PRESENT RULER: Raja ANIL PRATAP SINGH, present Raja Saheb of Pratapgarh since 7th August 2013. (9 Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India)

born 1956, educated at Allahabad University, Allahabad.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The dynastic name is derived from soma, 'the moon' and was applied to all those descended from the Moon, but later came to denote a particular clan. By the 13th century they were settled at Jhusi near Allahabad, where Raja Bhai Sen, was killed by a Fakir, and his family were forced to settle near Pratapgarh in Oudh, where Raja Lakhan Sen was born. Originally known as Taroul or Tiroul. The ancestor of the family was Babu Sujan Shah, son of Raja Sangram Shah of Tiroul. Rulers and Estate holders were....

• Raja Sukhram Singh, Raja of Jhusi, married and had issue.

  • Raja Nivahan Singh (qv)

  • Babu Indra Dutt, had descendants in Nepal.

  • Babu Suraj Dutt, had descendants at Sandi Pali.

• Raja Nivahan Singh, Raja of Jhusi, married and had issue.

  • Raja Bir Sen (qv)

• Raja Bir Sen, Raja of Jhusi, he was cursed by a Fakir and lost Jhusi around 1359, married and had issue.

  • Raja Lakhan Sen (qv)

• Raja Lakhan Sen, Raja of Hindaur, he expelled the Bhars and the Raikwar rajputs and established himself at Hindaur in 1258 (traditional date), married and had issue.

  • Raja Goharwar Deo [aka Gonhanwar Deo], he took up residence at Gonda, and was ancestor of the Taluqdars of Sujakhar, Gauradand, Gonda etc.; married and had issue.

    • Babu Udhran Deo, married and had issue.

      • Babu Gandhar Deo, married and had issue.

        • five generations

          • Babu Sagram Sah, married and had issue.

            • Khem Karan (Gonda)

            • Rup Narain (Ranjitpur, Chilbila)

      • Babu Bikram Singh, married and had issue.

        • Babu Pratap Rudra Singh, married and had issue.

          • Babu Shah Mal, married and had issue.

            • Babu Kasturi Mal, married and had issue.

              • Babu Bhawani Shah, married and had issue.

                • Babu Lal Shah, married and had issue. SON -

                • Babu Dharu Shah, married and had issue. SON -

                • Babu Udai Bhan, married and had issue. SON -

                • Babu Bhan Singh, married and had issue.

          • Babu Makrand Sah, married and had issue.

            • Babu Sah Mal, married and had issue.

              • nine generations

                • Babu Daljit Singh, married and had issue. SON -

                • Babu Balbhaddar Singh, married Babuain Sukhraj Kunwar (Sujakhar) SON -

                • Babu Bikramajit Singh

            • Babu Udai Karan (Gaura Dand)

  • Babu Muluk Singh [aka Malak Singh], he became a Muslin convert and was murdered soon afterwards by his brother.

  • Raja Jait Singh (qv)

• Raja Jait Singh, Raja of Aror -/1328; he assumed the title of Raja and settled in Aror, much later renamed Pratapgarh; married and had issue. He died 1328.

  • Raja Khan Deo (qv)

• Raja Khan Deo, Raja of Aror 1328/1354, married and had issue. He died 1354.

  • Raja Pirthi Singh aka Prithmi Singh (qv)

• Raja Pirthi Singh, Raja of Aror 1354/1377, married and had issue. He died 1377.

  • Raja Lodh Singh (qv)

• Raja Lodh Singh, Raja of Aror 1377/- , married and had issue.

  • Babu Murar Singh, married and had issue, the Taluqdars of Domipur and Baispur.

    • Babu Dharmangal Rai, married and had issue.

      • Babu Hirde Sah, married and had issue.

        • Babu Bodh Singh, married and had issue.

          • Babu Durga Bakhsh Singh, married and had issue.

            • Babu Sheo Shankar Singh, married and had issue.

              • Babu Hanuman Bakhsh Singh, married and had issue.

                • Babu Jagmohan Singh, married and had issue as well as adoptive issue.

                • >>> Kumari (name unknown) Devi, married and had issue.

                • >> >> >> Babu Drigbijai Bahadur Singh, he was adopted by his grandfather.

                • >>> (A) Babu Drigbijai Bahadur Singh

    • Babu Ranjit Singh, married and had issue.

      • Babu Himmat Singh, married and had issue.

        • Babu Maha Singh, married and had issue.

          • Babu Bhawani Singh, married and had issue.

            • Babu Pancham Singh, married and had issue.

              • Babu Umed Singh, married and had issue.

                • Babu Daljit Singh, married and had issue.

                • >>> Babu Saltanat Bahadur, married and had issue.

                • >> >> >> Babu Bajrang Bahadur, of Baispur, married 1stly, Babuain Harnath Kuar, married 2ndly, Babuain Sartaj Kuar.

