PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
estate
was also
known as Rampur Dharupur. The founder of the family was
Raja Hom Mull,
a younger son of Raja Prithvi Mull of Majhauli in
Gorakhpur. Estate
holders were...
- Raja TEJ SINGH, Raja of Kalakankar fl.1628
- .......
- Rai BAIRI SAL, Rai of Kalakankar, married and
had
adoptive issue. He died sp.
- (A) Kunwar Hanumant Singh [Hanumant Singh]
(qv)
- Raja
HANWANT SINGH, Raja of Kalakankar, he was
adopted by the widow of
Rai
Bairi Sal in 1826; he was granted the title of Raja by
the King
of Oudh in 1849,
married and had issue. He died 1885.
- Rajkumar Lal Pratap Singh, married and had issue.
He was
killed vp
in 1857 at the Battle of Charda.
- Raja Rampal Singh (qv)(#1).
- Rao Saheb Ramdeen Singhji, married and had
issue.
- Rajkumari Sharda Kumari [Rani Sharda Kumari of
Agori
Barhar], married (as his first wife), Raja
Sharda Mahesh Prasad Singh
Shah of Agori
Barhar, and had
issue.
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married and had
issue.
- Raja Rampal Singh (qv)(#2).
- Raja RAMPAL SINGH, Raja of Kalakankar
1885/1909,
born 22nd August 1849 (#2)
or 1848 (#1) in Dharupur,
Pratapgarh
District,
UP; married 1stly, Rani Subhag Kunwar, died about 1871
in London,
married
2ndly,
Rani Alice (an English lady), married 3rdly, Rani
Radha (Muslim). He
died sp
28th February 1909 in Kalakankar.
- Raja RAMESH SINGH, Raja of Kalakankar 1909/-,
died
after 1910 and before 1930.
- Raja AUDHESH SINGH, Raja of Kalakankar,
married and
had issue. He died
1930/1933.
- Raja Avadesh Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Brijesh Singh [Brajesh Singh], married
1stly,
Kunwarani Laxmi Devi, married 2ndly, Leela (an
Austrian lady), married
3rdly, 1963 (as her third husband), Svetlana
Alliluyeva [née
Svetlana
Iosifovna Stalina], born 28th February 1926 in
Moscow, daughter of
Joseph
Stalin [Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili], and his
wife, Nadezhda
Alliluyeva, and
had issue. He
died 31st October 1966 and his cremated remains were
returned to
Kalakankar.
- Kumari Asha (by Kunwarani Laxmi Devi), married
Air Commodore Y. S. Pal.
- Kumari Usha (by Kunwarani Laxmi Devi), married
Group Captain Diwarker Pandey.
- Kunwar Victor Singh (by Leela), Photographer (U.K.)
- Raja AVADESH SINGH, Raja of Kalakankar,
married Rani
Lakshmi Kumari and had
issue. He died after 1933.
- Raja Dinesh Singh (qv)
- Rajkumari Usha Kumari [Rani Usha Kumari Sahiba of
Khairigarh], married 1stly, (div.), (as his first
wife), Raja Luv Shah of Khairigarh,
had issue, one son,
married 2ndly, Shri D. K. Bharti, had issue, three
sons and two daughters, educated at Colvin Talukdars
College, Lucknow, and had issue.
- Rashmi Bharti, educated at La Martiniere
College, Lucknow, married Wing Commander K. J.
'Kojak' Bhatt, and has issue, two sons.
- Vishrut Bhatt, educated at Leicester,
U.K., presently (2012) working in an MNC
Bangalore.
- Vashisht Bhatt B.A., M.Sc., educated at
Exeter, presently (2012) proprietor of his
firm in London.
-
 Raja
DINESH SINGH,
Raja of Kalakankar, born 19th July 1925 in Kalakankar,
educated at Doon
School, Dehradun,
U.P.,
Colvin College, Lucknow, U.P. and University of
Lucknow, U.P. Member of
the India International Centre, Indian Council for
Child Welfare,
Bharat
Krishak Samaj, Bharatiya Natya Sangh and Indian
delegations to many
international
organisations such as FAO, ECAFE, ECOSOC and U.N.
