Fateh Bahadur Sahi

Maharaja Fateh Bahadur Shahi was 99th Raja of Hathwa Raj situated in today's Gopalganj district of Bihar in India. He relentlessly pursued his objective of driving them out for nearly three decades while waging a guerrilla war against the British. The British used all of their might and resources to oppose him. He belonged to the Baghochia clan of Bhumihars which controlled the Huseypur Estate, from which descended the Tamkuhi Raj of the Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh and the Hathwa Raj of Gopalganj district.

In the latter part of the sixteenth century, the Bhumihar line's descendants settled in Kalyanpur Kuari pargana in the northwest While Some Hathwa chronicles confirm that by the early seventeenth century, the line had gained enough prominence for the eighty-seventh raja to be bestowed with the titles of "Shahi" and "Maharaja Bahadur" by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1605-1627). This was due to the family's increasing authority coupled with the king's growing wealth and power. After this the kings of his ancestry were acknowledged with those Honorific titles.