BALSAN (Princely State)

 
AREA: 148 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 11,250R ACCESSION: 15th April 1948
STATE: Himachal Pradesh  DYNASTY: Rathore RELIGION: Hindu
  POPULATION: 6,704 (1901)   
     
PRESENT RULER:  Rana TRIVIKRAM BHUSHAN SINGH Jandaive (1979/-) (The Palace, Ghodna, Balson, Tehsil Theog, District Simla, H.P. and Balson House, Simla, H.P., India)
born 10th March 1964 in Balson, educated at Bishop Cotton School, Simla; succeeded to the throne on 17th July 1979, married at Lucknow, Kumari Yamuna Kumari of Vijayanagaram in South India, born 26th February 1972 at Benares, U.P., educated at Bangalore, and has issue, one son.
  • Tikka Yadavendra Singh
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Balsan (also known as Balson) was founded by Alak Singh, a scion of the Sirmur Royal Family. Rulers were....
  • Rana JOGRAJ SINGH 1815/1867, born 1800, granted a valuable khillat and the title of Rana in 1858 for his help in the Indian Mutiny, married and had issue, 5 sons. He died 1867.
    • Tikka Sahib Singh, married and had issue, 2 sons. He died vp before 1867.
      • Rana BHUP SINGH (qv)
      • Kunwar Rattan Singh, married and had issue, 4 sons. He died 1893.
    • Kunwar Bhil Singh, died 1888.
    • Kunwar Sansar Singh, died 1878.
    • Kunwar Devi Singh, married and had issue. He died 1872.
    • Kunwar Ranjit Singh, died 1868.
  • Rana BHUP SINGH 1867/1884, married and had issue. He died 17th November 1884.
    • Tikka Govardhan Singh, married and had issue. He died before 1884.
      • Rana BHIR SINGH (qv)
      • Rana ATTAR SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Natha Singh
  • Rana BHIR SINGH 1884/1918, born 1860 (#1), married and had issue, 1 son.
    • Tikka Surat Singh, died 1885.
  • Rana ATTAR SINGH 1918/1936, born 1868
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  • Rana RAN BAHADUR SINGH Jandaive 1936/1943 (abdicated), born 1905.
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  • Rana VIDYA BHUSHAN SINGH Jandaive 1943/1979, born 10th June 1938, succeeded to the throne on the abdication of his father in 1943, married Rajkumari Girija Kumari [Rajmata Sahiba of Balsan], daughter of HH Raja DULEEP SINGH of Jhabua, born 31st August 1931, educated at St. Raphael's School, Indore; and had issue, two sons. He died 17th July 1979. 
    • Rana TRIVIKRAM BHUSHAN SINGH Jandaive (qv) 
    • Capt. Kunwar Anirudh Singh Jandaive, born 23rd October 1965 at Haridwar, matriculated from Bishop Cotton School, Shimla; graduated from D.A.V. College, Chandigarh; undertook Indian Army Commission training from O.T.A., Madras; served as a Commissioned Officer in the Indian Army from 10th August 1988 to August 1993, holding the rank of Captain; married 30th November 1993 at Delhi, Kunwarani Sarojini Kumari, daughter of the Thakur Sahib of Siano, District Jodhpur, Rajasthan, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
      • Kumari Aditi Jandaive
      • Kuwar Sidharth Bhushan Singh Jandaive
  • Rana TRIVIKRAM BHUSHAN SINGH Jandaive (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Rajkumari Bhuvaneshwari Kumari, married (as his second wife), February 1982, Tikka Budheshwar Pal, born 6th July 1956 at New Delhi, son of Raja Saheb Shri MAHENDRA PALJI Bahadur of Kutlehar, and has issue.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.48