A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari/Chapter 1

by Venkata Ranga Rao

 

I.
THE FOUNDER OF THE SAMASTHANAM.

Rajah Pedda Rayadu Bahadur Garu.

Nirvana Rayappa, generally called Pedda Rayadu, the fifteenth Rajah of the Venkatagiri Samasthanam, was one of two chiefs who arrived in the Northern Circars in the train of Sher Mahammad Khan, when that General came to conquer the country for the Mogul Government; and for his valuable services at that time was rewarded by the grant to him of the Rajam Samasthanam. The other chief was Madhava Varma, the founder of the Vizianagaram Samasthanam. With the Samasthanam Pedda Rayadu was granted the hereditary titles of Rajah and Bahadur, and the right to use a white flag, Dhanka, Nowbat, and other insignia of royalty. After everything was settled in the Circars, he returned to his ancestral Raj of Venkatagiri, leaving the newly-obtained Raj to his son Lingappa.

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GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE RAJAHS OF BOBBILI SAMASTHANAM.

I. Rajah Pedda Rayadu (The Founder of the Samasthanam).

II. Rajah Lingappa Ranga-Rao.

III. Rajah Vengal Ranga-Rao.

IV. Rajah Rangapathi Ranga-Rao.

Rajah Pedda Janardana Ranga-Rao (Acquired Luchwarup-Cotah).

V. Rajah Rayadappa Ranga-Rao.

Rajah Venkatapathi Ranga-Rao.

VI. Rajah Gopala Kristna Ranga-Rao.

Rajah Chinna Janardana Ranga-Rao.

VII. Rajah Venkata Ranga-Rao.

VIII. Rajah Rayadappa Ranga-Rao.

IX. Rajah Swetachalapati Ranga-Rao.

Rajah Janardana Ranga-Rao.

Rajah Sitaramchandra Ranga-Rao.

Rajah Venkata Ranga-Rao.

X. Rajah Sitarama Kristna Rayadappa Ranga-Rao.

XI. Maha-Rajah Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga-Rao, K.C.I.E. (The present Maha-Rajah).