KOREA (Princely State)

 
AREA:  4,224 km2 PRIVY PURSE:  278,700R  ACCESSION:  1st January 1948
STATE:  Madhya Pradesh DYNASTY:  Chauhan RELIGION:  Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER: Maharaja RAGHVENDRA SINGH DEV (Bangalore, India)
born 25th March 1953 , educated at St. Joseph's High School and received a Bachelors Degree in English Literature in Bangalore, married 1976, Maharani Sarita Rajya Laxmi Devi, daughter of Col. and Rani J. P. Rana of Nepal, born on 18th April 1955, educated at St. Mary’s Convent Nainital and did her graduation from Nirmala Niketan College, Bombay, in Home Science.
  • Rajkumari Aditi Devi, born 11th March 1983, educated at Sophia High School, Bangalore, at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore (Bachelors Degree in Economics) and at the University of Leicester, U.K. (Masters Degree in Mass Communication [Research]), currently (2006) employed as an executive in Research International.
  • Rajkumari Aakanksha Devi, born 10th September 1987 in Bangalore, educated at Sophia High School, Bangalore; currently pursuing her Bachelors Degree in Mass Communication at Mount Carmel College.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Rulers were...
  • Bhaiya DHARAMAL SAHI, he and his brother DALTHAMBAN SAHI, were cousins of the Raja of Mainpuri in the early 17th century. He was granted the Jagir of Jhilmili, later renamed Bhaiyathan. The state of Korea was conquered from the Kol Rajas shortly afterwards, remaing in the family till 1948. He married and had issue.
    • Bhaiya DEORAJ SAHI (qv)
    • Lal Adhoraj Deo, married and had issue.
      • Raja NARSINGH DEO (qv)
    • Lal Raghoraj Deo, ancestor of Raja Sheo Mangal Singh Deo (1874-1909), see below.
  • Bhaiya DEORAJ SAHI, died sp.
  • Raja NARSINGH DEO, married and had issue.
    • Raja JIT RAI DEO (qv)
  • Raja JIT RAI DEO, married and had issue.
    • Raja SAGAR SAHI DEO (qv)
  • Raja SAGAR SAHI DEO, married and had issue.
    • Raja AFHAR SAHI DEO (qv)
  • Raja AFHAR SAHI DEO, married and had issue.
    • Raja JAHAN SAHI DEO (qv)
  • Raja JAHAN SAHI DEO, married and had issue.
    • Raja SAWAL SAHI DEO (qv)
  • Raja SAWAL SAHI DEO, married and had issue.
    • Raja GAJRAJ SINGH DEO (qv)
    • Lal Dilip Singh Deo, married and had issue.
      • Raja GHARIB SINGH DEO (qv)
      • Lal MAN SINGH, ancestor of the Changbhakar State.
  • Raja Raja GAJRAJ SINGH DEO. died sp.
  • Raja GHARIB SINGH DEO -/1828, born 1745 at Nagar. He died June 1828.
  • Raja AMOLE SINGH DEO 1828/1864, born 1785, married Rani Kadam Kunwar. He died 1864.
  • Raja PRAN SINGH DEO 1864/1897, born 1857, succeeded 4th April 1864 (#1). He died sp 1897.
  • Raja SHEO MANGAL SINGH DEO 1897/1909, born 1874, shifted his capital from Sonhat to Baikunthpur in the year 1900, married and had issue. He died 18th November 1909 (#2 ).
    • Raja RAMANUJ PRATAP SINGH DEO (qv)
  • Raja RAMANUJ PRATAP SINGH DEO 1909/1954, born 8th December 1901, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; B.A., he was the first student to pass the Chiefs College Diploma in 1920, being also ranked first in this Examination; invested with full ruling powers in January 1925, Allahabad University 1924, represented the ruling Chief, in the second Round Table Conference held in London in 1931 (being the youngest delegate), Vice President All India Kshtriya Maha Sabha 1931/-. On the merger of the state the Raja Sahib handed over Rs. 1.2 crores to the Central Provinces & Berar Government, married 1920, a Princess of Chhota-Nagpur. He died 1954 at Baikunthpur.
  • HH Maharaja BHUPENDRA NARAYAN SINGH DEO, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur and at Allahabad University (Masters in English Literature), married Maharani Vasant Kumari of Wadhwan, and had issue. He died after 1985. 
    • Rajkumari Manimalini Devi [Maharaj Kumari Rani Manimalini Devi of Vijayanagaram], married Maharaj Kumar A. N. V. Singh of Vijayanagaram.
    • Maharaja RAGHVENDRA SINGH DEV (qv)
    • Rajkumari Sureshwari Devi
  • Maharaja RAGHVENDRA SINGH DEV (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS: 
  • Kumar Shri Ram Chander Singh Deo, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; Cabinet Minister for Finance and Excise (Chattisgarh State), M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh) for five terms, fl.2003
  • Kumar Shri Lal Ram Saran Singh, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; the first ICS (1929) among the Ruling Chief's of India, later on retired as the Indian Ambassador to Italy.
  • Kumar Shri N. N. Singh Deo of Korea, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; practised in the Federal Court of America.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.263
2. "Indian Annual Register" ,  N.N.Nitra, Calcutta 1945