PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY:
Rulers were....
- Raja KAHN SEN, scion of the Royal Family of Bengal or
Suket, founder of
Kashtwar sometime after 900AD, married and had issue.
- Raja GANDHARAB SEN (qv)
- Madan Sen
- Deva Sen
- Raja GANDHARAB SEN, ruled for 14 years.
- Raja MAHA SEN
- Raja RAM SEN
- Raja KAM SEN
- Raja MADAN SEN
- Raja BRAHM SEN
- Raja UDHAT DEV fl.1088
- Raja MATA DEV
- Raja GANGA DEV
- Raja SANG DEV
- Raja RAKH DEV
- Raja INDUR DEV
- Raja AUTAR DEV
- Raja BHAG DEV
- Raja RAI DEV, two petty local rulers succeeded in driving
him out of
his
capital for one year.
- Raja GUR DEV
- Raja UGAR DEV, added Sartali/Shatali to his state.
- Raja MULDAR DEV
- Raja LACHMAN DEV, conquered Dachin in the Maru-Wardwan
Valley.
- Raja SANGRAM SINGH fl.1420, conquered Nagsun, adding to his
state.
- Raja SANGAR SINGH
- Raja MAGAN SINGH
- Raja DEVA SINGH
- Raja FIROZ SINGH
- Raja NARAIN SINGH
- Raja SALHAN SINGH (son), conquered Surur and Bonjwah,
adding them to
his
domains, founded the village of Salhana above Kandani.
- Raja RAI SINGH -/c1550, attacked by the Sultan of Kashmir
in 1547.
- Raja VIJAI SINGH c1550/1570, conquered Saraj, built the
fort and
village
of Vijai, married and had issue. He was killed in a revolt by a local
ruler
in 1570.
- Raja BAHADUR SINGH (qv)
- Rani Shankar Devi, married 1572, Sultan YAKUB SHAH CHAK
of Kashmir,
died about 1589 in Kashtwar, buried at Sirkot.
- Raja BAHADUR SINGH 1570/1588, the state was invaded by the
Raja of
Kashmir
in 1572, married and had issue.
- Raja PRATAP SINGH [Bhup Singh] (qv)
- Raja PRATAP SINGH [Bhup Singh] c1588/c1610, attacked by the
Mughals
about 1606 and was driven out of his kingdom.
INTERREGNUM 1610/1618
- Raja GUR SINGH [Gunwar Singh] 1618/1629, married and had
issue. He died
1629.
- Raja JAGAT SINGH (qv)
- Raja BHAGWAN SINGH (qv)
- Raja JAGAT SINGH 1629/1642, invaded Bhadrawah, but in his
absence his
state
was captured by the Raja of Basohli, he was defeated and killed while
trying
to retake it. He died sp 1642.
- Raja BHAGWAN SINGH 1642/1660, with the help of 1,000
soldiers provided
by the Mughal Emperor, he succeeded in driving out the Basohli invaders.
- Raja MAHA SINGH [Mahajan Singh] 1660/1674 (abdicated),
earned a
reputation
as a poet, he married and had issue.
- Raja JAYA SINGH (qv)
- Mian Ram Singh, converted to Islam taking the name Dindar
Khan, Wazir
of
Kashtwar 1674/-
- Mian Sirdar Singh.
- Raja JAYA SINGH 1674/1681, converted to Islam taking the
name of
Bakhtiyar
Khan, married and had issue. He died 1681.
- Raja KIRAT SINGH (qv)
- Mian Muhammed Khan, received a khillat and a
jagir of 8
villages
in Kashmir from the Mughal Emperor.
- Bhup Devi, married 3rd July 1717, Padshah FARRUKHSIYAR,
Emperor of Delhi.
- Raja KIRAT SINGH [Sa'adat Yar Khan] 1681/1728, converted to
Islam by
force
in 1687, assasinated at Gulab Bagh in 1728, married and had issue.
- Raja AMLUK SINGH [Sa'adatmand Khan] (qv)
- Raja AMLUK SINGH [Sa'adatmand Khan] 1728/1771, married and
had
issue.
He died 1771.
- Raja MIHR SINGH (qv)
- Raja SUJAN SINGH (qv)
- Mian Dalel Singh, had descendants in Chamba.
- Mian Guman Singh, tried to seize power in 1789, married
and had issue.
- Mian Ajit Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Fateh Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Anwar Singh, granted a jagir in Himgari
pargana in Chamba, whose
present
head (1930) is Mian Autar Singh of Himgari-Chamba.
- Mian Dalip Singh
- Raja MIHR SINGH 1771/1786 [Sa'idmand Khan], married Rani
Vilasamaji and
had issue, one daughter, who was substituted for a boy born at the same
time. He died 1786.
Mian Kundan Singh of Bhadrawah,
appointed
Raja of Kashtwar in 1786 for a short time, by the Raja of Chamba who
had
invaded and occupied Kashtwar, he was displaced and died in Chamba,
where
his descendants still live.
- Raja SUJAN SINGH 1786/1787 for 10 months, married and had
issue. He died
1787.
- Raja INAYATULLAH SINGH (qv)
- Raja PRITHI SINGH 1787/1788, putative son of Raja Mihr
Singh. He died sp
1788.
- Raja INAYATULLAH SINGH 1788/1789, married and had issue.
- Raja MUHAMMED TEGH SINGH (qv)
Raja LAL DEV of Jammu,
held power for a period of two years 1788/1789
in
opposition to the rightful ruler, a member of the Jammu Royal Family.
Raja GULAB SINGH, held
power for 40 days in 1789, a cousin of the
following.
- Raja MUHAMMED TEGH SINGH [Saifullah Khan] 1789/1823,
displaced for a time
by a relative, who was eventually poisoned, gave shelter to the Afghan
ruler, Shah Shuja to 1816, from Maharaja RANJIT SINGH, for which the
state
was annexed in 1820, he was imprisoned in Jammu and was later poisoned
by his own servant without ever recovering his state, he married
and had issue. He died 1823.
- Mian Jaimal Singh, died sp.
- Mian Zorawar Singh, baptized as a christian at Ludhiana
where he
wandered
for many years as a faqir. He died sp 1870.
- Mian Dilawar Singh, his family lived at Tilokpur near
Kotla in the
Kangra
Valley.
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