General Assembly;
Deputy
Minister in the Ministry of External Affairs 1962/66,
Minister of State
in the Ministry of External Affairs 1966/67; Minister
of Commerce
1967/69;
Minister of External Affairs 1969/70; Minister of
Industrial
Development
and Internal Trade 1970/71; Minister of Water
Resources in 1988;
Minister
of Commerce 1988/89 and Minister of External Affairs
1993/-; Member of
the Second Lok Sabha 1957/62, Third Lok Sabha 1962/67,
Fourth Lok Sabha
1966/70, Fifth Lok Sabha 1971/77, Rajya Sabha 1977/82,
Eighth Lok Sabha
1984/89, Ninth Lok Sabha 1989/91 and re-elected to the
Rajya Sabha in
July
1993. Member of the following clubs: Cricket Club of
India, Bombay,
Delhi
Gymkhana Club, New Delhi and Delhi Golf Club, New
Delhi. Author of:
"Towards
New Horizons", 1971, "India and the Changing Asian
Scene", 1973,
articles
in many magazines and National dailies; married Rani
Neelima Kumari,
daughter of Lt.Col. HH Sir Maharaja Narendra Shah
Sahib Bahadur of Tehri-Garhwal,
and his wife, HH
Maharani Indu Mati
Devi
Sahiba, and had issue, six
daughters. He died 30th November 1995 in New Delhi.
- Maharani Rewa Kumari, married 1967, Maharaja
Indrajitendra Narain Singh
of Ramgarh, and has
issue.
- Rajkumari Ravija Kumari [Rani Ravija Kumari of
Delwara],
married Raj Rana Vikram Singh of Delwara,
and
has issue.
- Yuvrani Rajitha Devi, born 11th April 1950 in
Narendranagar,
Tehri-Garhwal,
married 9th May 1974 in Delhi to Yuvraj Anirudh
Singh of Barwani.
- Rajkumari Renuka Devi [HH Maharani Sahiba Renuka
Devi of
Barwani], born 26th May 1952 in Mussoorie,
married 21st
January
1979 in New Delhi, Rajkumar Manvendra Singh [now HH
Maharana
Sahib
Manvendra Singhji of Barwani],
and has issue.
- Rajkumari Ratna Devi, born 29th April 1959 in New
Delhi.
 B.Com.,
educated
at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi,
Delhi. Member,
Pradesh Congress Committee (P.C.C.), Uttar Pradesh
1991/-, General
Secretary,
P.C.C., Uttar Pradesh 1996/-, member of the 11th and
13th Lok Sabha,
re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha on 16th May 2009;
Member
of the Executive Committee, Congress Party in
Parliament 1996/-, Member
of the Committee on Communications 1999/2000,
Member of the
Consultative
Committee Ministry of Information Technology 2000/-
; Vice-President of
the Raja Avadesh Singh Memorial Educational Society,
Pratapgarh; the
M.R.
Trust; and the Raja Hanumat Rampal Trust,
Pratapgarh; Secretary of the
Madanmohan Malviya Post Graduate College,
Pratapgarh; Manager of the
Hanumat
Inter College, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh;
Chairperson of the Raja
Dinesh
Singh Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pratapgarh. Interests
include.. gardening,
music, reading, travelling and photography,
horse-riding and squash.
Member
of the Delhi Gymkhana Club; India International
Centre; Rotary Club,
Garden
City, New Delhi; and Cricket Club of India, Mumbai;
married 30th May
1987,
Yuvraj Shri Jai Singh Sisodia of Pratapgarh,
and
has issue.
- Bhanwar Bhuvanyu Singh
- Bhanwar Baisa Tanushree Kumari
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Abha Kumari, married Vijay Singh of Khajurgaon, and
has
issue, one daughter and one son.
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