PRESENT RULER: Raja SHISHIR BINDU SINGH, Raja of Sarangarh since 11th September 1987 (Girivilas Palace, Sarangarh, Distt. Raigarh, Madhya Pradesh)

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Originally a dependency of the Ratanpur Kingdom, it later became one of the eighteen Garhjat states subordinate to Sambalpur. The state was located in what is now Chhattisgarh. Rulers were....

• Raja UDEBHAN SINGH

• Raja BIRBHAN SINGH

• Raja UDHO SAI SINGH -/1736

• Raja KALYAN SAI 1736/1777

• Raja VISHWANATH SAI 1777/1808

• Raja SUBHADRA SAI 1808/1815

• Raja BHIKHAN SAI 1815/1828, died 5th January 1828.

• Raja TIKHAN SAI 1828

• Raja GAJRAJ SINGH 1828/1829, died May 1829.

• Raja SANGRAM SINGH 1829/1872

• Raja BHAWANI PRATAP SINGH 1872/1889, born about 1865, died in September 1889.

• Raja RAGHUBIR SINGH 1889/1890, married and had issue. He died 5th August 1890.

  • Rani Man Kunwar Devi, Zamindarani of Pandaria, married Raja Raghuraj Singh of Pandaria. She died sp?.

  • Raja Bahadur Jawahir Singh (qv)

• Raja Bahadur JAWAHIR SINGH 1890/1946, born 3rd December 1888 and succeeded 5th August 1890 (2nd October 1890 ^#1), C.I.E., educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; married and had issue. He died 11th January 1946.

  • Raja Naresh Chandra Singh (qv)

  • Rani Basant Mala Devi, married Raja Chakradhar Singhji of Raigarh, and had issue.

• Raja NARESH CHANDRA SINGH 1946/1987, born 21st November 1908, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh), Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in 1969, married 1stly, 15th April 1935, Rani Shrimati Tulsi Manjari Devi, eldest daughter of Diwan Narayan Singh, Zamindar of Fatehpur, married 2ndly, 1945, Rani Lalita Devi of Phuljhar (later the Rajmata of Sarangarh after 1987), she had the distinction of being the first unopposed lady Member of the Legislature in M.P. (and till now the only one in M.P. and later in Chhattisgarh), and had issue, four daughters and a son. He died 11th September 1987.

  • Rajkumari Shrimati Rajni Gandha Devi (by first wife), Member of the Lok Sabha 1967/1970, married Col. (ret'd.) Virendra Singh of Imlai Zamindari near Jabalpur in M.P., and has issue.

    • Nandita Singh

    • Chandravir Singh

  • Rajkumari Shrimati Kamla Devi, born 26th January 1947, Member of the Legislature and minister in the State of Madhya Pradesh for 18 years (1972/1990). Presently a member of the Public Service Commission, Madhya Pradesh; married Dr. Lal Bhupal Singh of Malkharoda Zamindari, died in 1998, and had issue, a daughter.

    • Mrinalika Singh, born 23rd May 1978.

  • Raja Shishir Bindu Singh (qv)

  • Rajkumari Shrimati Pushpa Devi, born 18th May 1948 Raipur, Madhya Pradesh; educated at St. Joseph's Convent, Sagar and Maharani Laxmibai College, Bhopal and Vikram University, Ujjain; Member of the 7th Lok Sabha 1980/1985, 8th Lok Sabha 1985/1989 and the 10th Lok Sabha, an active menber of the Indian National Congress Party.

  • Rajkumari Shrimati Dr. Menka Devi, born 8th July 1951, is working with an NGO named after her father in the field of Social Medicine; married Dr. Parivesh Mishra of Bhopal, and has issue.

    • Kulisha Mishra, born 19th February 1986.

  • Rajkumari Shrimati Purnima Devi, born 13th May 1957, married Mr. Steve Ellison.

• Raja SHISHIR BINDU SINGH (see above)