PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
in 1772. Rulers were....
- Dewa Singh, married and had issue.
- Badar Singh, married and had issue. He died 1723.
- Sardar JASSA SINGH (see below)
- Sardar Singh, married and had issue.
- Lal Singh, married and had issue.
- Manna Singh
- Gurbaksh Singh, married and had issue.
- Kirpal Singh, married and had issue.
- Ladha Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar BAGH SINGH (see below)
- Sardar JASSA SINGH 1772/1783, born 3rd May 1718 at Ahlu or
Ahluwal near
Lahore, Sultan-ul-Qaum [cr.1761], leader of the Ahluwalia misl and of
the
Dal Khalsa, which in 1758 proclaimed the sovereignty of the Sikhs in
the
Punjab, married and had issue. He died 20th October 1783 and was
cremated at Burj Baba Atal Sahib.
- Daughter, married Mohan Singh of Fattehabad, died 1777.
- Daughter, married Mirar Singh of Tungwala.
- Sardar BAGH SINGH 1783/1801, born 1748, married and had
issue. He died
1801.
- Sardar FATEH SINGH (qv)
- Daughter, married Ratan Singh of Behra.
- Sardar FATEH SINGH 1801/1837, born 1784, succeeded to the
Ahluwalia
chiefship
in 1801, took part in almost all the early campaigns of Maharaja Ranjit
Singh - Kasur 1802/1803, Malva 1806/1808, Kangra 1809, Multan 1818,
Kashmir
1819 and Mankera 1821. He fought in the battle of Haidru 1813 and held
command in the Bhimbar, Rajauri and Bahawalpur expeditions. In 1806,
Fateh
Singh acted as the plenipotentiary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and signed
the first Anglo-Sikh treaty with Lord Lake. He had bestowed upon him
the
districts of Dakha, Kot, Jagraoh, Talvandi, Naraingarh and Raipur after
his Malva campaigns, he married and had issue. He died October
1837.
- Raja NIHAL SINGH (qv)
- Kanwar Amar Singh, died 28th March 1841 in a boat
accident in the Ravi.
- Raja NIHAL SINGH 1837/1852, received the towns of Nur Mahal
and Kalal
Majra,
fought on the side of the Sikhs both at Baddoval and 'Alival and was
penalized
by the British by the confiscation of his territories south of the
Sutlej,
married and had issue. He died 13th September 1852.
- HH Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Sir RANDHIR SINGH Bahadur (see
below)
- Kanwar Bikram Singh Bahadur, born 1835 at Kapurthala,
C.S.I. [cr.1879],
Sardar Bahadur [cr.1858], awarded the Mutiny Medal for his part during
the Indian Mutiny, by commanding a Kapurthala contingent, present at
the
Imperial Durbar in Delhi in 1877, where he was awarded the
Kaiser-i-Hind
medal, Honourary Magistrate and Honourary Assististant Commissioner for
Jullundur District in 1879, President of the Jullundur Municipal Board,
founder of the Khalsa Akhbar, founder of the Khalsa Press in Lahore,
author
of "Upma Sar Granth", founder of the Singh Sabha, married and had
issue,
two sons and one daughter. He died 8th May 1887 at Jullundur.
- Col. Kanwar Pratap Singh Bahadur, born 1871 at
Jullundur, K.C.S.I.
[cr.1911],
C.S.I. [cr.1909], Honourary Magistrate and Civil Judge, Punjab,
Honourary
ADC to the Maharaja of Kapurthala in 1893, M.L.C. Punjab 1906/1911,
Member
of the Imperial Legislative Council 1910/1911, founder of the Punjab
Chiefs'
Association, awarded the Delhi Durbar Silver Medal in 1903, married and
had issue, 2 sons. He died 5th December 1911.
