PRESENT RULER: Maharaja Bahadur Sri MRIGENDRA PRATAP SAHI, present Maharaja of Hathwa

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Maharaja of Hathwa, belongs to a Baghochhia Brahmin family, that claims to have been settled as Rajas in the district of Saran for over a hundred generations. Rulers were...

• 86 Maharaja KALYAN MAL, he was a fearless and able commander, and Padshah Akbar sent him with 5000 foot and 100 horse to check the growing revolt and declaration of independence in Eastern Bihar, he succeeded and was entrusted him with the responsibility of the entire administration of the conquered area and he was granted the title of Maharaja around 1565; he established the village of Kalyanpur about 41 kilometres to the west of the modern Gopalganj (district Siwan) and there he built a big fort; after the death of Akbar, the Mughal administration became weak and Eastern Bihar again rebelled; married and had issue.

  • Maharaja KSHEM KARAN Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Babu Van Mal Sahi, died sp.

• 87. Maharaja KSHEM KARAN Sahi Bahadur [Isham Karan Sahi], brave like his father, he accompanied him in several battles and after his succession he was commanded by Padshah Jahangir to subdue the revolt in which he succeeded; for this he was granted the title of Bahadur Shahi and was awarded the emblem of Mahe Maratile, the Raja built an extensive and strong fort at Hussepur about 13 kilometres from Kalyanpur and made it his capital; married and had issue.

  • Maharaja BHUPATI Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Babu Bikram Sahi

  • Babu Shah Mal Sahi

  • Babu Mansinha Sahi

  • Babu Harkrishna Sahi

• 88. Maharaja BHUPATI Sahi Bahadur, said to be a man of religious temperament; married and had issue.

  • Maharaja SANGRAM Sahi Bahadur (qv)

• 89. Maharaja SANGRAM Sahi Bahadur, he was an able administrater and a man of high military capability; married and had issue.

  • Maharaja RUDRA Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Babu Chattar Sahi

  • Babu Sujjan Sahi

  • Babu Sundar Sahi, married and had issue, descendants at Sikatin.

• 90. Maharaja RUDRA Sahi Bahadur, married and had issue.

  • Maharaja GUNDURHA Sahi Bahadur [aka Hamir Sahi Bahadur] (qv)

  • Maharaja NRIPATI Sahi Bahadur [aka Tribhuvan Sahi Bahadur] (qv)

  • Babu Gambhir Sahi

  • Babu Sumer Sahi

• 91. Maharaja GUNDURHA Sahi Bahadur, died sp.

• 92. Maharaja NRIPATI Sahi Bahadur, married and had issue.

  • Maharaja HALDHAR Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Babu Narayan Sahi, married and had issue.

    • Babu Harihar Sahi, married and had issue.

      • Babu Tripta Sahi, married and had issue.

        • Babu Shiva Prasad Sahi

• 93. Maharaja HALDHAR Sahi Bahadur, married and had issue.

  • Maharaja HARGOVINDA Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Maharaja JUVARAJ Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Babu Bhudhar Sahi, died sp.

  • Maharaja KURTAL Sahi Bahadur (qv)

• 94. Maharaja HARGOVINDA Sahi Bahadur, died sp.

• 95. Maharaja JUVARAJ Sahi Bahadur, during his reign he seized Sipah pargana from an Afghan chief, who had made himself semi independent in North Bihar; married and had issue.

  • Maharaja CHETT Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Babu Brajraj Sahi, died vpsp.

  • Babu Barijar Sahi, died vpsp.

• 96. Maharaja CHETT Sahi Bahadur, died sp.

• 97. Maharaja KURTAL Sahi Bahadur, married and had issue.

  • Maharaja SARDAR Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Babu Inderjit Sahi, married and had issue.

    • Babu Basant Sahi, he assisted the Government in trying to arrest Fateh Sahi, but in 1775, he was surprised by the rebel and killed; married and had issue. He died 4th May 1775.

      • Babu Mohesh Dutt Sahi [Mahes Datt Sahi], he followed in his fathers footsteps, and the Goverment was about to proclaim him the rightful successor of the rebel Fateh Sahi when he died, leaving a son; married and had issue.

        • Maharaja CHATTARDHARI Sahi Bahadur (qv)

    • Babu Ishwar Prasad Sahi

• 98. Maharaja SARDAR Sahi Bahadur, Raja of Hussepur, he was an able soldier and military commander; he took part in several battles during his youth and co-operated with Nawab Ali Verdi Khan on a number of occasions; he fought with and defeated Majhauli Raj, and destroyed their garh or fort, and imposed as terms of peace on the Raja of Majhauli, the condition that he and his descendants were not to display their nishans and dunkas; married and had issue.

  • Maharajkumar Sarvardarman Sahi, married and had issue. He died vp.

    • Babu Rossan Sahi, died vpsp.

