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VILLAGES: 274
AREA: 2,072 km2
STATE: Madras (Vizagapatam Distt.)
LOCATION: x
REVENUE: 250,000Rs
DYNASTY: x
ACCESSION: xx
RELIGION: Hindu
PRESENT RULER: Sri Raja Vyricherla KISHORE CHANDRA DEO Raju Bahadur Garu, Zamindar of Kurupam (Fort Kurupam, P.O. Kurupam-535524, Distt. Vizianagram, Andhra Pradesh)
born 15th February 1947 in Kurupam, B.A.(Economics), M.A.(Political Science), educated at Madras Christian College High School and Madras Christian College, Tambaram. Elected to the 6th Lok Sabha in 1977; Deputy Chief Whip, Congress Parliamentary Party 1977/1978,;Member, D.R.U.C.C., Waltair Zone, South-Eastern Railway 1977/1979; President, Srikakulam District Congress Committee 1977/1979; Member of the National Council of Youth Congress from 1977; President of the Vizianagaram District Congress Committee 1978/1979; Member of the Joint Select Committee on Vishwa Bharati (Amendment) Bill 1978/1979; Chief Whip, Congress (S) Parliamentary Party 1980/1989; Member, Committee on Privileges 1981/1982; General-Secretary, A.I.C.C. (S) 1983/1993; Member, All India Congress Committee from 1979; General-Secretary, Congress Parliamentary Party from 1979; Union Minister of State, Ministry of Steel, Mines and Coal 1979/1980; Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (2nd term) 1980; Member, Joint Select Committee on Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 1980/1982; Member, Estimates Committee 1982/1984; Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (3rd term) 1984; Member, Joint Committee on the Railways Bill 1986; General-Secretary, National Front Parliamentary Party 1987/1989; Member, Rajya Sabha 1994/2000; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Food Processing Industries 1994/2000; Member, Joint Select Committee on Vishwa Bharati (Amendment) Bill 1994/2000; Executive Member, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee 1994/2000; Member, Committee on Communications, Information and Broadcasting 1994/1996; Member, Joint Select Committee on Railway (Amendment Bill) 1994/1996; Chairman, Select Committee, Rajya Sabha 1995; Member, Rules Committee, Rajya Sabha 1995/1996; Chairman, Select Committee on Trade Marks Bill, Rajya Sabha 1995; Member, Committee on Human Resource Development 1995; Member, Committee on Human Resoruce Development, Health and Family Welfare 1996/1998; Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti, Department of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, Ministry of Industry from 1996; Member, Committee on Public Undertakings 1997/1998; Member, Central Advisory Committee on Territorial Army, Ministry of Defence 1997; Member, Joint Committee of Parliament on the Salary, Allowances and Pensions of Members 1997; Member, Committee on Defence 1998; Member, Consultative Committees of Ministry of Planning, Civil Aviation, Food Processing, Railways, Surface Transport 1998; Member, Committee on Human Resources Development 1998; Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (4th term) 2004; Member, Committee on Estimates 2004; Member, Committee on Rural Development 2004; Member, Business Advisory Committee 2004; Member of the following clubs : Delhi Gymkhana Club, New Delhi; Constitution Club, New Delhi; Talcher Rifle Club, Talcher, Orissa; India International Centre, New Delhi and India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Interests include.. walking, swimming, rifle shooting, billiards, chess, cooking, astrology and music. Married 30th January 1971, Rani Vyricherla Preeti Devi, daughter of Raja PURNA CHANDRA DEO BHANJ of Daspalla, and his wife, Rani Kamala Devi, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
Rajkumari Vyricherla Shruti Devi
Yuvraj Vyircharla Sisir Chandra Deo
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded about 1450. Rulers were..
Vyricherla PEDDA SANYASI Raju, granted the hereditary title of Vyricherla, by the Raja of Jeypore, married and had issue.