- Maj. Kanwar Jasjit Singh, born 12th April 1893,
educated at Aitchison
College,
Lahore; Honourary Magistrate for Jullundur District 1915/1943,
commissioned
as Honourary 2nd-Lt., ILF in 1918, attached to the 6th Duke of
Connaught's
Own Lancers, served in Afghanistan and the NWF in 1919, where he
received
the Waziristan medal, promoted to Honourary Lieutenant in 1919,
Honourary
Captain in 1923, and Honourary Major in 1936, Vice-Chairman of the
Jullundur
District Board, awarded the Delhi Durbar Silver Medal in 1911, the
Silver
Jubilee Medal in 1935, and the Coronation Medal in 1937, married 1stly,
daughter of the Hon. Buta Singh of Rawalpindi, married 2ndly, daughter
of the Jagirdar of Butari in Ludhiana District, and had issue, 3 sons
and
1 daughter. He died 29th March 1943.
- Capt. Kanwar Prithvijit Singh, born 11th May 1912,
educated at
Aitchison
College, Lahore; Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned as a
2nd-Lieut,
IA (KCIO) in 1932, attached to the 1st Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment
in
1934, married Bibi Surjit Kaur, daughter of Sardar Dwarka Nath Singh,
Minister,
Kapurthala State, and had adopted issue. He died 1943 at Lucknow.
- Kanwar Shri Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh (son of
Kanwar Ranjit Singh - see
below, adopted by Kanwarani Surjit Kaur, widow of Kanwar Prithvijit
Singh),
born 29th October 1946, educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun;
Member
of Parliament, India (Rajya Sabha) 1982 to 1988 and 1988 to 1994,
married
8th May 1989, Kumari Vijay Thakur (Kanwarani Vijay Thakur Singh),
Diplomat
(Indian Foreign Service), daughter of Late Justice, Thakur Hira Singh
of
the Himachal High Court.
- Kanwar Manjit Singh, born 1918, educated at Scindia
Sardar's School,
Gwalior;
Hon. Lieut. ILF (1945), married and had issue, 2 sons. He died 1962.
- Kanwar Chandrajit Singh, born 25th December 1946,
Businessman.
- Kanwar Aniljit Singh, born 15th August 1950 at
Jalandhar, educated at
Modern
School, Jalandhar; Queen Mary College, London (B.Sc.); Imperial
College,
London (M.Sc.); Berkbeck College, London (M.Sc.); Computer Scientist,
Businessman,
married 7th November 1985 in London, Miss Padma Bisram, daughter of Mr.
Balram Bisram (Civil Servant, UK), and has issue, 1 son.
- Kanwar Amarjit Singh, born 14th June 1989 in
London, presently being
educated
at Charterhouse School, UK.
- Kanwar Ranjit Singh, born 1922, educated at Scindia
Sardar's School,
Gwalior;
married and had issue, 1 son. He died 1953.
- Kanwar Shri Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh (adopted by
Kanwarani Surjit
Kaur,
widow of Kanwar Prithvijit Singh – see above), born 29th October 1946,
educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun; Member of Parliament, India
(Rajya
Sabha) 1982 to 1988 and 1988 to 1994, married 8th May 1989, Kumari
Vijay
Thakur (Kanwarani Vijay Thakur Singh), Diplomat (Indian Foreign
Service),
daughter of Late Justice, Thakur Hira Singh of the Himachal High
Court.
- Kumari Uma Devi, married Lt.-Gen. Daulat Singh IA
(KCIO), born 4th
January
1911 at Lahore, died 22nd November 1963 in a helicopter crash at
Poonch,
son of Col. Wazir ud-Daula, Rai Bahadur Dina Nath, and had issue,
3 sons and 1 daughter.
- Jitendra Daulat Singh, Diplomat
(Indian Foreign Service),
educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; and at Cambridge, UK; Former Indian
Ambassador
to Norway. married Renuka Singh, daughter of Brigadier Shiv Dayal Singh
IA, and has issue, 1 son and 1 daughter.
