DHAMI (Princely State)

 
AREA: 73 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 15,760R  ACCESSION: 15th April 1948
STATE: Himachal Pradesh  DYNASTY: Surajbansi RELIGION: Hindu
CAPITAL: Halog  POPULATION: 4,505 (1901) REVENUE: 15,000Rs (1901) 
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Dhami since 8th May 1987. (The Palace, Halog, Dhami, District Simla, H.P., India and Hira House, Longwood, Simla, H.P., India)
born 1933, and became Tikka of Dhami on the death of his elder brother, married 1972, Kumari Hemlata Kumari [Rani Hemlata Kumari of Dhami], daughter of Thakur Dayal Singh of District Una, H.P., and has issue, 2 children, a son and a daughter.
  • Rajkumari Hireshwari Kumari, born 12th September 1973 at Shimla, educated at Tara Hall School, Simla and at St. Bede's College, Simla, married 1994, Mr. Atul Sharma, born 1962, and has issue, 3 children.
    • Miss Trisha Sharma, born 1996.
    • Miss Alisha Sharma, born 1998.
    • Master Sahil Sharma, born in 2000.
  • Tikka Jagdeep Singh, born 17th December 1974 at Chandigarh, educated at Government Model High School and Government College, Sanjauli. He attained his Post Graduation in Personnel Management from The University of Himachal Pradesh.
Predecessors and Short History:  Initially tributary to Bilaspur, it became independent in 1815 on the expulsion of the Gurkhas. Rulers were...
  • Rana GOVERDHAN SINGH 1815/1868, confirmed in his state by a sanad of 1815, married and had issue. He died 1868 (or 1867).
    • Rana FATEH SINGH (qv)
  • Rana FATEH SINGH 1868/1894, born 1855, confirmed in the succession on 26th January 1870 (#1), married and had issue. He died 1894.
    • Rana HIRA SINGH (qv)
  • Rana HIRA SINGH 1894/1920, born 1878, C.I.E. [cr.1913],
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  • Raja Shri DALIP SINGH Bahadur (1908-1987)Raja Shri DALIP SINGH Bahadur 1920/1987, born 5th November 1908, educated at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and Aitchison Chief's College, Lahore; married Rajkumari Tara Devi [Rani Tara Devi of Dhami], daughter of Rana SURAT SINGH of Tharoch, and had issue, 5 children. He died 8th May 1987 at Snowden Hospital, Simla.
    • Rajkumari Meena Devi, born on 29th May 1926, married (div. 1959), Tikka Yashodan Singh of Mandi
    • Tikka Shamsher Singh, born 28th November 1928. He died unmarried in 1977.
    • Rajkumar Pratap Singh [Raja PRATAP SINGH] (qv) 
    • Rajkumari Indu Kumari, born 1935, married 1978, Mr. Suresh Chand Karol, and has issue, a daughter
      • Miss Vijata Karol, born August 1980.
    • Rajkumari Pawan Kumari, born in 1947, married Mr. Sanjeev Mohinder Singh of Harnoli in Punjab, and has issue.
      • Sukhmani Singh
  • Raja Shri PRATAP SINGH (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.118