  • Raja Sultan Shah [aka Sultan Singh] (qv)

• Raja Sultan Shah, Raja of Kila Pratapgarh -/1442; he is said to have been granted the whole pargana of Pratapgarh and the northern portion of Allahabad for military services rendered, married and had issue. He died 1442.

  • Raja Maniar Shah (qv)

• Raja Maniar Shah, Raja of Kila Pratapgarh 1442/1464; married and had issue. He died 1464.

  • Raja Ghatam Deo (qv)

• Raja Ghatam Deo, Raja of Kila Pratapgarh 1464/1478; married and had issue. He died 1478.

  • Raja Sangram Shah (qv)

• Raja Sangram Shah, Raja of Kila Pratapgarh 1478/1494; married and had issue. He died 1494.

  • Raja Ramchandra Singh (qv)

  • Babu Sujan Shah of Nurpur and Kila Pratapgarh; married and had issue.

    • Babu Ajit Singh of Tiraul (or Tarol), married and had issue.

      • Babu Pratap Singh (qv)

    • Babu Gambhir Shah of Nurpur, married and had issue.

      • Babu Loke Singh, married and had issue.

        • Babu Narayan Singh, married and had issue.

          • Babu Dina Rai, married and had issue.

            • Babu Mihrban Singh, Raja of Tiraul, married and had issue.

              • Babu Abhiman Singh (qv)

              • Babu Sarnam Singh, married and had issue.

                • Babu Gulab Singh (qv)

                • Kunwar Medni Singh, he established a town in Pratapgarh presently known as Katra Medniganj.

                • Raja Sheoratan Singh, he assumed the title of Raja, and was adopted by the Raja of Bahlolpur, but subsequently was rejected in favour of Shamsher Bahadur, he was compensated with a cash allowance of Rs 1,500, married and had issue. He died 1840.

                • >> Raja Dhir Singh, Raja of Nurpur, his cash allowance was replaced by a grant of 20 villages of Tiraul, known as the Nurpur estate, married and had issue, one son. He died 1849.

                • >> >> Raja Chitpal Singh, Raja of Chitpalgarh, the estate of Nurpur was confiscated after the Mutiny in 1857, but restored shortly afterwards, the title of Raja was granted as a personal honour in 1864 and was confirmed as hereditary on 9th May 1886, he entered Government service; married Rani Dilraj Kuar, Rani of Chitpalgarh, and had adoptive issue. He died sp in 1901, and the estate went into abeyance as the two claimants did not have a clear claim to the estate.

                • >> >> >> (A) Babu Bhagwati Prasad Singh

                • >> >> >> (A) Babu Bhairon Din Singh later Raja Bhairon Din Singh of Chitpalgarh 1901/1917

            • Babu Baz Bahadur

        • Babu Chhatar Singh

      • Babu Ajab Singh

• Raja RAM CHAND SINGH, Raja of Tiraul 1494/1526, married and had issue. He died 1526.

  • Raja Lakshmi Narain Singh (qv)

• Raja LAKSHMI NARAIN SINGH, Raja of Tiraul 1526/1579, married and had issue. He died 1579.

  • Raja Tej Singh (qv)

• Raja TEJ SINGH, Raja of Tiraul 1579/1626, married and had issue. He died 1628.

  • Raja Pratap Singh (qv)

• Raja PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Tiraul 1628/1682, he fixed his headquarters at Rampur near old town of Aror, there he built a fort (garh), naming it after himself; married and had issue.

  • Raja Jai Singh Deo (qv)

  • Raja Chhatradhari Singh (qv)

• Raja JAI SINGH DEO, Raja of Tiraul 1682/1719, married and had issue. He died 1719.

  • Raja Chhatardhari Singh (qv)

• Raja CHHATRADARI SINGH, Raja of Tiraul 1719/1735, married and had issue. He died 1735.

  • Raja Prithipat Singh (qv)

  • Babu Hindupat Singh aka Sarfraz Ali Khan

• Raja PRITHIPAT SINGH, Raja of Tiraul 1735/1754, he murdered the son of a Manikpur banker, who had enough influence at Delhi to obtain the issue of an order to Safdar Jang, the Subadar of Oudh, to punish the murderer, he was subsequently murdered in open Darbar and his estate confiscated; married and had issue. He died 1754.

  • Raja Duniapat Singh (qv)

  • Raja Bahadur Singh (qv)

  • Babu Mohkam Singh, married and had issue.

    • Babu Bakhtawar Singh, married and had issue.

      • Babu Beni Prasad singh, married and had issue.

        • Babu Hardat Singh, married and had issue.

          • Babu Shankar Prasad Singh, married and had issue.

            • Babu Nagendra Bahadur Singh, Taluqdar of Pirthiganj

• Raja DUNIAPAT SINGH, Raja of Tiraul 1754/1759, married and had issue. He died 1759 or 1767.

