Rudra Pratap Deodorant

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Rudra Pratap Deo ( Hindi रुद्र प्रताप देव Rudra Pratāp Dev ; * February 18, 1885 in Jagdalpur ; † November 16, 1921 there) was ruler of the Indian princely state of Bastar . Nominally he was in office from 1891 to 1922, in fact he only ruled for about a year 1908-09.

Life path

Rudra Pratap Deo was the son of the leprous Raja Bhairam Deo with his third wife Kundan Kaur (1864 - September 5, 1908). Rumors lingered all his life that he was illegitimate.

His father died when he was six years old. The Court of Wards of the colonial power took over the government of the state as early as 1886. The Raja received his higher education at the Rajkumar College of Raipur ( Kanker ).

At the age of 23 he took over the official business in 1908. His uncle Lal Kalindra Singh had been deposed as a divan . Instead, Panda Baijnat ( Rai Bahadur Panda Baijnath ) was appointed, despite the fact that it was against local tradition for the office to be held by a member of the ruling family. The Rajaguru Mitranath Thakur was also unpopular .

The educated but equally corrupt Panda Baijnat was a willing tool of the British. At the annual Dussehra meeting on October 22, 1909, the Raja showed a certain understanding of the concerns of his people, especially of the traditionally living tribals . After a report by Diwan about the Raja to the British political agent de Brett in Raipur at the end of 1909 , he was effectively sidelined. During the rebellion of the country's indigenous tribes, who revolted in the so-called Bhumkal in February 1910 , with his uncle Kalindra Singh and his aunt Subran Kaur, who was also his stepmother, pulling the strings in the background, the Raja played no role.

After the rebellion he was only a figurehead and was allowed to perform his religious functions once a year. His land was under the administration of the divan reinstated by Britannia's grace for the next decade.

family

Women:

  1. Chandrakumari Devi († August 18, 1911), daughter of Fateh Singh, feudal lord of Puwayan
  2. Kasumlata Devi, daughter of Sir Sudhal Deo, CIE , Raja of Bamra (Central Provinces)

Children and grandchildren:

  • one son died 10 months old
  • Prafulla Kukumari Devi (from 1; * 10 February 1910; † 28 February 1936 in London; ruled from 1924). The last heiress of the direct line of the dynasty was 16 years old at the instigation of the British administrators Lee (CP) and Tucker (Bastar) with the syphilitic and politically unacceptable Prafulla Chandra Bhanj Deo from Mayurbhanj , whose family has been married to a daughter of Keshabchandra Sen for Orthodox Hindus was unacceptable, forcibly married in January 1925. Even so, the couple had two daughters and two sons:
1) Rajkumari Kamla Devi (February 2, 1928 - January 1, 1954)
2) Maharaja Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo
3) Rajkumari Geeta Kumari Devi (born October 29, 1930, † December 17, 2002)
4) Maharaja Vijay Chandra Bhanj Deo

Literature and Sources

  • Shukla, HL; Bhumkāl: The Tribal Revolt in Bastar; Delhi 1991; ISBN 81-85320-07-X
  • Nandini sundar; Subaltern and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar (1854-2006); New Delhi, Oxford 2007; ISBN 0-19-569704-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ * May 21, 1839 († 1891), ruled from August 27, 1853; Golden Book of India; 1893, p. 63
  2. ↑ different sources: here after Sundar (2007). Shukla (1991) gives the fathers the other way around, as the date of remarriage December 19, 1912
  3. ↑ detailed: Shukla, HL (* 1939); History of the People of Bastar: a Study in Tribal Insurgency; Delhi 1992, ISBN 81-85616-04-3 , pp. 314-22
personal data
SURNAME Rudra Pratap Deodorant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Raja of the Indian princely state of Bastar
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Jagdalpur
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1921
Place of death Jagdalpur