Maharaja Fateh Bahadur Shahi was 99th Raja of Huseypur or Hathwa Raj situated in today's Gopalganj district of Bihar in India.
[2] In the latter part of the sixteenth century, the Bhumihar Brahmin 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).
[1] Fateh Shahi Along with the rulers of Dileepnagar Estate and Rajas of Bettiah waged a 20 year guerilla war against the British East India Company from 1767 onwards.
[9] Following the rebellion of Chait Singh of Benares state in 1781 he renewed his campaign against the Britishers or in other words the East India Company.
They raised a force of 20,000 men at Munjoora in October, and they pillaged and took control of the Company's military outpost at Baragaon, which had been set there to repress Fateh.
Fearing for his life, Saran Collector Grome turned to the anti-Fateh group inside the royal family, led by Dhujju Singh, a close friend and protector of Basant's younger son, for assistance.
[10] He later established Tamkuhi Raj approximately 109 kilometers from Husseypur, northeast of modern-day Deoria within the Kingdom of Oudh, seeing the growing influence and power of the East India Company.
Maharaja Fateh Shahi changed his tactics and around 1789, he ceased his rebellious ways and handed the administration of the state to his sons .