- Surendra Daulat Singh, born 4th
June 1942, educated at Mayo
College, Ajmer; and St Stephens College, Delhi B.A. (Hons. in History);
former Banker (BBME, Grindlays etc.), C.E.O. Executive Search (GKR.
Daulat-Singh),
married 6th October 1967, Purnima Bawa, daughter of late Bawa Gyan
Singh
of Lahore, and has issue, 1 son and 2 daughters.
- Vijayendra Daulat Singh, born
13th
June 1946 at Delhi, educated
at Mayo College, Ajmer; passed out at Bishop Cotton School (Ibbetson
House),
Simla in 1963; St Stephens College, Delhi; Chairman of the Institute of
Technology and Management, Gurgaon; married 16th April 1976, Hareena
Singh,
daughter of Late Col. Gurbaksh Singh, and has issue, 2 sons and 1
daughter.
- Chandrika Devi, born 19th
February
1939 at Indore, educated
at Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls' Public School, Jaipur; Lady Irwin
College,
New Delhi; married 13th December 1958, Ganesh Saran Mehra, and has
issue,
3 sons and 1 daughter.
- Kanwar Madanjit Singh, born 1898, died 1930.
- Hon. Raja Sir Daljit Singh, born 7th December 1882 at
Kapurthala,
educated
at Aitchison College, Lahore; K.B.E. [cr.1919], C.S.I. [cr.1911],
Honourary
Magistrate for Jullundur District, M.L.C. Punjab 1913/1915, Member of
the
Imperial Legislative Council at Calcutta 1913/1915, Member of the
Council
of State 1915/1917, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir State
1917/1921,
awarded the Delhi Durbar silver medal in 1911, married Rani
Jasbir
Kaur [Lady Daljit Singh], born September 1886 at Hansa, Ludhiana, died
December 1938, daughter of Sardar Hardit Singh of Hansa, and had issue,
2 sons. He died 6th November 1946.
- Rajkumar Atamjit Singh, born 1900, educated at
Aitchison College,
Lahore;
commissioned in 1925 as Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army, married
and
had issue, one son. He died 1925.
- Kanwar Satyajit Singh, born 28th December 1922 at
Jullundur, educated
at
Bishop Cotton School, Shimla; and St Stephen's College, Delhi;
agriculturist
and Shakespearean actor, married Kumari Kamini Devi [Kanwarani Kamini
Satyajit
Singh], born 12th April 1928, died 6th October 1999, daughter of Ishwar
Das Mahendru of Multan, and had issue, 1 son and 1 daughter. He died
22nd
November 1980 at Lucknow.
- Kanwar Mukuljit Singh, born 6th October 1961,
educated at Colvin
Taluqdars'
College, Lucknow and Lucknow University; Secretary of the Tiger Haven
Society,
Rifle Shooting Champion, married 19th October 1996, Kumari Pragya Devi,
[Kanwarani Pragya Singh], daughter of Colonel Ranbir Singh
Chouhan,
and has issue, one son.
- Samarjit Singh, born 1997.
- Kumari Bani Kaur, born 14th September 1965,
married 29th November 1987,
Harjit Singh Ahuja, C.E.O. Forbes, Mumbai; son of Brigadier Gurdial
Singh
Ahuja, and has issue, two daughters.
- Anahita Kaur Ahuja, born 1989.
- Anandita Kaur Ahuja, born
1991.
- Raja Padamjit Singh, born 1909, educated at Bishop
Cotton School,
Shimla;
and Aitchison College, Lahore; married Padma [Kunwarani Padamjit
Singh], daughter of Sardar Bahadur Kishan Singh Rais of Fatehabad, and
had issue, 3 daughters. He died 9th January 1971.
- Rajkumari Lalita Kumari, born 1932, educated at the
Convent of Jesus
and
Mary, Shimla; and at St Bedes College, Shimla; married Lt.-Gen.
Inderjit
Khanna, served in the Indian Army (4th Guards), and has issue, 2
daughters.
