PRESENT RULER: Raja Shri Shri Shri GOPINATH GAJAPATHI NARAYAN DEO, Raja Saheb of Parlakhimedi (Gajapathi Palace, P.O. Parlakhemundi, Distt. Ganjam-761200, Orissa, India)

born 6th March 1943 in Parlakhemundi, Ganjam Dist., Orissa; educated at A.C. College of Technology, University of Madras (I.I.E. (Chem.)); Member of the 9th Lok Sabha 1989/1991 and 10th Lok Sabha 1991/1996; Member of the Executive Committee of Rajkumar College at Raipur; Member, International Parliamentarians for Global Action, New York; Member, Subject Committee on Science and Technology; Member, Consultative Committee, Departments of Atomic Energy, Space, Electronics and Ocean Development; Member, consultative Committee, Ministry of Science and Technology; Member, Madras, Gymkhana Club; Member, Madras Race Club; Member, Bangalore Club; Member, Bangalore Golf Club; Member, Bangalore Turf Club; Member, Ootacamund Club; Member, Lawley Institute; Member, Bhubaneswar Club; author of Design Thesis on Manufacture of Urea - formaldehyde Plastic Resin and A Treatise on the Extraction of Aluminium Metal; interests and pastimes are Games, Sports, travelling and wildlife, Reading, horticulture and social service; married 14th March 1967, Rani Purna Devi, a Princess of Dharampur, and has issue, one son and one daughter.

• Yuvaraj Digvijay Gajapathi Narayan Deo

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Also known as Parlakhemundi, it is an ancient Zamindari lying in the western corner of the Southern portion of the Ganjam district, and it is bounded in the West by the district of Vizagpatnam and on the North by the Jeypur state and the Eastern ghats which are called Maliyas or tribal agencies. Founded by a younger son of Gajapati Raja Kapilendra Dev of Orissa. Rulers were...

• Raja Saheb SIBALINGA NARAYAN BHANUDEO 1566/1590, married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Subarna Kesari Govinda Gajapati Narayan Deo (qv)

• Raja Saheb SUBARNA KESARI GOVINDA GAJAPATI NARAYAN DEO 1590/1630, married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Mukunda Rudra Gajapati Narayan Deo (qv)

• Raja Saheb MUKUNDA RUDRA GAJAPATI NARAYAN DEO 1630/1656, married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Mukunda Deo (qv)

• Raja Saheb MUKUNDA DEO 1656/1674, married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Ananta Padmanabh Gajapati Narayan Deo I (qv)

• Raja Saheb ANNANTA PADMANABH GAJAPATI NARAYAN DEO I 1674/1702, married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Sarbajgan Jagannatha Gajapati Narayan Deo I (qv)

• Raja Saheb SARBAJGAN JAGANNATHA GAJAPATI NARAYAN DEO I 1686/1702, married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Narahari Narayan Deo (qv)

  • Kumar Jannardan Deo

  • Kumar Guntta Narayana Deo

  • Kumar Yoshabanta Deo

• Raja Saheb NARAHARI NARAYAN DEO 1702/1729, married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Bira Padmanabh Narayan Deo II (qv)

  • Raja Saheb Prataprudra Gajapati Narayan Deo I (qv)

  • Kumar Narasinga Deo

• Raja Saheb BIRA PADMANABHA NARAYANA DEO II 1729/1748

• Raja Saheb PRATAPRUDRA GAJAPATI NARAYAN DEO I 1748/1751, married and had adoptive issue.

  • (A) Raja Saheb Jagannath Gajapati Narayan Deo II (qv)

• Raja Saheb JAGANNATH GAJAPATI NARAYANA DEO 2nd 1751/1770, married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Goura Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo I (qv)

• Raja Saheb GOURA CHANDRA GAJAPATI NARAYANA DEO I 1771/1802, Jmarried and had issue. He died 20th January 1802.

