PRESENT RULER: Raja VISHNU NARAIN DUTT SINGH, Raja Saheb of Kaimahra and Oel

born 26th March 1947 at Lakhimpur Kheri, married 16th February 1971 in Allahabad, Rani Sudha Kumari, eldest daughter of Justice Raja Chandra Shekhar Prasad Singh, Raja Saheb of Daiya, and his wife, Rani Padma Devi, and has issue, two sons.

• Yuvaraj Manvendra Narain Singh, married February 2000, Baisaheb Devika Kumari, daughter of Rao Dalel Singh of Bhinai, and his wife, Rani Divya Kumari.

• Kunwar Dhruv Narain Singh

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The ancestors of the family were originally Chauhan Kshatriyas in the service of the Sayyids of Pihani, having migrated from Rajasthan in the 16th century. Jamni Khan, an early ancestor, obtained the post of Chaudhuri of Kheri from Sayyid Khurda in 1553, with a right to levy tax on all the lands in that pargana. Rulers were...

• Rai BAKHT SINGH, son of Rai Pitam Singh; married and had issue. He died after 1838.

  • Kunwar (name unknown) Singh, married and had issue.

    • Raja Anirudh Singh (qv)

• Rai SABHA SINGH

• Raja ANIRUDH SINGH -/1879, the title of Raja was conferred by the Padshah of Oudh in 1849, recognized and made hereditary by the British Government in 1877; married and had issue. He died 18th October 1879.

  • Raja Krishna Dutt Singh (qv)

• Raja KRISHNA DUTT SINGH 1879/1932, born 1861, succeeded 18th October 1879 ^(#1), married Thakurain Anand Kunwar, and had issue. He died 15th December 1932.

  • Kunwar Ram Dutt Singh, married a daughter of Gen. Shri Padma Jung Bahadur of Nepal, and had issue. He died 1906.

    • The Honourable Raja Yuveraj Dutt Singh (qv)

  • Thakur Tej Dutt Singh

  • Kunwar Baldeo Singh

• The Honourable Raja YUVERAJ DUTT SINGH 1932/1984 , born 31st July 1907, Raja of Oel and Kaimahra Estates in Kheri District, Oudh, educated privately initially, then at Mayo College, Ajmer; Director of the All-India Assurance Co., Ideal Films Ltd., National Mining and Trading Co., Metropolitan Newspaper Ltd., Sahitya Sang Ltd. and Export Co., Member of the Council of State, Member of the Advisory Committee of the Court of Wards (Kheri) and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Bristish Indian Association (Lucknow), married 1926, Shrimati Rani Chandrabhan Kumari Sahiba, daughter of Raja Bindeshwari Prasad Singh of Payagpur, Bahraich District, and had issue. He died 1984.

  • Raja Jagdish Narain Dutt Singh (qv)

  • Kunwar Gopal Narain Dutt Singh

  • Rajkumari Shashi Prabha Kumari

• Raja JAGDISH NARAIN DUTT SINGH 1984/-, born 9th March 1927, married 1945, Rani Anuradha Devi, daughter of Kumar Surpati Singh of Shohratgarh, and had issue.

  • Raja Vishnu Narain Dutt Singh (qv)

  • [?Kunwar Pradyumna Narain Dutt Singh, married Kunwarani Madhurima Singh, daughter of Sri Rajkumar Rajendra Prasad Singh of Daiya, and his wife, Rajkumarani Radha Singh.]

  • Kunwar Hari Narain Dutt Singh, married 1983, Kunwarani Sadhana Rajya Lakshmi Devi, born 1957, daughter of Lt. Col. Shri Ina Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and his wife, Rani Manorama Rajya Lakshmi Devi, and has issue, one daughter.

    • Kumari Aradhana Singh

• Raja VISHNU NARAIN DUTT SINGH (see above)

KAIMAHRA (Taluq)

LOCATION: Uttar Pradesh (Kheri Dist.)

DYNASTY: Janwar

RELIGION: Hindu

PRESENT HEAD OF HOUSE: The Raja Saheb of Kaimahra and Oel (see above)

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Also known as Charda or Churda. The Raja Sahib of Kaimahra represented the elder branch of the Janwar family (the Raja Saheb of Oel, represents the Junior branch). On the death of Rani Dayant Kanwar the estate was merged into Oel. Rulers were....

• Rai THAN SINGH, lived in Oel.

• Rai UMRAO SINGH fl.1838, married and had issue.

  • Kumari (name unknown), married Raja Kishan Singh of Khandela Junior. She died sp.

• Rai (name unknown), married and had issue.

  • Kunwar (name unknown), married and had issue.

    • Raja Ajab Singh (qv)

  • Kunwar (name unknown), married and had issue.

    • Raja Jodha Singh (qv)

• Raja AJAB SINGH, he was granted the title of Raja in 1837 as a personal distinction, it was made hereditary in 1864.

• Raja JODHA SINGH, during his tenure, the Raja Sahib of Oel, tried to seize Kaimahra, though unsuccessfully; his estate was confiscated after the Mutiny of 1857 and given to Raja Kulraj Singh of Padnaha; married and had adoptive issue.

  • Rajkumari Diljeet Kanwar, married Raja Jaswant Singh of Khandela Junior.

  • (A) Raja Narpat Singh (qv)

• Raja NARPAT SINGH -/1886, succeeded by adoption; married Rani Dayawant Kunwar (qv), and had issue.

  • Raja Achal Singh (qv)

  • Rajkumari Vidya Kanwar, married Raja Ranjit Singh of Khandela Junior.

• Raja ACHAL SINGH 1886/1896, born 15th June 1880 ^(#2), died sp 22nd April 1896.

• Rani Dayawant Kunwar 1896/-, born 1848, on her death, the Kaimahra estate was merged into Oel.