PITHAPURAM (Zamindari)

 
AREA: 1,036 km2 REVENUE: 100,000Rs ACCESSION: ??
STATE: Madras (Godavari Dist.) DYNASTY: ?Velugoti RELIGION: Hindu
VILLAGES: 168 POPULATION: 280,317 (1901)  
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja Sri Raja Rao VENKATA MAHIPATI SURYARAO Bahadur
fl.2000. ?Father of...
  • Rajkumar D.V. APPARAO Bahadur, President of the Tamil Nadu Shooting Association. fl.1999
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A permanently settled zamindari. Rulers were...
  • ?Nayani Madhavarao (1679-1704)
  • ?Madhavarayalu (1710-1755)
  • Rao VENKATA SURYA Rao Garu, married and had issue, 4 sons. He died 1850.
    • Raja SWETHA CHALAPATI Ranga Rao Bahadur Garu, adopted into Bobbili.
  • Sri Raja Rao VENKATA MAHIPATI GANGADHARA RAMA Rao Bahadur Garu, son of the Raja of Venkatagiri, born 1858, Raja [cr.1877], married and had issue. He died 22nd July 1890 (#1).
  • Sri Raja Rao VENKATA KUMARA MAHIPATI SURYARAO Bahadur Garu (son), born 5th October 1885, educated at Newington College, Madras; Installed October 1906, C.B.E. (civil) [cr.1918], married Sri Rani Chinnamamba Devi of Kapileswarapuram, and had issue.
    • R.V.M.G. Ramarau, Yuvaraj of Pithapuram, author of "Of Men, Matter and Me", 1961, married and had issue. He died 1964.
      • R.V.K.M. Suryarau, born 1932, married and has issue. 
        • R.V.M. Ranjitrau, married and has issue. 
          • R.V.K.M. Suryarau
    • Rajkumar R.V.M. Suryarau, married Rajkumari Padma Devi.
    • HH Maharani Sita Devi Sahib, born 1917, married 1stly, married 2ndly, 1943 (div. 1956), HH Maharaja Sir PRATAPSINGH RAO GAEKWAD of Baroda, and had issue by both husbands. She died c1986 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
    • Rani Kamala Devi, born 1920, married Maharajkumar Indrajitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar, and had issue. She died in the 1980's.
    • Rani Manjula Devi, married the Raja of Sidli. 
    • Rani Mangayamma Devi, married and had issue.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p.420