BAGHAL (Princely State)

 Coat of Arms of Baghal
AREA: 311 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 18,700R ACCESSION: 15th April 1948
STATE: Himachal Pradesh  DYNASTY:  Baghalia (Parmar) RELIGION:  Hindu
VILLAGES: 457 POPULATION: 25,720 (1901)  CAPITAL: Arki
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja RAJINDER SINGH, Raja Saheb of Baghal since 21st December 1945.
Raja RAJINDER SINGH of Baghalborn 29th February 1928, educated at Col. Brown's School in Dehra Dun and Government College, Lahore; he overhauled the administration and introduced radical constitutional reforms, M.L.A., Commandant General of Home Guards, Director of Civil Defence, Himachal Pradesh, married 2nd November 1948, Rani Tara Devi, born on 31st October 1929, died 22nd February 2005 at the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Simla, daughter of Raja HEMENDRA SEN of Keonthal, and has issue, 3 children. 
  • Tikka Pramod Singh, born 26th August 1949, educated at St. Edward's High School, Simla and later at the Government College, Simla, married 28th April 1979, Rajkumari Poornima Devi [Tikka Rani Poornima Devi of Baghal] of Khajurgaon in U.P., and had issue. He died 18th June 2005 at Simla in an automobile accident.
    • Kanwar Harvashvardhan Singh, born 11th April 1980, married 2nd December 2007 in New Delhi, Rajkumari Ksheerja Kumari, niece of HH Maharaja Lokendra RAJENDRA SINGH Ju Dev Bahadur of Datia.
    • Kanwar Ajay Dev Singh, born 17th July 1987.
  • Kanwar Nagendra Singh, born 15th June 1954, married 21st October 1986 in Simla, Kumari Vijaya Kumari of Amet in Udaipur (Rajasthan), and has issue, one son.
    • Kanwar Rahul Dev Singh, born 25th September 1987.
  • Kumari Sunita Devi, born 16th October 1956, educated at Simla, married 31st October 1979, Kumar Narendra Singh of Sirmuttra in U.P., and has issue, 2 children.
    • Radhika Devi, born 14th April 1982.
    • Jai Singh, born 6th June 1985.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Predecessor state founded in 13th century by Raja AJAY DEV, Prime Minister of Malwa, a descendant of Raja BHOJ DEV, Parmar King of Malwa 1010/1053. The Princely state of Baghal was founded about 1643. Recent rulers include...
  • Rana SABHA CHAND 1643/1670, made Arki the capital of Baghal in about 1650, married and had issue.
    • Rana PRITHVI CHAND (qv)
        
  • Rana PRITHVI CHAND 1670/1727, married and had issue.
    • Rana MEHAR CHAND (qv)
      
  • Rana MEHAR CHAND 1727/1743, married and had issue.
    • Rana BHOOP SINGH (qv)
    • Kumari (name unknown), married Raja DEVI CHAND of Bilaspur.
      
  • Rana BHOOP SINGH 1743/1778, married and had issue.
    • Rana JAGAT SINGH (qv)
      
  • Rana JAGAT SINGH 1778/1828, in exile at Nalagarh for 7 years, during the occupation by the Gurkhas, attacked Arki with the help of the British General Ochterlony and Rana of Nalagarh and recaptured Arki in 1814, confirmed in his state by a sanad of 3rd September 1815, he married and had issue.
    • Rana SHIV SARAN SINGH (qv)

