PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
state
was founded about 1450. Rulers and zamindars were..
- Vyricherla PEDDA
SANYASI Raju, Zamindar of Kurupam, he was
granted the hereditary title of Vyricherla, by the
Raja of Jeypore, married and had issue.
- Vyricherla Sivarama Raju (qv)
- Vyricherla SIVARAMA
Raju, Zamindar of Kurupam, disposessed of his
estate about 1755, married and had issue.
- Vyricherla Chinna Sanyasi Raju (qv)
- Vyricherla CHINNA
SANYASI Raju, Zamindar of Kurupam fl.1802, he
adopted the son of his cousin, married and had
adoptive issue.
- (A) Sri Raja Vyricherla Sitharama Raju
(qv)
- Sri Raja Vyricherla
SITHARAMA Raju, Zamindar of Kurupam
1802/1830, married Sri Rani Subhadramma Garu (qv), and
had adoptive issue. He died 1830.
- (A) Sri Raja Vyricherla Suryanarayana Raju
Bahadur Garu (qv)
- Sri Rani
Subhadramma Garu, Zamindarani of Kurupam
1830/1841, she died 1841.
- Sri Raja Vyricherla
SURYANARAYANA Raju Bahadur Garu, Zamindar of
Kurupam 1841/1891, born 1838, installed in 1857, he
purchased the Zamindari of Chemudu, married Sri Rani
Soubhagyavati Patta Mahadevi Garu, and had issue. He
died January 1891.
- Sri Sri Sri Raja Vyricherla Virbhadra Raju Bahadur
Garu (qv)
- Sri Sri Sri Raja
Vyricherla VIRBHADRA Raju Bahadur Garu,
Zamindar of Kurupam 1891/-, born 6th September 1877,
married 19th May 1897 at Vizagapatam, Sri Rani Sahiba
Lakshmi Narasayamma Patta Mahadevi Garu, second
daughter of Sri Maharaja Goday Narayana Gajapathi Rao
Garu, C.I.E., and his 1st wife, Sri Maharani Janaki
Amma, daughter of Shri Madina Jugga Rao Garu, C.S.I.,
she died in childbirth 7th July 1901, and had issue,
two sons and one daughter.
- Sri Raja Vyricherla Narasimha Suryanarayana Raju
Bahadur Garu (qv)
- Sri Sri Sri Vyricherla Narayana Gajapathi Raju
Bahadur Garu, Zamindar of Chemudu, born 23rd August
1900 at Waltair, Vizagapatam Distt., Madras; M.L.A.
(Madras), Member of the Waltair Club and the
Cosmopolitan Club, Madras; married Rani Chandramani
Devi, born 1906 in Bissamcuttack, Orissa, died 1957,
daughter of the Zamindar of Bissamcuttack, she
donated her Lakshmi Vilas Palace in China Waltair,
Visakhapatnam to establish a hospital for children
with polio and other orthopedic problems, which was
named after her as 'Rani Chandramani Devi Hospital'.
She also donated the Leprosy Home Building to Prema
Samajam and her Ambika Bagh Palace on Waltair Main
Road for the construction of a temple; and had
issue.
- Sri Rani Rukmini Devi, married 17th May 1944,
Raja Bir Udit Pratap Shekhar Deo of Gangpur, and had
issue.
- Sri Rani Kamala Devi, married Raja Purna Chandra
Deo Bhanj of Daspalla,
and had issue.
- Rani Sri Janaki Ratnayamma Garu, born 1899, Regent
of Gangpur 1935/1944, married Raja Bhawani Shankar
Shekhar Deo of Gangpur,
and had issue. She died after 1944.
- Sri Raja Vyricherla
NARASIMHA SURYANARAYANA Raju Bahadur Garu,
Zamindar of Kurupam -/1926, born 1898, Member of the
MLC, married Rani Sucharumali Devi, daughter of Raja
Kishor Chandra Dev Birabar Harichandan Mahapatra of Talcher, and had issue.
He died 1926
- Sri Raja Vyricherla Durga Prasad Deo Raju Bahadur
Garu (see below)
- Shri Rajkumar Vyricherla Chandrachudamani Dev,
Pattayet Saheb of Kurupam, educated at Rajkumar
College, Raipur; M.L.A., married and had issue, one
son and four daughters.
