PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
founder of the family was Raja Mahendra Singh, the deposed
Raja of Kumaon, who was forced to flee. Provision was made for the
retention by the exiled family of some doubtful tenure of a portion of
the Tarai for their subsistence. Raja Mahendra Singh retired first to
Rudrapur and then to Kilpuri, but, owing to bad management, this
Pargana was reduced to a swamp, and was rendered so unhealthy that on
the petition of the representatives of the family to the British
Government, it was exchanged for the confirmation of possession in
taluqa Chachait in Pilibhit district. Kunwar Partab Singh, son of
Mahendra Singh, sued his uncle, Lal Singh, for a share in Chachait, but
his claim was dismissed. He then petitioned the Government, who gave
him 250Rs per mensem in 1820 and his claim to Bazpur was also denied.
Lal Singh had held possession as head of the family and retained it.
Estate holders were....
- Raja GUMAN SINGH,
Raja of Kashipur, son of Raja Lal Singh
of Kumaon, he
received a sanad from the
British
Government in 1828, confirming him as Raja, married and had issue. He
died after 1828.
- Raja SHIV RAJ SINGH,
C.S.I.,
Raja of Kashipur -/1886, he rendered good service
during the Mutiny of 1857, and was rewarded with
the Order of the Star of India, and with an increased grant; married
(amongst others), a
daughter of Raja Shamsher Singh of Bashahr, and had issue.
He died in October
1886 (#1).
- Raja Hari Raj Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Karna Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Anand Singh, freedom fighter and Member of
Parliament at the time of Independence; married 1stly, married 2ndly,
in Almora, Kunwarani
Vimla Kumari [Princess Mathway, daughter of the Limbin Mintha of
Burma],
and had issue.
- Kunwar Sundar Singh (by 1st marriage)
- Kunwar Suriya Pratap Singh (by Vimla Kumari), married
a daughter of a Naga Chief.
- Kunwar Birendra Singh (by Vimla Kumari), born 1937,
married Kanwarani Kiran Kumari, and had issue. He died 2004.
- Kunwar Dway Singh
- Kunwar Lat Singh
- Kunwar Raghunath Singh (by the Bashar Rani), declared
heir to the gaddi of
Bashahr, but
was
removed from the succession shortly afterwards.
- Raja HARI RAJ SINGH,
Raja
of Kashipur 1886/-, born 1857, Honorary
Magistrate,
married (a), the
daughter of Shri Kupendra Bikram Shah of Nepal, married (b), a daughter
of
Raja Balbir Sen of Keonthal, and had
issue. He died before 1911.
- Raja UDAY RAJ SINGH,
Raja
of Kashipur, married [an aunt or sister of the
two wives
of
King
Tribhuvan of Nepal], and had issue. He died before 1932.
- Maharajkumari Bhagirath Devi, married in February 1923,
Lt.-Col. Sir
Maharajkumar
Dr. Vijayananda Gajapathi Raju of Vizianagram,
and
had issue.
- Rani Hira Kumari Devi, married in June 1924, Raja Purna
Chandra Deo Harishchandra
Jagadev
of Surangi, and had issue, two sons
and three daughters.
- Maharajkumari Sita Devi [Rani Sita Devi of Kapurthala],
born 1915,
married
1928, Maharajkumar Karamjit Singh of Kapurthala,
and
had issue. She died 2002 at New Delhi.
- Raja Harish Chand Raj Singh (qv)
- Rajkumar Chandra Bhan Singh, married, Rajkumar Rani
Rashal Manjari Devi
of Ramgarh, and had issue.
- Kumari Geeta Devi, born 1946, married Raj Kumar
Shivendra Bahadur Singh, son of Maj. Raja Bahadur Birendra Bahadur
Singh of Khairagarh, and has issue.
- Kanwar Akshob Singh, born 1947, educated at
St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, married Shri Satwashilaraje
Shahumaharaj Bhonsle, daughter of Chhatrapati Shri Shahumaharaj
Bhonsle, Raja of Satara, and his wife,
Rani Sumitraraje, and has issue, three children, a
son and two daughters.
- Kumari Aisha Singh, married to the son of
Kanwar Rattanjit
Singh of Kapurthala.
- Kumari Amolika Singh, married to Shri Patankar of
Karad.
- Kumar Sheoraj Singh
- Kunwar Rajive Singh, married Kunwarani Jyotsna Kumari,
born 27th
February
1958, daughter of Raja Virbhadra Singh of Rampur-Bushahr,
and his first wife, Rani Rattan Kumari, and has issue.
- Kumari Yashodhara Manjari Devi, born 29th January
1984.
- Bhanwar Aditya Raj Singh
- Raja HARISH CHAND RAJ SINGH,
Raja
of Kashipur, married Rani Padma Devi, and
had issue.
- Raja Karan Chand Singh Baba (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married Shri Man Mohan
Bikram Shah of Ramnagar,
and has issue.
- Raja KARAN CHAND SINGH BABA,
Raja
of Kashipur (see above)
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