PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY: The zamindari was founded by Raja
Srikrishna Singh, a
grandson of Raja Gaj Singh, 2nd Raja of Bettiah.
Estate holders
were....
- Raja SRIKRISHNA
SINGH,
1st
Raja
of Sheohar, married and had issue. He died before
1808.
- Raja Ganga Prasad Singh (qv)
- Rajkumar Doost Daman Singh, married and had issue.
- One or two
generations
- Raja Deoki Nandan Singh, a claimant for the
Bettiah
Raj in 1893, married and had issue.
- Rajkumar Girja Nandan Singh (cf. below)
- Raja GANGA PRASAD
SINGH,
2nd Raja
of Sheohar, married and had issue. He died
before 1812.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Maharaja
Chattardhari Sahi Bahadur of Hathwa,
and had issue.
- Raja DRISTHAN DAMAN
SINGH,
3rd Raja
of Sheohar -/1820, Raja Bahadur [cr.1816],
married and had
issue. He died 1820.
- Raja Raghunandan Singh Bahadur (qv)
- generation,
married
and had issue.
- Raja Sheo Nandan Singh Bahadur (qv)
- Raja RAGHU NANDAN
SINGH
Bahadur, 4th Raja
of Sheohar 1820/1852, married and had
issue.
- Raja Sheo Nandan Singh Bahadur (qv)
- Raja Deo Nandan Singh, he was granted the tilte of
Raja
on
1st January 1891 "for his high rank and position,
and public spirit",
married and had
issue. He died before 1900.
- Kumar Girja Nandan Singh, born 4th January 1875.
- Raja SHEO NANDAN
SINGH
Bahadur, 5th Raja
of Sheohar 1852/1867, married and had
issue. He died
1867.
- Raja Bahadur Sheoraj Nandan Singh (qv)
- Rajkumar Rudraj Nandan Singh, he was granted the
tile of
Raja in
1891.
- Raja Bahadur
SHEORAJ
NANDAN SINGH, 6th Raja
of Sheohar 1867/-, born 1855, he was granted the title
of Raja Bahadur on 3rd March 1875 as a personal
distinction.
- Raja MAHESH NANDAN
SINGH,
Raja
of Sheohar, married Rajkumari Kanak
Kishori Devi, daughter of Raja Bahadur Harihar
Prasad Narain Singh of Amawan Raj, and his wife, Rani
Bhuvneshwari Kuer (Baccha Saheb) of Tikari
Raj, and had issue.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumar Ram Nandan Singh, 5th in descent from Raja
Ganga
Prasad
Singh
- Kumar Suresh Nandan Singh, married Kumarani Ram
Surat Kuer,
and had issue.
He died after 1954.
- Kumar Devendra Nandan Singh
- Kumar Dr. Krishna Nandan Singh is the former
President of
Patna
High
Bar
Association. A Doon School pass-out who further did
his doctorate from
the Benares Hindu University. He has handled
constitutional,
administrative, corporate, criminal and arbitration
matters in Patna
and Ranchi High Courts primarily but also appears in
matters in the
Apex Court.
- Kumar Kameshwari Nandan Singh, an advocate of Patna
High Court; married and has issue, two daughters.
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