PRESENT RULER:  Kunwar
JITIN PRASADA, present Zamindar of Shahjehanpur since 19th
February 2001.
born 29th November 1973 in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh,
educated at The Doon School, Dehradun, Sri Ram College of Commerece,
Delhi
University (B.Com. Hons.) and International Management Institute (IMI),
New
Delhi (M.B.A.); employed with DSP Meryll Lynch and later with BPL Net,
before entering politics, Member, Lok Sabha 2004/-; Union Minister;
Member, Committee on Petitions; Member,
Committee on Information Technology and
Communications; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil
Aviation; interests and pastimes include, soccer, films, music and
reading, horse riding and various water sports
like rafting, rowing,
yatching, bird watching and
jungle
safaris; Member of the
India Habitat Centre, Delhi; Member, Boat House Club, Nainital.
Unmarried.
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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
- Hon. Pandit Kunwar JWALA
PRASADA, M.A., Zamindar of Shahjehanpur; an
Imperial Civil Service officer, Deputy Commissioner of Hardoi; married
1903,
 Kunwarani Purnima Devi
(née Shrimati Sudakshna Devi),
born 13th May 1884 in Jorasanko, Calcutta, youngest daughter of
Hemendranath Tagore (see Tagore
family), educated at the Loretto Convent, Calcutta, as a
day scholar, and passed the Cambridge Trinity College Music
Examination; awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind rnedal in 1910; and had issue.
- Kunwar Jyoti Prasada (qv)
- Kunwar JYOTI PRASADA,
Zamindar of Shahjehanpur; he
was a a prominent social reformer and a member
of the Congress party, as well as member of
various legislative and local body positions; married Kunwarani
Pamela Prasada, daughter of The Hon. Raja Sardar Charanjit Singh of Kapurthala, and had issue.
- Kunwar Jitendra Prasada (qv)
- Kunwar Jayendra Prasada, born 1940, married Kunwarani
Ratti Prasada, daughter of Raja Jagdish Kumar Singh of Birwa, and has
issue, three sons.
- Kunwar Jayesh Prasada, he is a politician and is
presently (2009) a Member of the Uttar Pradesh State Legislative
Council (M.L.C.) with the Bahujan Samaj Party, re-elected 2010 for a
further six years; married Kunwarani
Neelima
Prasada (née Rawat), and has issue, two sons.
- Jagrit Prasada
- Jayaditya Prasada
- Kunwar Jivesh Prasada, by profession he is an
Agriculturalist; married Kunwarani Radhika
Prasada (née Sharma), and has issue, one son.
- Kunwar Jinesh Prasada, he is a businessman based in
New Delhi; married Kunwarani Mandakini
Prasada (née Kaul), a Senior Economist with the World Bank in
New Delhi.
- Kumari Dr. Jaya Prasada, born 1948, unmarried.
- Kunwar JITENDRA PRASADA
B.Sc. (Agriculture), I.N.C.
(Uttar Pradesh), Zamindar of Shahjehanpur -/2001; born 12th November
1938,
M.L.C. (Uttar Pradesh)
1970/1971; Member of the Lok Sabha 1971/1977, 1981/1984 and 1984/1989;
Member of the Rajya Sabha 1994/1999; Genberal Secretary, All India
Congress Committee 1985; President, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
1995/1998; Vice-President, All India Congress Committee 1997/1998;
married Kunwarani Kanta Prasada (née Thakur), daughter of
Justice Chet Ram Thakur, M.A., LL.B., born 10th April 1917, Judge of
the
High Court (H.P.) [11.3.1971] - [10.4.1979]; and had issue, one
son and one
daughter. He died 19th February 2001.
- Kunwar
Jitin Prasada (qv)
- Kumari
Janhavi Prasada, she is a documentary filmmaker and peace educator.
- Kunwar JITIN PRASADA,
Zamindar of Shahjehanpur (see above)
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