 Since then the chouhans ruled over sonepur kingdom till its merger with the Orissa province on 1 January 1948.The sonepur kingdom under Madan Gopal consisted of 160 villages including the zamin daries of Rampur, Sukha, Kamsara and Barpali.During the reign of his son and successor Lal Sai Deo, sonepur town was vary populous inhabited by 52000 peoples spreading over an area of three square miles.