BANKA PAHARI (Princely State)

  
AREA: 13 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 520,000  ACCESSION: 1st January 1950
STATE: Madhya Pradesh  DYNASTY: Bundela RELIGION: Hindu
VILLAGE: 1 POPULATION: 1,056 (1901) REVENUE: 4,000Rs
     
PRESENT RULER:
 
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Diwan Rai Singh of Baragaon near Jhansi, (a descendant of Bir Singh Deo of Orchha), had 8 sons who were granted Jagirs, including Dhurwai, Bijna, and Tori. Umed Singh, the 8th and youngest son received Banka Pahari. The state originally held five villages, but four were lost during the Marathi invasion. Rulers were .....
  • Diwan Banka UMED SINGH, founder of Banka Pahari (#2), married and had issue.
    • Diwan Banka UMED SINGH (qv)
  • Diwan Banka DURG SINGH, married and had issue, 2 sons.
    • Diwan Banka CHHATAR SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Bahadur Singh
  • Diwan Banka CHHATAR SINGH, married and had issue, 2 sons.
    • Diwan Banka ISHWARI SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Shatrujit Singh
  • Diwan Banka ISHWARI SINGH -/1850, confirmed in his state by a sanad in 1823, married and had issue, 3 sons. He died 1850.
    • Diwan Banka VIJAY BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Pratap Singh
    • Kunwar Parbat Singh
  • Diwan Banka VIJAY BAHADUR SINGH 1850/1871, married and had issue.
    • Diwan Banka PYAREJU SINGH (qv)
  • Diwan Banka PYAREJU SINGH 1871/1890, married and had issue.
    • Diwan Banka MEHERBAN SINGH (qv)
  • Diwan Banka MEHERBAN SINGH 1890/1938, succeeded 14th November 1890 (#1), Rani Nannaju, and had issue.
    • Diwan Banka JAGATPAL SINGH (qv)
  • Diwan Banka JAGATPAL SINGH 1938/-
 
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LAST MODIFIED:  
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 396
2. The first portion of the states name, is said to be derived from the epithet of banka (literally 'crooked'), applied to a method of wearing the head-dress, and commonly used in the sense of 'spirited' or 'gallant'.