PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
A very old Princely house, said to be 3,700 years old.
Rulers were...
- Raja RAMACHANDRA NARENDRA, 173rd Raja of
Ranpur 1692/1727, married and had issue.
- Raja Sarangadhar Bajradhar Narendra (qv)
- Raja SARANGADHAR BAJRADHAR NARENDRA, 174th
Raja of Ranpur 1727/1754
- Raja NARSINGH BAJRADHAR NARENDRA, 175th Raja
of Ranpur 1754/1789, married and had issue.
- Raja Brujdaban Bajradhar Narendra (qv)
- Raja BRUJDABAN BAJRADHAR NARENDRA, 176th Raja
of Ranpur 1789/1821, married and had issue.
- Raja Brajsundar Bajradhar Narendra (qv)
- Raja BRAJSUNDAR BAJRADHAR NARENDRA, 177th
Raja of Ranpur 1821/1842, married and had issue.
- Raja Benudha Bajradhar Narendra Mahapatra (qv)
- Raja BENUDHA BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA,
178th Raja of Ranpur 1842/1899, born about 1817 (or
1823), succeeded 16th March 1845 ( #1
), married and had issue.
- Kunwar Harihar Birbar Jagadeb
- Raja BIRBAR KRISHNA CHANDRA NARENDRA MAHAPATRA,
179th Raja of Ranpur 1899/1945, born 20th August 1875,
and succeeded 12th July 1899 (#2),
married and had issue. He died 21st June 1945.
- Yuvaraj Shri Biranchi Narayan Singh Deo Bahadur,
married 1928, Rani Basant Manjari Devi, born 1900,
died 7th June 1961, daughter of Raja Shyam
Chandra Mardraj Harichandan of Nilgiri, she was the
first woman of the State to be included in the State
Ministry; and had issue. He died before 1945.
- Raja Shri Brajendra Chandra Singh Deo Bajradhar
Narendra Mahapatra (qv)
- Raja Shri BRAJENDRA CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR
NARENDRA MAHAPATRA B.A., LL.B., 180th Raja of
Ranpur 1945/1980, born 22nd October 1928, educated at
Rajkumar College, Raipur; M.L.A. (Orissa) 1967/1971,
an exceptional pilot, a great host, Hon. Flight
Lieutenant in the Air Force and was ADC to the First
President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad; Member,
Council of Management, Aero Club of India; Chairman,
Managing Committee, Rajkumar College, Raipur;
Honourary Secretary, Orissa Flying Club; Member, State
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Board, Orissa; Singles
Champion in tennis, Orissa; Ex-rotarian, ex-Lion and
other service clubs; Vice-President, Orissa State
Rifle Association; Chairman, Orissa T.B. and Cancer
Hospitals Fund Society; also the youngest ruler to
sign the merger agreement with the Indian Union, from
Orissa; interests and pastimes were Flying,
Photography, Classical music , Tennis, Billiards and
Shooting, Reading, Writing and social welfare; he
married Rani Durgeshnandini Devi (+), daughter of Raja
Brajendra Singh of Patiala,
and had issue, three sons and one daughter. He died
February 1980.
- Raja Shri Pradeep Chandra Singh Deo Bajradhar
Narendra Mahapatra (qv)
- Raja Shri Dileep Chandra Singh Deo Bajradhar
Narendra Mahapatra (qv)
- Rajkumar Purnendu Chandra Singh Deo, Vice
Principal of St. Xavier's High School, Bhubaneswar,
educated at St. Paul's Darjeeling and Rajkumar
College, Raipur. Unmarried.
- Rajkumari Gayatri Irani, married Diniar Irani, who
represented India in basketball at the Moscow
Olympics in 1980, presently (2008) a coach with the
Sports Authority of India, and has issue, one
daughter and one son.
- Dil Nawaz Irani, former Exchange
student of Rotary International to the USA,
now based at Moscow, undergoing training at
the biggest Russian Bank - Nestor Bank.
- Xerxes Irani, studying at Cuttack.
-
Raja Shri PRADEEP CHANDRA SINGH DEO
BAJRADHAR NARENDRA MAHAPATRA, 181st Raja of
Ranpur 1980/1982, educated at St. Paul's,
Darjeeling. He died unmarried in a tragic accident
at Bhubaneswar.
- Raja Shri DILEEP CHANDRA SINGH DEO BAJRADHAR
NARENDRA MAHAPATRA, 182nd Raja of Ranpur (see
above)
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