Venkatagiri estate

Venkatagiri State
వేంకటగిరి
Princely Estate of British India
1600–1949

Coat of arms

History
  Established 1600
  Abolition of the estate 7 September 1949
Area
  1901 4,103.34 km2 (1,584 sq mi)
Population
  1901 60,861 
Density 14.8 /km2  (38.4 /sq mi)
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

The estate of Venkatagiri was an estate in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. It was located in the Nellore district of the present-day Andhra Pradesh. The town of Venkatagiri was the administrative headquarters.[1]

History

Founded by Velugoti Rayudappa Nayani in 1600. The State endured until it was notified and taken over by the State on 7 September 1949, under the Madras Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 (Act 26 of 1948).

Sri Raja Velugoti SARVAGNA KUMARA YACHENDRA NAIDU Bahadur Garu C.S.I., 27th Raja of Venkatagiri 1848/1878 (retired, handing over the estate to his eldest son on 28 October 1878 in order to spend the rest of his life in religious piety and meditation), installed 18 February 1848, C.S.I., born 3 January 1832, married and had issue, seven sons (three were given in adoption to other families). He died 1892.

(A) Sri Raja Velugoti Kumara Krishna Yachendra, married and had issue. Raja Velugoti Venkata Krishna Yachendra Raja Velugoti Rama Krishna Yachendra Raja Venkata Rajagopala Krishna Yachendra Raja Muvva Gopala Krishna Yachendra Sri Raja Raju Sri Krishnayya Rao @ Sri Raja Raju Venkata Kumara Mahipati Krishna Surya Rao Bahadur Garu, Zamindar of Gollaprolu fl.1941.

Sri Raja V. Rajeswara Rao, born 24 September 1907, married Sri Rani Sridevamma, and had issue. He died after 1939. Sri Raja V. Madanagopala Krishna Sri Raja V. Maheswara Rao fl.1939

Lt.-Col. HH Sri Sri Sri Raja Velugoti Mushfiq Meherban Karamfarmage Mukhsari Umdu-i-Raja Sir GOVINDA KRISHNA YACHENDRULU VARU Bahadur Panchhazari Mansubhdar K.C.I.E., 29th Maharaja Sahib of Venkatagiri 1916/1937, K.C.I.E. [cr.1.1.1922], married and had issue, four sons sons. He died 1937 (#3).

Raja V.V.V.R.K.Yachendra, 31st Raja of Venkatagiri, died July 2010 aged 86, married and had issue, two sons.Also served as a MLA for two terms is the son of Maharaja Sahib Mushfiq Meherban Karamfarmage Mukhsari Umdu-i-Raja Raja Velugoti Sri Sarvagna Kumara Krishna Bahadur Panchhazari Mansubhdar(30th Raja of Venkatagiri)

See also

References

[1] https://books.google.co.in/books/about/A_family_history_of_Venkatagiri_Rajas.html?id=8wW1AAAAIAAJ

Coordinates: 13°58′N 79°35′E / 13.967°N 79.583°E / 13.967; 79.583

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