PRESENT RULER: (Raj Bhawan, P.O. Kalakankar, Distt. Pratapgarh-230 001, Uttar Pradesh)

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Also known as Rampur Dharupur. The founder of the family was Raja Hom Mull, younger son of Raja Prithvi Mull of Majhauli in Gorakhpur. Rulers include...

• Raja TEJ SINGH fl.1628

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• Rai BAIRI SAL, married and had adoptive issue. He died sp.

  • (A) Kunwar Hanumant Singh (qv)

• Raja HANWANT SINGH [Hanumant Singh], he was adopted by the widow of Rai Bairi Sal in 1826; was granted the title of Raja by the King of Oudh in 1849, married and had issue. He died 1885.

  • Rajkumar Lal Pratap Singh, married and had issue. He was killed vp 1857 in the Battle of Charda.

    • Raja RAMPAL SINGH (qv)^(#1).

    • Rao Saheb Ramdeen Singh Ji, married and had issue.

      • Rajkumari Sharda Kumari [Rani Sharda Kumari of Agori Barhar], married (as his first wife), Raja SHARDA MAHESH PRASAD SINGH SHAH of Agori Barhar, and had issue.

  • Daughter, married and had issue.

    • Raja RAMPAL SINGH (qv)^(#2).

• Raja RAMPAL SINGH 1885/1909, born 22nd August 1849 ^(#2) or 1848 ^(#1) in Dharupur, Pratapgarh District, UP; married 1stly, Rani Subhag Kunwar, died about 1871 in London, married 2ndly, Rani Alice (an English lady), married 3rdly, Rani Radha (Muslim). He died sp 28th February 1909 in Kalakankar.

• Raja RAMESH SINGH 1909/-, died after 1910 and before 1930.

• Raja AUDHESH SINGH, married and had issue. He died 1930/1933.

  • Raja AVADESH SINGH (qv)

  • Kunwar Brijesh Singh [Brajesh Singh], married 1stly, Kunwarani Laxmi Devi, married 2ndly, Leela (an Austrian lady), married 3rdly, 1963 (as her third husband), Svetlana Alliluyeva [née Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina], born 28th February 1926 in Moscow, daughter of Joseph Stalin [Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili] and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and had issue. He died 31st October 1966 and his cremated remains were returned to Kalakankar.

    • Kunwar Victor Singh (by Leela), Photographer (U.K.).

• Raja AVADESH SINGH, married Rani Lakshmi Kumari and had issue. He died after 1933.

  • Raja DINESH SINGH (qv)

  • Rajkumari (name unknown) [Rani Sahiba of Khairigarh], married (as his first wife), Raja LUV SHAH of Khairigarh, and had issue.

• Raja DINESH SINGH, born 19th July 1925 in Kalakankar, educated at Doon School, Dehradun, U.P., Colvin College, Lucknow, U.P. and University of Lucknow, U.P. Member of the India International Centre, Indian Council for Child Welfare, Bharat Krishak Samaj, Bharatiya Natya Sangh and Indian delegations to many international organisations such as FAO, ECAFE, ECOSOC and U.N. General Assembly; Deputy Minister in the Ministry of External Affairs 1962/66, Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs 1966/67; Minister of Commerce 1967/69; Minister of External Affairs 1969/70; Minister of Industrial Development and Internal Trade 1970/71; Minister of Water Resources in 1988; Minister of Commerce 1988/89 and Minister of External Affairs 1993/-; Member of the Second Lok Sabha 1957/62, Third Lok Sabha 1962/67, Fourth Lok Sabha 1966/70, Fifth Lok Sabha 1971/77, Rajya Sabha 1977/82, Eighth Lok Sabha 1984/89, Ninth Lok Sabha 1989/91 and re-elected to the Rajya Sabha in July 1993. Member of the following clubs: Cricket Club of India, Bombay, Delhi Gymkhana Club, New Delhi and Delhi Golf Club, New Delhi. Author of: "Towards New Horizons", 1971, "India and the Changing Asian Scene", 1973, articles in many magazines and National dailies; married Rani Neelima Kumari, daughter of Lt.Col. HH Sir Maharaja NARENDRA SHAH Sahib Bahadur of Tehri-Garhwal, and his wife, HH Maharani Indu Mati Devi Sahiba, and had issue, six daughters. He died 30th November 1995 in New Delhi.

  • Maharani Rewa Kumari, married 1967, Maharaja INDRAJITENDRA NARAIN SINGH of Ramgarh, and has issue.

  • Rajkumari Ravija Kumari [Rani Ravija Kumari of Delwara], married Raj Rana VIKRAM SINGH of Delwara, and has issue.

  • Yuvrani Rajitha Devi, born 11th April 1950 in Narendranagar, Tehri-Garhwal, married 9th May 1974 in Delhi to Yuvraj Anirudh Singh of Barwani.

  • Rajkumari Renuka Devi [HH Maharani Sahiba Renuka Devi of Barwani], born 26th May 1952 in Mussoorie, married 21st January 1979 in New Delhi, Rajkumar Manvendra Singh [now HH Maharana Sahib MANVENDRA SINGH of Barwani], and has issue.

  • Rajkumari Ratna Devi, born 29th April 1959 in New Delhi. B.Com., educated at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi. Member, Pradesh Congress Committee (P.C.C.), Uttar Pradesh 1991/-, General Secretary, P.C.C., Uttar Pradesh 1996/-, member of the 11th and 13th Lok Sabha, re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha on 16th May 2009; Member of the Executive Committee, Congress Party in Parliament 1996/-, Member of the Committee on Communications 1999/2000, Member of the Consultative Committee Ministry of Information Technology 2000/- ; Vice-President of the Raja Avadesh Singh Memorial Educational Society, Pratapgarh; the M.R. Trust; and the Raja Hanumat Rampal Trust, Pratapgarh; Secretary of the Madanmohan Malviya Post Graduate College, Pratapgarh; Manager of the Hanumat Inter College, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh; Chairperson of the Raja Dinesh Singh Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pratapgarh. Interests include.. gardening, music, reading, travelling and photography, horse-riding and squash. Member of the Delhi Gymkhana Club; India International Centre; Rotary Club, Garden City, New Delhi; and Cricket Club of India, Mumbai; married 30th May 1987, Yuvraj Shri Jai Singh Sisodia of Pratapgarh, and has issue.

    • Bhanwar Bhuvanyu Singh

    • Bhanwar Baisa Tanushree Kumari

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Abha Kumari, married Vijay Singh of Khajurgaon, and has issue, one daughter and one son.