VILLAGES: xx
AREA: 184 km2
LOCATION: Madhya Pradesh
PRIVY PURSE: 15,000Rs
REVENUE: 27,000Rs
DYNASTY: Jijhotia Brahmin
ACCESSION: 1st January 1950
RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 7,760 (1901)
PRESENT RULER:
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Chief maintains a military force of 43 cavalry, 198 infantry, and 6 guns (in 1893). Rulers were....
Sardar Sawai Rajdhar RAJA RAM, 1st Chief of Gaurihar 1807/1846, he was granted the Jagir of Gaurihar in 1807, married and had issue.
Rao Rajdhar Rudra Pratap Bahadur (qv)
Rao Rajdhar RUDRA PRATAP Bahadur, 2nd Rao of Gaurihar 1846/1877, born 1811, he did excellent service, and incurred great personal loss at Banda, for which, he had conferred on him, in the Cawnpur Darbar of 1859, the title of Rao Bahadur, a khilat, and the right of adoption.
Rao GAJADHAR PRASAD Bahadur, 3rd Rao of Gaurihar -/1877 [1880/1887???], died 14th November 1877 (or 1887).
Rao SHAMLE PRASAD Bahadur, 4th Rao of Gaurihar [1887/1904?], born 1859, Jagirdar of Gaurihar, succeeded to the gadi on 14th November 1877 (#1).
Rao Pandit PRATIPAL SINGH, 5th Rao of Gaurihar 1904/1932 (deposed), married and had issue.
Rao Pandit Avadhendra Pratap Singh (qv)
Kunwar Devendra Pratap Singh, born 1907.
Rao Pandit AVADHENDRA PRATAP SINGH, 6th Rao of Gaurihar 1932/-, born 1902, married and had issue, three sons.
Kunwar Pratap Singh, born 1923.
Kunwar Chandrabhan Singh, he succeeded as Rao Pandit Chandrabhan Singh (qv)
Kunwar Balbhadra Singh, born 1927.
Rao Pandit CHANDRABHAN SINGH, 7th Rao of Gaurihar, born 1925. fl.1970
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.144
The help of Deepak Aggarwal is gratefully acknowledged, July 2011.