PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY:
The estate consisted of 82 Villages and 57 mahals in the
Parganas of Katiara, Sandi and Gopamau all in Hardoi
District, of these, 15 villages are revenue-free, whilst
42 villages and 6 mahals are held on a permanent
settlement. The founder of the estate is said to have come
from Tomarghar in Gwalior some 450 years ago, under Rao
Deoram Dat, who was on a pilgrimage to the Ganges. He
first settled at Singhirampur on the Farrukhabad side of
the river, and seized the possessions of the owners of the
Katiyari pargana. Estate holders were....
- Rao BALBHADDAR
SINGH, Rao of Katiyari
- Rao RANJIT SINGH,
Rao of Katiyari -/1837, he was deprived of his estate
for contumacy and rebellion, and fled to Fatehgarh
where he secured the revenue engagement for the whole
pargana in the shape of a perpetual lease of Rs12,000;
married and had issue.
- Rao Ilardeo Bakhsh Singh (qv)
- Rao ILARDEO BAKHSH
SINGH, Rao of Katiyari 1837/1842, he was
defeated in battle; married and had issue.
- Raja Hardeo Bakhsh Singh (qv)
- Raja Tilak Singh (qv)
- Raja HARDEO BAKHSH
SINGH C.S.I., Rao of Katiyari 1842/1878, he
remained loyal during to the British Government the
mutiny and afterwards he was granted the title of Raja
in 1859, a jagir worth Rs15,000 and a khilat worth
Rs20,000, he died sp
in 1878.
- Raja TILAK SINGH,
Raja of Katiyari 1878/1885, he succeeded to the gadi in 1878 (#1, p.302), and was granted
the title of Raja on 23rd April 1878, married Rani
Mahtab Kunwar (qv). He died 1885.
- Rani Mahtab Kunwar,
Rani of Katiyari 1885/1891, she died 1891.
- Raja KALKA SINGH,
Raja of Katiyari 1891/1895, he was a cousin of Raja
Tilak Singh; he was granted the title of Raja as a
personal distinction in May 1891; married Rani Satrupa
Kunwar (qv).
- Rani Satrupa Kunwar,
Rani of Katiyari 1895/1906, she died 1906.
- Raja Bahadur
RUKMANGAD SINGHJI Sahib, Raja of Katiyari
1906/after 1933, born 23rd March 1886, son of Kunwar
Sumer Singh, a cousin of Raja Kalka Singh, he is the
largest landowner and is head of the Chhattri
community in the district; President of the local
Chhattri Sabha; he contributed sums of Rs20,000 and
Rs1,50,000 towards the cost of King George's Chhattri
High School; he also had the poor-house at Hardoi
rebuilt at his expense; he was appointed Honorary
Magistrate, 3rd Class within the limits of his own
estate; he was granted the title of Raja as a personal
distinction on 26th June 1908 and it was declared
hereditary on 1st January 1921, the title of Raja
Bahadur as a personal distinction was conferred on the
Raja on 1st January 1925; married and had issue. He
died after 1933.
- Thakurani Tomariji Yogmaya Devi, married
1940, Thakur Bahadur Singhji, Thakur Saherb of
Ras, born 21st June 1921, died 14th June 1986, and
had issue, six sons and three daughters. She died
13th February 1998.
- Raja UDAI PRATAP
SINGH, Raja of Katiyari, married 1stly,
Rajkumari (name
unknown) of Dumraon, married 2ndly, Rani
Chand Kumari, daughter of Thakur Shri Sawai Singhji
Sahib of Isarda, and
his wife, Thakurani Sugan Kunwar, and had issue, as
well as adoptive issue.
- Rajkumari Sulekha Kumari, married Thakur Digvijay
Pal Singhji of Kotla,
and had issue.
- Thakur Padam Pratap Singhji
- Kunwar Gangesh Singh, adopted by his
maternal grandparents.
- Raja Ram Pratap Singh (qv)
- Rani Padma Kumari, born 30th June 1929, married
1st June 1947, Raja Anand Braham Shah of Agori Barhar, and
had issue. She died 21st January 2004.
- (A) Kunwar
Gangesh Singh, son of Thakur Digvijay Pal Singhji
of Kotla, and his wife, Thakurani Sulekha Kumari
of Katiyari (see above), he succeeded as
Raja Krishna Pratap Singh.
- Raja RAM PRATAP
SINGH, Raja of Katiyari, married Rani Krishna
Devi, born 1936, daughter of Yuvaraj Sahib Shri
Nahardevji Vijayadevji of Dharampur, and had issue.
- Raja KRISHNA
PARATAP SINGH, Raja of Katiyari (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- a Kumari of Katiyari, married Kunwar Vijay Ratan
Singh of Bikrampur, Oudh.
|