PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY: Rulers and estate holders
were....
- SOMESWAR, Chief of
Susanga fl.1280
- GUNAKAR AKASHBASI
[Budhimanta Khan], Chief of Susanga, title of Khan was
granted by the
Muslim
Viceroy of Gour, married and had issue.
- Kamai Hajra (qv)
- Bikram Khan
- Bhaskar khan
- Vachaspati Khan
- Narayan Khan
- KAMAI HAJRA, Chief
of Susanga, married and had issue.
- Vasudev (qv)
- Gandharbha Khan
- Bipaksha Khan
- VASUDEV [Bamun
Khan], Chief of Susanga, married and had issue.
- Jairam Khan, died vp.
- Jagadananda Khan (qv)
- Harish Chandra Khan, died vp or accepted Sanyas.
- JAGADANANDA KHAN,
Chief of Susanga, married and had issue.
- Malik Janakinath (qv)
- Malik Jadunath
- MALIK JANAKINATH,
Chief of Susanga, established himself as the leader of the
Varendra
Brahmans
of Bengal, married Rani Kamala Rani, and had issue, three sons.
- Raja Raghunath Singh (by Rani Kamala Rani)(qv)
- Kongar Ramdas
- Kongar Umadas
- Raja RAGHUNATH SINGH,
Raja of Susanga, accepted the sovereignty of Mughal
Emperor
Jahangir
as a feudal chief, married and had issue.
- Raja Ramnath (qv)
- Kumar Ramanath
- Kumar Gopinath
- Kumar Sripati, married and had issue.
- Kumar Bhupati, married and had issue.
- Rupnarayan Thakur
- Bhabadeb Thakur
- Raja RAMNATH, Raja
of Susanga
- Raja RAMJIBAN,
Raja of Susanga, married and had issue.
- Raja Ram Singh (qv)
- Kumar Srikrishna Singh [Bir Singh]
- Raja RAMKRISHNA, Raja
of Susanga
- Raja RAM SINGH,
Raja of Susanga
-/1735 (abdicated), forcibly converted to
Islam under
the
name of Abdul Rahim towards the end of his life, married and had issue.
- Raja Ran Singh (qv)
- Kumar Rahimiar
- Kumari Tara Bibi
- Raja RAN SINGH,
Raja of Susanga, married and had issue.
- Raja Kishore Singh (qv)
- Raja Raj Singh (qv)
- Raja KISHORE SINGH,
Raja of Susanga, died spm 1784.
- Raja RAJ SINGH,
Raja of Susanga, during his lifetime, Susanga was reduced in
status to
that
of a zamindari, as a result of a permanent settlement with the East
India
Company, married and had issue.
- Baidyanath Kongar, died vp.
- Raja Vishwanath Singh (qv)
- Gopinath Singh, died sp 1833.
- Krishnanath Kongar, died vp.
- Jagannath Singh, died 1829.
- Raja VISHWANATH SINGH,
Raja of Susanga -/1853, born 1787, during his lifetime the
British
Government
laid claims to some of the villages in Garo Hills, he married and had
issue.
He died 1853.
- Raja PRAN KRISHNA SINGH,
Raja of Susanga
1853/1864, born 1808, married and
had issue. He
died 1864.
- Maharaja Raj Krishna Singh (qv)
- Kumar Kamal Krishna Sinha, author of several books. He
died
1910 in Calcutta.
- Kumar Jagat Krishna Sinha, sanskritic scholar. He died
1897.
- Kumar Shiv Krishna Sinha, author of a number of articles
on
birds.
- Maharaja RAJ KRISHNA
SINGH, Maharaja of Susanga
1864/1890, granted the title of
Maharaja as
a hereditary distinction in 1884, Garo Hills was finally removed from
the
Susanga zamindari, he started a tea garden, an English High School, and
brought in a Post and Telegraph Office, he established a charitable
dispensary,
became the first nominated member of the District Board and connected
the
town of Mymensingh with a road leading to the foot of the Garo Hills,
he
also took his sons and nephews to Calcutta around 1880 in order to
provide
the highest possible English education for them, whereupon his son and
a nephew became graduates from the Presidency College under the
Calcutta
University; he married Maharani Sukhada Sundari and had issue, four
sons.
