PRESENT RULER: Raja YOGESHWAR SINGH, Raja Saheb of Kawardha since 14th May 2007 (Palace Kawardha, Kawardha - 491995, Distt. Rajnandgaon, Madhya Pradesh, India)

born 1967, a Congress MLA of Kawardha, married 19th February 2003, Rani Kriti Devi [née Maharaj Kumari Kriti Deb Burman], born 3rd June 1971, younger daughter of HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi Mahamahodya Pancha-Srijukta Maharaja Kirit Bikram Kishore Dev Varman Manikya Bahadur of Tripura, and his second wife, HH Maharani Bibhu Kumari Devi, and has issue.

• Yuvaraj Mikhileshwar Singh, born 2nd April 2004 at Calcutta, West Bengal.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1751. Rulers were...

• Thakur MAHABALI SINGH 1751/1801

• Thakur UJIYAR SINGH 1801/1848

• Thakur TOK SINGH 1848/1852

• Thakur BAIJNATH SINGH fl.1860

• Thakur RAM SINGH -/1863, (of Pandaria?), married and had issue.

  • Thakur RAJPAL SINGH (qv)

  • Thakur GAJPAL SINGH of Pandaria.

• Thakur BAHADUR SINGH 1863/1864

• Thakur RAJPAL SINGH 1864/1891, born 13th November 1849, succeeded 11th December 1874 ^(#1).

• Thakur JADUNATH SINGH 1891/1920, born 1885.

• Raja DHARAMRAJ SINGH 1920/- , born 18th August 1910 and succeeded 4th February 1920, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; married and had issue. He died 20th August 1959.

  • Raja VISHWARAJ PRATAP SINGH (qv)

• Raja VISHWARAJ PRATAP SINGH 1959/2007, succeeded to the gadi of Kawardha on the death of his father on 20th August 1959, M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh), Member of the Executive Committee of Rajkumar College at Raipur, married Rani Shashi Prabha Devi (now the Rajmata of Kawardha), and had issue. He died 14th May 2007 at Durg.

  • Raja YOGESHWAR SINGH (qv)

  • Rajkumari Manjari Kumari [Princess Chinky], born 1959, married 14th December 1987, Kunwar Rudra Dev Singh of Orchha, born 1957.

  • Rani Vasundhara Kumari [Princess Twinky], married 28th April 1982, Rawal Shri Sanjai Singhji of Bissau, and has issue.

• Raja YOGESHWAR SINGH (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Kumar Shri Yashwant Raj Singh of Kawardha, M.L.A. (Madhya Pradfesh).