- Kumari Ilika Nandini, born
1961,
married Sardar Jagdeep Singh
Mann, son of Sardar Charanjiv Singh Mann of Kot Shera.
- Kumari Shailaja Nandini, born
1964.
- Rajkumari Anita Singh, born 1939, educated at the
Convent of Jesus and
Mary, Shimla; and at St Bedes College, Shimla; founder of the Indian
Music
Society, Member of the Kapurthala Heritage Trust, Member of the
Governing
Council of the Punjabi Academy for the Government of Delhi, Member of
the
Governing Council of the National Media Centre, Member of the Governing
Council of the Punjab Sangeet Natak Academy, Advisor on Culture and
Heritage
in the Government of Punjab, married (div.) Colonel Jitinder Chaudhary,
and has issue, a daughter.
- Kumari Haripriya, born 27th
August
1964, married Sardar Govind
Singh Mann, son of Sardar Brijendra Pal Singh Mann of Manawala,
Agriculturist,
and has issue, 3 sons.
- Rajkumari Rama Singh, born 1941, educated at the
Convent of Jesus and
Mary,
Shimla; and at St Bedes College, Shimla; married Mohindar Puri,
President
of the Punjab, Haryana and Delhi Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
President
of Mohindar Puri and Co., and had issue, one son.
- Ambuj Puri, born 1980, died
1992 at
Shimla.
- Daughter (elder), married Sardar Amar Singh of Patiala,
and had issue,
4 daughters.
- Daughter (younger), married Sardar Devinder Singh of
Gurdasar, and had
issue, 2 sons and 1 daughter.
- Sardar Brijnandan Singh
- Sardar Prithinandan Singh,
Inspector
General of Police Kashmir
(retd.)
- Bibi Sukhnandan Kaur, married Dr.
P.C.
Hoon of the Doon School
Dehra Dun, and had issue, 3 sons and 1 daughter.
- Kanwar Suchet Singh, born 1837, married and had issue. He
died 1901.
- The Hon. Raja Sardar Charanjit Singh, born 1883, Raja
[cr.1932],
married
and had issue. He died 1970.
- Rajkumar Ajit Singh, born 18th April 1901, educated
at Harrow 1915/1918.
- Rajkumar Sarabjit Singh, born 3rd August 1902,
educated at Eton College, married and had issue.
-
Kumari Devika Sarabjit Singh, married H.E.
Ambassador J. N. Dhamija, died 1999, and has issue, 2 sons.
-
Dinesh Dhamija, born 1950, educated at
King's School, Canterbury and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge;
married Tani Malhotra, and has issue, 2 sons.
-
Biren Dhamija, educated at Harrow and
London University.
-
Darun Dhamija, educated at Harrow and
London University.
-
Sumant Dhamija, born 1952, educated at
King's School, Canterbury and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; married
Iqrup Singh, and has issue, 1 daughter.
-
Ritika Aiysha Dhamija, born 1984,
educated at Oxford University (2004)
-
Udai Dhamija, born April 1998,
presently studying at Eton College 2003/-
- Rajkumar Ripjit Singh, born about 1907, married
Rajkumar Rani Naina Devi
(Nilina Sen),
died
November 1993 aged 76, grand daughter of Maharishi Keshub Chandra Sen,
and had issue. He died 1949.
- Kumari Nilika Ripjitsingh
- Kanwar Karanjit Singh
- Kumari Reena Ripjitsingh
- Kanwar Ratanjit Singh, married Kanwarani Pronoti
Devi, daughter of
Sailen
Prasad Barooah, an aristrocrat from the foremost and renowned family of
Assam (Jorhat), and has issue.
- Son, married the daughter of Kanwar Akshob Singh
of Kashipur.
- HH Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Sir RANDHIR SINGH Bahadur 1852/1870,
G.C.S.I.,
born
March 1831, married 1stly, Rani ......, died 1853, married 2ndly, Rani
....., died 1857 and had issue. He died 2nd April 1870.
