PRATAPGARH (Taluq)

 
VILLAGES: 276 (1869) REVENUE: ??  ACCESSION: ??
STATE: Uttar Pradesh (Pratapgarh Distt.) DYNASTY: Sombansi RELIGION:Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja ABHAY PRATAP SINGH (2000/-) (9 Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India)
born 7th December 1936, married 1st March 1955, Rani Asha Kumari, and has issue.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Originally known as Taroul or Tiroul. The ancestor of the family was Kunwar Sujan Singh, son of Raja Sangram Singh of Tiroul. Rulers were...
  • Babu PRATAP SINGH 1628/1682, fixed his headquarters at Rampur near old town of Aror, there he built a fort (garh), naming it after himself.
  • .......
  • UNKNOWN, married and had issue.
    • Babu ABHIMAN SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Sarnam Singh, married and had issue.
      • Babu GULAB SINGH (qv)
  • Babu ABHIMAN SINGH, married and had issue. He died after 1800.
    • Kunwar Bhairon Baksh Singh, father of 4 sons.
    • Kunwar Audhan Singh, married and had issue.
      • Kunwar Bishnath Singh, married and had issue.
        • Kunwar Sitla Bakhsh Singh
        • Kunwar Devamangal Singh
      • Raja AJIT SINGH (qv)
      • Kunwar Sarabjit Singh
    • Kunwar Umand Singh, father of 2 sons.
  • Babu GULAB SINGH fl.1857
  • Raja AJIT SINGH -/1889, Raja [cr. 1.1.1877] (#1), married and had issue. He died 1889.
    • Kunwar Sukhdeo Singh, overlooked in the succession.
    • Kunwar Jagdeo Singh, overlooked in the succession.
    • Raja Bahadur Raja PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
  • Raja Bahadur Raja PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH 1889/1921, title of Raja made hereditary in 1898, Vice President of the British Indian Association 1911/1918, married 1stly (aged 9), a sister of Thakur Raghunath Singh of Isanpur, married 2ndly, a daughter of the Taluqdar of Antu, married 3rdly, a daughter of the Taluqdar of Antu (sister of the 2nd wife), married 4thly, a daughter of the Taluqdar of Dhingwas, married 5thly, a niece of the Taluqdar of Antu (paternal 1st cousin of the 2nd and 3rd wives), and had issue. He died 1921.
    • Raja AJIT PRATAP SINGH (qv)
    • Kumari (name unknown), married Yuvraj Dewakar Praksh Singh of Kasmanda.
    • Rani Padmavati Devi, born 17th July 1918 in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh; married  Maj. Raja Bahadur BIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGH of Khairagarh, and had issue.
  • Raja Ajit Pratap Singh (1917-2000)Raja AJIT PRATAP SINGH, born 14th January 1917, educated at Cambridge, Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1946/1952 and 1967/1977, Cabinet Minister for Forests, Sports, Tourism, Animal Husbandry, Jail, Civil Defence and Homeguard for Uttar Pradesh 1969/1977, Member of the Rajya Sabha 1958/1962, Member of the 3rd and 7th Lok Sabha, Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council 1985 (Bi-election) and 1988/1992, Minister for Excise 1985, Minister for Excise and Forests -/1988, Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission, Uttar Pradesh 1986/1988, President of the British India Association (Avadh) 1998/2000, Secretary-cum-Manager for the Colvin Taluqdars' College, LKO, 1998/2000, married 1stly, Rani Lakshmi Devi, (possibly sister of Raja DINESH SINGH of Kalakankar), and had issue, 4 sons and 1 daughter, married 2ndly, Rani Nikhat Devi, and had issue, 1 son and 4 daughters. He died 6th January 2000 at Lucknow. (Raja Ajit Pratap Singh Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India)
    • Raja ABHAY PRATAP SINGH (by Rani Lakshmi Devi) (qv)
    • Rajkumar Akhil Pratap Singh (by Rani Lakshmi Devi), fourth son, married and has issue.
      • Kunwar Amaresh Pratap Singh, married Rajkumari Gitanjali Devi, daughter of Raja SARAT KUMAR DEB, Raja Saheb of Aul, and his wife, Rani Sushree Devi, and has issue, one son.
        • Kumar Abhyuday Pratap Singh
    • Rajkumar Ajai Pratap Singh (by Rani Nikhat Devi), married and has issue.
      • Kunwar Anshuman Singh
  • Raja ABHAY PRATAP SINGH (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Kunwar Sachin Pratap Singh of Pratapgarh (UP)
  • Thakurani Shobha Rani, married 1956, Thakur BIKRAM SINGH of Pokhran, and has issue.
  • Rajkumar Adwait Pratap Singh, married and has issue.
    • Thakurain Shubha Singh, married 1979, Thakur Dr. Rakesh Kumar Singh of Akaltara Zamindari, and has issue.
      • Kumari Shambhavi Singh, born 31st August 1980, married Yuvraj Anant Vikram Singh of Amethi.
      • Kumari Aparna Singh, born 1st August 1983, married Bhanwar Digvijay Singh of Gangiasar in Jaipur.
      • Kumar Raghavendra Singh, presently (2006) is in second year of Law study at I.L.S. Law College, Pune.

 
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