PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The Maharaja of Hathwa (an impartible estate), belongs to
a Baghochhia Brahmin family, that claims to have been
settled as Rajas in the district of Saran for over a
hundred generations. Rulers were...
- Maharaja KALYAN MAL,
86th Maharaja of Hatwa, he was a fearless and able
commander, and Padshah Akbar sent him with 5000 foot
and 100 horse to check the growing revolt and
declaration of independence in Eastern Bihar, he
succeeded and was entrusted him with the
responsibility of the entire administration of the
conquered area and he was granted the title of
Maharaja around 1565; he established the village of
Kalyanpur about 41 kilometres to the west of the
modern Gopalganj (district Siwan) and there he built a
big fort; after the death of Akbar, the Mughal
administration became weak and Eastern Bihar again
rebelled; married and had issue.
- Maharaja Kshem Karan Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Babu Van Mal Sahi, died sp.
- Maharaja KSHEM
KARAN Sahi Bahadur [Isham Karan Sahi], 87th
Maharaja of Hatwa, brave like his father, he
accompanied him in several battles and after his
succession he was commanded by Padshah Jahangir to
subdue the revolt in which he succeeded; for this he
was granted the title of Bahadur Shahi and was awarded
the emblem of Mahe
Maratile, the Raja built an extensive and
strong fort at Hussepur about 13 kilometres from
Kalyanpur and made it his capital; married and had
issue.
- Maharaja Bhupati Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Babu Bikram Sahi
- Babu Shah Mal Sahi
- Babu Mansinha Sahi
- Babu Harkrishna Sahi
- Maharaja BHUPATI
Sahi Bahadur, 88th Maharaja of Hatwa, said to
be a man of religious temperament; married and had
issue.
- Maharaja Sangram Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja SANGRAM
Sahi Bahadur, 89th Maharaja of Hatwa, he was
an able administrater and a man of high military
capability; married and had issue.
- Maharaja Rudra Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Babu Chattar Sahi
- Babu Sujjan Sahi
- Babu Sundar Sahi, married and had issue,
descendants at Sikatin.
- Maharaja RUDRA Sahi
Bahadur, 90th Maharaja of Hatwa, married and
had issue.
- Maharaja Gundurha Sahi Bahadur [aka Hamir Sahi
Bahadur] (qv)
- Maharaja Nripati Sahi Bahadur [aka Tribhuvan Sahi
Bahadur] (qv)
- Babu Gambhir Sahi
- Babu Sumer Sahi
- Maharaja GUNDURHA
Sahi Bahadur, 91st Maharaja of Hatwa, died sp.
- Maharaja NRIPATI
Sahi Bahadur, 92nd Maharaja of Hatwa -/1644,
married and had issue. He died 1644.
- Maharaja Haldhar Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Babu Narayan Sahi, married and had issue.
- Babu Harihar Sahi, married and had issue.
- Babu Tripta Sahi, married and had issue.
- Maharaja HALDHAR
Sahi Bahadur, 93rd Maharaja of Hatwa
1644/1695, married and had issue. He died 1695.
- Maharaja Hargovinda Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja Juvaraj Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Babu Bhudhar Sahi, died sp.
- Maharaja Kurtal Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja HARGOVINDA
Sahi Bahadur, 94th Maharaja of Hatwa
1695/1714, died sp
in 1714.
- Maharaja JUVARAJ
Sahi Bahadur, 95th Maharaja of Hatwa
1714/1737, during his reign he seized Sipah pargana
from an Afghan chief, who had made himself semi
independent in North Bihar; married and had issue.
- Maharaja Chett Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Babu Brajraj Sahi, died vpsp.
- Babu Barijar Sahi, died vpsp.
- Maharaja CHETT Sahi
Bahadur, 96th Maharaja of Hatwa 1737/1744,
died sp.
- Maharaja KURTAL
Sahi Bahadur, 97th Maharaja of Hatwa in 1744,
married and had issue.
- Maharaja Sardar Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Babu Inderjit Sahi, married and had issue.
- Babu Basant Sahi, he assisted the Government in
trying to arrest Fateh Sahi, but in 1775, he was
surprised by the rebel and killed; married and had
issue. He died 4th May 1775.
- Babu Mohesh Dutt Sahi [Mahes Datt Sahi], he
followed in his fathers footsteps, and the
Goverment was about to proclaim him the rightful
successor of the rebel Fateh Sahi when he died,
leaving a son; married and had issue. He died
1790.
- Maharaja Chattardhari Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja SARDAR
Sahi Bahadur, 98th Maharaja of Hatwa and Raja
of Hussepur 1744/1747, he was an able soldier and
military commander; he took part in several battles
during his youth and co-operated with Nawab Ali Verdi
Khan on a number of occasions; he fought with and
defeated Majhauli Raj, and destroyed their garh or
fort, and imposed as terms of peace on the Raja of
Majhauli, the condition that he and his descendants
were not to display their nishans and dunkas; married and had issue.
- Maharajkumar Sarvardarman Sahi, married and had
issue. He died vp.
- Babu Rossan Sahi, died vpsp.