Vyricherla SIVARAMA Raju (qv)
Vyricherla SIVARAMA Raju, disposessed of his estate about 1755, married and had issue.
Vyricherla CHINNA SANYASI Raju (qv)
Vyricherla CHINNA SANYASI Raju fl.1802, adopted the son of his cousin, married and had adoptive issue.
(A) Sri Raja Vyricherla SITHARAMA Raju (qv)
Sri Raja Vyricherla SITHARAMA Raju 1802/1830, married Sri Rani Subhadramma Garu (qv), and had adoptive issue. He died 1830.
(A) Sri Raja Vyricherla SURYANARAYANA Raju Bahadur Garu (qv)
Sri Rani Subhadramma Garu 1830/1841, she died 1841.
Sri Raja Vyricherla SURYANARAYANA Raju Bahadur Garu 1841/1891, born 1838, installed 1857, purchased the Zamindari of Chemudu, married Sri Rani Soubhagyavati Patta Mahadevi Garu, and had issue. He died January 1891.
Sri Sri Sri Raja Vyricherla VIRBHADRA Raju Bahadur Garu (qv)
Sri Sri Sri Raja Vyricherla VIRBHADRA Raju Bahadur Garu 1891/-, born 6th September 1877, married 19th May 1897 at Vizagapatam, Sri Rani Sahiba Lakshmi Narasayamma Patta Mahadevi Garu, second daughter of Sri Maharaja Goday Narayana Gajapathi Rao Garu, C.I.E., and his 1st wife, Sri Maharani Janaki Amma, daughter of Shri Madina Jugga Rao Garu, C.S.I., died in childbirth 7th July 1901, and had issue.
Sri Raja Vyricherla NARASIMHA SURYANARAYANA Raju Bahadur Garu (qv)
Sri Sri Sri Vyricherla Narayana Gajapathi Raju Bahadur Garu, Zamindar of Chemudu, born 23rd August 1900 at Waltair, Vizagapatam Distt., Madras; M.L.A. (Madras), Member of the Waltair Club and the Cosmopolitan Club, Madras; married Rani Chandramani Devi, born 1906 in Bissamcuttack, Orissa, died 1957, daughter of the Zamindar of Bissamcuttack, she donated her Lakshmi Vilas Palace in China Waltair, Visakhapatnam to establish a hospital for children with polio and other orthopedic problems, which was named after her as 'Rani Chandramani Devi Hospital'. She also donated the Leprosy Home Building to Prema Samajam and her Ambika Bagh Palace on Waltair Main Road for the construction of a temple; and had issue.
Rani Sri Janaki Ratnayamma Garu, born 1899, Regent of Gangpur 1935/1944, married Raja BHAWANI SHANKAR SHEKHAR DEO of Gangpur, and had issue. She died after 1944.
Sri Raja Vyricherla NARASIMHA SURYANARAYANA Raju Bahadur Garu, born 1898, Member of the MLC, married Rani Sucharumali Devi, daughter of Raja KISHOR CHANDRA Dev Birabar Harichandan Mahapatra of Talcher, and had issue. He died 1926
Sri Raja Vyricherla DURGA PRASAD DEO Raju Bahadur Garu (see below)
Shri Rajkumar Vyricherla Chandrachudamani Dev, Pattayet Saheb of Kurupam, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; M.L.A., married and had issue, one son and four daughters.
