PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Ancestors
were Rajas of Kumaon. Rulers were....
- Raja GUMAN SINGH, son of Kunwar Lal Singh of Kumaon,
fl.1828, married and had issue.
- Raja SHIV RAJ SINGH, C.S.I., married (amongst others), a
daughter of Raja SHAMSHER SINGH of Bashahr, and had issue.
He died October
1886 (#1).
- Raja HARI RAJ SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Karna Singh, married and had issue.
- Raja UDAY RAJ SINGH (qv)
- Kunwar Anand Singh, freedom fighter and Member of
Parliament at the time of Independence; married 1stly, married 2ndly,
in Almora, Kunwarani
Vimla Kumari [Princess Mathway, daughter of the Limbin Mintha of
Burma],
and had issue.
- Kunwar Sundar Singh (by 1st marriage)
- Kunwar Suriya Pratap Singh (by Vimla Kumari), married
a daughter of a Naga Chief.
- Kunwar Birendra Singh (by Vimla Kumari), born 1937,
married Kanwarani Kiran Kumari, and had issue. He died 2004.
- Kunwar Dway Singh
- Kunwar Lat Singh
- Kunwar Raghunath Singh (by the Bashar Rani), declared
heir to the gaddi of
Bashahr, but
was
removed from the succession after a short time.
- Raja HARI RAJ SINGH, born 1857, Honourary Magistrate,
married (a), the
daughter of Shri Kupendra Bikram Shah of Nepal, married (b), a daughter
of
Raja BALBIR SEN of Keonthal, and had
issue. He died before 1911.
- Raja UDAY RAJ SINGH, married [a sister of the two wives
of
King
Tribhuvan of Nepal], and had issue. He died before 1932.
- Maharajkumari Bhagirath Devi, married February 1923,
Lt.-Col. Sir
Maharajkumar
Dr. Vijayananda Gajapathi Raju of Vizianagram,
and had issue.
- Rani Hira Kumari Devi, married June 1924, Raja PURNA
CHANDRA Deo Harishchandra
Jagadev
of Surangi, and had issue, two sons
and three daughters.
- Maharajkumari Sita Devi [Rani Sita Devi of Kapurthala],
born 1915,
married
1928, Maharajkumar Karamjit Singh of Kapurthala,
and had issue. She died 2002 at New Delhi.
- Raja HARISH CHAND RAJ SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumar Chandra Bhan Singh, married, Rajkumar Rani
Rashal Manjari Devi
of Ramgarh, and had issue.
- Kumari Geeta Devi, born 1946, married Raj Kumar
Shivendra Bahadur Singh, son of Maj. Raja Bahadur BIRENDRA BAHADUR
SINGH
of Khairagarh, and has issue.
- Kanwar Akshob Singh, born 1947, educated at
St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, married Shri Satwashilaraje
Shahumaharaj Bhonsle, daughter of Chhatrapati Shri SHAHUMAHARAJ
BHONSLE, Raja of Satara, and his wife,
Rani Sumitraraje, and has issue, three children, a
son and two daughters.
- Kumari Aisha Singh, married to the son of
Kanwar Rattanjit
Singh of Kapurthala.
- Kumari Amolika Singh, married to Shri Patankar of
Karad.
- Kumar Sheoraj Singh
- Kunwar Rajive Singh, married Kunwarani Jyotsna Kumari,
born 27th
February
1958, daughter of Raja VIRBHADRA SINGH of Rampur-Bushahr,
and his first wife, Rani Rattan Kumari, and has issue.
- Kumari Yashodhara Manjari Devi, born 29th January
1984.
- Bhanwar Aditya Raj Singh
- Raja HARISH CHAND RAJ SINGH, married Rani Padma Devi, and
had issue.
- Raja KARAN CHAND SINGH BABA (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married Shri Man Mohan
Bikram Shah of Nepal,
and has issue.
- Kanwarani Sangita Rajya Lakshmi Devi, married Kanwar
Kameleshwar Singh, born 21st November 1956, son of Kanwar Sher Singh of
Chamba, and had issue, two daughters.
- Raja KARAN CHAND SINGH BABA (see above)
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