PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The state of Jashpur was ceded to the British Government by the provisional agreement concluded with Mudhoji Bhonsle in 1818. Although noticed in the second part of this agreement as a separate state, it was at first treated as a fief of Surguja to some measure. The relations of the chief are regulated by the provisions of the sanad granted in 1899 and later reissued in 1905. Rulers were...

• Raja RANJIT SINGH, Raja of Jashpur, died circa 1813.

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• Raja RAM SINGH, Raja of Jashpur 1826/-

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• Raja PRATAP NARAYAN SINGH Deo Bahadur, Raja of Jashpur 1845/1900, born 1822 (1829, 1832), succeeded 24th October 1845 ^(#1), C.I.E. [cr.1890].

• Raja Bahadur BISHAN PRATAP SINGH Deo, Raja of Jashpur 1900/1924, born 16th December 1864, succeeded in April 1900.

• Raja DEO SARAN SINGH Ju Deo, Raja of Jashpur 1924/1926, married Rani Mohan Raj Lakshmi Devi, grand-daughter of Thakur Puran Chandra Khan of Garunkot in Nepal; and had issue.

  • HH Raja Bijay Bhushan Singh Ju Deo (qv)

• HH Raja BIJAY BHUSHAN SINGH Ju Deo, Raja of Jashpur 1926/1982, born 11th January 1926 and succeeded 8th February 1926 ^(#2), Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1952/1962, the Lok Sabha 1962/1967 and the Rajya Sabha 1970/1976, married, HH Rani Jaya Kumari Devi, and had issue, two sons and three daughters. He died 4th October 1982.

  • Yuvraj Uppendra Singh Ju Deo, married Yuvrani Mohini Devi [now Rajmata Mohini Devi of Jashpur], daughter of Thatraj Raj Raj Deb of Puri, and his wife, Thatrani Purneshwari Devi, and had issue, two sons and one daughter.

    • HH Raja Ranvijay Pratap Singh Ju Deo (qv)

    • Rajkumar Vikramaditya Singh Ju Deo, married, Rajkumari Jaya Kumari, daughter of Raja Goverdhan Prasad Singh of Ranka, and has issue.

    • Yuvrani Mrinalini Devi, married Yuvraj Shivendra Bhanj Deo of Kanika, and has issue, one son.

  • Rajkumar Shri Dilip Singh Ju Deo, born 8th March 1949 in Jashpur, Madhya Pradesh; B.A., LL.B., educated at Kalyan Ashram, Mayo College, and Rajkumar College, Raipur and Ranchi University. President, Municipal Board, Jashpur, 1975/82; Vice-President, Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh; previously associated with Bharatiya Jana Sangh; Member of the R.S.S., Vishwa Hindu Parishad, 9th Lok Sabha, Committee on Commerce and Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Coal; elected to the Rajya Sabha in June, 1992 and re-elected in June, 1998 and again in 2004, served as Union Minister in the cabinet of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee for sometime; Member of the Bhubaneswar Club Ltd., the Jashpur Club and the Puri Club. Interests include swimming, shooting, stamp collection, cycling, outdoor games, volleyball and cricket; he married 23rd May 1975, Rajkumar Rani Madhvi Devi of Sailana, and has issue, three sons.

  • Rajkumari Lokeshwari Devi, married Shri Gyanendra Chotray of Nariangarh, Dist, Khurda in Orissa, and has issue, three daughters.

  • Rajkumari Kalpaneshwari Devi, married Maharajkumar Rajyavardhan Singh of Narsinghgarh, born 1953, and has issue, two sons.

    • Kunwar Veer Vikram Singh

    • Kunwar Vishwa Pratap Singh

  • Yuvrani Sushmeshwari Devi, married Yuvraj Bir Keshari Deo of Bonai, and has issue, one daughter and one son.

  • Rajkumari Sarveshwari Devi, married Kumar Rajeev Ranjan Singh of Rehsa, and has issue, two sons.

    • Shivraj Singh

    • Jaiaditya Singh

• HH Raja RANVIJAY PRATAP SINGH Ju Deo, Raja of Jashpur (see above)