  • Babu Sarup Singh, married and had issue.

    • Babu Sripat Singh, married and had issue.

      • Kumari (name unknown) Devi, married Babu Dan Bahadur Pal Singh.

• Raja BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Tiraul, married and had adoptive issue. He died 1818.

  • (A) Raja Shamsher Bahadur Singh, married and had issue. He died 1854.

    • Raja Bijai Bahadur Singh, died 1886.

    • Babu Bairon Bakhsh Singh of Bahlolpur (lost), married and had issue.

      • Babu Tej Singh

• Babu ABHIMAN SINGH, Babu of Tiraul, he acquired the Tiraul estate; married and had issue, three sons. He died after 1800.

  • Kunwar Bhairon Baksh Singh, he was ousted by his nephew, Gulab Singh, who granted him a single village for his maintenance, married and had issue, four sons.

    • Kunwar Sarabjit Singh, he was killed by Gulab Singh, sp before 1857.

  • Kunwar Audhan Singh, married and had issue.

    • Raja Ajit Singh (qv)

    • Kunwar Bishnath Singh, married and had issue.

      • Kunwar Shitla Bakhsh Singh, married and had issue, three sons. He died 28th April 1908 ^(#2).

        • Kunwar Sukhdeo Singh, overlooked in the succession. He died sp on 1st June 1895 ^(#2).

        • Kunwar Jagdeo Singh, overlooked in the succession, married and had issue.

          • Lal Raghunath Prasad Singh

          • Lal Anant Prasad Singh aka Anand Bahadur Singh

        • Raja Bahadur Raja Pratap Bahadur Singh (qv)

      • Kunwar Devamangal Singh, married and had issue, three sons. He died in March 1892 ^(#2).

        • generation (connection conjectural)

          • Kunwar Jang Bahadur Singh, migrated to the Caribbean in the early part of the 20th Century, married and had issue.

            • Kunwar Harnanan Singh, married Dolly (Harnanan Singh), and had issue.

              • Kunwar Kunj Beharry Singh B.Sc., born 18th August 1960 in Trinidad and Tobago, B.Sc. in Industrrial Engineering and the Technical Marketing Program at General Electric. President and CEO of Cenosystems Incorporated in New York City, a consulting and advisory services company.

  • Kunwar Ummed Singh, father of two sons.

    • Kunwar Bishnath Singh, married and had issue. [or son of above]

• Babu GULAB SINGH, Babu of Tiraul, an ambitious and avaricious man, he ousted his nephew from the gadi and murdered a grandnephew in order to more secure his place on the gadi; he aligned himself with the rebels when the Mutiny broke out and his estate was confiscated and granted to Ajit Singh. He was killed in battle south of Pratapgarh near Allahabad in 1857.

• Raja AJIT SINGH, Raja of Tiraul 1857/1889, when the Mutiny broke out, he provided loyal service to the British in assisting the Sultanpur fugitives and then attaching himself to the Jaupur forces and was rewarded with the estate of Tiraul, as well as large properties in Kheri, Hardoi and Unao districts; in 1866, he bought from the Government the fort of Pratapgarh and restored the palaces of the old Rajas; he was granted the title of Raja as a personal distinction on 1st January 1877 ^(#1), and in 1888 the honour was continued for a second generation; he was a Taluqdar of Oudh and his name was entered as such in the lists 1, 2 and 5 prepared under Section 8 of Act I of 1869; married and had adoptive issue. He died spm on 18th December 1889 ^(#2).

  • (A) Raja Bahadur Raja Pratap Bahadur Singh (qv)

• Raja Bahadur Raja PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH C.I.E., Raja of Pratapgarh [18.12.1889] - [18.6.1921], educated at the Pratapgarh High School; the title of Raja made hereditary on 1st January 1898, and in the same year he was appointed an Honorary Magistrate of the 2nd Class and afterwards in 1909, an Honorary Magistrate of the 1st Class for the thanas of McAndrewganj, Jethwara, and Chandika in Pratapgarh and within the tahsils of Soram and Allahabad; Honorary munsif for pargana Pratapgarh; Member of the Imperial Legislative Council 1909/1912; Vice President of the British Indian Association 1911/1918, he was made a C.I.E. in January 1904; the name of the estate was changed from Tiraul to Qila Pratapgarh at his request; he was granted the enhance title of Raja Bahadur as a personal distinction in June 1920; married 1stly (aged 9), [possibly named Rani Jageshwar Kunwar], a sister of Thakur Raghunath Singh of Isanpur, married 2ndly, a daughter of the Taluqdar of Antu, married 3rdly, a daughter of the Taluqdar of Antu (sister of the 2nd wife), married 4thly, a daughter of the Taluqdar of Dhingwas, married 5thly, a niece of the Taluqdar of Antu (paternal 1st cousin of the 2nd and 3rd wives), and had issue. He died spm on 18th June 1921 ^(#2).

