PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
before 1550. Rulers were...
- Raja SURJYA MANI, founder, scion of the Rewah Royal Family.
- ....... (22 intervening generations)
- Raja CHANDRASEKHAR SINGH Mandhata
- Raja PURUSHOTTAM SINGH Mandhata
- Raja MRUTYUNJAY SINGH Mandhata -/1784
- Raja BINAYAK SINGH Mandhata 1784/1825
- Raja BRAJA BABDHU SINGH Mandhata 1825/1851
- Raja LADHU KISHOR SINGH Mandhata 1851/1889, born about
1843,
succeeded 30th
September 1851, married and had issue.
- Rajkumari (name unknown),
married 1899, Raja Bahadur Sir RAJENDRA NARAYAN BHANJ Deo Bahadur of Kanika.
- Raja BALBHADRA SINGH Mandhata 1889/1890
- Raja RAGHUNATH SINGH Mandhata 1890/1897, succeeded 2nd
March 1890 (#1), married Rani Padmamali
Devi, only daughter of Raja DASRATHI BIRBAR MANGRAJ
MAHAPATRA of Baramba.
- Raja NARAYAN SINGH Mandhata 1897/1918, married and had
issue.
- Raja KRISHNA CHANDRA SINGH Mandhata (qv)
- Raja KRISHNA CHANDRA SINGH Mandhata 1918/1983, born 15th
August 1911 and
succeeded 7th December 1918, 26th in descent from the founder of the
state;
instrumental in establishing the Nayagarh
Co-operative Bank, a number of
Educational Institutions, a Homeopathic Dispensary and the Memorial
Club; M.L.A. (Orissa) 1957/1961; author of Footprints of Ramachandra;
interests were Football and Writing; married 1stly, Rani Basanta
Manjari Devi [née Homa Rajya Laxmi],
daughter of Supradipta Manyabara
Gen. HH
Maharajkumar Sir Baber Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal,
married 2ndly, Rani Saubhagya Manjari Devi of Hindol, and had issue, two sons and three
daughters. He died 24th June
1983.
- Raja BRAJENDRA KISHORE SINGH Mandhata (Rani Homa Rajya
Laxmi) (qv)
-
Rajkumar Saheb Amarendra
Kishore Singh (by 2nd wife), married Kumar Rani Saheba Sabitamayi Devi
of Chandrapur, and has issue, two sons and one
daughter.
- Kumar Rameshwar Prasad Singh, married Kumari Suprabha
Devi of Chandrapur, and has issue, one daughter and one son.
- Kumar Amareshwar Prasad Singh, married Kumari Sarita,
a daughter of a Lal Saheb of Bamra, and has issue, one son.
- Kumari Rajeshwari Devi, married Kumar Kaustava
Chandra Deb, son of Rajkumar Bhupendra Chandra Deo of Talcher, a retired judge.
- Rajkumari Padmini Raj Lakshmi (+) (twin, by 2nd wife),
married (as his 1st
wife), Kunwar Narendra Bux Rai, younger son of Raja NAGESHWAR BUX RAI
of Bishrampur, and his wife, Rani
Hari Priya Devi, and had issue, one son.
- Kunwar Sailesh Bux Rai, M.A. (English), B.Ed.,
presently (2008) working as a teacher in English with Navodaya
Vidyalaya Samiti, Patna Region; married Rajkumari
Rashmi Devi, daughter of the last Raja Saheb of Baramba, Raja KRISHNA CHANDRA DEB, and
his
wife, Rani Jyotsna Devi, daughter of Raja ANUP SINGH DEO of Khariar, and has issue, one daughter and
one son.
- Kumari Shraddha Buxrai, born 13th August 1995.
- Kunwar Shivendra Buxrai, born 15th
January 2003.
- Rajkumari Nalini Raj Lakshmi (twin, by 2nd wife),
married Raja PRATAP RAI, Zamindar of Andra in Andhra Pradesh, and has
issue, one son.
- Yuvaraj Pratish Rai, married Rajkumari Shriti
Devi, daughter of Yuvraj Trigunateeta Deb of Chikiti, and his wife
Yuvrani Usha Devi, and has issue, one daughter.
-
Rajkumari Anusuya Raj Lakshmi Devi (by 2nd
wife), married Rajkumar Bhupendra Chandra Deo of Talcher, a retired Judge, and has issue,
one son and one daughter.
-
Kumar Kaustava Chandra Deb, married Kumar
Rani Rajeshwari Devi, daughter of Kumar Saheb Amarendra Kishore Singh
of
Nayagarh (see above).
-
Kumari Manoswini Sobhalakshmi Devi
- Raja BRAJENDRA KISHORE SINGH Mandhata (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari Jyotiprabha Devi, married Kumar Golak Chandra Debo
(+) of Chikiti.
- Rajkumar Sunder
Brindavan Chandra Singh, married Rajkumari Krishna Priya Devi, daughter
of Raja DASARATHI DHIR Birabar of Balarampur
in Orissa.
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