Harichandan Mohapatra

The Harichandan Mohapatras were the ruling family of Narsinghpur, a small Garjat chiefdom in the Mahanadi valley of central Odisha. Local legend traces the chiefdom to two Khond chiefs of the thirteenth century, Narsingh and Poro, who were subdued by Dharma Singh.

The family's title Harichandan Mahapatra was conferred by its overlord the Gajapati raja of Puri. No records survive from the Mughal or Maratha periods; its documented line of rulers begins with Mandardhar Harichandan Mahapatra in 1671 and runs through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.