SUSANGA (Zamindari)

 
 
AREA:  REVENUE:  ACCESSION: 1947
LOCATION: Bengal DYNASTY: Bharadwaj clan RELIGION: Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER: Maharaja BHUPENDRA SINGH (1916/1947), born 18th September 1898 at Susanga, married 1920 daughter of Jogendra Nath Maitra, aged 11, and had issue.
  • Surajit Singh, M.Sc. (Calc.), Ph.D. (USA), Principal of the College of Social and Agricultural Sciences, married Purnima, M.Sc., D.Phil., daughter of Dr. Nares Sengupta.
  • Debabrata Singh, M.A., D.Phil., Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Presidency College, Calcutta, married Jayanti, M.A.
  • Pradosh Singh, B.C.E. (Jadavpur), General Foreman ISCO, Burnpur, married Ratna, M.A.
  • Parba Sangeet Visharad Singh, (Lucknow School of Music).
  • Dhurjati Singh, B.E. (Calc.).
  • Ruma, B.A.
PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY: Rulers were....
  1. SOMESWAR fl.1280
  2. GUNAKAR AKASHBASI [Budhimanta Khan], title of Khan was granted by the Muslim Viceroy of Gour, married and had issue.
    • KAMAI HAJRA (qv)
    • Bikram Khan
    • Bhaskar khan
    • Vachaspati Khan
    • Narayan Khan
  3. KAMAI HAJRA, married and had issue.
    • VASUDEV (qv)
    • Gandharbha Khan
    • Bipaksha Khan
  4. VASUDEV [Bamun Khan], married and had issue.
    • Jairam Khan, died vp.
    • JAGADANANDA KHAN (qv)
    • Harish Chandra Khan, died vp or accepted Sanyas.
  5. JAGADANANDA KHAN, married and had issue.
    • MALIK JANAKINATH (qv)
    • Malik Jadunath
  6. MALIK JANAKINATH, established himself as the leader of the Varendra Brahmans of Bengal, married Rani Kamala Rani and had issue.
    • Raja RAGHUNATH SINGH (ex Kamala)(qv)
    • Kongar Ramdas
    • Kongar Umadas
  7. Raja RAGHUNATH SINGH, accepted the sovereignty of Mughal Emperor Jahangir as a feudal chief, married and had issue.
    • Raja RAMNATH (qv)
    • Kumar Ramanath
    • Kumar Gopinath
    • Kumar Sripati, married and had issue.
      • Raja RAMJIBAN (qv)
    • Kumar Bhupati, married and had issue.
      • Raja RAMKRISHNA (qv)
    • Rupnarayan Thakur
    • Bhabadeb Thakur
  8. Raja RAMNATH
  9. Raja RAMJIBAN, married and had issue.
    • Raja RAM SINGH (qv)
    • Srikrishna Singh [Bir Singh]
  10. Raja RAMKRISHNA
  11. Raja RAM SINGH -/1735 (abdicated), forcibly converted to Islam under the name of Abdul Rahim towards the end of his life, married and had issue.
    • Raja RAN SINGH (qv)
    • Rahimiar
    • Tara Bibi
  12. Raja RAN SINGH, married and had issue.
    • Raja KISHORE SINGH (qv)
    • Raja RAJ SINGH (qv)
  13. Raja KISHORE SINGH, died spm 1784.
  14. Raja RAJ SINGH, during his lifetime, Susanga was reduced in status to that of a zamindari, as a result of a permanent settlement with the East India Company, married and had issue.
    • Baidyanath Kongar, died vp.
    • Raja VISHWANATH SINGH (qv)
    • Gopinath Singh, died sp 1833.
    • Krishnanath Kongar, died vp.
    • Jagannath Singh, died 1829.
  15. Raja VISHWANATH SINGH, born 1787, during his lifetime the British Government laid claims to some of the villages in Garo Hills, married and had issue. He died 1853.
  16. Raja PRAN KRISHNA SINGH 1853/1864, born 1808, married and had issue. He died 1864.
    • Maharaja RAJ KRISHNA SINGH (qv)
    • Kamal Krishna Sinha, author of several books. He died 1910 in Calcutta.
    • Jagat Krishna Sinha, sanskritic scholar. He died 1897.
    • Shiv Krishna Sinha, author of a number of articles on birds.
  17. Maharaja RAJ KRISHNA SINGH 1864/1890, granted the title of Maharaja as a hereditary distinction in 1884, Garo Hills was finally removed from the Susanga zamindari, he started a tea garden, an English High School, and brought in a Post and Telegraph Office, he established a charitable dispensary, became the first nominated member of the District Board and connected the town of Mymensingh with a road leading to the foot of the Garo Hills, he also took his sons and nephews to Calcutta around 1880 in order to provide the highest possible English education for them, whereupon his son and a nephew became graduates from the Presidency College under the Calcutta University; he married Maharani Sukhada Sundari and had issue, four sons. He died 1890 aged 59.
    • Maharaja KUMUD CHANDRA SINGH (qv)
    • Kumar Nirode Singh, married and had issue.
      • Kiron Singh, married and had issue.
        • Ranajit Singh, A.M.E.E., Joint Secretary, Department of SSI, Government of West Bengal.
      • Arun Singh, M.A.
      • Tarun Singh, D.Sc. (Calc.), Director of L.M.H.
      • Bejoy Singh, Officer in Rehabilitation Department, West Bengal.
    • Kumar Nagendra Singh, married and had issue.
      • Ganendra Singh, married and had issue.
        • Jharna Singh, M.A.
        • Chandana Singh, B.A.
        • Arijit Singh, I.Sc.
    • Kumar Dwijendra Singh, B.A., married and had issue.
      • Samarendra Singh, married Nilima, B.A., and had issue.
        • Ranjana Singh, B.A.
      • Bimalendu Singh, I.Sc., Superintendent of Jadavpur University Press, married Jayanti, B.A., and had issue.
        • Mala Singh, B.A.
      • Maya Kumari
  18. Maharaja KUMUD CHANDRA SINGH 1890/1916, born June 1866 (#1), President of the Bengal Landholders' Association, Member of the Female Education Committee and the Hindu Almanac Reformation Committee, President of Sahitya Sabha, Member of the Sanskrit Education Board of Bengal, elected leader of the All Bengal Brahman Conference at Kalighat in 1911, married 1stly ...., 2ndly c1888 .... (aged 12) and had issue. He died 16th October 1916.
    • Maharaja BHUPENDRA SINGH (qv)
    • Daughter (4th), married 1906 second son of the Raja Bahadur of Tahirpur of a Varendra Brahman Zamindari family of North Bengal.
  19. Maharaja BHUPENDRA SINGH (son) (see above)
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p.522
2. "Changing Times", SINHA, Maharaja Bhupendra Chandra of Susanga, ASI, Calcutta 1965, p.156