of Sirmur, and had issue. He died 5th May 1988 at Lucknow.
    • Raja ARYA SHAH (by 1st wife) (qv)
    • Rajkumari Bibhu Shah [HH Maharani Bibhu Kumari Devi of Tripura] (by 2nd wife), born 28th June 1944 in Mussorie, Uttar Pradesh, B.A., educated at I.T. College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, MP and Minister of State, married HH Maharaja KIRIT VIKRAM KISHORE DEB BURMAN Manikya Bahadur of Tripura and has issue.
    • Rajkumari Bibha Shah (by 2nd wife), born 2nd March 1947 at Lucknow, educated at Loreto Convent, Lucknow and graduated from Loreto Convent College, Lucknow; married February 1979 at Lucknow, Thakur Ranvir Singh Chauhan (originally from Khilchipur, M.P.,but his ancestors settled in Kotah, Rajasthan), a producer of documentary films, and has issue, two children, a son and a daughter.
      • Kunwar Manuraj Singh Chauhan, born 22nd December 1979 at Lucknow, married 23rd January 2007, Kuwarani Pallavi Singh, born 22nd June 1980, daughter of Rajkumar Prithvi Singh of Garrauli.
      • Kumari Minakshi Devi Singh, born 22nd November 1982 at Lucknow, married 10th February 2008 at Lucknow, Gaurav Agarwal, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arun Agarwal of Lucknow.
    • Rajkumari Vibhuti Shah (by 2nd wife) [Kanwar Rani Vibhuti Singh of Jubbal], born 23rd February 1951 at Lucknow, educated at Loreto Convent School, Lucknow, and graduated from Loreto Convent College, Lucknow; contested the District Simla Zila Parishad election in December 1995 from Kedi-Kupvi ward in Tehsil Chopal (now in Southern Jubbal State) and defeated her opponent by a record margin of 8,352 votes, a member for 5 years, up to December 2000, married 12th December 1976 at Lucknow, U.P., Kanwar Uday Singh of Jubbal and has issue, one son and one daughter.
  • Raja ARYA SHAH 1988/2000, born 1942, educated at Welham Boys School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, and at Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal till 1959, graduated in 1963, from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, married 1971 at Lucknow, Rani Usha Kumari, daughter of late Maharaj Narpat Singh of Banswara, died 1995, and had issue. He died October 2000.
    • Raja AKSHAY BIKRAM SHAH (qv)
    • Rajkumari Yamini Kumari, married Rajkumar Vikram Singh of Luni-Jodhpur.
  • Raja AKSHAY BIKRAM SHAH (see above)

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