PRESENT RULER: Raja JAYENDRA BIKRAM SINGH, Raja of Payagpur since September 2005. (Payagpur House, Mira Bai Marg, Lucknow, India)

married 13th February 2006, Rani Shivika Singh, daughter of Raja Rakesh Pratap Singh of Shivgarh (Birsinghpur), and his wife, Rani Mandakini Prabha.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Rulers were....

• Raja PRAG SINGH, founder.

• .....

• Raja HIMMAT SINGH, Raja of Payagpur, the title of Raja was recognised as hereditary on 9th December 1864 ^(#2).

• Raja NARPAT SINGH, Raja of Payagpur -/1882, born 1822, married and had issue. He died 1882.

  • Raja Bhup Indra Bikram Singh (qv)

• Raja BHUP INDRA BIKRAM SINGH, Raja of Payagpur 1882/-, born 31st January 1863, succeeded 22nd May 1882 ^(#1).

• Raja BINDESHWARI PRASAD SINGH, Raja of Payagpur, married and had issue. He died after 1910 and before 1930.

  • Shrimati Rani Chandrabhan Kumari Sahiba, married 1926, The Honourable Raja Yuveraj Dutt Singh of Oel, and had issue.

• Raja BIRENDRA BIKRAM SINGH, Raja of Payagpur, born 1907, Chairman of Bahraich District Board, married and had issue. He died after 1933.

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja Dinesh Pratap Singh of Kasmanda.

  • Rajkumari Indu Prabha Devi, married Kumar Saheb Shri Jyotirendra Narayan Bhanj Deo of Kanika, and has issue, one son and one daughter.

  • Raja Rudendra Bikram Singh (qv)

  • Kunwar Yadavendra Bikram Singh, married Padma Kumari Devi, daughter of Shri Shattru Mardan Shahi of Dumaria, and his wife, Shrimati Chandra Ketki Devi.

  • Kunwar Madhavendra Bikram Singhji, married 30th June 1980 in New Delhi, Kunwarani Sahiba Nandini Kumari, daughter of HH Umdae Rajhae Buland Makan Maharajadhiraja Maharaja Sumer Singhji Bahadur of Kishangarh, and his wife, HH Maharani Sahiba Gita Kumari, and has issue.

    • Kunwar Sharvendra Bikram Singh, born 19th December 1985, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; a keen sportsman, he has played squash at national and international level and played football (soccer) at university and state level.

• Raja RUDENDRA BIKRAM SINGH, Raja of Payagpur -/2005, married Maharajkumari Udaya Raje Puar [now the Rajmata of Payagpur], born 1950, daughter of HH Maharaja Sir Yeshwantrao [Bhau Saheb] Puar of Dewas-Junior, and had issue, one son. He died in September 2005.

  • Choterajan Jayendra Bikram Singh, he succeeded as Raja Jayendra Bikram Singh (qv)

  • Rani Ujwala Prabha, married 8th December 2001, Maharaja Saurabh Narain Singh Bahadur, Raja of Ramgarh.

• Raja JAYENDRA BIKRAM SINGH (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Yuvrani Alokita Devi, married Yuvraj Sidharth Shekhar Singh of Khandpara.