PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in 1556. Rulers were...
- Raja MADAN GOPAL
SINGH DEO, Raja of Sonepur 1556/1606 or
1630/1660, 2nd son of Raja Madhukar Dev of Sambalpur,
married and had issue.
- Raja LAL SAHEB DEO,
Raja of Sonepur 1606/1635 or 1660/1680, married and
had issue.
- Raja Purushottam Singh Deo (qv)
- Raja PURUSHOTTAM
SINGH DEO, Raja of Sonepur 1635/1673, married
and had issue.
- Raja RAJ SINGH DEO,
Raja of Sonepur 1673/1709, married and had issue.
- Raja Achal Singh Deo (qv)
- Raja ACHAL SINGH
DEO, Raja of Sonepur 1709/1725, married and
had issue.
- Raja Divya Singh Deo (qv)
- Raja Sobha Singh Deo (qv)
- Raja DIVYA SINGH
DEO, Raja of Sonepur 1725/1766 or 1750/1770,
married and had issue.
- Raja Jarwar Singh Deo (qv)
- Raja JARWAR SINGH
DEO, Raja of Sonepur 1766/1767
- Raja SOBHA SINGH
DEO, Raja of Sonepur 1767/1781 or 1771/1786,
married and had issue.
- Raja Prithvi Singh Deo (qv)
- Raja PRITHVI SINGH
DEO, Raja of Sonepur 1781 or 1786/1841,
married Rani Gundicha Devi, and had issue.
- Raja Niladhar Singh Deo Bahadur (qv)
- Raja NILADHAR SINGH
DEO Bahadur, Raja of Sonepur 1841/1891, born
1838 (#1), married and
had issue. He died 11th September 1891.
- Raja Pratap Rudra Singh Deo (qv)
- Raja PRATAP RUDRA
SINGH DEO, Raja of Sonepur 1891/1902, born
1854, married Rani Amulyamani Devi, and had issue.
- HH Maharaja Shri Sir Bir Mitrodaya Singh Deo (qv)
- Tikayat Rani Prematarangini Devi, married Tikayet
Nruparaj Singh Deo of Seraikella,
and had issue.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (second daughter),
married to a Lal Saheb of Panchakote.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (third daughter),
married to a Lal Saheb of Panchakote.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (fourth daughter)
[Rani Saheba of Chhota Nagpur], married the Raja
Saheb of Ratu (Chhota Nagpur), and had issue.
- Rajkumar (name unknown), married
and had issue.
- Raja Chintamani Nath Shah Deo of Ratu
(Chhota Nagpur).
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (fifth daughter)
[Rani Saheba of Rairakhol], married Raja Bira
Chandra Jadumani Deo Jenamani of Rairakhol.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (sixth daughter),
married to the Raja Saheb of Tekkali.
- HH Maharaja Shri
Sir BIR MITRODAYA SINGH DEO K.C.I.E.,
Maharaja of Sonepur 1902/1937, born 28th June 1874 and
succeeded 8th August 1902 (#2),
Maharaja [cr.1908], married HH Maharani Parvati Devi,
Kaiser-i-Hind
Gold Medal, and had issue. He died in 1937.
- HH Maharaja Shri Sudhansu Shekhar Singh Deo (qv)
- HH Maharaja Shri
SUDHANSU SHEKHAR SINGH DEO, Maharaja of
Sonepur 1937/- , M.R.A.S., Member of the Chamber of
Princes, married HH Maharani Shrimati Khirode Kumari
Devi, daughter of Shri Maheshwar Prasad Deo of
Lanjigarh, and had issue.
- HH Maharaja Bir Pratap Singh Deo (qv)
- [?Maharanidhirani Amulya Prabha Devi, married
1944, Maharajadhiraj Bhanu Pratap Deo of Kanker, and had
issue.]
- Rani Indira Debi, married Raja Birendra Bijoy
Malla Ugal Sanda Deb of Jhargram, and had
issue, two sons and two daughters.
- HH Maharaja BIR
PRATAP SINGH DEO, Maharaja of Sonepur, born
about 1923, educated at Presidency College, Calcutta,
married 20th February 1944, HH Maharani Saheb Drupad
Kumari, died after 1970, daughter of Thakore Sahib
Shri Sir Bahadursinhji Mansinhji of Palitana, and his
wife, Thakorani Bai Shri Sita Ba Kunverba Sahiba, and
had issue.
- HH Maharaja PRITHVI
BIR SINGH DEO, Maharaja of Sonepur (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Rajkumar Jaswant Singh Deo, married and had issue.
- Rani Ras Manjari Devi, born 19th November 1927,
she joined the Swatantra Party in 1967 and contested
the Assembly elections in 1967, 1971 and 1974;
Chairman, Tigiria Panchayat Samiti 1971/1974; M.L.A.
(Orissa) 1977/1980; married Raja Brajraj Kshatriya
Birbar Chamupati Singh Mahapatra of Tigiria, and had
issue, three sons and three daughters.
- Sri Kameshwar Prasad Singh (+) of Sonepur, married
1stly, Smt. Rajkumari Kamla Devi (+), daughter of Raja
Bhagwati Prasad Singhji, Raja Saheb of Daiya, married 2ndly,
Smt. Kishori Devi, daughter of Thakur Sri Ramji Sinha,
Thakur of Reypura, and his wife, Thakurani Bachani
Devi, and had issue.
- Smt. Manjula Singh (by Smt. Kishori Devi),
married, Dr. Shiva Naresh Singh of Kamarthu.
- Smt. Ansu Singh (by Smt. Kishori Devi), married
Dr. Rajiv R. Singh of Chhata.
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