PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
by Raja Ramai Deo in around 1191. Rulers were.....
- Raja RAMAI DEO, 1st
Raja of Patna 1191/1223, ruled 32 years.
- Raja MAHALING SINGH DEO,
2nd
Raja
of Patna 1223/1229, ruled 6 years.
- Raja BAIJAL DEO I,
3rd Raja of Patna 1229/1294, ruled 65 years.
- Raja BAIKRAJ DEO,
4th Raja of Patna 1294/1307, ruled 13 years.
- Raja BUJANG DEO,
5th Raja of Patna 1307/1341, ruled 34 years.
- Raja PRATAP RUDRA DEO,
6th
Raja
of Patna 1341/1380, ruled 39 years.
- Raja BHUPAL DEO,
7th Raja of Patna 1380/1391, ruled 11 years.
- Raja NAGSINGH DEO,
8th Raja of Patna 1391/1421, ruled 30 years.
- Raja VIKRAMADITYA DEO,
9th
Raja
of Patna 1421/1455, ruled 34 years.
- Raja BAIJAL DEO II,
10th Raja of Patna 1455/1485, ruled 30 years.
- Raja BHANJAN HIRADHAR DEO,
11th
Raja
of Patna 1485/1515, ruled 30 years.
- Raja Narsingh Deo (qv)
- Raja Balrama Dev, founder and 1st Raja of Sambalpur,
married
and had
issue (see Sambalpur).
- Raja NARSINGH DEO,
12th Raja of Patna 1515/1522, ruled 7 years.
- Raja CHHATRAPAL DEO,
13th
Raja
of Patna 1522/1525, ruled 3 years.
- Raja BAIJAL DEO III,
14th
Raja
of Patna 1525/1588, ruled 63 years.
- Raja HRIDAYA NARAYANA DEO,
15th
Raja
of Patna 1588/1603, ruled 15 years.
- Raja PRATAP DEO,
16th Raja of Patna 1603/1625, ruled 22 years, married and had issue.
- Raja Vikramaditya Deo (qv)
- Raja Gopal Rai, founder and 1st
Raja of Khariar in about 1600, married and had issue (see Khariar).
- Raja VIKRAMADITYA DEO,
17th
Raja
of Patna 1625/1640, ruled 15 years.
- Raja MUKUND DEO,
18th Raja of Patna 1640/1670, ruled 30 years.
- Raja BALRAM DEO,
19th Raja of Patna 1670/1678, ruled 8 years.
- Raja HIRDE SHAH DEO,
20th
Raja
of Patna 1678/1685, ruled 7 years.
- Maharaja RAI SINGH DEO,
21st
Maharaja
of Patna 1685/1762 or ruled for 80 years.
- Maharaja PRITHVIRAJ DEO,
22nd
Maharaja
of Patna 1762/1765
- Maharaja RAMCHANDRA SINGH
DEO I, 23rd Maharaja of Patna 1765/1820, married and had
issue.
- Maharaja Bhupal Singh Deo (qv)
- Maharajkumar Yuvraj Singh Deo, he was granted the estate
of Jarasingha
in 1765.
- Maharaja BHUPAL SINGH DEO,
24th
Maharaja
of Patna 1820/1848
- Maharaja HIRAVAJRA SINGH
DEO, 25th Maharaja of Patna 1848/1866, married and had
issue. He died in August 1866.
- Maharaja Sur Pratap Singh Deo (qv)
- Lal Bishnath Singh Deo, married and had issue.
- Maharaja Ramchandra Singh Deo (qv)
- Maharaja Danganjan Singh Deo (qv)
- Maharaja SUR PRATAP SINGH
DEO, 26th Maharaja of Patna 1866/1878, born 1844, married and
had issue. He died spm in
1878.
- Maharaja RAMCHANDRA SINGH
DEO, 27th Maharaja of Patna 1878/1895, born 1872,
succeeded
25th November 1878 (#1), educated at
Rajkumar College, Jabalpur; married and had
issue, one daughter. He died 1895.
