TARAON (Princely State)

 
AREA: 43.73 km2 REVENUE: 21,000Rs (1931)
ACCESSION: 1st January 1950
STATE: Madhya Pradesh  DYNASTY: Jijhotia Brahmin RELIGION: Hindu
VILLAGES: 16 POPULATION: 3,387 (1931)
CAPITAL: Pathraundi
     
PRESENT RULER: Chaube .......
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The rulers are descended from Ramkrishna, who was governor of Kalinjar fort under Raja Hirdeshah of Panna. The jagirs are now in Raghuraj Nagar tehsil. Rulers were....
  • Ramkrishna Chaube, governor of Kalinjar fort under Raja Hirdeshah of Panna, married and had issue. He died 1816.
    • Gajadhar Chaube , married and had issue.
      • Chaube Gaya Prasad, 1st Darbar Saheb of Taraon (continued below)
    • Chaube Newal Kishor (third son), 1st Darbar Saheb of Bhaisaunda 1812/1829 (qv)
    • Chaube Baldeo Singh, 1st Chief of Paldeo (qv)
    • Chaube Salig Ram, 1st Chief of Pahra 1812/1843 (qv)

  • Chaube GAYA PRASAD, 1st Chief of Taraon 1812/1840, married and had issue. He died 1840.
    • Chaube Kamta Prasad (qv)
  • Chaube KAMTA PRASAD, 2nd Chief of Taraon 1840/1856, married and had issue. He died 1856.
    • Chaube Ram Chand (qv)
  • Chaube RAM CHAND, 3rd Chief of Taraon 1856/1872, married and had issue. He died 3rd March 1872 ( #1 ).
    • Chaube Chhatarbhuj (qv)
    • Chaube Brij Gopal (qv)
    ADMINISTRATOR [3.3.1872] - [22.1.1881]
  • Chaube CHHATARBHUJ, 4th Chief of Taraon [3.3.1872] - [31.1.1895], born 22nd January 1863, he was granted ruling powers on 22nd January 1881. He died 31st Janauary 1895.
  • Chaube BRIJ GOPAL, 5th Chief of Taraon [31.1.1895] - [1925], born 21st September 1864, he was declared insane in 1911 and the state was administered on his behalf; married and had issue. He died 1925.
    • Chaube Ganga Prasad (qv)
  • Chaube GANGA PRASAD, 6th Chief of Taraon 1925/(1954), born 1905, married and had issue. He died before 1970.
    • Chaube Murli Mandhar (qv)
  • Chaube MURLI MANDHAR, 7th Chief of Taraon, born 1927.
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p.533