- HH Raja-i-Rajgan KHARAK SINGH (see below)
- Hon. Raja Sir Harnam Singh , born 15th November 1851,
K.C.I.E.
[cr.1899],
C.I.E. [cr.1885], Raja [cr.1907], managed Kapurthala Estates in Oudh
for
18 years, Member of Council of Governor-General of India and of
Legislative
Council of Punjab, Member of the Hemp Drugs Commission 1893/94,
Honorary
Life Secretary of the British India Association of Taluqdars of Oudh,
Fellow
of Punjab University, Member of Council of State for India, married
1875,
Kanwar Rani Sahiba and had issue.
- Raja Sir Maharaj Singh , born 17th May 1878, C.I.E.
[cr.1915], Kt.
[cr.1933],
educated at Harrow 1891/1896 and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1900,
M.A. 1910), Bar Middle Temple 1902, appointed Deputy Collector, United
Provinces, India 1904, Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Credit
Societies
1908 (Officiating Registrar 1909/10), Assistant Secretary, Department
of
Education 1911, Senior Assistant Secretary 1915, Magistrate and
Collector
1917, Secretary to Government of United Provinces 1919, Deputy
Secretary
to Government of India 1920, Deputy Commissioner United Provinces 1923,
Chief Minister of Jodhpur State 1931, Agent to Government of India in
South
Africa 1932, Member of the Executive Council in UP 1935/1937; married
February
1918, Rani Gunwati Maya Das and had issue. He died 6th June 1959 in
Lucknow.
- Raja Ranbir Singh, born 11th June 1919, educated at
Bishops School in
South
Africa and Balliol College, Oxford. A diplomat for the Indian
government
serving as a Charge D’Affaires in Tokyo, Cairo, The Hague and Dublin,
married
Catherine Lycett Green, and had issue. He died June 1996 in New Delhi.
- Raja Jai Singh, educated at Harrow School
1965/1970, living in Florida, USA
.
- Rajkumar Pratap Singh, educated at Harrow School
1968/1972, living in Bath,
England,
married and has issue, 1 son and 1 daughter.
- Rajkumari Xenia Ranbirsingh, engaged January 2005
to the Hon. Thomas
Philip
Watson, born 1958, son of the late 3rd Baron Manton and of Mary
Baroness
Manton (#1).
- Rajkumari Prem Kaur, living in Lucknow, India,
married and has issue.
- Rajkumar Mahindar Singh, married
and
had issue. He died 15th August 2004 in Chandigarh.
- Kumari Nihar Kaur (Nihar Das), married 1992,
Proshant Das, and has issue, two sons. (Chandigarh, India)
- Rajkumar Jasbir Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Arjan Singh [Billy], born 15th August 1917 in
Gorakhpur, a well
known conservationist, he was awarded the 28th J. Paul Getty Wildlife
Conservation
Prize on 4th Feb 2005, organised by WWF-India, in "recognition of his
outstanding
contributions to the protection of tigers and the Dudhwa reserve".
Author
of (amongst others), Tara: The Tigress (1981), The Legend of the
Man-Eater
(1993), Tiger Haven (1998), Prince of Cats (2001) and Watching India's
Wildlife (2004).
- Rajkumar Raghbir Singh, educated at Harrow 1890/1894.
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, born 2nd February 1889 in
Lucknow, educated in
England,
Member of the Lok Sabha 1952/1957, Union Minister of Health 1947/1957,
Union Minister of Health and Communications 1951/1952, Member of the
Rajya
Sabha 1957/1964, Secretary to Mahatma Gandhi for 16 years; President of
the World Health Assembly 1950 and the International Red Cross
Conference,
New Delhi 1957; Founder-Member and Chairman, Managing Body of Indian
Red
Cross Society, died unmarried, 10th February 1964.
- Daughter, born 1850.