- Maharajkumari Padmini Kumari Devi [Maharani Padmini
Kumari Devi of Seraikella], born 1893, married Raja Aditya Pratap
Singh Deo of Seraikella, and
had
issue. She died 1960.
- HH Maharaja Sir Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo (see
below)
- Maharaja DANGANJAN SINGH
DEO, 28th Maharaja of Patna 1895/1910, married and had
issue.
- HH Maharaja Prithviraj Singh Deo (qv)
- Maharajkumar Raghuraj Singh Deo, third son, born about
1890, married
a daughter
of the Raja Sahib of Tarla in Madras Presidency.
- HH Maharani
Brinda Devi, married HH Maharaja
Sir Brijnath Singh Ju Deo Bahadur of Maihar,
and
had
issue.
- HH Maharaja PRITHVIRAJ
SINGH DEO, 29th Maharaja of Patna 1910/1924, born 1890,
married (amongst others) (a), the eldest daughter of Raja Jogendra Deo
of Baudh, married (b), the sister of Lal
Saheb Sarat Chandra Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj. He died sp
in 1924.
 HH
Maharaja Sir RAJENDRA NARAYAN SINGH DEO, 30th Maharaja of Patna
1924/1975, born
31st March
1912, younger son of Raja Aditya Pratap Singh Deo Seraikella,
and his wife, Rani Padmini Kumari Devi, only daughter of Maharaja
Ramchandra
Singh Deo of Patna (see above), granted ruling powers in 1933 on
attaining his majority; educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and St.
Columbia's College, Hazaribagh (B.A.); undertook Administrative
Training at Ranchi and Monghyr;
an enlightened ruler, he was responsible for the allround development
of the state and was one of the first Rulers to sign the Merger
Agreement with Indian Union; during his rule he removed untouchability
and the bar on
temple entry for Harijans and also banned
forced labour; Member, Chamber of Princes; Vice-President, Council of
Rulers of the Eastern States Agency and
Chairman, Eastern States Board of Forestry and Agricology; Member,
Eastern States Post-War Reconstruction Committee and Standing Committee
of Eastern States Union; Member, General Council of Rajkumar College,
Raipur; Chief Patron of the Fifth All-India Cultural Unity Conference;
Patron, All India Cattle Show Society; Kalinga Historial Research
Society; Koshal Kala Mandal and other cultural literary and reasearch
societies; President of Ganatantra Parishad in 1950, which he founded,
and which merged with the Swatantra Party Orissa Unit in 1962;
President, Utkal Sammilani,
1953; Secretary-General, National Democratic Party; Member of the Rules
Committee and several select Committees in the Lok Sabha; Chairman,
Public Accounts Committee, Orissa; Member, Public Funds Development
Enquiry Committee, Orissa; established Rajendra
College at Bolangir; Member,
General Council, National Executive Parliamentary Board, Swatantra
Party; Member of the First Lok Sabha 1952/1957; M.L.A. (Orissa)
1957/1977 (five terms); Leader of Opposition (1.4.1957) - (22.5.1959),
(21.6.1961) - (1.3.1967) and (14.6.1972) - (9.2.1973); Minister,
Finance (22.5.1959) - (25.2.1961); Minister, Mining and Geology
(22.5.1959) - (25.2.1961); Minister, Industries (22.5.1959) -
(25.2.1961); Minister, Law (22.5.1959) - (25.2.1961); Chief Minister
(8.3.1967) - (9.1.1971); Minister, Planning and Coordination (8.3.1967)
- (9.1.1971); Minister, Finance (8.3.1967) - (9.1.1971);
Minister, Home (Exc Jail Reformation & P.R.) (8.3.1967) -
(9.1.1971); Minister, Tourism (8.3.1967) - (5.9.1967)
and (31.8.1969) - (9.1.1971); Minister, Political & Services
(Exc R.V.D.) (3.4.1971) - (14.6.1972); Minister, Industries (3.4.1971)
- (14.6.1972); Minister, Home (Public Relations& Tourism)
(3.4.1971) - (14.6.1972); author of many
articles, leaflets and pamphlets; he embodied a unique combination of
an erudite scholar, enlightened
statesman and an able administrator who worked with a single minded
devotion for development of Orissa since 1948; he married
1932, HH Maharani Kailash Kumari Devi, daughter of Maj.-Gen.
