PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1415 with the capital at Haripur. Rulers were...
- Raja HARI CHAND 1415/- , originally Raja of Kangra
to 1415, founded the town of Haripur on the flat below the fort, on the
Banganga River.
- Raja BHAUN CHAND
- Raja SUVARN CHAND
- Raja UDHYAN CHAND
- Raja NARINDAR CHAND
- Raja UDHARN CHAND
- Raja RATAN CHAND
- Raja NAND CHAND
- Raja GARUDA CHAND
- Raja GAMBHIR CHAND
- Raja ABHAYA CHAND
- Raja UTTAM CHAND
- Raja PRITHVI CHANDK
- Raja KARAN CHAND
- Raja RAM CHAND fl.1540, 15th Raja of Guler
- Raja JAGDISH CHAND (son) 1570/1605, married and had issue.
- Raja VIJAYA CHAND (qv)
- Raja RUP CHAND Bahadur (qv)
- Raja VIJAYA CHAND 1605/1610
- Raja RUP CHAND Bahadur 1610/1635, granted the
title of Bahadur
by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, as well as a khilat, married
and had issue.
- Raja MAN SINGH 1635/1661, first to use Singh as a
family name,
conferred
on him by the Mughal Emperor, built the fort of Mangarh, married and
uhad issue. He died 1661
at
Benares.
- Raja BIKRAM SINGH 1661/1675, Emperor Aurangzeb
conferred a mansab
of 2500, with valuable khilats and made him Thanadar of the
Kangra
Hills, married and had issue. He died 1675 at Chauntra.
- Raja RAJ SINGH 1675/1695, married and had issue. He died
1695.
- Raja DALIP SINGH 1695/1730, born 1688, married and had
issue. He died circa 1730.
- Raja GOVARDHAN SINGH (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married Raja MEDINI PAL of Basohli,
and had issue.
- Raja GOVARDHAN CHAND 1730/1773, born 1713, married (amongst
others), a daughter of Raja DHIRAJ PAL of
Basohli, and had issue. He died 1773.
- Raja PRAKASH CHAND (qv)
- Mian Prakaram Chand
- Raja PRAKASH CHAND 1773/1790 (abdicated), born 1748,
married (amongst others), Rani Ananta Devi,
daughter of Raja UMED SINGH of Chamba, and had issue. He died
1820.
- Raja BHUP SINGH 1790/1826, born 1765, last ruling Chief of
Guler, the state
was annexed in 1813, granted 20,000Rs for the maintenance of his female
household, married and had issue. He died 1826.
- Raja SHAMSHER SINGH (qv)
- Raja JAI SINGH (qv)
- Raja SHAMSHER SINGH 1826/1877, born 1820, received
the fort of
Haripur,
married and had issue. He died 1877.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Raja GOPAL SINGH of
Chamba.
- Raja JAI SINGH 1877/1884, born 1822, Raja
[cr.1878]
(Hereditary),
married and had issue. He died 1884.
- Raja RAGHUNATH SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Hardit Singh
- Kumari (name unknown) [Rani Guleriya of
Tehri-Garhwal], married Raja PRATAP SHAH of Tehri-Garhwal, and
had issue.
- Raja RAGHUNATH SINGH (#1)
1884/1920, born
1865,
the title of Raja was conferred as a hereditary distinction on 15th
March
1909 by the Viceroy, married and had issue. He died 9th March 1920.
- Raja BALDEV CHAND (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married (as his first wife)
1900, Raja BIJEY
SEN of Keonthal,
and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married (as his second
wife) 1900, Raja BIJEY
SEN of
Keonthal.
She died sp.
- Raja BALDEV CHAND 1920/1959, born 1883, 1st Viceregal
Darbari in Kangra
District, exercises criminal and civil powers within his jagir; married
the daughter of Raja PRATAP SHAH of Tehri-Garhwal,
and had issue. He died 1959.
- Tikka Shri Nardev Chand, born December 1922, married
Tikka Rani Sanyukta Kumari, and had
issue. He died vp
1958.
- Raja Shri BRIJESH CHAND (qv)
- Rajkumari Ravinder Kumari, married Kunwar Sujan Singh,
and has
issue.
- Bhawani Singh Pathania
- Monika Pathania
- Rajkumari Pradeep Kumari, married Kunwar Surjeet Singh,
and
has issue.
- Manujeshwar Singh
- Ankush Singh
- Raja Shri BRIJESH CHAND (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Mian Ajab Singh of Guler, married and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married (as his second
wife), Raja PRADYUMAN SHAH of Garhwal.
- Mian Ranjit Singh Guleria of Poprola, married and had issue.
- HH Maharani Harbans Kaur, married 16th
April
1886 (as his first wife), Col.
HH Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan
Maharaja
Sir JAGATJIT SINGH Bahadur of Kapurthala,
and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown) [Rani Guleriya of Suket],
married Raja RANJIT SEN of Suket, and
had issue.
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