PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Kothi
was
a small sanad state of about 169 square miles, now
included in the Raghuraj Nagar tehsil. The state was
formerly ruled by chiefs of the Bhar tribe but Jagat Rai
Singh Baghel drove out the original Bhar chief and founded
the jagir. On the establishment of British supremacy Kothi
was held to be subordinate to Panna, because in the
eighteenth century when Chhatrarao Bundela was in power in
Panna, the Kothi chiefs were his tributary. Thereafter,
however, during the domination of Alibahadur of Banda, and
afterwards, the Kothi chiefs maintained their
independence. In view of this the British granted in 1810
a sanad (No, XCI) to Rais Lal Duniyapati Singh, making him
directly dependent on British Government. The Raja
maintains a military force of 35 cavalry, 210 infantry,
and 4 guns (as of 1892). Rulers were....
- Rais DUNIYAPATI
SINGH, Rais of Kothi fl.1810, married and had
issue.
- Rais ABDHUT SINGH,
Rais of Kothi, married and had issue.
- Rao Ran Bahadur Singh (qv)
- Rais RAN BAHADUR
SINGH, Raja of Kothi 1862/1887, born 1829, he
was granted the title of Raja Bahadur as a hereditary
distinction on 1st January 1878 in recognition of his
loyalty, public spirit, and benevolence; married and
had issue. He died 5th June 1887.
- Raja Bahadur Bhagwat Bahadur Singh (qv)
- Raja Bahadur
BHAGWAT BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Kothi
1887/1895, born 1852, he succeded to the gadi on 5th June
1887 (#1).
- Raja Bahadur
AVADHENDRA SINGH, Raja of Kothi 1895/1914
- Raja Bahadur
SITARAM PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Kothi
1914/1935, born 26th July 1892 and succeeded 8th
August 1914 (#2), married
and had issue.
- Raja Bahadur Kaushalendra Pratap Singh (qv)
- Kunwar Raghavendra Pratap Singh, born 1916.
- Kunwar Narendra Pratap Singh, born 1922.
- Raja Bahadur
KAUSHALENDRA PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Kothi
1934/-, born 1912, married to a daughter of Raja
Narendra Bahadur Pal of Mahson
in Basti district of U.P., and had issue.
- Raja Bahadur
KRISHNA PRATAP BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Kothi
fl.1970
- ???Kunwarani Shraddha Singh, married 18th February
2006, Kunwar Hanumant Singh, son of Raja RAKESH
PRATAP SINGH of Birsinghpur,
and his wife, Rani Mandakini Prabha of Bijwa.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari Vanshika Singh, married Capt. Kunwar Hameer
Singh of Banera.
- Thakurani Kamlesh Kumari, married Thakur Shiv Mangal
Singh, Zamindar of Jigirsar, Balia, U.P., and had
issue.
- Pattayet Rani Vijay Laxmi Kumari Devi, married
Pattayet Anang Uday Singh Deo of Patna, and has issue,
three sons.
- Thakur Sanjeev Singh B.A. (Hons.), born 22nd June
1959 in Lucknow, U.P., son of the late Thakur C. K.
Singh, died 5th December 1999, and his wife Thakurani
Ibha Devi; married 14th November 1991 in New Delhi,
Thakurani Sharika Singh, and has issue, one son.
- Kunwar Abhimayu Singh, born 19th October 1993.
The help of Deepak Aggarwal is gratefully
acknowledged, July 2011.
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