KHARSAWAN (Princely State)

 
AREA: 396 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 33,000Rs  ACCESSION: 18th May 1948
STATE: Bihar (now Jharkand)
DYNASTY: Rathore RELIGION: Hindu
  POPULATION: 31,051 (1892)   
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja PRADEEP CHANDRA SINGH Deo, present Raja Saheb of Kharsawan
married Rani Vijaya Devi, daughter of Lt. Shri H. N. Singh, and has issue.
  • Yuvraj Gopal Narayan Singh Deo, married Yuvrani Aparajita Devi, eldest daughter of Pattayet Bikram Kesari Deo of Kalahandi, and his wife, Pattayet Rani Shrimant Nayanshree Dev, and has issue.
    • Tikayat Divyaraj Singh Deo, born 2003. 
  • Pat Jema Meenakshi Singh, married and has issue, two children.
    • Shriya Singh
    • Shriraj Singh
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The Rajas of Kharsawan are descended from Kunwar Bikram Singh of Porahat, first ruler of Seraikella. His second son, Kunwar Padam Singh founded Kharsawan in around 1650. The title of Thakur was originally bestowed by the Raja of Porahat. The Thakur maintains a military force of 3 guns (as of 1892). Rulers were...
  • Thakur PADAM SINGH, Thakur of Kharsawan, married and had issue.
    • Thakur Jaswant Singh (qv)

  • Thakur JASWANT SINGH, Thakur of Kharsawan, married and had issue.
    • Thakur Loknath Singh (qv)

  • Thakur LOKNATH SINGH, Thakur of Kharsawan, married and had issue.
    • Thakur Mohanlal Singh (qv)

  • Thakur MOHANLAL SINGH, Thakur of Kharsawan, married and had issue.
    • Thakur Chaitan Singh (qv)

  • Thakur CHAITAN SINGH, Thakur of Kharsawan -/1839, married and had issue. He died 11th August 1839.
    • Thakur Upendra Singh (qv)
    • Kunwar Ram Prasad Singh

  • Thakur UPENDRA SINGH, Thakur of Kharsawan 1839/1844, married and had issue. He died 21st January 1844.
    • Thakur Ganga Ram Singh (qv)
    • Thakur Raghunath Singh Deo (qv)
  • Raja GANGA RAM SINGH Deo, Thakur of Kharsawan 1844/1863, born 1836, he was granted the title of Raja in 1860 as a personal distinction only; married and had issue.
    • Thakur Ram Narain Singh Deo (qv)

  • Thakur RAM NARAIN SINGH Deo, Thakur of Kharsawan 1863/-

  • Thakur RAGHUNATH SINGH Deo, Thakur of Kharsawan -/1884, born 1841, married and had issue. He died 2nd March 1884?.
    • Thakur Mahendra Narayan Singh Deo (qv)

  • Thakur MAHENDRA NARAYAN SINGH Deo, Thakur of Kharsawan 1884/1902, born 1869, he succeeded to the gadi as a minor on 2nd March 1884 (#1), married and had issue.
    • Raja Sri Sriram Chandra Singh Deo (qv)
    • Sri Maharani Nalini Pattamaha Devi, married 1913, Capt. Maharaja Saheb Sri Sri Sri Krishna Chandra Gajapathi Narayana Deo of Parla Khimedi.

