RANPUR (Princely State)

 
AREA: 526 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 25,000Rs  ACCESSION: 1st January 1948
STATE: Orissa DYNASTY: RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 36,539 (1892)    
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja Shri DILEEP CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA, 182nd Raja Saheb of Ranpur since 1982.
educated at St.Paul's Darjeeling, Life member of Rajkumar College, Raipur, Governing Council, married in Pallahara, and has issue.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A very old Princely house. Rulers were...
  • Raja RAMACHANDRA NARENDRA 1692/1727, married and had issue.
    • Raja SARANGADHAR BAJRADHAR NARENDRA (qv)
  • Raja SARANGADHAR BAJRADHAR NARENDRA 1727/1754
  • Raja NARSINGH BAJRADHAR NARENDRA 1754/1789, married and had issue.
    • Raja BRUJDABAN BAJRADHAR NARENDRA (qv)
  • Raja BRUJDABAN BAJRADHAR NARENDRA 1789/1821, married and had issue.
    • Raja BRAJSUNDAR BAJRADHAR NARENDRA (qv)
  • Raja BRAJSUNDAR BAJRADHAR NARENDRA 1821/1842, married and had issue.
    • Raja BENUDHA BAJRADHA NARENDRA MAHAPATRA (qv)
  • Raja BENUDHA BAJRADHA NARENDRA MAHAPATRA 1842/1899, born about 1817, succeeded 16th March 1845 ( #1 ), married and had issue.
    • Kunwar Harihar Birbar Jagadeb
  • Raja BIRBAR KRISHNA CHANDRA NARENDRA MAHAPATRA 1899/1945, born 20th August 1875, and succeeded 12th July 1899, married and had issue. He died 21st June 1945.
    • Yuvaraj Shri Biranchi Narayan Singh Deo Bahadur, married 1928, Rani Basant Manjari Devi, born 1900, died 1961, daughter of  Raja SHYAM CHANDRA MARDRAJ HARICHANDAN of Nilgiri, she was very popular and entered politics as the Rajmata of Ranpur and was the Health Minister of Orissa. There is a TB Hospital in Chandpur named after her; he had issue. He died before 1945.
      • Raja Shri BRAJENDRA CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA (qv)
  • Raja Shri BRAJENDRA CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA 1945/1980, born 1928, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; M.L.A. (Orissa), an exceptional pilot, a great host, Hon. Flight Lieutenant in the Air Force and was ADC to the First President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad. He was also the youngest ruler to sign the merger agreement with the Indian Union, from Orissa; married Rani Durgeshnandini Devi (+), daughter of Raja Brajendra Singh of Patiala, and had issue, three sons and one daughter. He died 1980.
    • Raja Shri PRADEEP CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA (qv)
    • Raja Shri DILEEP CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA (qv)
    • Rajkumar Purnendu Chandra Singh Deo, Vice Principal of St. Xavier's High School, Bhubaneswar, educated at St. Paul's Darjeeling and Rajkumar College, Raipur. Unmarried.
    • Rajkumari Gayatri Irani, married Diniar Irani, who represented India in basketball at the Moscow Olympics in 1980, presently (2008) a coach with the Sports Authority of India, and has issue, one daughter and one son.
      • Dil Nawaz Irani, former Exchange student of Rotary International to the USA, now based at Moscow, undergoing training at the biggest Russian Bank - Nestor Bank.
      • Xerxes Irani, studying at Cuttack.
  • Raja Shri PRADEEP CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA 1980/1982, educated at St. Paul's, Darjeeling. He died unmarried in a tragic accident at Bhubaneswar.
  • Raja Shri DILEEP CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA (see above)

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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p.461