PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A
compact estate with a history spanning more than 300
years, situated mostly in the districts of Ballia,
Ghazipur and Allahabad. It is situated about 59 kilometres
by road from Allahabad. The esate is governed by the Hindu
Mitakshara Law of the Banaras School. Zamindars of this
estate were.......
- Babu Shri CHINTAMAN
SINGH, Zamindar of Anapur, the estate was
divided between his two younger sons; married and had
issue, three sons.
- Babu Shri Devki Nandan Singh (second son), he rose
to a high position in the area, prior during
pre-British settlement, married and had issue, the
Mohalla Ramapura branch in Banaras
- Babu Shri (name
unknown) Singh (third son), married and had
issue, the Anapur branch, which succeeded to the
entire estate after the extinction of the Senior
line.
- Babu Shri RAN SINGH,
Zamindar of Anapur, married and had issue.
- Babu Shri Beshundutt Singh, married and had issue.
- Babu Shri Ram Shevak Singh, married and had
issue.
- Babu Shri Shewshankar Singh, married and had
issue.
- Babu Shri Sidha Narain Singh, married
Srimati Indrawas Kuar, and had issue.
- Maharani Janki Kuar, born 1870, married
1893 (as his second wife), Maharaja Harendra
Kishore Singh Bahadur of Bettiah. She
died sp on 27th November 1954.
- Babu Shri Gopal Saran Singh, adopted
by Babu Shri Har Shankar Prasad Singh
(see below); married and had issue, one
daughter.
- Kumari (name unknown) Kuar,
married a Babu Saheb of Seohar.
- Rai Bahadur Babu Sri Vindeshwari Saran
Singh, born October 1884, married and had
issue.
- Babu Sri Maheshwari Saran Singh, married
and had issue, one son. He died 15th
February 1950.
- Babu Sri Sureshwari Saran Singh,
married and had issue, seven daughters.
He died 27th May 1979.
- Kumari Prakriti Saran Singh,
married.
- Kumari Sangeeta Saran Singh,
married.
- Kumari Bandana Saran Singh married.
- Kumari Shakti Saran Singh,
unmarried.
- Kumari Rachna Saran Singh, married.
- Kumari Samapika Saran Singh,
unmarried.
- Kumari Shivangi Saran Singh,
unmarried.
- Babu Sri Badeshwari Saran Singh, married
and had issue.
- Babu Sri Luskhushmadeshwari Saran
Singh, married and had issue.
- Babu Surshwari Saran Singh
- Babu Sri Bisheshwari Saran Singh, married
and had issue.
- Babu Sri Brijeshwari Saran Singh,
married and had issue, eight children.
- Kumari Meera Singh, married and has
issue.
- Babu Sri Mandleshwari Saran Singh,
married and has issue.
- Kumar Sri Prateek Saran Singh
- Kumar Sri Digvijay Saran Singh
- Babu Sri Sarveshwari Saran Singh
- Babu Sri Bireshwari Saran Singh
- Babu Sri Amareshwari Saran Singh
- Babu Shri Shukdeo Narain Singh, married and
had issue.
- Babu Shri Ram Narain Saran Singh, married
and had issue.
- Babu Shri Rajendra Kishore Singh
- Babu Shri Shiriniwas Saran Singh,
married and had issue. He died 20th March
1914.
- Kumar (name unknown) Singh,
born 1913, died 4th May 1914.
- Babu Shri Debi Saran Singh, married and had
issue.
- Rai Bahadur Babu Shri Bhagwati Saran Singh
(qv)
- Babu Shri Deoki Nandan Singh, married and had
issue.
- Babu Shri Janki Prasad Singh, married and had
issue.
- Babu Shri Ram Ratan Singh, married and had
issue.
- Babu Shri Har Shankar Prasad Singh, married
and had adoptive issue.
- (A) Babu Shri Gopal Saran Singh
(see above)
- Babu Shri Gauri Shankar Prasad Singh,
married Babuain Jodha Kuar [Jodhan Kunwar]. He
died sp.
- Babu Shri Ramparson Singh, died sp.
- Babu Shri Bhawani Prasad Singh, died sp.
 Rai
Bahadur Babu Sri BHAGWATI SARAN SINGH,
Zamindar of Anapur -/1945, born 10th September 1884 at
Anapur in Allahabad District, closely related to the
Maharajas of Benares and Bettiah; educated at a
Maktab, Sanskrit Patshala and a Government High School
in Allahabad; widely travelled, he was a great
philanthropist who donated generously for education
and other humanitarian causes; Member of Sanskrit
University, Varanasi and B.H.U. council; he
established an intermediate college at Anapur; a
former Chairman of the Gaya Landholder's Association;
Member of the Gaya Municipality; Member of the Court
of Ward Advisory Committee, Allahabad; President, Shri
Gauri Shankar Smarak Sanskrit Pathshala Trust at
Shringverpur; Member, Minto Memorial Park, Allahabad
and the Sir Ganganatha Jha Memorial Research Institute
Board; Trustee, Indrabas Kumari Memorial English
School, Anapur; he served as M.L.C. of the Bihar
Legislative Assembly and was also member of the
zamindars association of Agra and Awadh; foundation
Member, Newspapers Ltd., Allahabad and of the Agra
Province Zamindari's Association of which he was the
honorary General Secretary; founded and endowed the
Moore Upper Primary School, Anapur, the Bishop-Anapur
Dispensary and the Lady Hallett Women's Hospital; he
maintained a charitable Ayurvedic dispensary and a
home for the destitute at Anapur; he endowed large
landed properties for the dispensaries at Anapur and
the Hindu University; he worked as Honorary Special
2nd class Magistrate, Allahabad; he subscribed
liberally to the prosecution of the war; he was a
progressive and liberal zamindar and had constructed a
large number of wells and reservoirs for his tenantry;
he owned a model farm and a cattle breeding dairy and
possessed a good library; he was conferred with
the title of Rai
Bahadur in 1941; married 1stly, 1901, Srimati
Maiya Godavari Kuer, daughter of Raja Rameshwar Prasad
Narain Singh Bahadur of Maksudpur,
married 2ndly, Srimati Babuain Chandrakala Devi, she
died 14th January 1984, and had issue, three daughters
(by first wife). He died 2nd March 1945 in Benares and
was cremated later gthe same day.
- Srimati Ramratan Kuer
- Srimati Lokeshwari Kuer [Rani Lokeshwari Devi of
Tamkuhi], married Raja Jitendra Pratap Bahadur Sahi
of Tamkuhi, and had
issue, three sons.
- Raja Khargendra Pratap Bahadur Sahi, he
succeeded his father to the Zamindari of
Tamkuhi.
- Rajkumar Bisheshwar Pratap Bahadur Sahi
(qv)
- Srimati Vidyavati Kuer
- Rajkumar BISHESHWAR
PRATAP Bahadur Sahi, Zamindar of Anapur
1945/1989, born 4th March 1936, he succeeded his
maternal grandfather to the zamindari; married 1950 at
Baidyanathdham, Deoghar, Rani Manorama Devi, and had
issue. He died 9th April 1989.
- Kunwar Rajeshwar Pratap Sahi, he became joint
owner, with his younger brother, of the Anapur
Zamindari (see Tamkuhi)
- Hon. Justice Kunwar Amreshwar Pratap Sahi, he
became joint owner, with his elder brother, of the
Anapur Zamindari (see Tamkuhi)
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