PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Kingdom
of Utkala (Orissa) founded in remote (legendary) antiquity, annexed by
Bangala (Bengal) in 1568, incorporated into the Mughal Empire in 1576,
and Khurda state was established; its rulers styled kings of Utkala
(Orissa)
1580/1609, under Mahratta suzerainty 1751/1803, state annexed to
British
India in 1871. Rulers were.......
- Gajapathi Raja RAMACHENDRA DEVA I, King of Khurda
1592/1607, son of
Danai
Bidyadhar, Minister of the Bhoj King; appointed Mansubadar of 3,500
horse
by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, married and had issue. He died 1607.
- Raja PURUSOTTAM DEVA I (qv)
- Rani Akshaya Devi, married 30th January 1593, Mirza Raja
MAN SINGH I of Jaipur.
- Raja PURUSOTTAM DEVA I 1607/1622, had issue. He died 1622.
- Raja BALABHADRA DEVA (qv)
- Raja NARASIMHA DEVA (qv)
- Unknown, had issue.
- Raja GANGADHARA DEVA (qv)
- Daughter, married Mughal Emperor Jahangir.
- Raja NARASIMHA DEVA 1622/1645, died 1645.
- Raja GANGADHARA DEVA 1645 (4 months), died 1645.
- Raja BALABHADRA DEVA 1645/1655, married and had issue.
- Raja MUKUNDA DEVA I 1655/1690, married and had issue. He
died 1690 at Jajpur.
- Raja DIBYASINGHA DEVA I (qv)
- Raja HAREKRUSHNA DEVA (qv)
- Raja DIBYASINGHA DEVA I 1690/1720, died 1720.
- Raja HAREKRUSHNA DEVA 1720/1725, married and had issue.
- Raja GOPINATH DEVA (qv)
- Raja RAMACHENDRA DEVA II (qv)
- Raja GOPINATH DEVA 1725/1732, died 1732.
- Raja RAMACHENDRA DEVA II 1732/1743, forcibly
converted to Islam
under the name of HAFIZ QADAR MUHAMMED, married a daughter of MURSHID
QULI
KHAN II, Nawab Nazim of Orissa, and had issue. He died 1742/1743.
- Raja BIRAKISHORE DEVA I bef 1751/1780, (grandson of
Ramachendra Deva II),
died 1780.
- Raja DIBYASINGHA DEVA II (grandson) 1780/1795, married and
had issue. He died 1795.
- Raja MUKUNDA DEVA II (qv)
- Raja MUKUNDA DEVA II 1795/1804 or 1793/1808, rebelled
against the
British Authorities and his territory was confiscated, he received a
pension
in compensation, he rebelled again in 1817 and was imprisoned, he was
the
last king of Khurda and after him his successor came to be known as the
Raja of Puri, the title of Raja being
only
personal and he depended on a political pension. He died November 1817.
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