PREDECESSORS AND SHORT
HISTORY:
- Raja DUSASHAN SHAH,
Raja of Ranka 1598/1632
- Raja SHARGANDHAR
SHAH, Raja of Ranka 1632/1678
- Raja DEV SHAH,
Raja of Ranka 1678/1734
- Thakurai PURANMAL,
Thakurai of Ranka 1734/1757
- Thakurai BHARTHI
CHANDRA, Thakurai of Ranka 1757/1767
- Thakurai MADAN
SINGH, Thakurai of Ranka 1757/1787
- Thakurai SURAT
SINGH, Thakurai of Ranka 1787/1798
- Thakurai KIRIT
SINGH, Thakurai of Ranka 1798/1805
- Thakurai AMAR SINGH,
Thakurai of Ranka 1805/1816
- Thakurai SHAKTI
SINGH [Sakat Singh], Thakurai of Ranka
1816/1827, married and had issue, two sons.
- Thakurai Sanath Singh [Senath Singh] (qv)
- Thakurai Bulaki Singh
- Thakurai SANATH
SINGH, Thakurai of Ranka 1827/1843, married
and had issue, one son.
- Thakurai Shiv Prasad Singh (qv)
- Raja SHIV PRASAD
SINGH, Thakurai of Ranka 1843/1851, married
and had issue, one son.
- Thakurai Basant Singh (qv)
- Thakurai BASANT
SINGH, Thakurai of Ranka 1851/1857, married
and had issue, two sons.
- Raja Bahadur Thakurai Krisna Dayal Singh [Kishun
Dayal Singh] (qv)
- Thakurai Mahipal Singh, he was granted the estate
of Kanchanpur by way of khorposh in 1842 (#1) by his father, married
and had issue, three sons.
- Thakurai Devanath Singh, Zamindar of Kanchanpur,
married and had issue, five sons.
- Thakurai Janki Prasad Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Tulsi Singh, died before 1886.
- Raja Gobind Prasad Singh (qv)
- Thakurai Lachmi Prasad Singh, married and had
issue.
- Thakurai Jagdish Prasad Singh, he was
granted the estate of Khapro by way of khorposh.
He died after 1950.
- Kunwar Adit Prasad Singh
- Rai Jadunath Singh Bahadur, Zamindar of
Kanchanpur 1880/1921, married and had issue, two
sons. He died 1921.
- Thakurai Bindeshwar Prasad Singh, Zamindar of
Kanchanpur 1921/-, married and had issue, one
son.
- Kunwar Kameshwar Prasad Singh, Zamindar of
Kanchanpur, born 1888, he died after 1950.
- Thakurai Ambikeshwar Prasad Singh (second
son)
- Thakurai Parmeshwari Prasad Singh, married and
had issue, five sons.
- Kunwar Baneshwar Prasad Singh (fifth son),
married Mithilesh Kishori Devi. He died 1948.
- Thakurai Dwarika Prasad Singh, he was granted
the estate of Geruasoti by way of khorposh.
- Raja Bahadur
Thakurai KRISNA DAYAL SINGH, Raja of Ranka
1857/1880, he died sp
in 1880.
- Thakurai JANKI
PRASAD SINGH, Raja of Ranka 1880/ca1884;
married and had issue, one son. He died about 1884.
- Thakurai Radha Binayak Singh, he died whilst still
a minor.
- Thakurai RADHA
BINAYAK SINGH, Raja of Ranka ca1884/1886, he
died after 16th April 1886.
- Raja Bahadur GOBIND
PRASAD SINGH, Raja of Ranka 1887/1911, he
succeeded to the Raj before 26th April 1887, married
Rani Sona Kuwar of Jagdishpur, and had issue, four
sons and one daughter.
- Raja Bahadur Giriwar Prasad Singh (qv)
- Kumar Rajeshwar Prasad Singh
- Kumar Devendra Prasad Singh
- Kumar Saryu Prasad Singh
- Rajkumari (name
unknown), married (as his first wife),
Maharaja Bahadur Chandra Mouleshwar Prasad Singh of
Gidhaur, and had
issue.
- Raja Bahadur
GIRIWAR PRASAD SINGH C.B.E., Raja of Ranka
1911/1969, he was granted the enhanced title of Raja
Bahadur, and awarded the C.B.E.; he donated land at
Daltonganj to build the Giriwar High School and in
Garhwa to build the Gobind High School; he also
donated 111,101 acres of land to the Vinoba Bhawes
Boodhan Initiative; married 1stly, a Rani from
Surguja, married 2ndly, Rani Gunjeshwari Kuwar of
Nepal, and had issue, three sons.
- Yuvaraj Girendra Narayan Singh, he succeeded as
Raja Girendra Narayan Singh (qv)
- Kumar Gopinath Singh, M.L.A. from Ranka, Garhwa
and Minister in Bihar; married and had issue.
- Kumar Girja Raman Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumar Girinath Singh, M.L.A. from Garhwa,
Jharkhand; R.J.D. President, Jharkhand; married
Kumarani Poonam Kumari of Sonbarsa.
- Kumar Ganpati Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumar Amit Singh, married Kumarani Gayatri
Kumari of Dharakote. (U.S.A.)
- Kumar Ashwin Singh (U.S.A.)
- Raja GIRENDRA
NARAYAN SINGH, Raja of Ranka 1969/1970,
married 1stly, Rani Indra Kumari of Kalakankar, she
had issue, three sons and two daughters, married
2ndly, Rani Indra Kumari, she had issue, two sons and
three daughter, and had issue, five sons and five
daughters.
- Raja Goverdhan Prasad Singh (qv)
- Kumar Gangadhar Prasad Singh [Raju Babu], Raja
Saheb of Panki, an estate of Ranka; married Rani
Vidya Kumari of Deelippur, Rohtas, and has issue,
two sons and one daughter.
- Rajkumar Gautam Singh M.B.A., currently (2011) working as a
Principal Consultant with 24x7learning (A
largest E – Learning Implementation Company in
India), handling its Entire North and East India
Operations; married Kumari Indu from
Kangra, and has issue. (New Delhi, India)
- Rajkumar Rajan Singh M.B.A., C.F.A., presently
(2011) employed as Manager with H.D.F.C. Bank.
- Rajkumari Vijaya Raje Lakshmi, married Rajkumar
Saurabh Singh of Deo Estate in Patna, B.Tech.,
B.I.T. Mesra, Ranchi, and has issue.
- Kumari Kashvi Singh Sisodia
- Kumar Girishankar Prasad Singh, married Kumarani
Sandhaya Kumari of Sameroan, and has issue, two sons
and one daughter.
- Kumar Atul Singh
- Kumar Rana Singh
- Kumari Priyanka
- Kumar Girinath Singh [Tiku], married and has
issue.
- Kumar Giridhar Singh [Bobby], married and has
issue.
- Raja GOVERDHAN
PRASAD SINGH, Raja of Ranka (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari Minakshi Singh of Ranka, married Kumar
Prithviraj Chandra Deo of Rairakhol,
and has issue.
- Kumarani Kamleshwari Kumari Devi, married Kumar
Saheb Ranendra Pratap Singh Deo of Seraikella state,
and had issue, four sons and one daughter.
- Kumar (name
unknown), married Rajkumari Ratna Kumari,
daughter of Raja Anant Narayan Singh Deo, Raja of Dharakote, and his
wife, Rani Shanti Devi, and has issue.
- Thakurai Tarkeshwar Prasad Singh, born 1906, died
after 1950.
- Thakurai Narbadeshwari Prasad Singh, born 1920.
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