- Yuvrani Usha Devi B.A., born 25th February 1952,
Member, Senate of Berhampur University; President
of Women's Bank, Berhampur; M.L.A. (Orissa)
1990/1995 and 2000/2009 (three terms); Chairman,
House Committee on Women and Child Welfare,
2000/2002 and 2003/-; Member, Library Committee,
2000/2004; Member, House Committee on Linguistic
Minorities 2000/-; Member, House Committee on
Environment, 2001/2002; Member, House Committee on
Women and Child Welfare, 2002/2003; Member,
Standing Committee on Energy, Revenue & Excise
(No.10), 2005/-; married Yuvraj Trigunateeta Debo
of Chikiti, and
has issue, one son and one daughter.
-
 Shri Rajkumar
Vyricherla Pradeep Kumar Dev, born 25th September
1961 in Kurupam, B.Com., M.B.A., educated at Rishi
Valley School, Jiddu Krishnamurthy (India)
Foundation, Loyola College, Vijayawada (Andhra
Pradesh) and Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
(Andhra Pradesh), Elected Member of Parliament
from Parvathipuram Lok Sabha Constituency; Member
of Zonal Railway Users Consultative Committee,
South Eastern Railway 1994/1996; Member A.P.
Telecom Consultative Committee 1994/1996; Trustee,
Vishakhapatnam Port Trust 1998/2000; Member,
Parliamentary Standing Committee for Union
Ministries of Surface Transport, Civil Aviation
and Tourism; Member, Consultative Parliamentary
Standing Committee on Union Ministry for Commerce
and Member Committee on Petitions, Lok Sabha;
Member of All India Youth Congress National
Executive Committee 1996/1998; Member of AICC
1996/1999; presently (2010) Director, LGS Global
Systems Ltd., Director 3K Technologies Ltd.;
Chairman East Coast Steel Profiles Pvt. Ltd. and
Director Vinayagar Hotels & Restaurants Pvt.
Ltd. (VIHAR); leisure interests are playing
Tennis, Table Tennis, walking, raising pets,
gardening, meeting people from different walks of
life, reading on issues of national and
international importance and listening to western
and Indian classical music. Member of the
following clubs... Waltair Club, Visakhapatnam;
Lawley Institute, Ooty, Nilgiris; and East Point
Golf Club, Vishakhapatnam; Naval Officer’s
Institute (NOI) Vishakhapatnam and Air Force Golf
Club, New Delhi; Constitutional Club of India, New
Delhi; married 17th February 1987, Shrimant
Maharajkumari Vyricherla Sudani Devi, daughter of
Maharaja Sahib Pusapati Dr. Vijayaram V Gajapathi
Raju Manea Sultan Bahadur of Vizianagram,
and his second wife, Maharani Dr. Pusapati Madhuri
Gajapathi Raju, and has issue, two sons. (The
Palace, P.O. Kurupam - 535 524, Vizianagaram
(Dist.), Andhra Pradesh, India)
- Rajkumar Vyricherla Viresh Chandra Dev
- Rajkumar Vyricherla Dheeraj Chandra Dev
- Kumar Rani Sumanjali Devi, married to Lt.-Gen.
Kumar K. P. S. Dhal Samanta of Dompara, Orissa,
and has issue, one son
- Kumar Pranab Dhal Samant, married
Kumari Anjali Dhal Samant.
- Kumari Vijailakshmi Devi, married Shri Siddharth
Singh Jhala of Kunadi in Kotah, and has issue.
- Kumar Rani Kadambari Devi, married Kumar
Birendra Kumar Singh, Pattayet Saheb of Hindol, and has
issue, one son and one daughter.
- COURT OF WARDS 1926/1940
- Sri Raja Vyricherla
DURGA PRASAD DEO Raju Bahadur Garu, Zamindar
of Kurupam 1940/- , educated at Rajkumar College,
Raipur; married Rani Vyricherla Sobhalata Devi,
daughter of Rajkumar Pramod Chandra Deb of Talcher, and has issue,
one son and five daughters.
