PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The founder of the family was Jagat Bahadur Shahi, who was
a wealthy
landlord living in
Dumaria with his family, consisting of three wives and
many daughters,
but was still
longing for a son who could succeed him. One day, another
zamindar who
originally belonged to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh shifted
with his
family to a village called Navendrapur (which is half a km
from
Dumaria). The
latter had five sons, the youngest of whom was, Ranadhwaj
Singh who was
adopted by
Jagat Bahadur Shahi at a very young age but the adoption
became legal
only
after Ranadhwaj turned 18 in 1921. After being adopted he
was named
Shattru
Mardan Shahi. He was single handedly
responsible for making Dumaria into what it later became.
He owned
about 5000
acres of
land, a considerable amount in those times.
- SHATTRU MARDAN
SHAHI,
Zamindar of Dumaria -/1983, born 1903 as Ranadhwaj
Singh in
Gorakhpur,
son of the Zamindar of Gorakhpur, a politician who
shaped the politics
of Bihar, lived
lavishly like any
other Zamindar or Maharaja in the Pre-Independence
era. His interests
were no
less than the ones of any Maharaja at that time,
particularly with his
fondness for imported
luxury cars. He was elected as a member
of
the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1964 and became the
Education
minister of Bihar in 1969 after declining the post of
Chief Minister
and offering
it to B.P. Mandal. He married Chandra Ketki Devi, died
1954, the
daughter of the Zamindar of Panchgachhiya in Saharsa
Distt., who was
one
of
the wealthiest landowners in Eastern India, and had
issue, three
sons and
three daughters. He died 1983.
- Ripudaman Shahi, born 1932, died unmarried 1954
- Ran Vijaya
Shahi (qv)
- Bhargavi Kumari Devi, married Rajkumar Har Bux
Singh of Daiya near
Allahabad, (step brother of
Vishwanath
Pratap Singh, Prime Minister of India 1990/1991).
- Indira Kumari Devi, married Lal Suresh Bahadur
Pal, Zamindar of Banpur near Basti in Uttar Pradesh.
- Padma Kumari Devi, married Yadavendra Bikram
Singh, Talukdar of Payagpur
in
Bahraich Distt.,
Uttar Pradesh.
- Ajay Kumar Shahi, born 1948, married 1968, Madhavi
Devi,
daughter of Akhilesh Kumar Singh of Kursela,
and has issue.
- Rananjay Shahi, born 1969, businessman and
agriculturist, married Radhika
Singh of Kurri Sidhauli in Awadh, and has issue.
- Bhavya Shahi, presently being educated at
Welham
Girls
School, Dehradun.
- Dhananjay Shahi, born 1973, married in
Maal in Awadh.
- RAN VIJAYA
SHAHI, Zamindar of Dumaria 1983/2009, born
1934,followed his
father into politics, served as
an
M.L.A for two
terms
from 1990-2000, retiring from politics thereafter,
married 1957,
Maharajkumari Roop Shri Devi, third
daughter
of HH
Maharaja Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo of Patna,
and had issue. He died October 2009.
- Kirti Renu Singh, born 1957, married Rajkumar
Suraj Baksh
Singh, son
of the Raja of
Bharawan in Uttar Pradesh, and has issue, two
children.
- Surya Kirti Singh, educated at the
University of
Essex,
London, U.K., presently is working as Assistant
Manager at the Tea
Gardens of
Tatas in Munnar, Kerala.
- Arusha Singh, educated at the BISS
International
School, Beijing, China and is a graduate from
the Parsons New School
For Design, New
York.
- Arindam Shahi (qv)
- Shattrundam Shahi, born 1963, businessman and
agriculturist,
married to the daughter of Ravindra Singh, younger
brother of the Raja
of Basti in Uttar
Pardesh, and has issue, two children.
- Sreejamya Shahi, educated at Mayo Girls School,
Ajmer and and is planing to
pursue a course in Chartered Accountancy.
- Samar Vijay Shahi, studying at Mayo Boys School,
Ajmer.
- Ripundam Shahi, born 1972, lawyer, married
to the daughter of retired Postmaster General of
India, and has issue,
one
daughter.
- ARINDAM SHAHI
(see
above)
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