    GURKHA OCCUPATION 1805/1815 

  •  Rana SHIV SARAN SINGH 1828/1840, married and had issue, 3 sons.
    • Raja KISHAN SINGH (qv)
    • Mian Jai Singh, granted a valuable khillat for his services during the Indian Mutiny, married and had issue, 6 sons.
      • Raja DHIAN SINGH (qv)
      • Mian Man Singh, Wazir of Baghal.
      • Kumari (name unknown), married Raja RUDRA SEN of Suket.
      • Kumari (name unknown), married HH Raja AMAR CHAND Sahib Bahadur of Bilaspur.
    • Mian Bijai Singh, married and had issue, 2 sons. He died 1839.
  • Raja KISHAN SINGH 1840/1877, granted the title of Raja and a valuable khillat for his services during the Indian Mutiny, Raja (personal)[cr.1860], (hereditary)[cr.1875], married and had issue. He died 23rd July 1877 (#1).
    • Raja MOTI SINGH (qv)
  • Raja MOTI SINGH 1877 (July to October), died sp 12th October 1877.
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  • Raja DHIAN SINGH 1877/1904, born about 1841, installed 26th July 1878, married and had issue, 4 sons. He died 1904.
    • Raja BIKRAM SINGH (qv)
    • Kanwar Bachitar Singh, born 1895.
    • Kanwar Mohan Singh, born 1896.
    • Kanwar Surat Singh, born 1904 in Arki, educated in Lahore; married twice and had issue, three daughters.
      • Kumari Susheela Devi, born in Arki, married Thakur Rohan Singh Chandel of Faroukhabad, U.P., died 1999, and has issue.
        • Kumari Nalini Chandel, married Pradeep Singh Kanwar, and has issue, two sons.
          • Amit Kanwar
          • Tarun Kanwar
        • Kumari Manju Chandel, unmarried.
        • Kanwar Anil Chandel, married Kanwarani Sadhana Chandel, died 2005, and has issue, one daughter.
          • Ginny Chandel
      • Kumari Hem Lata Devi, married Shri B. K. Singh Chandel. She died sp in 2004
      • Kumari Nirmal Devi, educated at Chandigarh University (B.Ed.), born 12th September 1936, married 1967 in Shimla, Thakur Shri Manohar Singh, and has issue. She died 2002.
        • Kanwar Anup Singh, married Kanwarani Sarita Kanwar, and has issue, one daughter.
          • Kumari Mini Kanwar
        • Kumari Meena Kanwar, married Nitin Bhagat, and has issue, one son.
          • Anubhav Bhagat
        • Kumari Rachna Kanwar, married Tarun Khanna, and has issue, one son.
          • Kabir Khanna
  • Raja BIKRAM SINGH 1904/1922, born 10th March 1893, succeeded to the gaddi on 23rd April 1904, granted ruling powers on 23rd April 1908, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; married 1stly, a Princess of Manswal, married 2ndly, a Princess of Manswal, married 3rdly, the fourth daughter of HH Rana PADAM CHAND of Jubbal, married 4thly, Rajkumari Shyama Devi, fifth daughter of HH Rana PADAM CHAND of Jubbal. He died 3rd October 1922.
    • Rajkumari (name unknown) (by 1st wife), died young of tuberculosis in Jubbal.
    • Raja SURINDER SINGH (by a Jubbal Princess) (qv)
    • Rajkumari (name unknown), died young in Jubbal.
  • Raja SURINDER SINGHRaja SURINDER SINGH 1922/1945, born 14th March 1909 in Arki, succeeded 3rd October 1922, installed with ruling powers on 14th January 1932, married Rajkumari Laxmi Devi [Rani Laxmi Devi of Baghal], daughter of Rai Hira Singh of Sangri, and had issue, six children. He died 21st December 1945 at Haridwar, Uttaranchal.
    • Raja RAJINDER SINGH (qv)
    • Rajkumar Devendra Singh, born 23rd September 1930, unmarried.
    • Rajkumar Mahendra Singh, born 28th December 1931, unmarried.
    • Rajkumari Lalita Devi [Rani Lalita Devi of Kutlehar], born 29th March 1933, married (as his 1st wife), 13th April 1955, Raja Saheb Shri MAHENDRA PALJI Bahadur of Kutlehar, and has issue, two sons and two daughters.
    • Rajkumar Virendra Singh, born 1st September 1934, married 31st October 1962, Kumari Vijaya Devi, daughter of Kanwar Karan Singh Mankotia from District Una, H.P., and has issue, five children.
      • Kanwar Ravi Singh, born 23rd November 1963.
      • Kanwar Rakesh Singh, born 25th October 1965.
      • Kanwar Rajesh Singh, born 18th August 1967.
      • Kumari Anupama Devi, born 17th August 1968.
      • Kumari Archana Devi, born 23rd March 1971.
    • Rajkumari (name unknown), died as an infant.
  • Raja RAJINDER SINGH (see above)
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.40