PRESENT RULER: Raja KHARGENDRA PRATAP Bahadur Sahi, Raja Saheb of Tamkuhi

married Rani Vidya Devi, and has issue.

• Rajkumar Maheshwar Pratap Sahi

• Rajkumar Rohit Pratap Sahi

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Tamkuhi Estate is an ancient impartible Raj, succession to which is governed according to the rule of lineal primogeniture. The family share an agnatic descent with the Maharajas of Hathwa. The founder of the family was Babu Ranbahadur Sahi, a younger son of Maharaja Fateh Sahi Bahadur of Hussepur (later Huthwa), who made Tamkuhi his capital in 1765. It became the seat of the Tamkuhi Raj, which later hosted an important hospital, schools, coleges, government buildings as a temple and the old Palace of the early zamindars. Rulers were....

• Raja PRITHVIPAL Sahi, married and had issue.

  • Raja KHARRAG [Kharga] Bahadur Sahi (qv)

• Raja KHARRAG Bahadur Sahi, married a niece of Raja Mod Narain Singh of Tikari, and had issue.

  • Raja KRISHNA PRATAP Sahi qv)

• Raja KRISHNA PRATAP Sahi fl.1880, married amd had issue.

  • Raja SHATRUJIT PRATAP Bahadur Sahi (qv)

  • Kunwar Sarvajeet Pratap Bahadur Shahi, uncle of Raja Indrajit Pratap Bahadur Sahi, he was a generous patron of music, as well as being an accomplished musician himself; married and had issue.

    • Kunwar Chatrapati Pratap bahadur Sahi, married a daughter of the Raja Saheb of Sheohar, and had issue.

      • Raja JITENDRA PRATAP Bahadur Sahi (qv)

• Raja SHATRUJIT PRATAP Bahadur Sahi, born 27th July 1864 in Tamkuhi, educated at Colvin Taluqdars College, 1st Class Magistrate, M.L.C. in United Provinces; married Rani Padam Kuer. He died 10th October 1898.

  • Raja Indrajit Pratap Bahadur Sahi (by Rani Padam Kueri)

  • Daughter, married 1902, Maharaja Gopal Saran Singh of Tikari, and had issue. She died sp 1923.

  • Daughter, married to the Kasirajkumar of Kailgarh

• Raja INDRAJIT PRATAP Bahadur Sahi, C.I.E., born 1892, a determined and able administrator, he served as District Board Chairman of Gorakhpur; patron of Devanagari Prachar Samiti; Founder of the Fateh Memorial Intermediate College; he was a donor to the Benares Hindu University, St. Andrews College in Gorakhpur, Maharana Pratap College in Gorakhpur, Buddha School in Kushinagar and many more; he patronized education in Tamkuhi and made education compulsory in the 1920's; he was a life member and patron of the U.P. Automobile Association; he was a member of Liberal part of India and was as well a patron of Hindu Mahasabha; he was a patron of the arts, as well as football and wrestling, being the organizer of the first National wrestling competition; married Rani Jagdishwari Kuer, died 14th October 1950, daughter of the Raja of Sheohar. He died sp 12th June 1947.

COURT OF WARDS partitioned between Kashi Rajkumar Bhagwati Prasad Singh of Kailgarh and Raja Khagendra Pratap Bahadur Sahi, Kunwar Bisheshwar Pratap Bahadur Sahi and Kunwar Novendra Pratap Bahadur Sahi.

• Raja JITENDRA PRATAP Bahadur Sahi, he succeeded by survivorship as the nearest male agnate of the late Raja; married Rani Lokeswari Devi, daughter of Rai Bahadur Babu Sri Bhagwati Saran Singh, Zamindar of Anapur, and his first wife, Srimati Maiya Godavari Kuer (see Maksudpur), and had issue.

  • Raja KHARGENDRA PRATAP Bahadur Sahi (qv)

  • Rajkumar Bisheshwar Pratap Bahadur Sahi, born 4th March 1936, he succeeded his maternal grandfather to the Anapur Zamindari; married 1950 at Baidyanathdham, Deoghar, Rani Manorama Devi, and had issue. He died 9th April 1989.

    • Kumari Kiran Sahi, educated at Allahabad University (graduated with a Masters Degree); married the Late Dr. Sharad Kumar Shahi (son of former cabinet minster, Shree L. P. Shahi) of Patna, and has issue, two children.

      • Ms. Moni Shahi, married Mr. Krishnamurti Singh of Sheohar estate.

      • Mr. Harsh Shahi

    • Kunwar Rajeshwar Pratap Sahi, he became joint owner, with his younger brother, of the Anapur Zamindari, educated at Allahabad Agricultural Institute; patron of the Bihar motor sports club, Founder member and Secretary of Vintage and Classic car club of Allahabad and Director of Uttar Pradesh Automobile Association; owner of a private collection of Vintage cars; President of the management committee of Chatrapati Smarak High School; married Kunwarani Reena Sahi, she has earned her bachelors from Muzaffarpur and holds a degree in fashion designing; and has issue.

      • Kunwar Vaidurya Pratap Sahi, he is an agriculture graduate and is presently (2011) a research Scholar in Japan working on Plant Science.

    • Hon. Justice Kunwar Amreshwar Pratap Sahi, born 1st January 1959, he became joint owner, with his elder brother, of the Anapur Zamindari in succession to his maternal grandfather; graduated in Law, 1985; enrolled as an advocate on 6th September 1985; he practised in the Allahabad High Court on the Civil, Constitutional side; he worked as Counsel for a large number of Educational Institutions; he was elevated to the position of Additional Judge on 24th September 2004 and later took oath as a Permanent Judge on 18th August 2005; married Kunwarani Tanuja Sahi, educated at Allahabad University and holds a degree in Classical Indian Music, and has issue.

      • Kumari Ahna Sahi, curently (2011), she is a lecturer at the Allahabad Agricultural Institute (Deemed University) in the Department of Psychology.

      • Kunwar Hritudhwaj Pratap Sahi

  • Rajkumar Novendra Pratap Sahi, born 15th August 1938, educated at Benares; married Sunaina Devi, and has issue, two children.

    • Kunwar Nileshwar Pratap Shahi, educated at Benares Hindu University and has a degree in M.B.A. from Canada; married Sharmishtha Shahi, and has issue, two sons. (Washington, USA)

      • Kunwar O. M. Shahi

      • Kunwar Yash Shahi

    • Kumari Neelam Shahi, married Mr. Ajay Sharma, and hs issue, one daughter. (Canada)

• Raja KHARGENDRA PRATAP Bahadur Sahi (see above)