PRESENT RULER: Raja Sri Raja Rao VENKATA MAHIPATI SURYARAO Bahadur

fl.2000. ?Father of...

• Rajkumar D.V. APPARAO Bahadur, President of the Tamil Nadu Shooting Association. fl.1999

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A permanently settled zamindari. Rulers were...

• ?Nayani Madhavarao (1679-1704)

• ?Madhavarayalu (1710-1755)

• ......

• Sri Raja NILADRI Rao Bahadur Garu, married and had issue. He died 1828.

  • Sri Raja Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rao Garu (qv)

  • Sri Raja Lakshmi Venkayamma Rao Bahadur Garu, married and had issue, four sons. He died December 1869.

    • Sri Raja Niladri Rao Bahadur Garu, died sp 1854.

    • Sri Raja Rao Venkata Mahipati Gangadhara Rama Rao Bahadur Garu (qv)

    • Sri Raja Surya Prakasa Rao, succeded as Raja Swetha Chalapati Ranga Rao Bahadur Garu, adopted by Raja Chinna Ranga Rao Bahadur Garu of Bobbili.

    • Sri Raja Venkata Rao Bahadur Garu, Zamindar of Gollaprolu [8.12.1869] - [4.11.1871]; he was granted the estate of Gollaprolu by his brother on 8th December 1869, married 1stly, Sri Rani Rao Ramayamma, sole Zamindarani of Gollaprolu 1891/1923, died 24th October 1923, married 2ndly, Sri Rani Venkayamma, died 1889. He died sp 4th November 1871.

  • Sri Raja Venkata Rao Bahadur Garu, Zamindar of Kolanka 1845/-, he was granted nine villages (Kolanka, Mungeturu, Veeraraghavapuram, Raipuru, Chanduru, Vunnapudy, Kaddavaly, Gokivanda and Jagapatirajapuram) forming the Zamindari of Kolanka on 26th April 1845 ^(#2); married Sri Rani Lakshmi Narasu Amma Garu, and had issue.

    • Sri Raja Venkata Mahipati Dharma Rao, Zamindar of Kolanka -/1881; married Sri Rani Subbayyamma Garu. He died sp 1881.

    • Sri Raja Venkata Mahipati Surya Rao, Zamindar of Kolanka 1881/1887; married 1stly, Sri Rani Chellayamma Garu, Zamindarani of Kolanka 1887/-, married 2ndly, Rani Ramaiamma Garu, and had adoptive issue. He died sp 22nd January 1887.

      • (A) Raja Rao Praduymna Krishna Mahipathi Surya Rao, Zamindar of Kolanka, born as the youngest son of the 29th Raja of Venkatagiri, he was adopted by Rani Ramaiamma Garu and succeeded by adoption to the zamindari of Kolanka; married and had issue, one son.

        • Raja Rao Govinda Krishna Mahipathi Surya Rao, Zamindar of Kolanka, married and had issue, one daughter. He died spm.

          • Rajkumari Deepika.

• Sri Raja Rao VENKATA KUMARA MAHIPATI SURYARAO Garu 1828/1850, he died sp 1850.

• Sri Raja .......

• Sri Raja Rao VENKATA MAHIPATI GANGADHARA RAMA Rao Bahadur Garu -/1890, born 1844, Raja [cr.1877], he established the Pithapuram Raja College in 1884; married seven wives, including 1stly, Rani Mangayamma, died 1894, married 2ndly, Rani Chittada, married 3rdly, Rani Subbayyamma Bahadur, died after 1914, and had issue, as well as adoptive issue. He died 22nd July 1890 ^(#1).

  • Raja Saheb Meharban-I-Dostan Sri Raja Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rao Bahadur Garu (by Rani Mangayamma) (qv)

  • (A) Sri Raja Ramakrishna Rao Bahadur Garu, born 1858, Zamindar of Gollaprolu, he was adopted in 1882; son of Raja Velugoti Sri Raja Kumara Yachendra Naidu Bahadur Garu of Venkatagiri, married and had issue.He died April 1914.

    • Sri Raja Rao Venkata Mahipati Gangadhara Rama Rao Bahadur, married 1904. He died after 1918.

• Raja Saheb Meharban-I-Dostan Sri Raja Rao VENKATA KUMARA MAHIPATI SURYARAO Bahadur Garu, Maharaja of Pithapuram 1890/-, born 5th October 1885 in Pithapuram Fort, educated at Newington College, Madras; Installed October 1906, C.B.E. (civil) [cr.1918], married, 1905, Sri Rani Chinnamamba Devi, the eldest daughter of Raja Venkata Ramayya Appa Rao Bahadur, Zamindar of Kapileshwarapuram, and had issue. He died 1964.

  • R.V.M.G. Ramarau, Yuvaraj of Pithapuram, author of "Of Men, Matter and Me", 1961, married and had issue. He died 1964.

    • R.V.K.M. Suryarau, born 1932, married and has issue.

      • R.V.M. Ranjitrau, married and has issue.

        • R.V.K.M. Suryarau

  • Rajkumar R.V.M. Surya Rao, born 1913, married 1stly, married 2ndly, Rani Padma Devi, and had issue.

    • Rani Chinnamamba Devi (by 1st wife), married Sirdar Dev Raj Urs of Mysore, and had issue, one son and two daughters, including.

      • Illa Devi

    • Rani Suhasha Devi (by Rani Padma Devi)

    • RVM Pradeep Rao (by Rani Padma Devi), married Rajkumari Gayathri Devi, daughter of the Raja of Palavamsa, and has issue.

      • R.V.M. Dr. Surya Rao, married Pavitra Devi, and has issue, one daughter.

        • Pranavi Rao

      • R.V.M. Sumanth Rao, an Engineer; married K. Harini Ashok.

      • R.V.M. Sudheer Rao, an Engineer.

  • Rajkumar Venkata Mahipati Rama Ratna Rao

  • HH Maharani Sita Devi Sahib, born 12th May 1917 in Madras, married 1stly, M.R. Apparow, Zamindar of Vayyur, married 2ndly, 1943 (div. 1956), HH Maharaja Sir PRATAPSINGH RAO GAEKWAD of Baroda, and had issue by both husbands. She died 15th February 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

  • Rani Kamala Devi, born 1920, married Maharajkumar Indrajitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar, and had issue. She died in the 1980's.

  • Rani Manjula Devi, married the Raja of Sidli.

  • Rani Mangayamma Devi, married and had issue.