JIND (Princely State)

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AREA:  3,364 km2 PRIVY PURSE:  328,100Rs  ACCESSION:  20th August 1948
STATE:  Pepsu  DYNASTY:  Phulkian  Religion:  Sikh
Population:  249,862 (1892)    
     
PRESENT RULER:  HH Maharaja SATBIR SINGH ["Prince Sunny"], 9th Maharaja of Jind (19??/-)
born 1940, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, married 1stly (div.), Gay Büg, married 2ndly, 1978, Gita Dheer of New Delhi, and has issue, two sons (by first marriage).
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Founded in 1763. Rulers were ....
  1. Raja GAJPAT SINGH 1763/1789, born 15th April 1738, Raja [cr.1772], took part in the conquest of Sirhind, Panipat and Karnal, made Jind his capital in 1766, married 1stly, a daughter of Sardar Kishan Singh Monshia, married 2ndly, 1764, his brother's widow, and had issue. He died 11th November 1789.
    • Kanwar Mehr Singh, married and had issue. He died 1780.
      • Hari Singh, born about 1773, married Dya Kaur and had issue. He died 1791.
        • Bibi Chand Kaur, married Sardar Fateh Singh Thanesar, son of Bhanga Singh. She died 1850.
    • Raja BHAG SINGH (qv)
    • Kanwar Bhup Singh of Badrukhan, married and had issue. He died 1815.
      • Sardar Basawa Singh, married and had issue. He died 1830.
        • Sardar Sukha Singh, married and had issue. He died 1852.
          • Harnam Singh, married and had issue. He died 1856.
          • HH Raja Sir HIRA SINGH Malvinder Bahadur of Nabha.
        • Sardar Bhagwan Singh, married and had issue. He died 1852.
          • Sardar Diwan Singh, born 1841.
          • Sardar Sher Singh, born 1844.
          • Sardar Chattar Singh, died 1861.
      • Sardar Karam Singh, married and had issue. He died 1818.
        • Raja SARUP SINGH (qv)
    • Sardarni Raj Kaur, married 1774, Sardar Mahan Singh Sukerchukia of Lahore.
    • Bibi Begama Kaur (by 2nd wife)

  2. Raja BHAG SINGH 1789/1819, born 1768, married (amongst others), Rani Sobrahi Kaur, and had issue. He died 1819.
    • Raja FATTEH SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Pratap Singh, died sp June 1816.
    • Kunwar Mahtab Singh (by Rani Sobrahi Kaur), born 1800, died sp 1816.

  3. Raja FATTEH SINGH 1819/1822, born 1789, married Rani Sahib Kaur, daughter of Sardar Kushal Singh Burnewala, and had issue. He died 3rd February 1822.
    • Raja SANGAT SINGH (qv)

  4. Raja SANGAT SINGH 1822/1834, born 1811, married April 1824, Rani Sabha Kaur, born about 1812, daughter of Sardar Ranjit Singh Shahabad. He died sp 2nd November 1834.

    5. INTERREGNUM 1834/1837

  5. Raja SARUP SINGH 1837/1864 of the Bazidpur branch, married and had issue. He died 26th January 1864 at Bazidpur aged 50 (52).
    • Raja-i-Rajgan RAGHUBIR SINGH (qv)
    • Kunwar Randhir Singh, died sp 1848.

  6. Raja-i-Rajgan RAGHUBIR SINGH 1864/1887, born 1832, Raja-i-Rajgan [cr.1881], married 1stly, a daughter of Chaudhuri Jowahir Singh of Dadri, married 2ndly, a daughter of Sardar Ghyan Singh Gill of Rajamajra, and had issue. He died 7th March 1887 (#1).
    • Bibi (name unknown) [Sardarni Sahiba of Kalsia] (by 1st wife), married April 1865, Sardar BISHAN SINGH of Kalsia.
    • Tikka Sahib Balbir Singh Bahadur, born 1856, married and had issue. He died vp before 1887.
      • Col. HH Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-ul-Itikad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Sir RANBIR SINGH Rajendra Bahadur (qv)
      • Rani Balbir Kaur, married 1902, Raja MAHENDRA PRATAP SINGH of Hathras, and had issue. She died 1925.
      • Bibi (name unknown) [Sardarni Sahiba of Kalsia], married Sardar RANJIT SINGH of Kalsia, and had issue, one son and daughter.
        • Sardar RAVI SHER SINGH of Kalsia (qv)
        • Bibi (name unknown), married Kumar Shri Ghanshyamsinhji Daulatsinhji, son of HH Thakur Sahib Shri Sir DAULATSINHJI JASHWANTSINHJI of Limbdi (qv).

