PRESENT RULER: Rajwar BHANURAJ SINGH PAL, Rajwar of Askote since November 2000.

married Rani Neelam Pal Devi, born 23rd April 1959, and has issue, one son and a daughter.

• Rajkumari Gayatri Kumari, born 17th November 1988, engaged 10th March 2010 at the Umaid Bhawan Palace, and married on 18th November 2010 in Jaipur, to Yuvraj Sahib Maharajkumar Shivraj Singhji, son of His Highness Maharaja Gaj Singhji II of Jodhpur and his wife Her Highness Maharani Hemlata Rajye and has issue, one daughter and a son.

• Tikka Mahiraj Singh Pal, born 22nd September 1993

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Katyuri dynasty was of Kuninda origin and was founded by Vashudev Katyuri. Originally, from Joshimath, during their reign they dominated lands of varying extent from the 'Katyur' (modern day Baijnath) valley in Kumaon, between the 7th and 11th centuries AD, and established their capital at Baijnath in Bageshwar district; which was then known as Kartikeyapura and lies in the centre of 'Katyur' valley. At its peak, the Katyuri kingdom extended from Nepal in the east to Kabul, Afghanistan in the west, before fragmenting into numerous principalities by the 12th century. They were displaced by the Chand Kings in the 11th century AD. Askote was founded in the 13th century by a branch of the Katyuri Kings. Became a part of British India by the treaty of Singhauli in 1816. Rulers were.....

• • Emperor Brahm Deo of the Katyuri Kings, married and had issue.

    • generation

      • Rajwar Abhay Pal Deo, founder of Askote (continued below)

      • Raika Niranjan Malla Deo, founder of Dhoti in Nepal.

      • Rulers of Baijnath-Katyuri

      • Rulers of Dwarahat

      • Rulers of Baramandal

      • Rulers of Sira

      • Rulers of Sora

      • Rulers of Sui (Kali kumaon)

• Rajwar ABHAY PAL DEO 1279/- , he adopted the surname of Pal; married and had issue.

  • Rajwar NIRBHAY PAL (qv)

  • Kunwar Alakh Deo, he led an army into the plains of north-eastern Uttar Pradesh, and established his capital in Mahuli in 1305; married and had issue (see Mahson).

  • Kunwar Tilak Deo

• Rajwar NIRBHAY PAL

• Rajwar BHARAT PAL

• Rajwar BHAIRON PAL

• Rajwar BHU PAL

• Rajwar RATAN PAL

• Rajwar SHANKHA PAL

• Rajwar SHYAM PAL

• Rajwar SAI PAL

• Rajwar SURJAN PAL

• Rajwar BHOJ PAL

• Rajwar BHARAT PAL

• Rajwar STUTI PAL

• Rajwar ACHHAV PAL

• Rajwar TRILOK PAL

• Rajwar SURYA PAL

• Rajwar JAGAT PAL

• Rajwar PRAJA PAL

• Rajwar RAI PAL -/1588, died 1588.

• Rajwar MAHENDRA PAL 1588/- , born 1588,

• Rajwar JAIT PAL

• Rajwar BIRBAL PAL

• Rajwar AMAR PAL

• Rajwar ABHAY PAL

• Rajwar UCHHAB PAL 1742/-, married 3 wives by whom he had six sons.

  • Rajwar BIJAY PAL (eldest son) (qv)

  • Rajkumar Rudra Pal, married and had issue. He died after 1811.

    • Kunwar Mokam Singh

    • Kunwar Prithwi Singh

    • Kunwar Sarbjit Singh, their descendants subsequently moved to the villages of Muani and Rawalkhet, where they still live.

• Rajwar BIJAY PAL, married and had issue.

  • Rajwar MAHENDRA PAL (qv)

• Rajwar MAHENDRA PAL, married and had issue. He died after 1811.

  • Rajwar BAHADUR PAL (qv)

  • Kunwar Cheem Singh, lived in Askote at a place called Badghar.

  • Kunwar Tej Singh

  • Kunwar Lakshman Singh

  • Kunwar Himmat Singh, the other sons moved to the villages of Bagrihart and Bhelia, where their descendants continue to live.

• Rajwar BAHADUR PAL -/1871, married and had issue. He died 1871.

  • Rajwar PUSHKAR PAL (qv)

• Rajwar PUSHKAR PAL 1871/- , born 1843, Honourary Magistrate ^(#1), married and had issue.

  • Rajwar GAJENDRA PAL (qv)

• Rajwar GAJENDRA PAL -/1929, married and had issue. He died 1929.

  • Kunwar Bhupendra Pal, died sp 1924.

  • Rajwar BIKRAM BAHADUR PAL (qv)

  • Kunwar Jung Bahadur Pal

  • Kunwar Mandhata Pal, married and had issue.

    • Sri Rani Bindu Devi, married General Sri Arjun Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal (see Lambjung and Kaski).

  • Kunwar Ram Bahadur Pal

  • Kunwar Jeet Bahadur Pal

• Rajwar BIKRAM BAHADUR PAL 1929/1939 , married Rani Tribhuwaneswari Devi, daughter of the Raja of Bajhang in Western Nepal, and had issue. He died 1939.

  • Rajwar TIKENDRA BAHADUR PAL (qv)

  • Kunwar Hariraj Singh Pal

  • Kunwar Chitravan Singh Pal

• Rajwar TIKENDRA BAHADUR PAL 1939/2000, married a daughter of HH Maharaja Chandraveer Singhji of Banswara, and had issue. He died November 2000.

  • Rajwar BHANURAJ SINGH PAL (qv)

• Rajwar BHANURAJ SINGH PAL (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Rani Narendar Kanwar, married (as his second wife), Rao Bahadur Thakur SHIVNATH SINGHJI of Bera, and had issue.

• Unknown, married and had issue.

  • Kunwar Kharak Singh Pal

  • Rani Rani Yashoda Devi, married Shri Bir Jung Shah of Nepal, and had issue.

    • Kanwarani Sushila Devi, born 1910, married Kanwar Shankar Singh of Koti, and had issue.