PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Predecessor
state of Manikpur founded in 1080, by Raja Manik Chand, brother of Raja
Jai Chand of Kannauj. Rulers were...
- Raja GUDAN DEO, 16th in descent from Raja Manik Chand,
established his
capital at Manda in 1542, married and had issue.
- Raja BHOJRAJ DEO (qv)
- Raja UGRASEN, became Raja of Kantit-Vijaipur.
- Raja UDIT SINGH, married and had issue.
- Raja PRITHVIRAJ SINGH (qv)
- Raja PRITHVIRAJ SINGH, 27th in descent from Raja
Manik Chand,
married
and had issue.
- Raja YASHWANT SINGH (qv)
- Raja CHHATRASAL, became Raja of Daiya (see below for
present descendants).
- Raja RAM PRATAP SINGH, born 1860, married a daugher of
Maharaja Sir
RADHA PRASAD SINGH Bahadur of Dumraon.
- Raja Bahadur RAM GOPAL SINGH -/1941, married Rani
Bhuvaneshwari Kumari, elder daughter of Raja KAMAL NARAYAN SINGH of Khairagarh, and had adoptive
issue. He died sp 1941.
- (A) Raja Bahadur VISHWANATH PRATAP SINGH (qv)
- Raja Bahadur VISHWANATH PRATAP SINGH (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Raja BHAGWATI PRASAD SINGH of Daiya, married and had issue.
- Justice Raja CHANDRA SHEKHAR PRASAD SINGH (+), Raja Saheb
of Daiya, Chief Justice
of the Allahabad High Court, married
Rani Padma Devi, daughter of Raja CHANDRA BHANU DEB of Aul, and his wife, Rani Ramraj Kumari
Pattamahadei, and had issue, four daughters. He died in office after
being mistakenly killed by dacoits.
- Rani Sudha Kumari, married 16th February 1971 in
Allahabad, Raja VISHNU
NARAIN DUTT SINGH of Oel in U.P, and has
issue, two sons.
- Kunwar Rani Gita Kumari, married Kunwar Hitendra
Singh of Banera, Rajasthan, son of Late
Col. Rajkumar Ghuman Singh, and has issue, one daughter and one son.
- Rani Sandhya Kumari, married Sri Rana SHIVNATH
SARAN SINGH of Khajurgaon U.P., and
has issue, two sons.
- Kunwar Rani Sunita Kumari, married to Kunwar D.P. Singh
of Tirwa, and has issue, two sons.
- Rajkumar Sant Bux Singh (+), Barrister-at-Law, of
Lincoln's Inn. Member of Parliament, Fatehpur
(IVth and Vth Lok Sabha), married Rajkumar Rani Vaidehi Singh of
Shankargarh, and had issue.
- Thakur Anand Singh, married Thakurani Usha Rai,
daughter of Raja AMBIKESHWAR BUX RAI of Bishrampur,
and has issue, 2 daughters.
- Kumari Jailakshmi Singh, born
1977, married Anirudh
Singh of Ajairajpura in Rajasthan, and has issue, a two year old son
(2006).
- Kumari Tanushree Singh, born 1978, a practising
Lawyer.
- Raja Bahadur VISHWANATH PRATAP SINGH, adopted by Raja
Bahadur Ram Gopal Singh of Manda in
1936,
and succeeded there in 1941. (see above)
- Rajkumar Har Bux Singh, married Rajkumar Rani Bhargavi
Kumari Devi of Dumaria, and has issue.
- Rajkumari Kamla Devi (+), married Sri Kameshwar Prasad
Singh
(+) of Sonepur (Bihar), and had issue.
- Rajkumari Vimla Devi, married into Beehat.
- Raja VIKRAM SINGH, present Raja Saheb of Daiyya, married
and has issue.
- Rajkumar Inder Singh, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
- Rajkumar Vikrant Singh, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
- Rajkumar Virat Singh, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married (as his second
wife), Maharaj
Kumar Samarth Singh of Bhadarwa.
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born
25th June
1931 in Allahabad, B.A., B.Sc., LL.B., son of Raja Bhagwati Prasad
Singh of Daiya,
adopted
by his predecessor in 1936, educated at Allahabad University, Allahabad
and Poona University, Poona; Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative
Assembly
1969/1971 and 1981/1983 and Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative
Council
1980/1981; Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh 1980/1982; Member of the Lok
Sabha
1971/1974 and 1980 and Member of the Rajya Sabha 1983/1988; Union
Deputy
Minister/Minister of State/Minister holding portfolios of Commerce,
Supply,
Finance and Defence 1974/1977 and 1983/1987; Leader of the house, Rajya
Sabha 1984/1987; 8th Prime Minister of India 1989/1990, Foreign
Minister
1984/1987, married 25th June 1955, Rani Sita Kumari of Deogarh,
and has issue, two sons.