PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
Chief maintains a military force of 43 cavalry, 198 infantry, and 6
guns (in 1893).
Rulers
were....
- Sardar Sawai Rajdhar RAJA
RAM,
1st Chief of Gaurihar 1807/1846, he was granted the Jagir
of
Gaurihar in
1807, married and had issue.
- Rao Rajdhar Rudra Pratap Bahadur (qv)
- Rao Rajdhar RUDRA PRATAP
Bahadur, 2nd Rao of Gaurihar 1846/1877, born 1811, he did
excellent service, and incurred great personal loss at Banda, for
which, he had conferred on him, in the Cawnpur Darbar of 1859, the
title of Rao Bahadur, a khilat,
and the right of adoption.
- Rao GAJADHAR PRASAD Bahadur,
3rd Rao of Gaurihar -/1877 [1880/1887???], died
14th November 1877 (or 1887).
- Rao SHAMLE PRASAD Bahadur,
4th Rao of Gaurihar [1887/1904?], born 1859, Jagirdar
of Gaurihar,
succeeded
to the gadi on 14th
November 1877 (#1).
- Rao Pandit PRATIPAL SINGH,
5th Rao of Gaurihar 1904/1932 (deposed), married and
had issue.
- Rao Pandit Avadhendra Pratap Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Devendra Pratap Singh, born 1907.
- Rao Pandit AVADHENDRA
PRATAP SINGH, 6th Rao of Gaurihar 1932/-, born 1902,
married and had issue, three sons.
- Kunwar Pratap Singh, born 1923.
- Kunwar Chandrabhan Singh, he succeeded as Rao Pandit
Chandrabhan Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Balbhadra Singh, born 1927.
- Rao Pandit CHANDRABHAN
SINGH, 7th Rao of Gaurihar, born 1925. fl.1970
The help of Deepak Aggarwal is gratefully acknowledged,
July 2011.
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