PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Originally
a dependency of the Ratanpur Kingdom, it later became one of the
eighteen Garhjat
states subordinate to Sambalpur. Rulers were....
- Raja UDEBHAN SINGH
- Raja BIRBHAN SINGH
- Raja UDHO SAI SINGH -/1736
- Raja KALYAN SAI 1736/1777
- Raja VISHWANATH SAI 1777/1808
- Raja SUBHADRA SAI 1808/1815
- Raja BHUKAM SAI 1815/1827
- Raja TIKAM SAI 1827/1828
- Raja GAJRAJ SINGH 1828/1829
- Raja SANGRAM SINGH 1829/1872
- Raja BHAWANI PRATAP SINGH 1872/1889, [1872/1890 born c1865,
died 1890.]
- Raja RAGHUBIR SINGH 1889/1890, married and had issue. He
died 5th August 1890.
- Raja Bahadur JAWAHIR SINGH (qv)
- Raja Bahadur JAWAHIR SINGH 1890/1946, born 3rd December
1888 and succeeded 5th August 1890
(2nd
October 1890 #1), C.I.E., educated at
Rajkumar
College, Raipur; married and had issue. He died 11th January 1946.
Brother
of Rani Man Kunwar Devi, Zamindarani of Pandaria.
- Raja NARESH CHANDRA SINGH (qv)
- Rani Basant Mala Devi, married Raja CHAKRADHAR SINGH of Raigarh,
and had issue.
- Raja NARESH CHANDRA SINGH 1946/1987, born 21st November
1908, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh),
Former Chief
Minister of Madhya Pradesh in 1969, married 1stly, 15th April 1935,
Rani
Shrimati Tulsi Manjari Devi, eldest daughter of Diwan Narayan Singh,
Zamindar
of Fatehpur, married 2ndly, 1945, Rani Lalita Devi of Phuljhar (later
the
Rajmata of Sarangarh after 1987), she had the distinction of being the
first unopposed lady Member of the Legislature in M.P. (and till now
the
only one in M.P. and later in Chhattisgarh), and had issue, four
daughters
and a son. He died 11th September 1987.
- Rajkumari Shrimati Rajni Gandha Devi (by first wife),
Member of the Lok
Sabha 1967/1970, married Col. (ret'd.) Virendra Singh of Imlai
Zamindari
near Jabalpur in M.P., and has issue.
- Nandita Singh
- Chandravir Singh
- Rajkumari Shrimati Kamla Devi, born 26th January 1947,
Member of the
Legislature
and minister in the State of Madhya Pradesh for 18 years (1972/1990).
Presently
a member of the Public Service Commission, Madhya Pradesh; married Dr.
Lal Bhupal Singh of Malkharoda Zamindari, died in 1998, and had issue,
a daughter.
- Mrinalika Singh, born 23rd May 1978.
- Raja SHISHIR BINDU SINGH (qv)
-
 Rajkumari
Shrimati Pushpa Devi, born 18th May 1948 Raipur, Madhya Pradesh;
educated
at St. Joseph's Convent, Sagar and Maharani Laxmibai College, Bhopal
and
Vikram University, Ujjain; Member of the 7th Lok Sabha 1980/1985, 8th
Lok
Sabha 1985/1989 and the 10th Lok Sabha, an active menber of the Indian
National Congress Party.
- Rajkumari Shrimati Dr. Menka Devi, born 8th July 1951, is
working with an NGO named after her father in
the
field of Social Medicine; married Dr.
Parivesh
Mishra of Bhopal, and has issue.
- Kulisha Mishra, born 19th February 1986.
- Rajkumari Shrimati Purnima Devi, born 13th May 1957,
married Mr. Steve
Ellison.
- Raja SHISHIR BINDU SINGH (see above)
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