TILOI (Taluq)

 
 
AREA: REVENUE: ACCESSION:
LOCATION: Oudh (Rae Bareli Dist.)
DYNASTY: Kanhpuria RELIGION: Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja Bahadur RAMESHWAR SINGH, Raja Saheb of Tiloi, since 6th March 1997.
born 22nd January 1954, married 1stly, 6th February 1984 (div. 1997) Rani Vineeta Kumari, daughter of Capt. R.N. Singh, married 2ndly, 7th March 2000, Rani Nandita Kumari, daughter of Kunwar Diwakar Vikram Singh of Athadama, and foster daughter of Shri Vijay Singh Mohite, and has issue, (by first wife).
  • Rajkumari Arushi Kumari, born 4th December 1985.
  • Rajkumar Abhishek Singh, born 31st August 1988.
PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY: Estate holders were....
  • Raja KANDHE RAI, Raja of Tiloi, descendant of Raja Janga Singh Kanhapuria, married and had issue.
    • Raja Udebhan Singh (qv)
    • Raja Gulal Shah of Shahmau.
  • Raja UDEBHAN SINGH, Raja of Tiloi, married and had issue.
    • Raja Surat Singh (qv)
  • Raja SURAT SINGH, Raja of Tiloi fl. 1670/1680
  • Raja GOPAL SINGH, Raja of Tiloi, married and had issue. He was killed by his own son.
    • Raja Mohan Singh (qv)
    • Babu Niwal Singh
  • Raja MOHAN SINGH, Raja of Tiloi fl.1720, he hastened the death of his father, who was favouring his younger brother as his successor; married 1stly, a Bisen Rani of Rampur, married 2ndly, a Bharelia Rani of Surajpur, and had issue.
    • Raja Prem Singh (qv)
  • Raja PREM SINGH, Raja of Tiloi, ruled for five years, married a Gahrwar Rani of Bijaipur, and had issue.
  • Raja BALBHADDAR SINGH, Raja of Tiloi, he was granted an Imperial mansab of 4,000 later raised to 5,000, married 1stly, the Senior Rani, committed sati in 1784, married 2ndly, the Junior Rani, and had adoptive issue. He died sp in 1784.
    • (A) Babu Chhatardhari Singh of Shahmau, adopted by the Senior Rani 'from the funeral pyre', the adoption was not recognized by the nobles, resulting in a 15 year long armed conflict with his younger adoptive brother; married and had issue.
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        • Raja Dirgaj Singh, married and had adoptive issue.
          • (A) Raja Sukhmangal Singh, he succeeded to Shahmau.
    • (A) Babu Shankar Singh, adopted from Asni by the Junior Rani, after a long interregnum he succeeded to the gadi of Tiloi, as Raja Shankar Singh of Tiloi (qv)
  • Raja SHANKAR SINGH, Raja of Tiloi, adopted by the Junior Rani of his predecessor, married and had issue. He died after 1857.
    • Raja Buniad Singh (qv)
  • Raja BUNIAD SINGH, Raja of Tiloi, married and had issue.
    • Raja Jagpal Singh (qv)
  • Raja JAGPAL SINGH, Raja of Tiloi -/1875, he was invested with the powers of an Assistant Commissioner in 1860; married Rani Harbans Kuer, and had issue. He died 15th September 1875.
    • Raja Bahadur Surpal Singh (qv)
  • Raja Bahadur SURPAL SINGH, Raja of Tiloi 1875/1900, born 13th December 1870, succeeded 1875 (#1), the title of Raja formally recognized 4th December 1877, the title of Raja Bahadur formally recognized as hereditary on 28th December 1882, married Rani Jagannath Kuer, died 7th August 1933, she adopted a Kumar from Chiloli on 21st February 1901; and had adoptive issue. He died spl on 21st June 1900.
    • (A) Hon. Lt. Raja Bahadur Bishwanath Saran Singh (qv)
COURT OF WARDS 21st June 1900 to 30th March 1920
  • Hon. Lt. Raja Bahadur BISHWANATH SARAN SINGH, Raja of Tiloi 1920/1946, adopted from Chiloli on 21st February 1901, married 1stly, Rani Aditya Binai Kumari of Balrampur, died sp in 1971, married 2ndly, 1926, Rani Phanindra Rajya Lakshmi Devi, daughter of Supradipta Manyabara Gen. HH Maharajkumar Sir Baber Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal (see Lambjung and Kaski), and his wife, Rani Deva Vakta Lakshmi Devi, married 3rdly, Rani Sonami Devi, and had issue. He died 8th November 1946.
    • Raja Bahadur Pashupati Nath Saran Singh (by Rani Phanindra) (qv)
    • Rajkumari Usha Rani (by Rani Phanindra), born September 1928, married Maharaja Kamal Singh of Dumraon, and had issue, two sons and one daughter. She died 1st April 1985.
    • Rajkumar Mohan Nath Sharan Singh (by Rani Sonami Devi), married Rajkumari Vineeta Kumari, and had issue.
      • Kunwar Myankeshwar Sharan Singh, born 17th March 1969 in Tiloi, married in Lucknow, Kunwarani Upasna Kumari Deo, daughter of Rajkumar Chotrai Bharatendra Chandra Mardaraj Harichandan of Nilgiri, and has issue.
        • Mrigankeshwar Sharan Singh
        • Utkarsh Sharan Singh
    • Rajkumar Vijay Singh (by Rani Sonami Devi)
COURT OF WARDS 31st January 1942 till Abolition of the Estate
  • Raja Bahadur PASHUPATI NATH SARAN SINGH, Raja of Tiloi 1946/1997, born 13th September 1930, married 21st May 1952, Rani Ujjalla Kumari, daughter of Maharaja Bahadur Ram Ran Vijay Singh of Dumraon, and his wife, Maharani Kanak Kumari, and had issue. He died 6th March 1997.
    • Raja Bahadur Rameshwar Singh (qv)
    • Rajkumar Gopendra Singh, born 29th May 1959, married February 1990, Rajkumar Rani Geetanjali Kumari, daughter of Thakur Bikram Singh of Pokhran, and has issue.
      • Mrityunjai Singh, born 1st May 1991.
      • Uttara Kumari, born 16th February 1994.
    • Rajkumari Pratima Kumari, born 6th July 1960, married January 1979, Kunwar Chetan Kumar Singh of Harganpur, Bijnor, UP, and has issue.
      • Kshitij K. Singh, born 7th December 1979.
      • Divij K. Singh, born 11th September 1984.
      • Medhavini Kumari, born 13th February 1986.
    • Rajkumari Kanak Bali Singh, born 20th December 1964, married February 1987, Kumar Shri Shailendra Singh Jhala of Narwar, Ujjain, M.P., and has issue.
      • Himavat Singh, born 4th October 1991.
  • Raja Bahadur RAMESHWAR SINGH, Raja of Tiloi (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Sister of the Raja Bahadur of Tiloi, married Thakur Jiwan Singh of Tantoti.
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p.515 and 522