HH Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia Mansur-i-Zaman Amir-ul-Umra
Maharaja
Dhiraj Rajeshwar Sir Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan Bhupendra Singh Mahendra
Bahadur
of Patiala,
and had issue. He died 23rd February 1975.
- HH Maharaja Raj Raj Singh Deo (qv)
- Pattayet Anang Uday Singh Deo B.A., born 11th November
1945, he is a founding member of the ruling BJD party in Orissa
and has been a Cabinet minister for 15 years in Orissa; Member,
NRAI (National Rifle Association of
India, New Delhi); Member, Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural
Heritage and Ex-convenor Member, Indian International Centre, New
Delhi; Member, S.A.I. (Sports Authority of India) Stadium, New Delhi;
Member Indian Habital Centre, New Delhi; Chairman, Orissa Tourism
Development Corporation; Chairman, Orissa Council of Sports; M.L.A.
(Orissa) 1974/1977 and 1990/- (five terms); Minister
of State, Forest Fisheries and Animal Husbandry, (29.12.1976) -
(30.4.1977); Minister,
Tourism (2.1.1991) - (15.3.1995) and (6.8.2002) - (16.5.2004);
Minister,
Sports, Culture and Youth Services (Sports & Youth Services)
(25.1.1993) - (15.3.1995); Minister,
Energy (6.3.2000) - (6.8.2002); Minister,
Steel and Mines (6.3.2000) - (16.5.2004); Minister,
Information Technology (6.8.2002) - (16.5.2004); Minister,
Works (18.5.2004) to present; Minister,
Housing (18.5.2004) to present; married Pattayet Rani Vijay Laxmi
Kumari
Devi, convenor
for Intach and World Wildlife Fund in Orissa, and
works extensively with weavers to promote local tribal crafts, daughter
of Thakur Shiv Mangal Singh (a freedom fighter and a member of the
Indian National Congress, M.L.A. for over 40 years, and Cabinet
Minister
for Agriculture and Sugar Cane, Zamindar of Jigirsar, Balia, Uttar
Pradesh), and his wife, Thakurani Kamlesh Kumari of Kothi, Madhya
Pradesh, and has
issue, three sons. (Shailashree Palace,
Distt.
Bolangir,
Sambalpur - 768019, Orissa, India)
- Lal Sahib Kalikesh Narain Singh Deo, born 26th May
1974,
educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun and at St. Stephen's College,
Delhi University (B.A. (Hons.) in Economics); he was a
nationals
basketball and shooting sportsman and is currently the youngest M.L.A.
in Orissa (2004/-); Member, Public Accounts Committee, 2004/2005 and
2007/-; Member, House Committee on Forest Protection, 2005/2006;
Member, House Committee on Power Generation/ Transmission/
Distribution, 2005/-; Member, Library Committee, 2005/2006; Member,
Standing Committee on Home, GA, Law, PGPA (No.1), 2005/-; Member,
Bhubaneswar Club; Member, Bhubaneswar
Golf Club; interests are Golf, Mountaineering, scuba diving, trap
shooting and Reading non fiction works; married 8th December 2008 at
Puri, Lal Sahiba Meghna Raj Lakshmi Kumari, daughter of Sri Gaurav
Shumsher
Jung Bahadur Rana.
- Lal Sahib Manmath Vijay Singh Deo, born 1976, educated
at
the Doon School and at SRCC, Delhi University, graduating in Economics,
married 25th November 2009 in Jaipur, Rajkumari Deepshikha Kumari,
daughter of Rajkumar Divyakar Pratap Singh of Kasmanda, and his wife, Rajkumar Rani
Jaya Rajya
Lakshmi.
- Lal Sahib Arkesh Narain Singh Deo, born 1986,
educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun and at St. Stephen's College,
Delhi University, graduating in economics. He captained the Under 19
Indian Basketball team.
