Predecessors and Short History:
Rulers
belong to the Surajbansi Rajput Clan. Founded in about 550AD by Marut,
who built Brahmapura. Rulers were....
- 1. Raja MERU VERMAN 670/-
- .....
- 20. Raja SAHILA VERMAN 920/940,
built
the town of
Chamba named after his daughter around 920, married (amongst others)
Rani
Nenna Devi and had issue.
- Raja YUGAKAR VERMAN (qv)
- Champavati Devi
- 21. Raja YUGAKAR VERMAN 940/-,
married
(a) Rani Tribhuvanarekha
Devi, (b) Rani Bhogamati Devi and had issue.
- 22. Raja VIDAGDHA VERMAN (son by
2nd
wife)
- 23. Raja DODAKA VERMAN
- 24. Raja VICHITAR VERMAN, his
younger
brother founded
the Bandralta-Ramnagar estate in Jammu.
- 25. Raja DHAIRYA VERMAN
- 26. Raja SALAVAHANA VERMAN fl.1060,
married and had
issue.
- Raja SOMA VERMAN (qv)
- Raja ASATA VERMAN (qv)
- Rani Bappika, married Raja KALASA
of Kashmir
and had issue.
- 27. Raja SOMA VERMAN fl.1066
- 28. Raja ASATA VERMAN fl.1088
- 29. Raja JASATA VERMAN (son)
1105/1118
- 30. Raja DHALA VERMAN (son)
1118/1120
- 31. Raja UDAYA VERMAN 1120/11
- ......
- Raja ANAND VERMAN c1475/1512, married
a
daughter
of the Raja of Kangra. He died c1512.
- Raja GANESA VERMAN 1512/1559, married
(amongst others)
Rani Sahib Devi, and had issue.
- Raja PRATAPSINGH VERMAN (by Sahib
Devi) (qv)
- Mian Jit Singh
- Mian Bhir Bahadur
- Mian Hari Singh
- Mian Satargun Singh
- Mian Rupanand Singh
- Raja PRATAPSINGH VERMAN 1559/1586,
married 3 wives
from Kullu, and had issue. He died 1586.
- Raja VIR VAHNU VERMAN (qv)
- Raja VIR VAHNU VERMAN 1586/1589,
married and had issue. He died 1589.
- Raja BALBHADRA VERMAN (qv)
- Raja BALBHADRA VERMAN 1589/1641,
deposed, with
his son acting as Regent, married and had issue. He died 1641.
- Raja Janardan Verman, Regent of
Chamba 1613/1623,
married and had issue. He died about 1623 at Chamba.
- Mian Bishambhar Verman, died 1622.
- Mian Man Singh
- Mian Sudar Sen
- Raja PRITHVI SINGH 1641/1664, born
1619, married
and had issue. He died 1664.
- Raja CHHATAR SINGH (qv)
- Mian Jai Singh, Wazir of Chamba
1664/1696
- Mian Indar Singh
- Mian Mahipat Singh, married and
had
issue.
- Mian Raghunath Singh, married and
had
issue.
- Mian Ram Singh
- Mian Shakat Singh
- Mian Raj Singh, Wazir of Chamba.
He
died shortly
after 1690.
- Raja CHHATAR SINGH 1664/1690, married
and had issue.
He died 1690.
- Raja UDAI SINGH (qv)
- Mian Lakshman Singh, died sp
1720.
- Daughter, married 1680, Raja
BIDHI
SINGH of Kullu.
- Raja UDAI SINGH 1690/1720, died sp
1720.
- Raja UGAR SINGH 1720/1735 (deposed),
Regent, married
and had issue.
- Raja UMED SINGH (qv)
- Mian Sher Singh
- Daughter, married Raja
SHAMSHER SEN of Mandi.
- Raja DALEL SINGH 1735/1748
(abdicated),
married a
Princess of Jammu, and had issue. He died spm at Jwalamukhi.
- Daughter, married Raja BAJAI DEV
of
Jammu.
- Raja UMED SINGH 1748/1764, born 1725,
married (a), a
daughter of the Raja of Jasrota, married (b), a daughter of Raja DHRUV
DEV of
Jammu,
died 1774, and had issue. He died 1764 (13th of Baisakh, Vik.1820).
- Raja RAJ SINGH 1764/1794 (son by
2nd
wife) (qv)
- Rani Ananta Devi, married Raja
PRAKASH CHAND of Guler.
- Raja RAJ SINGH 1764/1794, born 1755
in
Rajnagar,
married Rani Naginu, daughter of Raja SAMPAT PAL of Bhadrawah,
and had issue. He died 1794 (7th Har, Vik.1850).
- Raja JIT SINGH (qv)
- Daughter, married Raja BRIJRAJ
DEV of
Jammu.
- Raja JIT SINGH 1794/1808, born 1775,
married Rani
Sarda Devi of Jammu, died after 1825, and had issue. He died 1808.
- Raja CHARHAT SINGH (qv)
- Raja Zorawar Singh, raised to the
dignity of Raja
of Bhadrawah in 1833, married and had issue. He died 1845.
- Raja Prakim Singh, Raja of
Bhadrawah in 1845. The
state was annexed the same year by Maharaja GULAB SINGH of Jammu. He
died
1888.
- Daughter, married Raja BIR SINGH
of Nurpur,
died 1846.
- Raja CHARHAT SINGH 1808/1844, born
1803, married
a daughter of the Raja of Chenini, and had issue. He died 1844, when
two
Ranis and six concubines committed sati.
