PREDECESSORS AND SHORT
HISTORY: Rulers were...
- Raja NALINAKHYA
Marda Raja Deo, Raja of Khallikote 1756/1789,
during his reign, the state lost its sovereign powers
in a treaty on 29th November 1769; his brother Kunwar
Man Singh rebelled in 1771, but fled, and was
eventually killed in October 1775; married and had
issue. He died in 1789.
- Raja Ramakrishna Marda Raja Deo (qv)
- Raja Jagannath Marda Raja Deo (qv)
- Raja RAMAKRISHNA
Marda Raja Deo, Raja of Khallikote
1789/1816, he died sp 1816 at Puri.
- Raja JAGANNATH
Marda Raja Deo, Raja of Khallikote
1816/1835, married and had issue. He died 1835 at
Puri.
- Raja Bala Keswara Singh Marda Raja Deo (qv)
- Raja BALA KESWARA
SINGH Marda Raja Deo, Raja of Khallikote
1835/1845, married the daughter of the Raja of Surangi, and had issue,
two sons and one daughter.
- Raja Sahib Mehrban-i-Dostan Shri Raja Narayana
Marda Raja Deo (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown) [Rani Saheba of
Dharakote], married Raja Braja Sundar Singh of Dharakote.
- Raja Sahib
Mehrban-i-Dostan Shri Raja NARAYANA Marda Raja Deo,
Raja of Khallikote 1845/1878, married 1stly, the
eldest daughter of the Raja of Baudh, she died sp,
married 2ndly, a lady of the Routh family, married
3rdly, a daughter of Raja Bishwanath Singh of Tekkali,
and had issue, three sons and five daughters. He died
in 1878 aged 53.
- Raja Sahib Mehrban-i-Dostan Sri Harihar Mardaraj
Deo Bahadur [Prince Eric] (by second marriage) (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (eldest daughter),
married Raja Raghunath Singh of Bali Atagada in
Orissa.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (third daughter),
married the Raja of Dharakote.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (fifth daughter),
married the Raja of Surangi.
- Raja Sahib
Mehrban-i-Dostan Sri HARIHAR Mardaraj Deo Bahadur,
Raja of Khallikote 1878/1909, born 10th July 1872 at
Khallikote, succeeded in 1887 as a minor, founder and
patron of Khallikote College, married 1stly, 1894,
eldest daughter of Chhota Lal Saheb Brindabhan Chandra
Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj,
married 2ndly, 1895, Rani Kanaka Manjari Devi, sister
of the first wife, and had issue. He died 20th July
1909.
- Son (by 2nd wife), born 1898, died aged 8 months.
- Son (by 2nd wife), born 1899, died young.
- Lt. Raja Bahadur Sri Ramchandra Marda Raja Deo
Bahadur [Prince Eric] (by 2nd wife) (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown) [Rani Sahiba of
Surangi] (eldest daughter), married Raja Chandra
Chudamani Harishchandra Jagadev of Surangi, and had
issue, three sons and two daughters.
COURT OF WARDS
(Madras) [20.7.1909] - [14.1.1921]
- Lt. Raja Bahadur
Sri Sir RAMCHANDRA Marda Raja Deo Bahadur,
Raja of Khallikote 1909/1963, born 13th January 1900,
Raja Saheb of Khallikote as well as Raja Saheb of
Atagada and Biridi estates, granted ruling powers on
14th January 1921; educated at Newington Institution
and Madras Christian College; he was granted the
titles of Raja (personal) [cr.1929], hereditary
[cr.1934], Raja Bahadur [cr.1936], and Kt. [cr.1945];
President of the Ganjam District Board 1922/1937;
M.L.C. (Madras) 1923/1936, Member, National Defence
Council of India 1939/-; M.L.A. (Orissa) 1937/1946 and
1952/1963 (four terms); Member of the Indian Central
Legislature 1945/1951; he laid the foundation of the
Secondary School at Khallikote; he attended the 3rd
Round Table Conference in London in December 1932 and
was a forceful proponent for the formation of Orissa
State, which occurred on 1st April 1936; married 1918,
Rani Chandra Priya Devi, the only daughter of Lal
Saheb Dhiraraj Singh Deo of ‘Nua Pacca II’ (see Seraikella), and had
issue, one son. He died 23rd January 1963.
- Raja Purna Chandra Mardaraj Deo (qv)
- Raja PURNA CHANDRA
Mardaraj Deo, Raja of Khallikote 1963/-, born
1930; married Rani Saheba V. Sugyani Kumari Deo (qv).
He died sp.
- Rani Saheba V.
Sugyani Kumari Deo, Rani of Khallikote (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- a Princess of Khallikote, married (as his second
wife), Raja Bishambhar Birbar Mangraj Mahapatra of Baramba, and had issue.
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