PRESENT RULER: Raja Sahib of Kothi

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Kothi was a small sanad state of about 169 square miles, now included in the Raghuraj Nagar tehsil. The state was formerly ruled by chiefs of the Bhar tribe but Jagat Rai Singh Baghel drove out the original Bhar chief and founded the jagir. On the establishment of British supremacy Kothi was held to be subordinate to Panna, because in the eighteenth century when Chhatrarao Bundela was in power in Panna, the Kothi chiefs were his tributary. Thereafter, however, during the domination of Alibahadur of Banda, and afterwards, the Kothi chiefs maintained their independence. In view of this the British granted in 1810 a sanad (No, XCI) to Rais Lal Duniyapati Singh, making him directly dependent on British Government. The Raja maintains a military force of 35 cavalry, 210 infantry, and 4 guns (as of 1892). Rulers were....

• Rais DUNIYAPATI SINGH, Rais of Kothi, he was granted a sanad of his state in 1810, married and had issue.

  • Rais Abdhut Singh (qv)

• Rais ABDHUT SINGH, Rais of Kothi, married and had issue.

  • Rao Ran Bahadur Singh (qv)

• Rais RAN BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Kothi 1862/1887, born 1829, he was granted the title of Raja Bahadur as a hereditary distinction on 1st January 1878 in recognition of his loyalty, public spirit, and benevolence; married and had issue. He died 5th June 1887.

  • Raja Bahadur Bhagwat Bahadur Singh (qv)

• Raja Bahadur BHAGWAT BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Kothi 1887/1895, born 1852, he succeeded to the gadi on 5th June 1887 ^(#1).

• Raja Bahadur AVADHENDRA SINGH, Raja of Kothi 1895/1914, married and had issue. He died in August 1914.

  • Raja Bahadur Sitaram Pratap Bahadur Singh (qv)

• Raja Bahadur SITARAM PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Kothi 1914/1935, born 26th July 1892 and succeeded his father to the gadi on 8th August 1914 ^(#2), married and had issue, three sons and a daughter. He died 1935.

  • Raja Bahadur Kaushalendra Pratap Singh (qv)

  • Kunwar Raghavendra Pratap Singh, born 17th January 1916.

  • Major Kunwar Narendra Pratap Singh, born 5th March 1922, married and had issue.

    • Kunwarani Purnima Singh, married Kunwar Nitranjan Singh of Kila Amargarh (see Rajgarh-MP), and has had issue.

• Raja Bahadur KAUSHALENDRA PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Kothi 1934/-, born 19th December 1912, he succeeded his father to the gadi on 30th March 1935, educated at Allahabad; married 1932, to a daughter of Raja Narendra Bahadur Pal of Mahson in Basti district of U.P., and had issue.

  • Kunwar Govind Pratap Singh, born 24th February 1933.

  • Rajkumari (name unknown) Kumari, born 6th January 1935.

• Raja Bahadur KRISHNA PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Kothi fl.1970

  • ???Kunwarani Shraddha Singh, married 18th February 2006, Kunwar Hanumant Singh, son of Raja Rakesh Pratap Singh of Birsinghpur, and his wife, Rani Mandakini Prabha of Bijwa.

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Kumari Vanshika Singh, married Capt. Kunwar Hameer Singh of Banera.

• Thakurani Kamlesh Kumari, married Thakur Shiv Mangal Singh, Zamindarof Jigirsar, Balia, U.P., and had issue.

  • Pattayet Rani Vijay Laxmi Kumari Devi, married Pattayet Anang Uday Singh Deo of Patna, and has issue, three sons.

• Thakur Sanjeev Singh B.A. (Hons.), born 22nd June 1959 in Lucknow, U.P., son of the late Thakur C. K. Singh, died 5th December 1999, and his wife Thakurani Ibha Devi; married 14th November 1991 in New Delhi, Thakurani Sharika Singh, and has issue, one son.

  • Kunwar Abhimayu Singh, born 19th October 1993.