PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
state
was ceded to the British Government in 1826 and in 1905 it
was
transferred from Chhota-Nagpur division to Orissa
Division. Rulers
were....
- Raja BAIJNATH
SHEKHAR DEO,
11th Raja of Gangpur -/1804
- Raja INDRA SHEKHAR
DEO,
12th Raja of Gangpur 1804/1820
- Raja PARSHARAM
SHEKHAR DEO,
13th Raja of Gangpur 1820/1831, married and had
issue. He died 26th February 1831 (#3).
- Raja Jagadev Shekhar Deo (qv)
- Raja JAGADEV
SHEKHAR DEO,
14th Raja of Gangpur 1831/1852
- Raja CHANDRABHANU
SHEKHAR
DEO, 15th Raja of Gangpur 1852/1858
- Raja MADAN MOHAN
SHEKHAR
DEO, 16th Raja of Gangpur in 1858
- Raja DANARDAN
SHEKHAR DEO,
17th Raja of Gangpur 1860/1865
- Raja RAGHUNATH
SHEKHAR DEO
Bahadur, 18th Raja of Gangpur 1858/1917, born
1849/1850 in the
collateral Kharposhdar family of Birbira, he
succeeded
to the gadi
on 28th November
1858 (#1),
he took
charge of the state in 1871; he was granted the title
of Raja Bahadur
in 1911 and the title of Maharaja as a personal
distinction in 1915;
married
and
had issue. He died 1917
- Tikayet Harinath Shekhar Deo, married and had
issue.
- Raja Bhawani Shankar Shekhar Deo (qv)
- Patayet Gauri Shankar Shekhar Deo, married and
had
issue.
- Kumar Bikram Shekhar Deo, married and had
issue.
- Pattayet Rani Rajshree Devi, married
23rd June 1988, Rajkumar Pattayet Narayan
Chandra Deo of Jarada,
and has issue, one son.
- Kumar Rani Lalita Devi, married Kumar
Dhirendra
Narain Singh Deo of 'Nua Pacca II', and had
issue, one daughter and
three sons. (see Seraikella)
- Raja BHAWANI
SHANKAR
SHEKHAR DEO, 19th Raja of Gangpur [6.10.1917]
- [5.5.1930], born 14th May
1898 and succeeded
10th June 1917 (#2),
married Shrimati
Dowager
Rani Janaki Rathnayammarjee, daughter of Sri Sri Sri
Raja Vyricharla
Virbhadra Raju Bahadur Garu of Kurupam,
and his wife, Sri Rani
Sahiba
Lakshmi Narasayamma Patta Mahadevi Garu; Regent of
Gangpur 1930/1944,
C.B.E. [cr.1945], and had issue. He died 5th May 1930.
- Raja Bir Mitra Pratap Shekhar Deo (qv)
- Raja Bir Udit Pratap Shekhar Deo (qv)
- Raja BIR MITRA
PRATAP
SHEKHAR DEO, 20th Raja of Gangpur [5.5.1930]
- [26.12.1938], born 1920,
succeeded in 1930, died sp
on 26th December 1938.
REGENT,
Rani Janaki Rathnayanmarjee [5.5.1930] - [26.12.1938]
(first time) and [26.12.1938] - [27.11.1944] (second
time)
- Raja BIR UDIT
PRATAP
SHEKHAR DEO, 21st Raja of Gangpur
[26.12.1938] - [1.1.1948] (1967), born 25th
September 1923,
succeeded to the gaddi on 26th December 1938,
and was granted
full ruling powers on 27th November 1944; educated at
Mayo
College, Ajmer and Nagpur University (B.A.); M.L.A.
(Orissa) 1957/1961,
Minister in the
Government of Orissa, married 17th May 1944, Sri Rani
Rukmini Devi,
daughter of Sri
Sri Sri Vyricharla Narayana Gajapathi Raju Bahadur
Garu of Kurupam, and
his wife, Rani
Chandramani Devi, and had issue. He died 28th November
1967.
- Raja Birendra Shekhar Deo (qv)
- Pattayet Bharatendra Shekhar Deo, born 4th
September
1957, educated at Rajkumar
College, Raipur and at Cambridge (Senior); M.L.A.
(Orissa) 1985/1994
(two terms); an outspoken critic of the atrocities
committed by the
Indian
Government in 1980-85; he worked for the improvement
of the conditions
of the Adivasi and Harijans of Sundargarh
Constituency and also of Sundargarh district;
intersts and pastimes
were Photography and Automobile Engineering as well
as the development
of the Sundargarh area; married Pattayet Rani
Padmini Devi of Kharsawan,
and had issue, one
son and one daughter.
He died 1st September 1994.
- Raja Samarendra Shekhar Deo (qv)
- Raja BIRENDRA
SHEKHAR DEO,
22nd Raja of Gangpur 1967/- , married 1stly, Rani
Sudha Devi, daughter of Raja Bajendra Singh of Patiala, married 2ndly,
(div.) (as her
first husband), Rajkumari Pratima
Devi, second daughter of Raja Prasanna Chandra Deo of
Jarada (see Talcher),
and his wife, Rani Swarna
Prabha Manjari Devi.
- Raja SAMARENDRA
SHEKHAR DEO,
23rd Raja of Gangpur (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumar Narendra Shekhar Deo, married Rajkumari Asha
Devi,
eldest daughter of Raja Anant Narayan Singh Deo of Dharakote, and his
wife, Rani Shanti
Devi.
- Kumar Bhanu Pratap Shekhar Deo
- Kumar Brajalal Shekhar Deo, married and had issue.
- Kumar Dibyalochan Shekhar Deo, born 19th December
1923,
he took an active
part in Prajamandal movement prior to the merger of
the Princely
States; served as
Headmaster in the local M. E. School 1949/1950,
resigning in order to
pursue public work; President, District Congress
Committee 1967/1971; Convenor, District
Congress Committee; Member,
Block Advisory Committee, Sudargarh Block and
Sarpanch, Majhapara Grama
Panchayat 1954/1962 (three terms); Chairman,
Sundargarh Panchayat Samiti, 1961/1967; Life Member
Bharat Krushak Samaj from 1955 and subsequently
elected member to the
All-India Farmers Council; President, Graingola
Cooperative
Society for two terms and member of the Board of
Directors of
Sundargarh Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. 1964/1966
(two terms);
Member, Sundargarh Regional Co-operative Marketing
Society Ltd. for two
terms; M.L.A. (Orissa) 1971/1973 and 1971/1977;
Minister of State,
Irrigation and Power (6.3.1974) - (16.12.1976);
married Kumari Mithila
Devi, and had issue, one daughter. He died 14th
October 1989.
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