[3] Mankapur mandal was a Taluqedari (estate) formed when Raja Dutt Singh of Gonda, of the Bisen Rajput dynasty, seized the Bandhalgoti raj of Mankapur and gave it to his younger infant son, Kunwar Ajmat Singh around 1681, making him the first ruler of the state.

The last ruler of this Taluqedari before independence was Raghavendra Pratap Singh,[4] who was a Congress politician (1933–1955) and who served in the UP assembly continuously since 1937.

[citation needed] The present head of the Mankapur Taluqedari, and the present ruler of Mankapur is former Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Minister Maharaja Anand Singh, father to current Member of Parliament from Gonda, Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh.

Other immediate members of the royal family include: The state had 189 villages under it and during the British Raj, it was a pargana in Utraula tehsil.

[citation needed] Mankapur has one of the country's six largest manufacturing plants of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI).