PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
1846. Rulers were...
- Maharaja GHULAB SINGH 1846/1857, born 18th October 1792,
son of Mian
Kishor
Singh, Raja of Jammu, succeeded his father on 4th May 1822, by conquest
of Kashmir in 1846, became the 1st Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir,
married
6 wives, and had issue. He died 7th August 1857.
- Mian Udham Singh, died 6th November 1840.
- Mian Sohan Singh, died 22nd December 1844.
- Maharaja RANBIR SINGH (qv)
- Mian Chiman Singh
- Mian Hutoo Singh, died 1859.
- Maharaja RANBIR SINGH 1857/1885, born 1832, married 6?
wives, and had
issue.
He died 12th September 1885.
- Maj.Gen. HH Maharaja Sir PRATAP SINGH Sahib Bahadur (qv)
- Raja RAM SINGH, granted Bandralta in jagir, but on his
death it
reverted
to Jammu State. He died spm after 1885.
- Gen. HH Raja Sir Amar Singh, born 1864, K.C.I.E.,
Commander-in-Chief
of Jammu and Kashmir State Army, Vice-President of Kashmir
Administrative Council 1891/-, married 6? wives, and had issue. He
died
1909.
- HH Maharaja HARI SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Maj.Gen. HH Maharaja Sir PRATAP SINGH Sahib Bahadur
1885/1925, born
1850,
G.C.S.I. [cr.1892] , G.C.I.E. [cr.1911] & C.B.E. & LL.D., Indar
Mahindar Bahadur Sipar-i-Saltanat, married 6? wives, and had issue. He
died spm 25th September 1925.
- Daughter, married the Raja of Chenani.
- Maj.-Gen. HH Raj Rajeshwar Maharajdhiraj Maharaja Shri Sir
HARI SINGH
Bahadur
Indar Mahindar Sipar-i-Saltanat-i-Inglishia 1925/1961, born 30th
September
1895 in Jammu, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; Hon. Commander-in-Chief
Kashmir Army, K.C.I.E. [cr.1918], K.C.V.O. [cr.1922], G.C.S.I.,
G.C.I.E.,
married 1stly, 1913, a niece of the Thakur Sahib of Rajkot,
she died 1915, married 2ndly, 1915, a daughter of HH Raja Saheb Shri
Sir
BHURI SINGH of Chamba, she died 1920,
married
3rdly, 1923, HH Maharani Mohini Kunwari Bai Sahiba, daughter of HH
Maharana Sahib Shri MOHANDEVJI
NARAYANDEVJI of Dharampur, married
4thly,
1928
(divorced 1950), Maharani Tara Devi of Bijapur, born 1910, died 1967
and
has issue. He died 26th April 1961 in Bombay.
- HH Maharaja Shri Dr. KARAN SINGH (see above)
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born 9th
March 1931 in Cannes, M.A., Ph.D., Author and Environmentalist, Regent,
Sadar-i-Riyasat
and Governor of Jammu and Kashmir; educated at Doon School, University
of Jammu & Kashmir and University of Delhi, Member of the Fourth
Lok
Sabha 1967; Union Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation
1967/73;
Member of the Fifth Lok Sabha 1971; Union Minister for Health and
Family
Planning 1973/77; Member of the Sixth Lok Sabha 1977; Union Minister of
Education and Culture 1979/80; Member of the Seventh Lok Sabha 1980;
Ambassador
of India to the United States of America (with Cabinet Status) 1990;
Chairman,
Auroville Foundation (with Cabinet Status) 1991/96; Elected to Rajya
Sabha
November 1996 (resigned 12 August 1999); Member of the Consultative
Committee
for the Ministry of Home Affairs 1996/-; Co-Chairman, Indo-French Forum
(with Cabinet Status) 1997/99; Member, Committee on External Affairs
1998/99;
Elected to Rajya Sabha January 2000; Founder, International Centre for
Science, Culture and Consciousness; President, People's Commission on
Environment
and Development (India); Chairman of the Virat Hindu Samaj and Temple
of
Understanding, a global Interfaith organisation; was Chairman of the
Central
Sanskrit Board and Indian Board of Wildlife; was head of Project Tiger;
Vice-Chairman, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund; was Member of the
U.N.E.S.C.O.
International Commission on Education for the twenty-first century, the
International Steering Committee of the Global Forum of
Parliamentarians
and Spiritual Leaders of Human Survival and the Club of Rome and Club
of
Budapest; Trustee of the India International Centre and Green Cross
International;
was Chancellor of Jammu & Kashmir University and Banaras Hindu
University;
associated with many cultural and academic institutions and has
received
several honorary degrees and other awards, including doctorates from
the
Banaras Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University and Soka
University,
Tokyo; took the M.A. degree of Delhi University in Political Science
with
a first class first in 1957, creating a University record which is
still
unbroken; Clubs: Member of Willingdon Sports Club, Bombay; Member of
the
Royal Western India Turf Club, Bombay; Member of the Delhi Gymkhana
Club
and the India Habitat Centre; Favourite Pastimes and Recreation
includes:
reading books, Indian classical and folk music, married 5th March 1950
in Bombay, HH Maharani Yasho Rajya Lakshmi Devi, born 1937, daughter of
Maharajkumar Sarada Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal,
and has issue.