PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
history
of the Bettiah Raj family can be traced back to 1244 when
Raja
Gungeswar Deo left Nimkhar Misiri in Lucknow, and
established himself
at Jaithur, in the district of Saran in the Tirhut
division of Bihar
and Orissa. The
first ruler recieved the title of Raja from the Mughal
Emperor Shah
Jehan (1628/1658). Rulers were...
- Raja UGRA SEN
SINGH,
1st Raja of Bettiah -/1659; ninth in descent from Raja
Gungeswar Deo; a
Jethoria Brahmin
of the Kashyap
gotra and founder of the state, married and had issue.
- Raja GAJ SINGH,
2nd Raja of Bettiah 1659/1694, married
and had issue.
He died 1694.
- Raja Dalip Singh (qv)
- Rajkumar Kanak Singh
- Rajkumar Kirat Singh
- Rajkumar Prithi Singh
- Rajkumar Prithi Singh, married and
had issue.
- Raja Srikishen Singh, 1st Raja of Sheohar
in Muzaffarpur.
- Rajkumar Satrajit Singh [Chatrajit], married and
had
issue.
- Kunwar Abdhut Singh, ancestor of
the Zamindars
of Madhubani in Darbhanga, married and had issue.
- Rajkumar Babu Bishun Prakash Narain Singh,
5th in
descent from Kunwar Abdhut Singh, claimant for
Bettiah Raj in 1905.
- Raja DALIP SINGH,
3rd Raja of Bettiah 1694/1715, married and had issue,
five sons.
- Raja Dhrub Singh [Dhanpat Singh] (qv)
- Raja DHRUB SINGH
[Dhanpat Singh], 4th Raja of Bettiah 1715/1762,
married and had issue. He died spm in 1762.
- Rajkumari Benga Babui, married
Babu Raghunath Singh, a
Bhumihar Brahmin of the Gautam gotra, and had issue.
- Raja Jugal Kishore Singh (qv)
- Rajkumari Chinga Babui
- Raja JUGAL KISHORE
SINGH,
5th Raja of Bettiah 1762/1783,
rebelled against
the British in 1765, and the state was taken under
their management.
It was later
restored to him in 1771, he married and had issue. He
died 1783.
- Raja Bir Kishore Singh (qv)
- Raja BIR KISHORE
SINGH,
6th Raja of Bettiah 1783/1816,
married and
had issue. He died 1816.
- Maharaja Ananda Kishore Singh Bahadur
(qv)
- Maharaja Nawal Kishore Singh Bahadur
(qv)
- Maharaja ANANDA
KISHORE
SINGH Bahadur, 7th Raja of Bettiah
1816/1838,
granted the title of Maharaja Bahadur for personal use
in 1830, and as
a hereditary title in 1837. He
died sp in 1838.
- Maharaja NAWAL
KISHORE
SINGH Bahadur, 8th Raja of Bettiah
1838/1855, married
and had issue. He died 1855.
- Maharaja Rajendra Kishore Singh
Bahadur
- Maharajkumar Mahendra Kishore Singh, died sp before 1883.
- Maharaja RAJENDRA
KISHORE
SINGH Bahadur, 9th Raja of Bettiah
1855/1883, married and had issue. He died 26th March
1883.
- Maharaja Sir Harendra Kishore Singh
Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja Sir
HARENDRA
KISHORE SINGH
Bahadur K.C.I.E., 10th Raja of Bettiah
1883/1893, born March
1854 (#1)
and
succeeded in 1883,
Maharaja Bahadur [cr.1884], K.C.I.E. [cr. 28.6.1888],
M.L.C. (Bengal),
appointed in January 1891, married 1stly, Maharani
Sheo Ratna Kuwar, died 24th March 1896, married 2ndly,
1893, Maharani
Janaki
Kuwar, born 1870, died 27th November 1954, daughter of
Babu Shri Sidha
Narain Singh of Anapur
Zamindari in
Bihar. He died sp on 26th
March
1893.
- Maharani Sheo Ratna
Kuwar,
11th Rani of Bettiah 1893/1896, died 24th March 1896.
- Maharani Janki
Kuwar,
12th Rani of Bettiah 1896/1897, born 1870, daughter of
Babu
Shri Sidha Narain Singh of Anapur
Zamindari in Bihar, she was unable to manage the
estate, which
was
taken over by the Court of Wards till her death,
whereupon it escheated
to the state. She died sp on 27th November
1954.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Rajkumari Beni Kanwar,
daughter of the Raja of Bettiah in Champaner, Bihar,
married Raja
Raghunath Shah of Agori-Bahar, and had issue, one
son and four daughters.
- Rani Vedsharan
Kunwari, daughter of the Raja of Bettiah in Champaner,
Bihar, married Raja Kaishav Sharan Shah of
Agori-Bahar, died sp
on 4th March
1871.
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