  • Maharaja FATEH Sahi Bahadur (qv)

• 99. Maharaja FATEH Sahi Bahadur, he inherited the bravery and courage of his father and co-operated with Mir Qasim who continued to get his military assistance from Monghyr up to Buxar in Bihar, in his struggles against the Mughal Emperor; he opposed the Dewani powers gained by the British over Bengal, Bihar and Orissa by virtue of the Treaty of Allahabad in 1765; he joined forces with the Raja of Bettiah in opposing the British until they reached a compromise with Bettiah, whereupon he continued alone; the East India Company promised his cousin, Babu Basant Sahi the throne if he would apprehend or kill him, but he killed his cousin at Yadavpur in 1775; he later established Tamkuhi State about 109 kilometres from Hussepur, north-east of present day Deoria within the Kingdom of Oudh; seeing the growing influence and power of the E.I.C., Maharaja Fateh Sahi changed his tatctics and around 1790, he ceased his rebellious ways and handed the administration of the state to his sons, he left home and became Sanyasi; married and had issue.

  • Babu Arimardan Sahi, died sp.

  • Babu Dalmardan Sahi, married and had issue.

    • Raja DILIP Sahi (of Tamkuhi?), died sp.

  • Babu Sumeshwar Sahi, married and had issue.

    • Babu Jangajit Sahi, died sp.

    • Babu Samant Sahi

  • Babu Ranbahadur Sahi, married and had issue.

    • Raja PRITHVIPAL Sahi of Tamkuhi (qv)

    • Babu Dalthumban Sahi

• 100. Maharaja CHATTARDHARI Sahi Bahadur, born 1781, he was granted the estates of Fateh Sahi in the Decennia1 Settlement of 1790 by Lord Cornwallis after inquiring into all the facts and the usages of the family; he was granted the title of Maharaja Bahadur on 10th September 1837; he rendered most valuable services to the Government at the time of the Santal insurrection, and again during the Mutiny of 1857, and was rewarded with the grant of a portion of the confiscated estates of the rebel Raja of Jagdishpur, Kunwar Singh; married the daughter of Raja Ganga Prasad of Sheohar, and had issue. He died 16th March 1858 in Hutwa at an advanced age.

  • Maharajkumar Ramsahai Sahi, married and had issue. He died vp.

    • Babu Devaraj Sahi

    • Babu Ugrapratap Sahi, married and had issue, he waived his succession rights in favour of his son, married and had issue.

      • Maharaja RAJENDRA PRATAP Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Kumar Prithvipal Sahi, married and had issue.

    • Babu Tilakdhari Sahi, married and had issue.

      • Babu Narendra Pratap Sahi, married and had issue.

        • Babu Shiva Pratap Sahi

        • Babu Deoki Nandan Pratap Sahi

    • Babu Bir Pratap Sahi

  • Kumari (name unknown), married and had issue.

    • Kumari (name unknown), married and had issue.

      • Lt.Col. HH Maharaja Shri Sir PRABHU NARAYAN SINGH Bahadur of Benares.

• 101. Maharaja RAJENDRA PRATAP Sahi Bahadur -/1871, born 1838, he was granted the title of Maharaja Bahadur in October 1858; married and had issue, one son. He died in July 1871.

  • Maharaja Sir KRISHAN PRATAP Sahi Bahadur (qv)

• 102. Maharaja Sir KRISHNA PRATAP SAHI Bahadur K.C.I.E., 1871/1896, born in October 1857, educated privately under the direction of the Court of Wards, he succeeded his father in 1871, though administration of the state was under the Court of Wards until he attained his majority in 1874, and was duly installed on 31st August of that same year at a Durbar during which he also was granted the title of Maharaja Bahadur and a Medal of Distinction at the Imperial Durbar in Delhi in 1877; he was created a Knight Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire in 1889; married and had issue. He died 20th October 1896, after a painful and lingering illness of six months.

  • Maharajkumar Shiva Pratap Sahi, died vpsp.

  • Maharaja Guru MAHADEV ASHRAM PRASAD Sahi Bahadur (qv)

  • Maharajkumari (name unknown), born 1895.

• 103. Maharaja GURU MAHADEV ASHRAM PRASAD Sahi Bahadur 1896/-, born 19th July 1893, he was granted the title of Maharaja Bahadur in 1914, and took charge of the estate some months later in July 1914 and was installed on 2nd December 1914 in a ceremony performed by Sir Charles Stewart Bayly, Lieutenant-Governor of Bihar and Orissa; married and had issue. He died after 1946.

• Maharaja Bahadur Sri GOPESHWAR PRASAD SAHI, married Maharani Durgeshwari Devi, and had issue.

  • Maharaja Bahadur Mrigendra Pratap Sahi (qv)

  • Maharaj Kumar Brajeshwar Prasad Sahi

• Maharaja Bahadur Sri MRIGENDRA PRATAP SAHI (see above)