  7. Col. HH Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-ul-Itikad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Sir RANBIR SINGH Rajendra Bahadur (1879-1948)Col. HH Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-ul-Itikad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Sir RANBIR SINGH Rajendra Bahadur 1887/1948, born 11th October 1879, educated privately, has built schools and hospitals, instituted Fund for Widows and Orphans of State servants, made Primary Education free in Jind, Maharaja [cr.1911], G.C.I.E. [cr.1916], K.C.S.I. [cr.1909], received Delhi Durbar Medals 1903 and 1911, married 1stly (unequally), 1900 at Sangrur, Maharani Jaswant Kaur [née Olive Monalescu-van Tassel], married 2ndly, HH Maharani Dhelma Kaur, married 3rdly, Maharani Buriya, married 4thly, Maharani Gurcharan Kaur, and had issue. He died 31st March 1948.
    • HH Maharaja RAJBIR SINGH (qv)
    • Maharajkumari Diamond Balbir Kaur, married Sardar Shamsher Singh, son of Sardar Sohan Singh of Rawalpindi.
    • Maharajkumari Ruby Kaur, born 14th June 1920 at Rajbir Villa Palace, Bhimtal, married Sardar Balbir Singh Grewal ( I.C.S), and had issue. She died 11th April 2009 in New Delhi.
      • Sardar Rabindra Bir Singh Grewal, married Maharajkumari Rohini/Ganga Kaur, daughter of Col. HH Shri Maharaja Shri Brajendra Sawai VRIJENDRA SINGH Bahadur Jang of Bharatpur, and his second wife, HH Maharani Videh Kaur, and has issue.
        • Kanwar Govind Singh Grewal
    • Maharajkumari Beryl Jagatbir Kaur, married Maharajkumar Fathe Singh Tikari [Prince George] of Tikari, and had issue, four children. She died 11th February 2008 in Patna.
      • Maharajkumar Rajbir Singh Tikari
      • Maharajkumar Ranbir Singh Tikari
      • Maharajkumar Raghubir Singh Tikari, married and has issue.
        • Kunwar Varun Singh Tikari
      • Maharajkumari Shahla Singh Tikari
    • Maharajkumar (name unknown) Singh (by Maharani Jaswant Kaur), born 12th September 1901, died March 1902.
    • Maharajkumari Dorothy Kaur (by Maharani Jaswant Kaur), married and had issue, two children. She died aged in her 80's.
      • Kanwar Karambir Singh
      • HH Maharani Prithvi Bir Kaur, married (as his first wife), HH Maharaja RAJBIR SINGH, and had issue (see below).
    • Maharajkumar Jagatbir Singh, born 1925, married Mahrajkumari Hemlata Devi, daughter of HH Raja Bahadur KHEM SAVANT BHONSLE V of Savantwadi, and his wife, HH Rani Lakshmi Devi.
    • Lt. General (retd.) Maharajkumar Jasbir Singh of Jind, born 1926, Military Secretary to the Government of India, retired from the Indian Army in 1984, married Rajkumari Gita Shah of Khairigarh, born in 1926, died November 2005, and has issue. (Dehra Dun, India)
      • Kumari Ira Singh
      • Kumari Sanu Singh
    • Maharajkumari (name unknown) Kaur, married Air Commodore Sardar Ravindra Hari Darshan Singh of Vahali, and had issue.
    • Maharajkumari Taranbir Kaur, born 1931, married DFC Jagdish Chander Verma, died February 1993 in Agra, and has issue. (Dehradun, India)
      • Ajay Verma
      • Tina Verma (Mrs. Tina Vijay Chopra).

  8. HH Maharaja RAJBIR SINGH 1948/- , born 1918, married 1stly (his cousin), HH Maharani Prithvi Bir Kaur (see above), married 2ndly, and had issue.
    • HH Maharaja SATBIR SINGH (qv)
    • Maharajkumar Gajbir Singh ["Prince Billy"], born 1943, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, died sp 2nd August 2001.
    • Maharajkumar Ravindra Singh ["Prince Robin"], born 1947, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, married and had issue, three daughters. He died in 1986.
    • educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal,
    • Maharajkumar (name unknown) Singh ["Prince Scampy"] (by 2nd marriage), born 1945, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, died 1993.
    • Maharajkumar (name unknown) Singh ["Prince Chuckles"] (by 2nd marriage), born 1953, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal.

  9. HH Maharaja SATBIR SINGH (see above)
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.215