DEARA (Taluq) 

 
VILLAGES: 336 (1848)
REVENUE: xx ACCESSION: xx
LOCATION: Oudh (Sultanpur Dist.)
DYNASTY: Chauhan (Rajkumar clan)
RELIGION: Hindu
   
PRESENT RULER: Raja RAMANUJ PRATAP SAHI, Raja Saheb of Deara and Chief of the Rajkumar Clan
married Rani Brijraj Kanwar, daughter of the Thakur Saheb of Geejgarh, Rajasthan, and has issue, one daughter.
  • Rajkumari Radhika Sahi, due to marry on 24th Jan 2007, Ripunjay Sinha of Shambhu Patti (Samastipur), Bihar (see Kursela).
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Also known as Dera and Dhera. Estate holders were .....
  • Thakur Chhatar Singh, 1st Thakur of Deara, married and had issue.
    • Thakur Ram Kalandar Singh (qv)
  • Thakur Ram Kalandar Singh, 2nd Thakur of Deara, married and had issue.
    • Thakur Ramprakae Singh (qv)
  • Thakur Ramprakae Singh, 3rd Thakur of Deara, married and had issue.
    • Thakur Gurdatt Singh (qv)
  • Thakur Gurdatt Singh, 4th Thakur of Deara, married and had issue.
    • Thakur Beni Bakhsh Singh (qv)
  • Thakur Beni Bakhsh Singh, 5th Thakur of Deara 1805/1808, born 1789, married and had issue. He died about 1808 aged 19 years.
    • Thakurain (name unknown) Kunwar (qv)
  • Thakurain (name unknown) Kunwar, 6th Thakurain of Deara 1808/1809 (for five months), died about 1809.

Alternate early listing to 1809 (above)(#1)

  • Babu CHATRA SINGH, Babu Saheb of Deara
  • Babu GARAB SINGH, Babu Saheb of Deara
  • Babu RAGHUNATH SINGH, Babu Saheb of Deara
  • Babu KUNJAN SINGH, Babu Saheb of Deara
  • Babu CHATRASAL SINGH, Babu Saheb of Deara, married and had issue.
    • Raja Rustam Shah (qv)
    • Babu Shankarbax Singh, married and had issue.
      • Babu Dariawar Singh, married and had issue.
        • Raja Rudra Pratap Singh (qv)
        • Rao Bhanu Pratap Singh, he was granted the title of Rao by the British Government.
  • Thakur MADHO SINGH, Thakur Saheb of Deara 1809/1823, married Thakurain Dariao Kunwar (qv). He died sp in 1823.
  • Thakurain Dariao Kunwar, Thakurain Saheba of Deara 1823/1848, she refused to recognize Rustam Sah as the heir; a harsh ruler, she was deposed and exiled and died after a few months. She died about 1849.
  • Raja RUSTAM SHAH, Thakur Saheb of Deara 1848/1877, he rendered valuable service during the Mutiny of 1857 to the British authorities, for which he was granted the title of Raja, a khillat of 15,000Rs and a jagir worth 10,000Rs and a confiscated estate, as well as eight villages in Rae Bareli district, formerly belonging the the rebel Raja of Atra Chandapur (his brother, Bariar Singh, received the Taluq of Damodra, comprising 20 villages); he was invested with the powers of an Assistant Commissioner in 1860. He died sp in 1877.
  • Raja RUDRA PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Deara 1877/after 1910, he was granted the title of Raja by the British Government, married and had issue. He died after 1910.
    • Raja Audhendra Pratap Sahi (qv)
  • Raja AUDHENDRA PRATAP SAHI [Avadhendra Partab Sahi], Raja of Deara, married Rajkumari Sharda Devi, eldest daughter of Raja Bahadur Shri Jyoti Prashad Singh Deo of Panchkot Raj, West Bengal, and had issue. He died after 1933.
    • Raja Jagdish Pratap Sahi (qv)
    • Rajkumar Devan Pratap Sahi, married Rajkumari (name unknown) of Askote in Himachal Pradesh.
    • Rajkumar Harren Pratap Sahi, unmarried.
    • ??? [Rajkumari Jayanti Devi, married Lal Bahadur Sadhu Sharan Singh, Zamindar of Dhourpur in Madhya Pradesh, and had issue.]
  • Raja JAGDISH PRATAP SAHI, Raja of Deara, married Maharajkumari Mahendra Kumari Devi, eldest daughter of HH Maharaja Sir Brijnath Singh Ju Deo Bahadur of Maihar, and his wife, HH Maharani Surendra Kumari Devi, and had issue.
    • Raja Ramanuj Pratap Sahi (qv)
    • Kunwar Brijendra Pratap Sahi, married Kuvrani Shalini Kumari Devi, daughter of Pattayat Rajkumar Suresh Chandra Deo Jenamoni of Rairakhol, and his wife Pattayat Rani Saroj Manjari Devi, and has issue.
      • Kunwar Bhubaneswar Pratap Sahi B.Com., born 14th December 1987,
      • Kunwar Udayeshwar Pratap Sahi
    • Kunwar Marutendra Pratap Sahi, married Kuvrani Supriya Sahi of Harha jamidari, U.P., and has issue.
      • Kumari Shivani Sahi
      • Kumari Subhani Sahi
      • Kunwar Animesh Pratap Sahi
    • Rajkumari Usha Kumari, married (as his first wife), 25th April 1971, Kunwar Ajay Bahadur Singh of Sirmur.
  • Raja RAMANUJ PRATAP SAHI, Raja of Deara (see above)
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1. Source: "Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh", Lucknow 1877/78