- Raja SRI SINGH (qv)
- Raja GOPAL SINGH (qv)
- Mian Suchet Singh, born 1841,
died spm
August
1896 in London.
- Raja SRI SINGH 1844/1870, born 1839,
granted a sanad
confirming his possession of the state in 1848, a sanad of 1862
confirms the right of adoption, married (amongst other) a Princess of
Suket,
and had issue. He died 1870. (11th Assuj).
- Son, died in infancy.
- Daughter, married 10th February
1862,
Maharaja PRATAP
SINGH of Jammu-Kashmir.
- Raja GOPAL SINGH 1870/1873
(abdicated),
born 1840,
married and had issue. He died March 1895 at Manjir.
- HH Raja Saheb Shri SHYAM SINGH
(qv)
- HH Raja Saheb Shri Sir BHURI
SINGH
(qv)
- Mian Pratap Singh, born after
1873,
married and had
issue. He died before 1919.
- HH Raja Saheb Shri SHYAM SINGH
1873/1904 (abdicated),
born 8th July 1866, married 1stly, February 1883, a grand-daughter of
the
Maharaja of Jammu-Kashmir, married 2ndly, 1883, cousin of the Raja of
Sirmur,
and had issue. He died 10th June 1905.
- Kanwar Saheb Shri Nihal Singhji,
born
1895, married
Kanwarani Kanchan Devi, and had issue.
- Rani Saheb Shrimati Kamal
Deiji,
born 11th August
1944 in Palampur, married 8th December 1964, Raja Saheb Shri MAHENDRA
PALJI
Bahadur of Kutlehar.
- HH Raja Saheb Shri Sir BHURI SINGH
1904/1919, born
18th December 1869, K.C.S.I. [cr.1906], C.I.E. [cr.1901], married and
had
issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died 6th October 1919.
- HH Raja Saheb Shri RAM SINGH (qv)
- Kanwar Sahib Kesari Singh, Wazir
of
Chamba 1920/1922,
married and had issue. He died October 1949 in Chamba.
- Kumari Sheela Devi, born 1927, married 1945, Kanwar
Upendra Chand, born 1922, third son of Raja MAHENDRA CHAND of Nadaun, by his second wife, and had issue.
She died 1979.
- Rani Saheb Shrimati Rattan Deiji
Saheba, married
Raja Saheb Shri BRIJMOHAN PALJI Bahadur of Kutlehar.
- HH Maharani Dhan Deiji Saheba,
married
1915, HH Shri
Maharaja HARI SINGH Bahadur of Jammu
&
Kashmir. She died 1920.
- HH Raja Saheb Shri RAM SINGH
1919/1935,
born 216th
April 1890, married HH Rani Dharam Deiji Saheba of Jaswan, and had
issue.
He died 7th December 1935 .
- HH Raja Saheb Shri LAKSHMAN SINGH
(qv)
- Rajkumari Asha Devi, born 1926,
died
unmarried 1961.
- Rajkumar Narayan Singh, born 3rd
June
1928.
- Rajkumari Vidya Devi, born 1929.
- HH Raja Saheb Shri LAKSHMAN SINGH
1935/1971, born
8th December 1924, educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore,
married
HH Rani Devendra Kumari of Pratapgarh,
and had issue, 5 children. He died 21st May 1971.
- Rajkumari Durga Kumari [Princess
Pinky], born 2nd
April 1946 at Pratapgarh, Rajasthan, married 11th December 1969
(div.1971),
HH Maharao RANJIT SINGH of Bundi. She
died sp
8th April 1978 in Chamba.
- HH Raja Saheb Shri PREM SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumar Brijendra Singhji
[Prince
Tutu Chamba],
born 24th January 1950 at Pune, Maharashtra, educated at the Mayo
College,
Ajmer, Rajasthan, finishing his schooling in 1966, graduated in 1970,
from
St. Stephen's College, Delhi University (History Honours), married 19th
April 1979, Rajkumari Asha Kumari of Surguja,
and had issue. He died 16th April 2006 at Ganga Ram Hospital in
New Delhi due to a burst ulcer.
- Kumari Ravinandini Kumari, born
27th January 1981
in Bhopal, married 9th May 2006 at The Palace, Jandrighat,
Dalhousie Town, District Chamba, Mr.
Mathew Ashley John Westlake, son of Mr. and Mrs. John and Wendy
Westlake of Vancouver, Canada.
- Rajkumar Hem Singh, born 27th
July
1952 at Pune,
Maharashtra, educated at the Mayo College, Ajmer, Rajasthan; graduated
from the Government College, Chandigarh; married February 1976 in
New Delhi, Kumari Jagdishwari Kumari, daughter of Kumar Bharat Sinhji
of
Vana,
Gujarat, born 19th August 1956 at Bangalore, South India, and has
issue,
2 children.
- Kanwar Manav Singh, born 13th
September 1977 at Bangalore.
- Kumari Japakshri Kumari, born
3rd
March 1981 at Bangalore.
- Rajkumari Padma Kumari [HH
Maharani
Padma Kumari
of Bikaner], born 1st January 1953 at Chamba, educated at the Sacred
Heart
School at Dalhousie, District Chamba, and at Auckland House, Simla;
married
27th April 1971 at New Delhi, Yuvaraj Narendra Singh [later HH
Maharajadhiraj
Raj Rajeshwar Narendra Shiromani Maharajah Sri NARENDRA SINGH Bahadur
of Bikaner]
and has issue, three daughters.
- HH Raja Saheb Shri PREM SINGH (see
above)
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