PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Ancestor
of the family was Maharaja Jai Chand of Kannauj. Founding of State came
into effect with the Royal Firman of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in
1686.
The family played host to three official visits by the Viceroy of India
(1930–1946), other ruling Rajas of eastern UP were in attendance
on invitation. First Double Unit Sugar Mill set up by Rai Bahadur
Jagdish
Pratap Narain Singh, also the Padrauna Raj Krishna Sugar Works in 1921,
followed by a Sugar Unit at Khadda and Katkuiyan respectively. Padrauna
Town was amongst the first few regions to have been electrified from
the
power generation of the sugar unit set up by the Royal Family.
Employment
was generated by the factories, and farmers benefited by growing cane
as
a cash crop in the region. The State undertook welfare schemes in
Primary
Health care and Education. The first Closed Motorized Ambulance was
stationed
at Padrauna Raj. A Secondary School was established by the State in
Memory
of Raja Udit Narain Singh by Raja Bahadur Brij Narain Singh and Rai
Bahadur
Jagdish Narain Singh. A Degree College was subsequently established in
keeping with the traditions of the family's social responsibilities.
Rulers
were....
- HARI GOVIND Rai, married and had issue.
- Ginu Narain Rai
- Ram Narain Rai, married and had issue.
- Bisheshar Narain Rai
- Bhawani Narain Rai, married and had issue.
- Harkumar Narain Rai, married and had issue.
- Ishwari Pratap Narain Rai, born 1802, married and had
issue.
- Madan Mohan Rai, related to the Rajas of Majhauli
and Tamkuhi.
- Raj Ballabh Rai
- Madan Gopal Rai, born 1829, had adopted issue. He
died 1890.
- Jai Prakash Narain Rai
- Meherban Narain Rai, married and had issue.
- Bahadur Rai, married and had issue.
- Raghuraj Rai, married and had issue.
- Raja UDIT NARAIN SINGHJI (qv)
- Basti Rai, married and had issue.
- Raja UDIT NARAIN SINGHJI, he was granted the title of Raja
as
a personal
distinction
on 22nd June 1897, married and had issue. He died 1900.
- Raja Bahadur BRIJ PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI, ancestor of the
Senior Line
[Bade
Durbar] (qv)
- Rai Bahadur Jagdish Pratap Narain Singh, ancestor of
Junior Line [Chote
Darbar] (see below)
- Raja Bahadur BRIJ PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI 1900/1948, born
26th April
1875,
succeeded as Raja of Padrauna on 18th February 1900, he was granted the
title
of Raja as a personal distinction in 1906, Raja Bahadur [cr.1919]
(personal)
and the title of Raja was made hereditary in June 1921, married and had
issue. He died 1948.
- Raja KRISHNA PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI (qv)
- Kunwar Kishan Pratap Narain Singhji
- Kunwar Ravi Pratap Narain Singhji, married the daughter
of Shri
Anand Shumsher
Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal.
- Raja KRISHNA PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI, married and had issue.
- Raja Bahadur ANIRUDHA PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI (qv)
- Kunwar Basdeo Pratap Narain Singhji, married and has
issue, 2 sons and
2 daughters.
- Kunwar Aditya Pratap Narain Singh (later Raja Bahadur
ADITYA PRATAP
NARAIN SINGHJI, qv)
- Kunwar Mahendra Pratap Narain Singh
- Kunwar Balbhadra Pratap Narain Singhji, married and has
issue.
- Kunwar Anil Pratap Narain Singh
- Kumari Nita Singh
- Kumari Ajita Singh
- Kumari Rajita Singh
- Raja Bahadur ANIRUDHA PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI, married Rani
Nagendra
Kumari,
second daughter of Raja BIR CHANDRA JADUMANI DEO JANAMUNI of Rairakhol,
and
had issue.
- Raja Bahadur BHANU PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI (qv)
- Kumari Sharat Singh
- Kumari Anapurna Singh
- Raja Bahadur BHANU PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI -/2003, died sp 28th
January 2003.
- Raja Bahadur ADITYA PRATAP NARAIN SINGHJI (see above)
JAGDISHGARH (Junior Line) [Chote Darbar] 
Rai Bahadur Jagdish Pratap Narain Singh, born 1885, he was granted
the Jagdishgarh Estate in 1923, granted the title of Rai Bahadur also
in
1923, married and had issue. He died 1942.
- Rai Bahadur Kunwar Rudra Pratap Narain Singh, born 1912,
married the
daughter
of Thakur Dalip Singhji of Bishtakura (Almora), and had issue. He died
1955.
- Kunwar Chandra Pratap Narain Singh, born 1935, married
Kunwarani Mohini Devi, and had issue.
He
died 1989.
- Kunwar Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
- Kumari Divya Singh
- Capt. Kunwar Dinesh Pratap Narain Singh, born 1943,
married and has
issue.
- Kunwar Veeraj Pratap Narain Singh
- Kumari Tripti Singh
- Kumari Padma Singh
- Kumari Kusum Singh
- Kunwar Laxmi Pratap Narain Singh, born 1916, married and
had issue. He
died 1964.
- Kunwar Vyjendra Pratap Narain Singh, born 1939, married
and had issue.
He died 2000.
- Kunwar Anu Pratap Narain Singh
- Kunwar Ravindra Pratap Narain Singh, born 1949, married
and has issue.
- Kunwar Ramendra Pratap Narain Singh, born 1964.
- Kunwar Shailendra Pratap Narain Singh, born 1977.
- Kumari Bacchi Singh
- Kunwar Raghuvendra Pratap Narain Singh, born 1952,
married and has
adopted
issue.
- Kunwar Rahul Pratap Narain Singh (adopted)
- Kumari Prabha Singh
- Kumari Purnima Singh
- Kumari Rani Singh
 Kunwar Surya Pratap Narain Singh, born 1921, married and
had issue. He
died 1990.
- Kunwar Devendra Pratap Narain Singh, born 1942, married
and had issue,
2 sons. He died 1989.
- Kunwar Tribhuvan Pratap Narain Singh, born 1960, married
2005.
- Kumari Usha Singh
- Kumari Geeta Singh [Mrs. Geeta Shepherd], married and has
issue.
- Kumari Bina Singh
- Kunwar Ram Pratap Narain Singh, born 1928, married and had
issue. He
died
1996.
- Kunwar Hanuwant Pratap Narain Singh, born 1974, married
2002.
- Kumari Rajeshwari Singh
- Kumari Gyaneshwari Singh
- Kumari Shyama
- Kumari Lalita
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