  • Raja SRIRAM CHANDRA SINGH Deo, Raja of Kharsawan 1902/- , born 4th July 1892 and succeeded 6th February 1902, installed 4th July 1913, Raja [cr.1917], married Rani Giriraj Devi of Jharia, and had issue.
    • Raja Sri Purnendu Narayan Singh Deo (qv)
    • Rani Manoj Manjari Devi, married Raja Shri Balbhadra Narayan Bhanj Deo of Keonjhar, and had issue.
    • Rajkumar Brajendra Narayan Singh Deo, married 1stly, in Bastar, married 2ndly, in Ratu.
    • Rani Manjul Manjari Devi [later Rajmata Saheba of Kanika], married Raja Saheb Sailendra Narayan Bhanj Deo of Kanika, and had issue.
    • Rajmata Prafulla Manjari, married Raja Brij Dev Narain Singh of Daltanganj (Chainpur), and had issue.
      • Rajkumari Shyama Devi, married 14th July 1959, Rajkumar Shyam Chandra Pal of Bhajji, and has issue.
    • Rajkumar Chandra Shekhar Singh Deo, married in Palkote, and has issue, three sons and one daughter.
      • Raj Kunwar Pratap Chandra Singh Deo, married Kumari Kalpana Singh Deo, daughter of Lal Amresh Prasad Singh Deo, Zamindar of Lakhanpur in Surguja, and has issue, two sons and one daughter.
        • Kunwar Kirti Narayan Singh Deo, presently (2008) working with MNC.
        • Kunwar Ripudaman Singh Deo, presently (2008) working with MNC.
        • Kunwarani Devyani Singh Deo, presently (2008) working with MNC.
      • Raj Kunwar Narayan Chandra Singh Deo, married in Morhena, and has issue, two sons.
        • Kunwar Anant Narayan Singh Deo, presently (2008) working with MNC; married Kunwarani Shivani Chauhan, daughter of the late Kanwar Jatinder Singh Chauhan, and his wife, Kanwarani Bimla Chauhan of Darkoti.
        • Kunwar Bhishma Narayan Singh Deo, presently (2008) working with MNC.
      • Raj Kunwar Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo, married Kumari Indu Singh Deo, daughter of Lal Amresh Prasad Singh Deo, Zamindar of Lakhanpur in Surguja, and has issue, two sons.
        • Kunwar Praduman Singh Deo, presently (2008) studying.
        • Kunwar Vishvavijay Singh Deo, presently (2008) studying.
      • Kunwarani Ratna Sahi, married Lokendra Pratap Sahi, Chief Editor of The Telegraph, and has issue, one daughter.
        • Kumari Radhika Sahi
    • Rajkumar Dr. Amarendra Pratap Singh Deo, educated at Rajkumar Kumar College, Raipur, at Allahabad University, at Cuttack Medical College (M.B.B.S.), at Ophthalmic Institute, London, U.K., and was house surgeon at St. Asaims, North Wales; an accomplished College Tennis Player, in India he served as In India he served as a Reputed Doctor in Ispat General Hospital,  Rourkela for 24 years; he married Rajkunwarani Indira Kumari Devi, and has issue. (Rourkela-769042, Orissa, India)
      • Rani Rashmi Kumari, married 27th May 1979, Maharaj Manohar Singhji of Raoti in Jodhpur, and has issue, one son.
        • Rajkumar Harshvardhan Singh Rathore, born 28th February 1980, educated initially in Calcutta, then at Rajkumar College, Raipur; Graduation from Jodhpur and earned a Master's Degree in M.B.A. and M.B.L. from the  National Law University (N.L.U.), Mandore, Jodhpur; presently (2009) working as a Manager for an esteemed company (MN).
      • Raj Kunwar Chandra Chud Pratap Singh Deo, married Kunwarani Nandini Kumari, and has issue.
        • Kunwar Anshuman Singh Deo 
      • Kuwarani Madhu Mayee Devi, married Sri Lal Kunwar Saheb Krishna Pratap Narayan Singh of Baluhipur (Arrah).
      • Raj Kunwar Bhanu Pratap Singh Deo
    • Lal Saheba Pramod Manjari Devi, married Lal Saheb Pramod Chandra Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj (Sankpeta), born 13th June 1926, died 30th December 1996.

  • Raja Sri PURNENDU NARAYAN SINGH Deo, Raja of Kharsawan, born December 1911, married and had issue.
    • Raja Pradeep Chandra Singh Deo (qv)
    • Rajkumar Shankar Pratap Singh Deo, married Rajkumarani Santosh Devi of Gabhana, and has issue.
      • Kumari Padmavati Singh Deo
      • Kunwar Shashank Pratap Singh Deo, married, Kunwarani Vartika Singh, daughter of Kunwar Atul Singh of Mankapur, and has issue.
        • Kumar Pradyut Singh Deo
    • Rajkumar Rudra Pratap Singh Deo, married Raj Kumari Tripura Kumari, daughter of Rana Raghunath Singh of Kotkhai, and his second wife, Rani Basantika Devi, and has issue.
      • Kunwar Aditya Narayan Singh Deo, married 2006, Kunwarani Preeti Singh of Marvatia, Basti, Uttar Pradesh, and has issue, two children.
        • Kumari Kanika Singh Deo, born 5th September 2007.
        • Kumar Abhijay Narayan Singh Deo, born 21st June 2009.
    • Rani Vijay Laxmi Devi, married Maharajkumar Shri Ram Dev Singhji of Nagod, and has issue.

  • Raja PRADEEP CHANDRA SINGH Deo, Raja of Kharsawan (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Pattayet Rani Padmini Devi, married Pattayet Bharatendra Shekhar Deo of Gangpur, and has issue.
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.249