- Maharaja Fateh Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja FATEH Sahi
Bahadur, 99th Maharaja of Hatwa 1747/1789, he
inherited the bravery and courage of his father and
co-operated with Mir Qasim who continued to get his
military assistance from Monghyr up to Buxar in Bihar,
in his struggles against the Mughal Emperor; he
opposed the Dewani powers gained by the British over
Bengal, Bihar and Orissa by virtue of the Treaty of
Allahabad in 1765; he joined forces with the Raja of
Bettiah in opposing the British until they reached a
compromise with Bettiah, whereupon he continued alone;
the East India Company promised his cousin, Babu
Basant Sahi the throne if he would apprehend or kill
him, but he killed his cousin at Yadavpur in 1775; he
later established Tamkuhi State about 109 kilometres
from Hussepur, north-east of present day Deoria within
the Kingdom of Oudh; seeing the growing influence and
power of the E.I.C., Maharaja Fateh Sahi changed his
tatctics and around 1789, he ceased his rebellious
ways and handed the administration of the state to his
sons, he left home and became Sanyasi; married and had
issue.
- Babu Arimardan Sahi, died sp.
- Babu Dalmardan Sahi, married and had issue.
- Raja Dilip Sahi (of Tamkuhi?), died sp.
- Babu Sumeshwar Sahi, married and had issue.
- Babu Jangajit Sahi, died sp.
- Babu Samant Sahi
- Babu Ranbahadur Sahi, married and had issue.
- Raja Prithvipal Sahi of Tamkuhi (qv)
- Babu Dalthumban Sahi
- Maharaja
CHATTARDHARI Sahi Bahadur, 100th Maharaja of
Hatwa 1789/1858, born 1781, he was granted the estates
of Fateh Sahi in the Decennia1 Settlement of 1790 by
Lord Cornwallis after inquiring into all the facts and
the usages of the family; he was granted the title of
Maharaja Bahadur on 10th September 1837; he rendered
most valuable services to the Government at the time
of the Santal insurrection, and again during the
Mutiny of 1857, and was rewarded with the grant of a
portion of the confiscated estates of the rebel Raja
of Jagdishpur, Kunwar Singh; married the daughter of
Raja Ganga Prasad of Sheohar,
and had issue. He died 16th March 1858 in Hutwa at an
advanced age.
- Maharajkumar Ramsahai Sahi, married and had issue.
He died vp.
- Babu Devaraj Sahi
- Babu Ugrapratap Sahi, married and had issue, he
waived his succession rights in favour of his son,
married and had issue.
- Maharaja Rajendra Pratap Sahi Bahadur (qv)
- Kumar Prithvipal Sahi, married and had issue.
- Babu Tilakdhari Sahi, married and had issue.
- Babu Narendra Pratap Sahi, married and had
issue.
- Babu Shiva Pratap Sahi
- Babu Deoki Nandan Pratap Sahi
- Babu Bir Pratap Sahi
- Kumari (name unknown), married and had
issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married and
had issue.
- Lt.Col. HH Maharaja Shri Sir Prabhu
Narayan Singh Bahadur of Benares.
- Maharaja RAJENDRA
PRATAP Sahi Bahadur, 101st Maharaja of Hatwa
[16.3.1858] - [xx.7.1871], born 1838, he was granted
the title of Maharaja Bahadur in October 1858; married
and had issue, one son. He died in July 1871.
- Maharaja Sir Krishan Pratap Sahi Bahadur (qv)
COURT OF WARDS 1871/1874
- Maharaja Sir
KRISHNA PRATAP SAHI Bahadur K.C.I.E., 102nd
Maharaja of Hatwa [xx.7.1871] - [20.10.1896], born in
October 1857, educated privately under the direction
of the Court of Wards, he succeeded his father in
1871, though administration of the state was under the
Court of Wards until he attained his majority in 1874,
and was duly installed on 31st August of that same
year at a Durbar during which he also was granted the
title of Maharaja Bahadur and a Medal of Distinction
at the Imperial Durbar in Delhi in 1877; he was
created a Knight Commander of the Most Eminent Order
of the Indian Empire in 1889; married and had issue.
He died 20th October 1896, after a painful and
lingering illness of six months.
- Maharajkumar Shiva Pratap Sahi, died vpsp.
- Maharaja Guru Mahadev Ashram Prasad Sahi Bahadur
(qv)
- Maharajkumari (name unknown), born 1895.
COURT OF WARDS 1896/1914
- Maharaja GURU
MAHADEV ASHRAM PRASAD Sahi Bahadur, 103rd
Maharaja of Hatwa 1896/-, born 19th July 1893, he was
granted the title of Maharaja Bahadur in 1914, and
took charge of the estate some months later in July
1914 and was installed on 2nd December 1914 in a
ceremony performed by Sir Charles Stewart Bayly,
Lieutenant-Governor of Bihar and Orissa; married
[?Maharani Gyan Manjuri Kuari], and had issue. He died
after 1946.
- Maharaja Bahadur
Sri GOPESHWAR PRASAD SAHI, 104th Maharaja of
Hatwa, married Maharani Durgeshwari Devi, and had
issue.
- Maharaja Bahadur Mrigendra Pratap Sahi (qv)
- Maharaj Kumar Brajeshwar Prasad Sahi
- Maharaja Bahadur
Sri MRIGENDRA PRATAP SAHI, 105th Maharaja of
Hatwa (see above)
The help of John Duncan McMeekin, is gratefully
acknowledged, November 2012.
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