SAKTI (Princely State)

 
AREA: 357 km� PRIVY PURSE: Rs 29,000 ACCESSION: 1st January 1948
STATE: Madhya Pradesh DYNASTY: Raj Gond RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 22,819 (1892) REVENUE: Rs  
     
PRESENT RULER: Rana SURENDRA BAHADUR SINGH, present Rana Saheb of Sakti 
educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; Minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh for two terms, in 1961 he represented India in hockey, against the New Zealand Hockey Touring Team; married Rani Gita Devi Singh from Nepal.  
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Rulers were..... 
  • Rana RUDRA SINGH, Rana of Sakti
  • Rana UDAI SINGH, Rana of Sakti
  • Rana KIWAT SINGH, Rana of Sakti
  • Rana KAGAN SINGH, Rana of Sakti
  • Rana KALANDAR SINGH, Rana of Sakti -/1837
  • Rana RANJIT SINGH, Rana of Sakti (1837)1850/1875, born 20th October 1836, he succeeded to the gadi on 19th June 1850 (#1), he was deprived of ruling powers in 1875 due to gross oppression and attempts to support false representations by means of forged documents, and the management was assumed by the British Government; married and had issue.
    • Rana Rup Narayan Singh (qv)
    • Nanki Tal Chhatarbhan Singh, [?married and had issue.
      • Rana Bahadur Leeladhar Singh (qv)]

    INTERREGNUM 1875/1892
  • Rana RUP NARAYAN SINGH, Rana of Sakti 1892/1914, born 1856, his installation as Rana was sanctioned by the British Government in February 1892, he was granted ruling powers on 26th July 1892; he died in July 1914.
  • Rana Bahadur LEELADHAR SINGH, Rana of Sakti 1914/-, born 3rd February 1892 (#2) and succeeded to the gadi on 4th July 1914, he was formally installed in February 1915; educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh) for two terms, married 1stly, 1914, Rani Indumati Devi, sister of the Zamindar of Bindra Nawagarh in Raipur district,  married 2ndly, 1929, and had issue, one son and one daughter. He died after 1940.
    • Yuvaraj Jivendra Nath Bahadur Singh, born 12th August 1916, married Rajmata Sahiba Shrimant Tank Rajeshwari Devi of Nepal, and had issue.
      • Rana Shri Surendra Bahadur Singh (qv) 
      • Kumar Pushpendra Bahadur Singh, born 12th December 1947 in Sakti, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; M.L.A. (Madhya Pradesh) for two terms, married in Nepal, Kunwarani Ranjana Singh, and has issue.
        • Kumar Bir Bikram Singh
        • Kumari Yogeshwari Singh
        • Kumari Siddheshwari Singh
    • Kumari (name unknown) Kumari, born 1930.
  • Rana Shri SURENDRA NATH SINGH, Rana of Sakti
  • Rana Shri SURENDRA BAHADUR SINGH, Rana of Sakti (see above) 
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 475
2. "Indian Annual Register" , N. N. Nitra, Calcutta 1945