  • Kumar Chhatrapati Deo

  • Raja Saheb Purushottam Gajapati Narayan Deo (qv)

• Raja Saheb PURUSHOTTAM GAJAPATI NARAYANA DEO 1802/1805, installed 4th February 1802; married and had issue. He died 29th October 1805.

  • Raja Saheb Jagannath Gajapati Narayan Deo III (qv)

• Raja Saheb JAGANNATH GAJAPATI NARAYANA DEO III 1821/1851, married and had issue. He died 27th November 1851.

  • Raja Saheb Shri Shri Shri Prataprudra Gajapati Narayan Deo II (qv)

  • Rajkumar Harikrushan Deo

  • Rajkumar Rajarajeswar Deo

• Raja Saheb Shri Shri Shri PRATAPARUDRA GAJAPATI NARAYANA DEO II 1851/1885 (abdicated), married and had issue.

  • Raja Saheb Shri Shri Shri Goura Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo II (qv)

  • Rajkumar Purushottam Deo

  • Rajkumar Jagnnatha Deo

  • Rajkumar Padmanabha Narayan Deo, born 1873, died 1904.

• Raja Saheb Shri Shri Shri GOURA CHANDRA GAJAPATI NARAYAN DEO II 1885/1904, married and had issue.

  • Capt. Maharaja Saheb Shri Shri Shri Krishna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo (qv)

  • Rajkumar Anangabhima Deo

COURT OF WARDS 1904/1913

• Capt. Maharaja Saheb Shri Shri Shri KRISHNA CHANDRA GAJAPATHI NARAYANA DEO 1913/1974, born 28th April 1892, educated at Raja's College, Parlakimedi and Newington College, Madras; K.C.I.E. [cr.1946], Member of the Madras Legislative Council 1919, 1st Prime Minister of Orissa (1.4.1937) - (18.7.1937) and (1941) - (1944), he helped establish the Utkal University, the Central Rice Research Institute and the Medical College at Cuttack. In Parlakhimedi, he set up a first grade college, Sanskrit College, Girls' High School, Industrial School, Steel Factory, Modern Farm, numerous Minor Irrigation Projects. He also extended the light railway from Parlakhemundi to Gunupur, 35 miles away; made endowments for research on problems of nutrition and agriculture; awarded scholarships to over a thousand students of Parlakhemundi to pursue higher studies in the humanities, medicine, engineering, etc. He served with distinction as a member of the Royal Agricultural Commission, the Madras Legislative Council and the Constituent Assembly of India. He was a patron of Oriya literature as well as of cricket and a prominent figure in racing circles, he married 1913, Maharani Sri Nalini Pattamaha Devi, daughter of Thakur Mahendra Narayan Singh Deo of Kharsawan, and had issue. He died 25th May 1974.

  • Yuvaraj Shri Rama Chandra Gajapathi Narayana Deo, married Rajkumari Chandra Kiran Kumari, eldest daughter of Maharaja Ambikeshwar Saran Singh Deo of Surguja, and had issue, four children. He died vp before 1974.

    • Rajkumari Rani Devi, married to the Yuvaraj of Singramau, U.P.

    • Raja Saheb Shri Shri Shri Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo (qv)

    • Rajkumar Sarbajgan Jagannath Narayana Dev, married Rajkumari Shailaja Kumari of Daread in Gujarat, and has issue, two children.

    • Rajkumar Udaybhanu Dev, died sp.

  • Maharajkumar Shri Shri Shri Madhav Sundar Gajapathi Narayana Deo [Raja Madhav Sundar Gajapati Narayan Deo of Delang, Balaramnagar and Manikprasad], born 1919, married Rajkumari Swarnalata Manjari Devi, daughter of Raja Kishor Chandra Mardraj Harichandan of Nilgiri, and his second wife, Rani Giriraj Kumari, and had issue, one son. He died 1995.

    • Rajkumar Birendra Gajapati Narayana Deo, born 1947, died unmarried 2001.

  • Maharajkumari Shri Shri Shri Hemangini Devi

• Raja Saheb Shri Shri Shri GOPINATH GAJAPATHI NARAYANA DEO (see above)