PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Jharia was founded in the 16th century by two brothers, both brave soldiers, who came from from Rewah in order to extend and expand their empire. One of the two brothers settled in Bihar and the other in Orissa. The estate was bounded on the east to Baliyapur, on the west by the River Katri, on the north by Barwada (Jainagar) and on the south by Sindri to the River Damodar. Estate holders were.....

• Raja Raghunath Singh, 1st Raja of Jharia, founder of Jharia at an unknown date, married and had issue.

  • Raja Indra Singh (qv)

• Raja Indra Singh, 2nd Raja of Jharia -/1680, married and had issue. He died 1680.

  • Rajkumar Tej Singh, married and had issue.

    • Raja Jasmat Singh (qv)

• Raja Jasmat Singh, 3rd Raja of Jharia 1680/-, married and had issue.

• Raja Mohan Singh, 4th Raja of Jharia, married and had issue, three sons.

• Raja Jorawar Singh, 5th Raja of Jharia, married 1stly, Rani Saraswati Kumari, she committed sati, married 2ndly, Rani Jhalo Kumari, married 3rdly, Rani (name unknown) Kumari. He died sp.

• Raja Prithvi Singh, 6th Raja of Jharia, married four Ranis. He died sp in 1826.

• Raja Sangram Singh, 7th Raja of Jharia, married four Ranis including, (a), Rani Gobinda Kumari, married (b), Rani Tara Kumari, and had issue, four sons. He died 1836.

  • Raja Udit Narain Singh (qv)

  • Rajkumar Brajlal Singh, born 1834.

  • Kunwar Nand Kishore Singh (by Rani Tara Kumari)

  • Unknown

    • Raja Rasbehari Singh [aka Rash Behari Lal] (qv)

  • Kunwar Brij Bihari Singh (by Rani Gobinda Kumari), married and had issue.

    • Kunwar Kunj Bihari Singh

  • Unknown

    • Unknown

      • Raja Sri Sri Shiva Prasad Singh (2nd cousin) (see below)

• Raja Udit Narain Singh, 8th Raja of Jharia 1836/-, born 1827,

• Raja Rasbehari Singh, 9th Raja of Jharia, married two Ranis, and had issue, two daughters.

  • Raja Sri Sri Jay Mangal Singh (qv)

  • Raja Sri Sri Durga Prashad Singh (qv)

• Raja Sri Sri Jay Mangal Singh, Raja of Jharia, married Rani Chalur Kumari.

• Raja Sri Sri Durga Prasad Singh M.B.E., Raja of Jharia -/1916, during his term, Jharia flourished, as the Raja was a man of foresight, and a good businessman, he prospered from his coalmines, from trade and business, he purchased and invested in properties in various parts of India, he built roads, temples, a Fort and many other buildings; married 1stly, Rani Prayag Kumari, she died after 1932, married 2ndly, Rani Subhadra Kumari, married 3rdly, Rani Hem Kumari, she died after 1955. He died sp on 7th March 1916.

• Raja Sri Sri Shiv Prasad Singh M.B.E., Raja of Jharia 1916/1946, married and had issue. He died 31st December 1946.

  • Raja Sri Sr Kali Prasad Singh (qv)

• Raja Sri Sri Kali Prasad Singh, Raja of Jharia 1947/-, he succeeded to the gadi on 1st January 1947, he was appointed a Magistrate, First Class for civil matters; he was elected M.L.A. in 1952 from Swatantra Party, a philanthropist and a popular and active social worker, he continued the construction work of his predecessors; he donated land to the Central Fuel Research Institute (C.F.R.I.), Digwadih and to Sant Vinoba Bhave in the Bhodan Yagya; he was instrumental in establishing the Sindri Fertlizer works, as well as the Raja Shiv Prasad Singh College in Jharia; he was the Life Senate Member of Vinoba Bhave University (V.B.U) and Life Member of the East Bengal Club of Calcutta; he was an active Social worker and was honoured by the Jharkhand Government in 2003 for his many contributions; he had a keen interest in sports, particularly football, and also an interest in music, to the extant of learning to play the Tabla from Birju Maharaja of India fame; married 1946, Rani Usha Devi, eldest daughter of Thakur Rudra Narayan Singh of Khesmi Zamindari, Hazaribagh, and his wife Thakurani Padmini Devi, and had issue.

  • Raja Bishweshwar Prasad Singh (qv)

  • Raja Maheshwar Prasad Singh (qv)

  • Rajkumari Jaya Singh, married Raja Ajay Singh of Kurri Sudauli, U.P., and has issue.

  • Rajkumari Madhulika Singh, married Rajkunwar Chhatrapalsinghji Dharmendrasinghji Parmar of Muli State, Gujarat, and has issue.

• Raja Bishweshwar Prasad Singh and Raja Maheshwar Prasad Singh (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Lal Saheb of Jharia Estate, married and had issue.

  • Rajkumarani Renuka, married Rajkumar Sankumar Kirendra Chandra Mardaraj Harichandan of Nilgiri, born 1947, and has issue, two sons.

• Lal Saheb F. N. Shah Deo of Jharia, married Rajkumari Patajema Snehelata Devi, daughter of Raja Purna Chandra Deo Harishchandra Jagadev of Surangi, and his wife, Rani Hira Kumari Devi.

• Thakur Saheb of Jharia, married and had issue.

  • Rani Soubhagya Manjari Devi, married (as his first wife), Raja Kirti Chandra Deo Harishchandra Jagadev of Surangi, and has issue.

• [Chota Nagpur???] Thakur Mahindra Nath Shah Deo of Jharia (Bihar), educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; Member of the Lok Sabha, M.L.A.

• Lal Jogendra Nath Sahi Deo, a son of the present (1927) khorposhdar of the Jharia Estate, held under the Chota Nagpur Raj.