PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in the late 15th/early 16th century. The Ranas claim descent
from
a Rajput family from Dharanagri in the Deccan. Rulers were....
- Rana RAGHUNATH PAL, married and had
issue.
- Rana DALEL SINGH (qv)
- Mian Dhiraj Singh, married and
had
issue, 3 sons.
He died 1858.
- Rana UMAID SINGH (qv)
- Mian Jit Singh, married and had
issue.
- Mian Sobha Singh, married and had
issue.
- Rana DALEL SINGH, married and had
issue.
- Rana MAHENDRA SINGH (qv)
- Rana BIJAY SINGH (qv)
- Rana UMED SINGH 1861/1861, born 1825, claimed the throne of
his cousin,
Rana Bijey Singh, petitioning the directors of The East India Company
in
London, England, and was recognised just a few days before his death in
1861, married and had issue, 4 sons. He died 1861.
- Tikka Dalip Singh, later Rana DALIP SINGH (qv)
- Kanwar Amar Singh, born 1860, married and had issue, 3
sons.
- Kunwar Devi Singh, born 1897.
- Kunwar Shiv Singh, born 1899.
- Kunwar Hari Singh
- Kunwar Hira Singh
- Kanwar Ratan Singh, married and had issue, 1 son. He died
1888 (#2).
- Rana DALIP SINGH 1861/1911, born 3rd February 1859, C.I.E.
[cr.1895],
recognised
as the successor to Rana Umed Singh on 15th January 1862, married the
daughter
of Kanwar Kedar Singh of Sirmur, the
youngest son of Kanwar Ranjit
Singh,
and had issue, 2 sons. He died 30th December 1911.
- Tikka Durga Singh, later Raja DURGA SINGH (qv)
- Raj Kumar Bhawani Singh, born 1904, died 1912.
 - Raja
DURGA SINGH 1911/1977, born 12th September 1901, succeeded to the
throne
on 30th December 1911, formally installed on 23rd May 1913, and granted
full ruling powers in September 1922, educated at Aitchison Chief's
College,
Lahore, C.I.E. [cr.1939], elected Member of the Chamber of Princes in
1933,
granted the hereditary title of Raja on 4th June 1928, married 28th
November
1917, Raj Kumari Sashi Prabha Kumari, born 1905, died April 1947, a
daughter
of HH Raja KIRTI SHAH of Tehri Garhwal,
and had issue, a daughter. He died 30th March 1977.
- Rajkumari (name unknown), died as an infant.
- Raja ISHWARI SINGH 1977/2004, born 17th April 1921, as
Kanwar Ishwari Singh of Baghat, a
cousin of
the late Raja Durga Singh, who had no sons or brothers, married 1stly,
1949, Kumari Gita Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Mangal Singh of Koti,
married
2ndly,
1957, Kumari Nirmala Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Jivan Singh of Koti,
and
had issue, 4 children. He died 27th April 2004 at Solan, Himachal
Pradesh.
- Raj Kumari Madhu Kumari, born 20th June 1962 in Jabli,
District Solan;
educated at St.Mary's School at Kasauli; married 17th April 1981 at
Solan,
Captain Satish Kumar Singh, son of Colonel Dinanath Singh from
Jullunder
City, Punjab, and has issue, two children.
- Tikka Keshvinder Singh Panwar (later Raja KESHVINDER
SINGH) (qv)
- Raj Kumar Digvijay Singh Panwar, born 10th December 1970
at
Jabli,
District
Solan; educated at St.Luke's School, Solan and later at the Government
High School, Solan; married in 2000.
- Raj Kumar Karan Singh Panwar, born 2nd December 1975 at
Jabli, District
Solan; educated at St. Luke's School, Solan; presently serving in the
Indian
Merchant Navy.
- Raja KESHVINDER SINGH (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kanwar Tikender Singh, born 10th December 1971, educated at
St.Edwards School, Shimla and graduated from Government
College, Sanjauli, Shimla; Member
of the H.P. State Secretariat, C.P.I. (M) [Communist Party of India
(Marxist)]; married and has issue, one daughter.
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