VILLAGES: 107
AREA: 396 km2
LOCATION: Madhya Pradesh
PRIVY PURSE: 20,300Rs
REVENUE: Rs
DYNASTY: Bairagi
ACCESSION: 1st January 1948
RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 26,368 (1901)
PRESENT RULER: .
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: .
OTHER MEMBERS: .
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PRESENT RULER: Raja GHANSHYAM KISHORE DAS
married Rani Rajshree Devi, and has issue.
Rajkumari Bharti Devi, married Rajkumar Debendra Nath Singh, son of Rai Bahadur Thakur SOURENDRA SHANKAR SINGH, Zamindar Saheb of Chandrapur and Padampur Estates, and his wife, Rani Seema Devi.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1750 when the Zamindari was conferred on Mahant Rup Das by Madhoji Bhonsle. Rulers were...
Mahant RUP DAS 1750/1780
Mahant TULSI DAS 1780/-, recognized by the Raja of Nagpur in 1780, as the Zamindar of Kondka.
Mahant BALMAKUND DAS -/1845
Mahant LAKSHMAN DAS 1845/1887, the status of Feudatory Chief was conferred in 1865 by the British authorities.
Mahant SHYAM KISHOR DAS 1887/1896, born 1838, succeeded 13th December 1887 (#1), married and had issue. He died 1896.
Mahant RADHA BALLABH KISHOR DAS (qv)
Mahant RADHA BALLABH KISHOR DAS 1896/1898, married and had issue. He died 1898 (poisoned by arsenic administered by a relative).
Mahant DIGVIJAY YUGAL KISHOR DAS (qv)
Mahant BHUDAV KISHOR DAS (qv)
Mahant DIGVIJAY YUGAL KISHOR DAS 1898/1903, born circa 1883, died 1903.
Mahant BHUDAV KISHOR DAS 1903/1940, born April 1891 and succeeded 30th September 1903 (#2), educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur.
Mahant RITU PURNA KISHOR DAS 1940/-, born 1922, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur;
Raja GHANSHYAM KISHORE DAS (see above)
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.263
2. "Indian Annual Register" , N.N.Nitra,Calcutta 1945