PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Rulers
were...
- Raja Saheb Shri PADMANAV GAJAPATHI NARAYANA DEO 1873-1904,
married and had issue.
- Capt. Maharaja Saheb Shri Shri Shri KRISHNA CHANDRA
GAJAPATHI NARAYANA DEO (qv)
- Capt. Maharaja Saheb Shri Shri Shri KRISHNA CHANDRA
GAJAPATHI NARAYANA DEO, born 28th April 1892, educated at Raja's
College, Parlakimedi
and
Newington College, Madras; K.C.I.E. [cr.1946], Member of the Madras
Legislative
Council 1919, PM of Orissa 1937/1938 and 1941/1944, he helped establish
the Utkal University, the Central Rice Research Institute and the
Medical
College at Cuttack. In Parlakhimedi, he set up a first grade college,
Sanskrit
College, Girls' High School, Industrial School, Steel Factory, Modern
Farm,
numerous Minor Irrigation Projects. He also extended the light railway
from Parlakhemundi to Gunupur, 35 miles away; made endowments for
research
on problems of nutrition and agriculture; awarded scholarships to over
a thousand students of Parlakhemundi to pursue higher studies in the
humanities,
medicine, engineering, etc. He served with distinction as a member of
the
Royal Agricultural Commission, the Madras Legislative Council and the
Constituent
Assembly of India. He was a patron of Oriya literature as well as of
cricket
and a prominent figure in racing circles, he married 1913, Maharani Sri
Nalini Pattamaha Devi of Kharsawan,
and
had issue. He died 25th May 1974.
- Yuvaraj Shri Rama Chandra Gajapathi
Narayana Deo, married Rajkumari Chandra Kiran Kumari, eldest daughter
of Maharaja AMBIKESHWAR SARAN SINGH Deo of Surguja,
and had issue, four children. He died vp before 1974.
- Rajkumari Rani Devi, married to the Yuvaraj of
Singramau,
U.P.
- Raja Saheb Shri Shri Shri GOPINATH GAJAPATHI NARAYANA
DEO (qv)
- Rajkumar S. J. N. Dev, married Rajkumari Shailaja of
Daread in Gujarat, and has issue, two children.
- Rajkumar (name unknown)
Dev, died sp.
- Maharajkumar Shri Shri Shri Madhav Sundar Gajapathi
Narayana Deo [Raja Madhav Sundar Gajapati Narayan Deo of Delang,
Balaramnagar and Manikprasad], born 1919, married Rajkumari Swarnalata
Manjari Devi, daughter of Raja KISHOR CHANDRA MARDRAJ
HARICHANDAN of Nilgiri, and his second
wife, Rani Giriraj Kumari, and had issue, one son. He died 1995.
- Maharajkumari Shri Shri Shri Hemangini Devi
- Raja Saheb Shri Shri Shri GOPINATH GAJAPATHI NARAYANA DEO
(see above)
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