- Shri Rajkumari Sneharama Devi, married Shri Pravin
Kumar (IAS Ret'd.), former Chief Secretary to the
Government of Maharashtra, and has issue, two
daughters.
- Kumari Samita
- Kumari Namita
- Sri Raja Vyricherla Kishore Chandra Deo Raju
Bahadur Garu (qv)
- Shri Rajkumari Sucharumoni Devi, married Kumar
Bhawani Shankar Singh Deo of Dhenkanal, and has
issue, two sons.
- Shri Rajkumari Kusumanjali Devi
- Shri Rajkumari Pushpanjali Devi, married Shri
Salil Bose, and has issue, two daughters. (U.S.A.)
- Sri Raja Vyricherla
KISHORE CHANDRA DEO Raju Bahadur Garu,
Zamindar of Kurupam (see above)
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born
15th February 1947 in Kurupam, B.A.(Economics),
M.A.(Political Science), educated at Madras Christian
College High School and Madras Christian College,
Tambaram. Elected to the 6th Lok Sabha in 1977; Deputy
Chief Whip, Congress Parliamentary Party
1977/1978,;Member, D.R.U.C.C., Waltair Zone, South-Eastern
Railway 1977/1979; President, Srikakulam District Congress
Committee 1977/1979; Member of the National Council of
Youth Congress from 1977; President of the Vizianagaram
District Congress Committee 1978/1979; Member of the Joint
Select Committee on Vishwa Bharati (Amendment) Bill
1978/1979; Chief Whip, Congress (S) Parliamentary Party
1980/1989; Member, Committee on Privileges
1981/1982; General-Secretary, A.I.C.C. (S)
1983/1993; Member, All India Congress Committee from 1979;
General-Secretary, Congress Parliamentary Party from 1979;
Union Minister of State, Ministry of Steel, Mines and Coal
1979/1980; Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (2nd term) 1980;
Member, Joint Select Committee on Criminal Law (Amendment)
Bill 1980/1982; Member, Estimates Committee 1982/1984;
Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (3rd term) 1984; Member, Joint
Committee on the Railways Bill 1986; General-Secretary,
National Front Parliamentary Party 1987/1989; Member,
Rajya Sabha 1994/2000; Member, Consultative Committee,
Ministry of Food Processing Industries 1994/2000; Member,
Joint Select Committee on Vishwa Bharati (Amendment) Bill
1994/2000; Executive Member, Andhra Pradesh Congress
Committee 1994/2000; Member, Committee on Communications,
Information and Broadcasting 1994/1996; Member, Joint
Select Committee on Railway (Amendment Bill) 1994/1996;
Chairman, Select Committee, Rajya Sabha 1995; Member,
Rules Committee, Rajya Sabha 1995/1996; Chairman, Select
Committee on Trade Marks Bill, Rajya Sabha 1995; Member,
Committee on Human Resource Development 1995; Member,
Committee on Human Resoruce Development, Health and Family
Welfare 1996/1998; Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti,
Department of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises,
Ministry of Industry from 1996; Member, Committee on
Public Undertakings 1997/1998; Member, Central Advisory
Committee on Territorial Army, Ministry of Defence 1997;
Member, Joint Committee of Parliament on the Salary,
Allowances and Pensions of Members 1997; Member, Committee
on Defence 1998; Member, Consultative Committees of
Ministry of Planning, Civil Aviation, Food Processing,
Railways, Surface Transport 1998; Member, Committee on
Human Resources Development 1998; Re-elected to 14th Lok
Sabha (4th term) 2004; Member, Committee on Estimates
2004; Member, Committee on Rural Development 2004; Member,
Business Advisory Committee 2004; Member of the following
clubs : Delhi Gymkhana Club, New Delhi; Constitution Club,
New Delhi; Talcher Rifle Club, Talcher, Orissa; India
International Centre, New Delhi and India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi. Interests include.. walking, swimming, rifle
shooting, billiards, chess, cooking, astrology and music.
Married 30th January 1971, Rani Vyricherla Preeti Devi,
daughter of Raja Purna Chandra Deo Bhanj of Daspalla, and his wife,
Rani Kamala Devi, and has issue, one son and one daughter.