He died 1890 aged 59.
- Maharaja Kumud Chandra Singh (qv)
- Kumar Nirode Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumar Kiron Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumar Ranajit Singh, A.M.E.E., Joint Secretary,
Department
of SSI, Government
of West Bengal.
- Kumar Arun Singh, M.A.
- Kumar Tarun Singh, D.Sc. (Calc.), Director of L.M.H.
- Kumar Bejoy Singh, Officer in Rehabilitation
Department, West
Bengal.
- Kumar Nagendra Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumar Ganendra Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumar Jharna Singh, M.A.
- Kumar Chandana Singh, B.A.
- Kumar Arijit Singh, I.Sc.
- Kumar Dwijendra Singh, B.A., married and had issue.
- Kumar Samarendra Singh, married Kumari Nilima, B.A.,
and had issue.
- Kumar Ranjana Singh, B.A.
- Kumar Bimalendu Singh, I.Sc., Superintendent of
Jadavpur
University Press,
married
Kumari Jayanti, B.A., and had issue.
- Kumari Maya Kumari
- Maharaja KUMUD CHANDRA
SINGH, Maharaja of Susanga 1890/1916, born June 1866 (#1),
President of the Bengal Landholders' Association, Member of the Female
Education Committee and the Hindu Almanac Reformation Committee,
President
of Sahitya Sabha, Member of the Sanskrit Education Board of Bengal,
elected
leader of the All Bengal Brahman Conference at Kalighat in 1911,
married
1stly, (name unknown), married 2ndly, about 1888 (name unknown)
(aged 12) and had issue. He died 16th
October
1916.
- Maharaja Bhupendra Chandra Sinha (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown) (fourth daughter), married
1906, the second son of the Raja
Bahadur of Tahirpur
of a Varendra Brahman Zamindari family of North Bengal.
- Maharaja BHUPENDRA
CHANDRA SINHA, Maharaja of Susanga 1916/-, born 18th September
1898 at
Susanga,
married
1920, a daughter of Jogendra Nath Maitra, aged 11, and had issue.
- Maharaja Dr. Surajit Chandra Sinha (qv)
- Kumar Debabrata Singh, M.A., D.Phil., Assistant Professor
of
Philosophy,
Presidency
College, Calcutta, married Jayanti, M.A.
- Kumar Pradosh Singh, B.C.E. (Jadavpur), General Foreman
ISCO,
Burnpur,
married
Ratna, M.A.
- Kumar Parba Sangeet Visharad Singh, (Lucknow School of
Music).
- Kumar Dhurjati Singh, B.E. (Calc.).
- Kumari Ruma, B.A.
- Maharaja Dr. SURAJIT
CHANDRA SINHA, Maharaja of Susanga -/2002, M.Sc. (Calc.), Ph.D.
(USA),
born 1926 in Susanga, Bengal, educated at high school in Mymensingh, at
Ballygunge Government
High School, Calcutta, at Presidency College, Calcutta, and at
Northwestern University, USA on a Fullbright Scholarship, completing
his Ph.D. in anthropology; Professor, Indian
Institute of Management, Calcutta; Director,
Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, and Upacharya, Visva
Bharati,
Santiniketan; Director, Centre for Studies
in Social Sciences, Calcutta; author of Science, Technology, and Culture: A Study
of the Cultural
Traditions and Institutions of India and Ceylon in Relation to Science
and Technology and Tribes and
Indian Civilization: Structures and Transformation
(Varanasi, 1982); married Maharani Purnima (née Sengupta),
M.Sc.,
D.Phil.,
daughter
of Dr. Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta (born 1882 in Bogura, died 19th
September 1964). He died 27th February 2002 in Santiniketan, West
Bengal.
- Maharaja of Susanga (see above)
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