- SON (by 2nd wife), died aged 2 months.
- HH Raja-i-Rajgan KHARAK SINGH 1870/1877, born August 1849,
married and
had issue. He died 5th September 1877.
 Col.
HH Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan
Maharaja
Sir JAGATJIT SINGH Bahadur 1877/1949, born 24th November 1872, assumed
full ruling powers in November 1890, K.C.S.I. [cr.1897], G.C.S.I.
[cr.1911],
G.C.I.E. [cr.1921], G.B.E. [cr.1927], Maharaja [cr.1911], awarded a
salute
of 13 guns (15 guns personal), Honorary Colonel of the 45th (Rattreys'
Sikhs) in the Indian Army, and was promoted to be a Brigadier early in
1943, awarded the Grand Cross of Legion of Honour of France [1924],
Grand
Cordon of of Order of the Nile, and Grand Cross of Orders of Cuba,
Chile,
Peru and Morocco, Representative of the League of Nations Assembly in
1926,
1927 and 1929, appointed Up-Rajpramukh of PEPSU, married 1stly, 16th
April
1886, HH Maharani Harbans Kaur, daughter of Mian Ranjit Singh Guleria
of
Poprola, married 2ndly, a Princess of a Katoch Rajput family from
Kangra, married
3rdly,
a Princess of a Rajput family from Bushahr, died sp 1959 in
Kapurthala, married
4thly, Rani Kanari, married 5thly, 28th January 1908 (div), Maharani
Prem
Kaur [née Anita Delgado], born 1890 in Malaga, Spain, died 7th
July
1962,
married 6thly, 1942, Maharani Tara Devi [née Evgenia Grosupova],
daughter of a Czech Count and Nina Grosupova, an actress, commited
suicide
by jumping off the Qutub Minar in Delhi, and had issue. He died 19th
June
1949.
- HH Maharaja PARAMJIT SINGH (by Maharani Harbans Kaur)(see
below)
- Maharajkumar Mahijit Singh (by Maharani Harbans Kaur),
born June 1893,
Manager of the Kapurthala estate in Oudh, Minister of Government in
U.P.
of Agra and Oudh, married Maharajkumari Anar Devi of Kangra in Himachal
Pradesh, and had issue. He died 1932.
- Rajkumari Usha Devi [later Rani Usha Devi of
Dada-Siba], born 25th
October
1919 in Kapurthala, married the late Raja Harmahendra Singh of Dada-Siba
in Kangra, died May 2000, and had issue. She died 3rd October 2004 at
New
Delhi.
- Lt.Col. Maharajkumar Amarjit Singh (by the Katochni
Rani), born 5th
August
1893, C.I.E. [cr.1935], educated at Oxford College (Master of Arts),
Vice-President
of the State Council and Household Minister to the Maharaja. He served
in
the Indian Army in France from 1914 to 1916 and was promoted to the
rank
of Lt. Col. in the Indian Army in 1943, married Rani Sonia, died 4th
July
1947. He died September 1944 in Srinagar.
- Maharajkumar Karamjit Singh (by Rani Kanari), born 1896
at Kapurthala,
educated at Harrow 1910/1913 and in France, appointed Vice President of
State Council in 1944, married 1928, Maharajkumari Sita Devi, born
1915,
died 2002 in New Delhi, daughter of Raja Uday Raj Singh of Kashipur,
and had issue. He died 7th June 1967.
- Rajkumar Shri Arun Singh, born 29th August 1944, B.A.
(Hons.), M.A.
(Cantab),
educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, passing out in 1960,
graduated
from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University in 1964, Member of the
Rajya
Sabha 1984/1988, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
1984/1985,
Union Minister of State, Department of Defence Research and
Development,
1985/1987; married Shrimati Kunwarani Nina Singh and has issue, 2 sons
and 1 daughter. (St. Helen’s Cottage, Mussoorie, Uttar
Pradesh,
India)
- Kumari Devaki Kaur, born 1968 at New Delhi, married
1st October 2006 at New Delhi, Marakand Paranjape, son of Ramchandra
Laxman and Prabhavati Paranjape.
