PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1556. Rulers were...
- Raja MADAN GOPAL SINGH DEO 1556/1606, 2nd son of Raja
MADHUKAR DEV of Sambalpur, married and had issue.
- Raja LAL SAHEB DEO 1606/1635, married and had issue.
- Raja PURUSHOTTAM SINGH DEO (qv)
- Raja PURUSHOTTAM SINGH DEO 1635/1673, married and had issue.
- Raja RAJ SINGH DEO 1673/1709, married and had issue.
- Raja ACHAL SINGH DEO (qv)
- Raja ACHAL SINGH DEO 1709/1725, married and had issue.
- Raja DIVYA SINGH DEO (qv)
- Raja SOBHA SINGH DEO (qv)
- Raja DIVYA SINGH DEO 1725/1766 or 1750/1770, married and
had issue.
- Raja JARWAR SINGH DEO (qv)
- Raja JARWAR SINGH DEO 1766/1767
- Raja SOBHA SINGH DEO 1767/1781 or 1771/1786, married and
had issue.
- Raja PRITHVI SINGH DEO (qv)
- Raja PRITHVI SINGH DEO 1781 or 1786/1841, married Rani
Gundicha
Devi, and had issue.
- Raja NILADHAR SINGH Deo Bahadur (qv)
- Raja NILADHAR SINGH Deo Bahadur 1841/1891, born 1838 (#1),
married and had issue. He died 1891.
- Raja PRATAP RUDRA SINGH (qv)
- Raja PRATAP RUDRA SINGH 1891/1902, married Rani Amulyamani
Devi, and had issue.
- HH Maharaja Shri Sir BIR MITRODAYA SINGH Deo (qv)
- Tikayat Rani Prematarangini Devi, married Tikayet
Nruparaj Singh Deo of Seraikella, and
had issue.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (second daughter),
married to a Lal Saheb of Panchakote.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (third daughter), married
to a Lal Saheb of Panchakote.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (fourth daughter) [Rani
Saheba of Chhota Nagpur], married the Raja Saheb of Ratu (Chhota
Nagpur), and had issue.
- Rajkumar (name unknown)
- Raja CHINTAMANI NATH SHAH Deo of Ratu (Chhota
Nagpur).
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (fifth daughter) [Rani
Saheba of Rairakhol], married Raja BIRA CHANDRA JADUMANI DEO JENAMANI
of Rairakhol.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (sixth daughter), married
to the Raja Saheb of Tekkali.
- HH Maharaja Shri Sir BIR MITRODAYA SINGH Deo 1902/1937,
born 28th
June 1874, succeeded
8th August 1902, K.C.I.E., Maharaja [cr.1908], married HH Maharani
Parvati
Devi, Kaiser-i-Hind Gold
Medal, and had issue. He died in 1937.
- HH Maharaja Shri SUDHANSU SHEKHAR SINGH DEO (qv)
- HH Maharaja Shri SUDHANSU SHEKHAR SINGH DEO 1937/- ,
M.R.A.S., Member of
the Chamber of Princes, married HH Maharani Shrimati Khirode Kumari
Devi, daughter of Shri MAHESHWAR PRASAD DEO of Lanjigarh,
and had issue.
- HH Maharaja BIR PRATAP SINGH DEO (qv)
- [?Maharanidhirani
Amulya
Prabha Devi, married 1944, Maharajadhiraj BHANU PRATAP DEO of Kanker, and had issue.]
- Rani Indira Debi, married Raja BIRENDRA BIJOY MALLA Ugal
Sanda Deb of Jhargram, and had issue,
two sons and two daughters.
- HH Maharaja BIR PRATAP SINGH DEO, born about 1923, educated
at Presidency College, Calcutta,
married
20th February 1944, HH Maharani Saheb Drupad Kumari, died after 1970,
daughter of Thakur Sahib Shri Sir BAHADURSINHJI MANSINHJI of Palitana, and his wife, Thakurani Bai
Shri Sita Ba Kunverba
Sahiba, and had issue.
- HH Maharaja PRITHVI BIR SINGH
DEO (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Rajkumar Jaswant Singh Deo, married and had issue.
- Rani Ras Manjari Devi, born 19th November 1927, she
joined the Swatantra Party in 1967 and contested
the Assembly elections in 1967, 1971 and 1974; Chairman, Tigiria
Panchayat
Samiti 1971/1974; M.L.A. (Orissa) 1977/1980; married Raja Raja BRAJRAJ
KSHATRIYA BIRBAR
CHAMUPATI SINGH Mahapatra of Tigiria,
and had issue, three sons and three daughters.
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