KHARSAWAN (Princely State)

 
AREA:  396 km2 PRIVY PURSE:  33,000R  ACCESSION:  18th May 1948
STATE:  Bihar (now Jharkand)
DYNASTY:  Rathore RELIGION:  Hindu
  POPULATION: 31,051 (1892)   
     
PRESENT RULER:  Raja PRADEEP CHANDRA SINGH Deo 
married and has issue.
  • Yuvraj Gopal Narayan Singh Deo, married Yuvrani Aparajita Devi, eldest daughter of Pattayet Bikram Kesari Deo of Kalahandi, and his wife, Pattayet Rani Shrimant Nayanshree Dev, and has issue.
    • Tikayat Divyaraj Singh Deo, born 2003.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Descended from Kunwar BIKRAM SINGH, first ruler of Seraikella, originally Rajas of Porahat. Founded in 1857. Rulers were...
  • Kunwar BIKRAM SINGH, founder of Seraikella, married and had issue.
    • Kunwar NAR SINGH of Seraikhela.
    • Thakur PADAM SINGH [Padmanabh Singh] (qv)
    • Kunwar Kishor Singh of Asantalia.
    • Kunwar Bizum Singh of Dugni.
    • Kunwar Birbar Singh of Banksai Pir.
  • Thakur PADAM SINGH

  • Thakur JASWANT SINGH (son)

  • Thakur LOKNATH SINGH (son)

  • Thakur MOHANLAL SINGH (son)

  • Thakur CHAITAN SINGH (son) -/1839, married and had issue. He died 11th August 1839.
    • Thakur UPENDRA SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Ram Prasad Singh

  • Thakur UPENDRA SINGH 1839/1844, died 21st January 1844.

  • Thakur GANGA RAM SINGH (son?) 1844/1857, born 1836, (see below)

  1. Raja GANGA RAM SINGH Deo 1857/1863, born 1836, Raja [cr.1860] (personal), married and had issue.
    • Thakur RAM NARAIN SINGH Deo (qv)

  2. Thakur RAM NARAIN SINGH Deo 1863/-

  3. Thakur RAGHUNATH SINGH Deo -/1884, married and had issue. He died 2nd March 1884?.
    • Thakur MAHENDRA NARAYAN SINGH Deo (qv)

  4. Thakur MAHENDRA NARAYAN SINGH Deo 1884/1902, born 1869, succeeded 2nd March 1884 (#1), married and had issue.
    • Raja Sri RAM CHANDRA SINGH Deo (qv)
    • Sri Nalini Pattamaha Devi, married 1913, Capt. Maharaja Saheb Sri Sri Sri KRISHNA CHANDRA GAJAPATHI NARAYANA Deo of Parla Khimedi.

  5. Raja SRIRAM CHANDRA SINGH Deo 1902/- , born 4th July 1892 and succeeded 6th February 1902, installed 4th July 1913, Raja [cr.1917], married Rani Giriraj Devi of Jaria, and had issue.
    • Raja Sri PURNENDU NARAYAN SINGH Deo (qv)
    • Rani Manoj Manjari Devi, married Raja Shri BALBHADRA NARAYAN BHANJ Deo of Keonjhar, and had issue.
    • Rajkumar Brajendra Narayan Singh Deo, married 1stly, in Bastar, married 2ndly, in Ratu.
    • Rani Manjul Manjari Devi [later Rajmata Saheba of Kanika], married Raja Saheb SAILENDRA NARAYAN BHANJ DEO of Kanika, and had issue.
    • Rajmata Prafulla Manjari of Daltanganj (Chainpur).
    • Rajkumar Chandra Shekhar Singh Deo, married in Palkote.
    • Rajkumar Dr. Amarendra Pratap Singh Deo, educated at Rajkumar Kumar College, Raipur, at Allahabad University, at Cuttack Medical College (M.B.B.S.), at Ophthalmic Institute, London, U.K., and was house surgeon at St. Asaims, North Wales; an accomplished College Tennis Player, in India he served as In India he served as a Reputed Doctor in Ispat General Hospital,  Rourkela for 24 years; he married Rajkunwarani Indira Kumari Devi, and has issue. (Rourkela-769042, Orissa, India)
      • Rani Rashmi Kumari, married 27th May 1979, Maharaj Manohar Singhji of Raoti in Jodhpur, and has issue, one son.
        • Rajkumar Harshvardhan Singh Rathore, born 28th February 1980, educated initially in Calcutta, then at Rajkumar College, Raipur and graduated from J.N.V. University, Jodhpur, then did Post Graduate study at the National Law University (N.L.U.) in Mandore, Jodhpur 2002/2005, achieving an M.B.A. (Finance) and an M.B.L. (Business Laws). Presently (2008) working in the reputed M.N.C. Finance Organisation.
      • RajKunwar Chandra Chud Pratap Singh Deo, married Kunwarani Nandini Kumari.
      • Kuwarani Madhu Mayee Devi, married Sri Lal Kunwar Saheb Krishna Pratap Narayan Singh of Baluhipur (Arrah).
      • RajKunwar Bhanu Pratap Singh Deo
    • Lal Saheba Pramod Manjari Devi, married Lal Saheb Pramod Chandra Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj (Sankpeta), born 13th June 1926, died 30th December 1996.

  6. Raja Sri PURNENDU NARAYAN SINGH Deo, born December 1911, married and had issue.
    • Raja PRADEEP CHANDRA SINGH Deo (qv)
    • Maharaj Kumar Shankar Pratap Singh Deo, married Maharajkumari Santosh Devi of Gabhana, and has issue.
      • Kunwar Shashank Pratap Singh Deo, born 5th March 1975 in Ranchi, married 10th May 2005 in Lucknow, Kunwarani Vartika Singh, daughter of Kunwar Atul Singh of Mankapur.
    • Maharj Kumar Rudra Pratap Singh Deo, married Raj Kumari Tripura Kumari, daughter of Rana RAGHUNATH SINGH of Kotkhai, and his second wife, Rani Basantika Devi, and has issue.
      • Kunwar Aditya Pratap Singh Deo
    • Rani Vijay Laxmi, married Maharajkumar Shri Ram Dev Singhji of Nagod, and has issue.

  7. Raja PRADEEP CHANDRA SINGH Deo (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Pattayet Rani Padmini Devi, married Pattayet Bharatendra Shekhar Deo of Gangpur, and has issue.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.249