PRESENT HEAD OF HOUSE: Raja UDAI PRATAP SINGH, present Raja Saheb of Bhadri

born 1933 in Bhadri, educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun; he succeeded by adoption; married Rani Manjul Raje, and has issue.

• Kunwar Raghuraj Pratap Singh [Raja Bhaiyya], born on 31st October 1967 in Kunda, Pratapgarh Dist., U.P., educated at Mahaprabhu Bal Vidayalaya Narayni Asram Shivkuti, Allahabad, at Bharat Scout H.S. School, at Colonel Ganj Inter College, Allahabad and at Lucknow University, graduating with a Law Degree; M.L.A. (Uttar Pradesh) 1993/-; Minister of Programme Implementation 1997/1999; Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare 1999/2000; Minister of Food and Civil Supplies 2004/2007; Minister of Food and Civil Supplies and Jail [15.3.2012] - [4.3.2013]; married Kunwarani Bhanvi Kumari, and has issue, two sons and two daughters.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The family of Bhadri is a younger branch of that of Kalakankar. Estate holders were.....

• Rai Ragho, his capital was at Derwa, married and had issue.

  • Rai Askaran of Rampur Dharupur (see Kalakankar)

  • Kashi Rai of Dhingwas and Dhangarh

  • Rai Khem Karan, youngest son, married and had issue.

    • Rai Kalyan Shah, married and had issue, four sons.

      • Rai Sabal Shah, founder of the Bhadri estate (continued below)

      • Rai Joghar Rai of Kundarjit

      • Rai Himmat Shah of Dhiawan

      • Rai Durga Shah [aka Darshan Shah] of Shekhpur Chauras or Shaikhpur Chauras

• Rai SABAL SHAH, 1st Rai of Bhadri, he was the founder of the Bhadri taluqa, married and had issue.

  • Rai Bikram Shah (qv)

• Rai BIKRAM SHAH, Rai of Bhadri, married and had issue.

  • Rai Chhatar Singh (qv)

• Rai CHHATAR SINGH, Rai of Bhadri, married and had issue.

  • Rai Ram Singh (qv)

• Rai RAM SINGH, Rai of Bhadri, married and had issue.

  • Rai Gaharwar Singh (qv)

• Rai GAHARWAR SINGH, Rai of Bhadri, married and had issue.

  • Rai Daljit Singh (qv)

• Rai DALJIT SINGH, Rai of Bhadri, he was confirmed in the title of Rai, he quarrelled with the Nazim, Mirza Jan, and was killed, married and had issue. He was killed in 1748 (1798?).

  • Rai Zalim Singh (qv)

• Rai ZALIM SINGH, Rai of Bhadri 1748/1815, he fled from the Nazim in 1748, but was afterwards returned to his estate; in 1810, he was seized and the estate was place under direct management; married Rani Sheoraj Kunwar, she recovered the fort of Bhadri by force of arms and held the taluqa until her husband was released in 1815, and he made over the estate to his son.

  • Rai Gopal Singh (qv)

  • Rai Jagmohan Singh fl.1833

  • Rai Bishnath Singh, he and his older brother got into trouble with the Nazim, Ihsan Husain Khan, who attacked and pursued them to Ramchaura on the Ganges river, in British Territory, there they were surrounded and killed.

• Rai GOPAL SINGH, Rai of Bhadri 1815/-, he died young leaving an infant son, married and had issue, one son.

  • Rai Amarnath Singh (qv)

• Rai AMARNATH SINGH, Rai of Bhadri -/1846, married and had adoptive issue. He died 1846.

  • (A) Rai Jagat Bahadur Singh (qv)

• Rai JAGAT BAHADUR SINGH, Rai of Bhadri 1846/1878, he was born the son of Babu Sheoratan Singh, who was hanged at Allahabad in 1837 for rebellion; married and had adoptive issue. He died sp on 15th February 1878.

  • (A) Rai Sarabjit Singh (qv)

• Rai SARABJIT SINGH, Rai of Bhadri 1878/1896, born 10th December 1853, succeeded 15th February 1878 ^(#1), his title of Rai was recognized as a hereditary distinction on 14th November 1879; married and had issue. He died 1896.

  • Rai Kishan Prasad Singh (qv)

• Rai KRISHAN PRASAD SINGH, Rai of Bhadri 1896/1920, twenty two villages had been purchased by the Court of Wards on his behalf; married and had issue. He died 6th April 1920.

  • Rai Bajrang Bahadur Singh (qv)

  • Kunwar Bhadreshwar Pratap Singh

  • Kunwar Trilochan Pratap Singh, married Kunwarani Rukmini Devi, and had issue.

    • Kunwar Udai Pratap Singh, he was adopted by his uncle and succeeded as Raja Udai Pratap Singh, Raja of Bhadri (qv).

• Rai BAJRANG BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Bhadri 1920/-, born 1st January 1906, he succeeded to the gadi on 6th April 1920; founder and Vice-Chancellor of Pantnagar Agriculture University; 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Himachal Pradesh [1.1.1955] - [13.81963]; he adopted his nephew as his successor; married 1926, Rani Girija Devi, third daughter of HH Sawai Maharaja Punya Pratap Singhji of Ajaigarh, and his wife, HH Maharani Rukmini Devi, and had adoptive issue. He died sp after 1970.

  • (A) Raja Udai Pratap Singh (qv)

• Raja UDAI PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Bhadri (see above)