- Maharajkumari Raj Shree Devi [Thakurani Raj Shree Devi of
Sayla], married Thakur
Saheb Prithvirajsinhji
Surendrasinhji of Sayla,
and has issue.
- Maharajkumari Braj Shree
Devi [Maharani Braj Shree Devi of Bhadawar], married Maharaja Mahendra
Ripudaman Singh of Bhadawar, and has
issue.
- Maharajkumari Roop Shri Devi, married Shri Ran Vijay
Shahi,
Zamindar Sahib of Dumaria
in Bihar, and has issue.
- Maharajkumari Krishna Kumari Devi, married Captain Baldev
Singh from
Jalalpur-Aligarh, former M.L.A. from Aligarh,
and has issue, three sons.
- Chandra Chur Singh, born 11th October
1968 in New Delhi, film
actor; educated at The Doon School, Dehradun and at St. Stephen's
College, New Delhi; winner of the 1996 Filmfare Best Debut Award for Maachis, nominated in 1998 for the
Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Kya Kehna; other film credits
include, Tere Mere Sapne
(1996) to Sarhad Paar (2006);
married Avantika Kumari, daughter of Shri Ajai Singh, and has issue,
one son.
- Aditya Narain Singh, a television
producer and co-owner of
Contiloe Films.
- Abhimanyu Singh, a television
producer
and co-owner of Contiloe
Films.
- HH Maharaja RAJ RAJ SINGH
DEO, 31st Maharaja of Patna 1975/2004, born 1934,
educated at
Rajkumar College, Raipur; Member of the Lok Sabha for two terms,
married 18th
January 1955, HH
Maharani Premlata Kumari Devi (now HH the Rajmata of Patna), daughter
of
HH Maharana Shri Rajendrasinhji Vijaysinhji Sahib of Rajpipla,
and his wife, HH Maharani Rasik Kunverba Sahiba, and had issue. He died
April 2004.
- HH Maharaja Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo (qv)
- Maharaj Kumari (now Thakur Rani Saheb) Mitrabinda Kumari
Panwar, married 19th May 1983, Late Col. Kunwar
Yudhister
Singh Panwar S.M., V.S.M.,
of Mahendragarh (Sanwar) in Haryana, the family belong to the clan of
Panwar Rajputs who are
descendent's of Raja Vikramaditya from Dhar, Madhya Pradesh and who
moved to
Haryana after WWII, he served in the Indian Army (3rd Parachute
Regiment) as the Defence Attache at the Indian Embassy in Jakarta,
Indonesia, died 20th June 2002, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
- Kumari Tritiksha Panwar, born 23rd February
1984, a post graduate in Customer Relationships Management and
Marketing from Amity University, Noida (Uttar Pradesh), she is
presently working in the service sector.
- Kunwar Brahmaditya Singh Panwar, born 28th
January 1988, a graduate in B.A. (English) from Delhi University; he is
presently assisting his sister in her business.
- Patayat Sri Vardhan Singh Deo, married Patayat Rani
Prakriti Kumari Devi, born 1965, elder daughter of Thakur Rattan Singh
of Umaidnagar, and his wife
Kunwarani Kamleshwari Kumari, daughter of Raja
Padam Dev Singh of Poonch, and his wife,
Rani Manek Kunwar, and has issue.
- Lal Sahib Damaitre Vardhan Singh Deo
- Kumari Pradamini Kumari
- Maharajkumari Satyarajeshwari Singh, married Kunwar
Sanjay
Singh of Badnore,
and has issue.
- HH Maharaja KANAK VARDHAN
SINGH DEO, 32nd Maharaja of Patna (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Princess of Patna, married (as his first wife), Raja
Bibhudendra Deo Samant of Athmalik,
and had issue.
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PRESENT RULER: HH Maharaja KANAK
VARDHAN
SINGH DEO B.A., 32nd Maharaja of Patna since April 2004. (Shailashree
Palace, Distt.
Bolangir,
Sambalpur - 768019, Orissa, India)