Yuvrani Usha Devi B.A., born 25th February 1952, Member, Senate of Berhampur University; President of Women's Bank, Berhampur; M.L.A. (Orissa) 1990/1995 and 2000/2009 (three terms); Chairman, House Committee on Women and Child Welfare, 2000/2002 and 2003/-; Member, Library Committee, 2000/2004; Member, House Committee on Linguistic Minorities 2000/-; Member, House Committee on Environment, 2001/2002; Member, House Committee on Women and Child Welfare, 2002/2003; Member, Standing Committee on Energy, Revenue & Excise (No.10), 2005/-; married Yuvraj Trigunateeta Debo of Chikiti, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
Shri Rajkumar Vyricherla Pradeep Kumar Dev, born 25th September 1961 in Kurupam, B.Com., M.B.A., educated at Rishi Valley School, Jiddu Krishnamurthy (India) Foundation, Loyola College, Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) and Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Elected Member of Parliament from Parvathipuram Lok Sabha Constituency; Member of Zonal Railway Users Consultative Committee, South Eastern Railway 1994/1996; Member A.P. Telecom Consultative Committee 1994/1996; Trustee, Vishakhapatnam Port Trust 1998/2000; Member, Parliamentary Standing Committee for Union Ministries of Surface Transport, Civil Aviation and Tourism; Member, Consultative Parliamentary Standing Committee on Union Ministry for Commerce and Member Committee on Petitions, Lok Sabha; Member of All India Youth Congress National Executive Committee 1996/1998; Member of AICC 1996/1999; presently (2010) Director, LGS Global Systems Ltd., Director 3K Technologies Ltd.; Chairman East Coast Steel Profiles Pvt. Ltd. and Director Vinayagar Hotels & Restaurants Pvt. Ltd. (VIHAR); leisure interests are playing Tennis, Table Tennis, walking, raising pets, gardening, meeting people from different walks of life, reading on issues of national and international importance and listening to western and Indian classical music. Member of the following clubs... Waltair Club, Visakhapatnam; Lawley Institute, Ooty, Nilgiris; and East Point Golf Club, Vishakhapatnam; Naval Officer’s Institute (NOI) Vishakhapatnam and Air Force Golf Club, New Delhi; Constitutional Club of India, New Delhi; married 17th February 1987, Shrimant Maharajkumari Vyricherla Sudani Devi, daughter of Maharaja Sahib Pusapati Dr. VIJAYARAM V GAJAPATHI Raju Manea Sultan Bahadur of Vizianagram, and his second wife, Maharani Dr. Pusapati Madhuri Gajapathi Raju, and has issue, two sons. (The Palace, P.O. Kurupam - 535 524, Vizianagaram (Dist.), Andhra Pradesh, India)
Rajkumar Vyricherla Viresh Chandra Dev
Rajkumar Vyricherla Dheeraj Chandra Dev
Kumar Rani Sumanjali Devi, married to Lt.-Gen. Kumar K. P. S. Dhal Samanta of Dompara, Orissa, and has issue, one son
Kumar Pranab Dhal Samant, married Kumari Anjali Dhal Samant.
Kumari Vijialakshmi Devi, married Shri Siddharth Singh Jhala of Kunadi in Kotah, and has issue.
Kumar Rani Kadambari Devi, married Kumar Birendra Kumar Singh Deo, son of a Pattayet Saheb of Hindol, and has issue.
COURT OF WARDS 1926/1940
Sri Raja Vyricherla DURGA PRASAD DEO Raju Bahadur Garu 1940/- , educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; married Rani Vyricherla Sobhalata Devi, daughter of Rajkumar Pramod Chandra Deb of Talcher, and has issue, one son and five daughters.
Shri Rajkumari Sneharama Devi, married Shri Pravin Kumar (IAS Ret'd.), former Chief Secretary to the Government of Maharashtra, and has issue, two daughters.
Kumari Samita
Kumari Namita
Sri Raja Vyricherla KISHORE CHANDRA DEO Raju Bahadur Garu (qv)
Shri Rajkumari Sucharumoni Devi, married Kumar Bhawani Shankar Singh Deo of Dhenkanal, and has issue, two sons.
Shri Rajkumari Kusumanjali Devi
Shri Rajkumari Pushpanjali Devi, married Shri Salil Bose, and has issue, two daughters. (U.S.A.)
Sri Raja Vyricherla KISHORE CHANDRA DEO Raju Bahadur Garu (see above)
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