- Kunwar Hanut Singh, born 1970, married 1999 at New
Delhi, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bhalla.
- Kunwar Anirudh Singh, born 1975 in New Delhi.
- Rajkumar Martand Singh, born 1947 at Kapurthala,
educated at Doon
School,
Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, passing out in 1963, graduated from St.
Stephen's
College, Delhi University in 1967.
- Maharajkumar Ajit Singh (by Anita), born 26th April 1908,
educated at
Cambridge
University and at the Military Academy, Dehra Dun. Assistant to the
Indian
Trade Commissioner in Argentina, died sp 1982.
- HH Rani Amrit Kaur (by Rani Kanari), born 1904, married
8th February
1923,
Maj. HH Raja Sir JOGINDER SEN Bahadur of Mandi,
and had issue. She died 1948.
- HH Maharaja PARAMJIT SINGH 1949/1955, born 18th May 1892,
educated at
Harrow
1906/1907, granted the title of Tikka Raja by the British authorities,
President of the State Council, Colonel-in-Chief of the Paramjit
Infantry,
married 1stly, HH Maharani Brinda Devi of Jubbal,
born 11th January 1892 in Jubbal, author of an autobiography,
"Maharani"
with Elaine Williams, written in 1951 and later reprinted in 2001 and
given
a new title,"Maharani --- the Memoirs of a Rebellious Princess". She
was
widely travelled person who knew Heads of State and famous Hollywood
Stars,
died May 1962 at Woodville Palace, Simla, married 2ndly, in 1932, Tikka
Rani Sahiba Lilawati Devi of Kangra, died aged 21, married 3rdly, July
1937, Maharani
Narinder
Kaur [née Stella Mudge aka Beady], born 13th October
1904
in Carlton, Kent, died 23rd February 1984 in Delhi, and had issue. He
died
1955.
-
 Maharajkumari
Indira Devi (Princess Indee) (by Maharani Brinda), born 26th February
1912
at Kapurthala, worked in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in
London as a news reader from 1945 to 1968, died unmarried 1979 in
Ibitza,
Spain.
- Maharajkumari Sushila Devi (Princess Shushu) (by Maharani
Brinda), born
14th December 1918 at Kapurthala, married January 1942 (div. 1958),
Raja
Giriraj Saran Singh of Bharatpur,
and
had issue. She died 1974 in Simla.
- Maharajkumari Ourmilla Devi (Princess Moumou)(by Maharani
Brinda)
[Rajkumar
Rani Ourmilla Devi of Jubbal], born 29th November 1919 at Kapurthala,
married
Lt.-Col. Rajkumar Birendra Singh of Jubbal.
- Maharajkumari Ash Kaur (by Tikka Rani Sahiba Lilawati Devi),
born October
1933 at
Kapurthala,
married 1958 (div.), Mr. Hari Bhagat of New Delhi, and has issue.
- Prithvi Raj Singh Bhagat, born 1959.
- Brig. HH Maharaja Sri SUKHJIT SINGH Sahib Bahadur (by
Tikka Rani Sahiba Lilawati Devi) (qv)
- Brig. HH Maharaja Sri SUKHJIT SINGH Sahib Bahadur (see
above)
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born
16th October 1934 in Kapurthala, educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal,
and then attended the Indian Military Academy, (I.M.A.) Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal,
and was commisioned in 1954, as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army,
rose to the rank of Brigadier in the Indian Army and won the Maha Vir
Chakra
(MVC), the second highest gallantry award in the 1971 Indo-Pak war,
married
1957 in New Delhi, HH Maharani Geeta Devi, born 21st March 1936,
daughter
of Darbar Shri ALA VAJSUR KHACHAR of Jasdan,
and has issue.