VILLAGES: x
AREA: 2,732 km2
LOCATION: Madhya Pradesh
(now in Chhattisgarh)
ACCESSION: 1st January 1948
RELIGION: Hindu
CAPITAL: Dharamjaigarh
PRESENT RULER: Raja VIJAY SINGH Deo (-/-)
married Rani Nalini Kumari of Sailana, and has had issue, three children.
Yuvraj Saheb Dharamjeet Singh, died sp unmarried.
Rajkumari Nandini Kumari Singh, married the Yuvraj Saheb of Bagli, and has issue, three children.
Rajkumari Shradha Kumari Singh, married Shri Siddharath Singh, and has issue, two children.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: An off-shoot of the Surguja ruling line, founded in 1818. Rulers include...
Raja KALYAN SINGH 1818/1852
INTERREGNUM 1852/1857
Raja DHIRAJ SINGH Deo 1857/1858 (#2)
Raja SHEORAJ SINGH Deo 1858/1859 (#2)
Raja BINDESHWAR PRASAD SINGH Deo Bahadur 1860/1876, born 1829, brother of Raja INDRAJIT SINGH of Surguja, he was granted the state by the British for his services in the Sepoy Mutiny; married and had issue, four sons.
Raja DHARAMJEET SINGH (qv)
Lal Dharampal Singh Deo, he was granted the estate of Dhourpur, married and had issue (see Dhourpur).
Raja DHARAMJEET SINGH 1876/1900, born 17th March 1857, succeeded 18th March 1876 (#1), Raja [cr.1877], married and had issue. He died 1900?
Yuvraj Bishan Pratap Singh Deo
Raja CHANDRA SHEKHAR PRASAD SINGH Deo (qv)
Raja CHANDRA SHEKHAR PRASAD SINGH Deo 1900/1926, born 1889, succeeded in December 1900.
Raja CHANDRA CHUR PRASAD SINGH Deo 1927/- , born 5th June 1923 and succeeded 8th December 1927 by adoption, third son of Maharaja RAMANUJ SARAN SINGH Deo of Surguja, and his second wife; educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh), married and had issue.
Raja SAMARTHAK SINGH Deo (qv)
Raja VIJAY SINGH (qv)
Rajkumar Keerti Singh Deo, died sp unmarried.
Rajkumari Indira Kumari Devi, married February 1975 (div. 1977), Kanwar Karan Vir Singh of Jubbal, and has issue, one son.
Rajkumar Ajit Vikram Singh Deo
Raja SAMARTHAK SINGH Deo, died sp unmarried.
Raja VIJAY SINGH Deo (see above)
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 556
2. Brother of Raja Kalyan Singh