PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Khairagarh
was
originally a Jagir (or Zamindari), but it was elevated to
a Princely State in 1898. The Rajas of Khairagarh are
related to the Rajas of Chhota-Nagpur. The rulers of
Khairagarh claim descent from the ancient royal family of
Garha Mandla. The rulers were....
Lal FATEH
SINGH, Thakur Saheb of Khairagarh 1833/1874
(deposed)
Lal UMRAO SINGH,
Thakur Saheb of Khairagarh 1874/1891, died 19th February
1891 (#1).
- Raja KAMAL NARAYAN
SINGH, Thakur Saheb of Khairagarh 1891/1898
and 1st Raja Saheb of Khairagarh 1898/1908, born 1867
(#1),
succeeded to the gadi
as Zamindar on 19th February 1891, he was granted the
title of Raja as a Hereditary distinction in 1898,
married and had issue. He died 7th October 1908.
- Raja Lal Bahadur Singh (qv)
- Rajkumari Bhuvaneshwari Kumari, married Raja
Bahadur Ram Gopal Singh of Manda in the United
Provinces.
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married Shri
Kharag Jung Bahadur Rana, son of Cdg. Gen.
Maharajkumar Padma Jung Bahadur Rana (see Lambjung
and Kaski).
- Raja LAL BAHADUR
SINGH, 2nd Raja Saheb of Khairagarh
1908/1918, born June 1889, formally installed 13th
December 1912, married a daughter of Cdg. Gen.
Maharajkumar Padma Jung Bahadur Rana (see Lambjung
and Kaski), and had issue. He died 22nd October
1918.
- Maj. Raja Bahadur Birendra Bahadur Singh (qv)
- Rajkumar Bikram Bahadur Singh, born December 1915,
educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; was the first
Officer of Imperial Police (Scotland Yard, England);
married Rajkumari Brijraj Kanwar, daughter of Rawal Harnath Singhji Bahadur
of Dundlod, and his
wife, Rani Sireh Kanwar, and
had issue.
- Kunwarani Jagriti
Kumari, married 14th December 1978, Kunwar
Lakshman Singh of Raghogarh,
and has issue.
- Maj. Raja Bahadur
BIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGH, 3rd Raja Saheb of
Khairagarh 1918/- , born 9th November 1914 and
succeeded 22nd October 1918 (#2),
educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur (Diploma 1932),
Ewing Christian College, Allahabad and Mayo College,
Ajmer; M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh) for four terms, married
Rani Padmavati Devi, born 17th July 1918 in
Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, daughter of Raja Bahadur
Raja Pratap Bahadur Singh of Pratapgarh, and
had issue.
- Raja Ravindra Bahadur Singh (qv)
-
 Rajkumar
Shivendra Bahadur Singh, born 7th January 1943 in
Nagpur, Maharashtra, B.A., educated at Doon School,
Dehradun and Bombay University, Bombay; elected to
the Lok Sabha for three terms, agriculturist,
Political and Social worker, Musician and Management
Consultant, married 19th April 1968, Kumari Geeta
Devi, born 1946, State Social Welfare Minister,
daughter of Rajkumar Chandra Bhan Singh of Kashipur, and his wife,
Rajkumar Rani Rashal Manjari Devi, and had issue,
two sons. He died 1998. (Lal Niwas,
P.O. Dungargarh, Distt. Rajnandgaon, Madhya
Pradesh)
- Kunwar Bhawani Bahadur Singh, married Kunwarani
Caroline Devi Singh from Manipur, and has issue,
two children.
- Kumari Shivantika Raje, aged 13 years (2012)
- Kunwar Shivrajeshwar Singh Khairagarh, aged 10
years (2012)
- Rajkumari Indira Devi, died young.
- Rani Sharda Kumari,
married 5th February 1955, Rawal Chakrapani Singh
of Bissau, and has
issue.
- Raja RAVINDRA
BAHADUR SINGH, 4th Raja Saheb of Khairagarh
(see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Shri Lal Shankar Bahadur Singh, educated at Rajkumar
College, Raipur; represented the University Lawn
Tennis Team which visited Sri Lanka in 1950.
- Rajkumar Shatrushal Bahadur Singh, married Rajkumari
Jyotee Kumari, daughter of Maharaj Sajjansinhji
Naharasinhji of Chhota
Udepur, and his wife, Rani Geeta Devi.
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