  • Lal Shambhu Narain Prasad Singh

  • Kumari (name unknown), married Yuvraj Dewakar Praksh Singh of Kasmanda.

  • Rani Padmavati Devi, born 17th July 1918 in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh; married Maj. Raja Bahadur Birendra Bahadur Singh of Khairagarh, and had issue.

  • (A) Raja Ajit Pratap Singh, he was adopted by the Senior Rani on 9th May 1922 (qv)

• Raja AJIT PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Pratapgarh [9.5.1922] - [6.1.2000], born 14th January 1917 in Kulhipur, Pratapgarh Dist., U.P., he succeeded to the gadi by adoption on 9th May 1922; educated at St. Joseph's College, Allahabad and at Cambridge, Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1946/1952 and 1967/1977, Cabinet Minister for Forests, Sports, Tourism, Animal Husbandry, Jail, Civil Defence and Homeguard for Uttar Pradesh 1969/1977, Member of the Rajya Sabha 1958/1962, Member of the 3rd 1962/1967 and 7th 1980/1984 Lok Sabha, Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council 1985 (Bi-election) and 1988/1992, Minister for Excise 1985, Minister for Excise and Forests -/1988, Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission, Uttar Pradesh 1986/1988, President of the British India Association (Avadh) 1998/2000, Secretary-cum-Manager for the Colvin Taluqdars' College, LKO, 1998/2000, married 1stly, Rani Lakshmi Devi, (possibly sister of Raja Dinesh Singh of Kalakankar), and had issue, four sons and one daughter, married 2ndly, Rani Nikhat Devi, and had issue, one son and four daughters. He died 6th January 2000 at Lucknow. (Raja Ajit Pratap Singh Marg, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India)

  • Raja Abhay Pratap Singh (by Rani Lakshmi Devi) (qv)

  • Rajkumar Amar Pratap Singh

  • Rajkumari Shobha Rani, married 1956, Thakur Bikram Singh of Pokhran, and has issue.

  • Rajkumar Arun Pratap Singh

  • Rajkumar Akhil Pratap Singh (by Rani Lakshmi Devi), fourth son, married and has issue.

    • Kunwar Amaresh Pratap Singh, married Rajkumari Gitanjali Devi, daughter of Raja Sarat Kumar Deb, Raja Saheb of Aul, and his wife, Rani Sushree Devi, and has issue, one son.

      • Kumar Abhyuday Pratap Singh

  • Rajkumar Ajai Pratap Singh (by Rani Nikhat Devi), married and has issue.

    • Kunwar Anshuman Singh

• Raja ABHAY PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Pratapgarh [6.1.2000] - [7.8.2013], born 7th December 1936, married 1st March 1955, Rani Asha Kumari, and had issue. He died 7th August 2013.

  • Raja Anil Pratap Singh (qv)

  • Kanwarani Archana Kumari, married Kanwar Ranjay Singh of Badnore and has issue, two daughters.

• Raja ANIL PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Pratapgarh (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Kunwar Sachin Pratap Singh of Pratapgarh (UP)

• Kunwar Akhilendra Pratap Singh

• Kunwar Ram Swaroop Singh, married and had issue, two sons.

  • Kunwar Fateh Bahadur Singh

  • Kunwar Lal Bahadur Singh, married and had issue, three sons and one daughter.

    • Shri Girjesh Bahadur Singh, married and had issue, two sons and four daughters.

      • Shri Amresh Bahadur Singh

      • Shri Tarurendra Pratap Singh

    • Shri Brijesh Singh, born 1929, Kanoongo, married and had issue, four sons and two daughters. He died 1st October 2013.

      • Shri Brijendra Pratap Singh (aka Vinod Singh), he is a contractor in Indian Railway, married and has issue, four daughters and one son.

        • Shri Akhilesh Singh

      • Shri Yogendra Pratap Singh (aka Manoj Singh), an agriculturist, married and has issue, two sons and one daughter.

        • Shri Amit Singh

        • Shri Raj Singh

      • Shri Satish Kumar Singh (aka Munna), Deputy Project Manager with N.C.C.l. construction company, Manesar Gurgaon, married and has issue, two daughters and one son. (New Delhi, India)

        • Kumari Shubhangi Singh

        • Shri Shubham Singh

        • Kumari Aaradhya Somvanshi

      • Shri Shushil Kumar Singh, presently (2016) working in B.S.F., married and has issue, one son. (Lucknow, India)

    • Shri Avadhesh Bahadur Singh, retired A.D.M., married and has issue, two sons and one daughter.

      • Shri Neeraj Singh, Inspector.

      • Shri Nitesh Singh, Manager, M.N.C.