PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
by a younger son of the 24th Raja of Kutlehar. The state was made
subordinate
to Keonthal by a sanad of September 1815. Rulers were....
- Raja CHAND PAL, younger son of Raja Jas Pal, 24th Raja of
Kutlehar, and
founder of Kothi state.
- .....
- Thakur JAJHAR CHAND, married and had issue.
- Mian Dhir Chand
- Mian Gambhir Chand
- ......
- Thakur GOPI CHAND -/1777, 10th in descent from the founder,
married and had issue.
He died 1777.
- Thakur PADAM CHAND 1777/1793, married and had issue.
- Thakur PARTAB CHAND 1793/1838, born 1790, 8th in descent
from Thakur Gopi
Chand, married and had issue, He died 1838.
- Rana HARI CHAND 1838/1873, born 1818, granted the
title of Rana for
his help to British authorities in the mutiny of 1857, married and had
issue.
- Rana BISHEN CHAND (qv)
- Kanwar Shiv Saran Singh
- Rana BISHEN CHAND 1873/1891, married and had issue.
- Rana RAGHUBIR CHAND (qv)
- Kanwar Ghuman Singh, married and had issue.
- Kanwar Rudhra Singh
- Kanwar Bhairav Singh
- Kanwar Mangal Singh
- Kanwar Shankar Singh
- Kanwar Indar Singh
- Kanwar Chandar Singh
- Kunwar Devki Singh
- Kanwar Nihal Singh
- Kumari (name unknown), married Tikka Raghunath
Singh of Bashahr, and had issue.
- Rana RAGHUBIR CHAND 1891/1944, born 1865, succeeded to
the throne on
10th July 1891, married 7 wives, 3 wives were from Kishengarh State in
Rajasthan, two were from Kunihar State in H.P. (daughters of Thakur
Tegh
Singh of Kunihar), and two wives were from Ratesh State in H.P. (no
issue),
and had issue. He died 1944.
- Tikka Sahib (name
unknown) Singh (by one of the Kishengarh
Ranis), born 1894,
died 1906.
- Rana VASHISHT CHAND (by one of the Kishengarh Ranis) (qv)
- Rajkumari Radha Devi (by a Kunihar Rani), married Raja
BHIM SEN of Suket
State in H.P., and had issue, one daughter. She died June 1939.
- Rajkumari (name unknown)
Devi (by a Kunihar Rani), married into
the royal
family
of Balsan State, H.P.
- Rana VASHISHT CHAND 1944/1970, born 22nd April 1898,
succeeded to the gaddi
28th September 1944, married the daughter of Thakur PADAM CHAND of Theog,
and had issue, as well as issue by Saryu Devi, a secondary wife. He
died
8th July 1970 (#1).
- Tikka Devesh Chand [Rana DEVESH CHAND] (by the Theog
Rani) (qv)
- Rajkumar Tara Singh (by the Theog Rani), born 26th
January 1927,
married
Maharaj Kumari Janaknandani Kumari, daughter of HH Maharawal Chandravir
Pratap Singh of Banswara State, born
7th
October 1935, died 17th December 1974 at Chandigarh, and had issue, an
only son. He died 2nd September 1992.
- Kanwar Purujit Singh, born 10th July 1970 in Jaipur,
married 1stly, 4th
February
1995 (div. May 2004), Maharaj Kumari Krishna Kumari, daughter of HH
Maharaja
Mahendra MANVENDRA SINGH Ju Deo Bahadur of Panna,
married 2ndly, February 2006, Maharaj Kumari Shalini Kumari, daughter
of HH Maharaja PRITHVI BIR SINGH
DEO of Sonepur.
- Rajkumari Tara Devi (by the Theog Rani), married Rana
Gajendra Chand of
Manswal.
- Rajkumari Shakuntala Devi (by the Theog Rani), married
Rana Gajendra
Chand
of Manswal.
- Rajkumari Kamla Devi (by the Theog Rani), married Kanwar
Jagjit Singh
of
Ramgarh, and has issue.
- Kanwar Jitender Singh Chandel, born
5th
August 1957, married
9th May 1985, Kumari Roopa Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Rattan Singh of
Dhami,
and has issue, a daughter.
- Kumari Sunandita Chandel, born 24th
February 1986.
- Madan Singh (by Saryu Devi), married Kumari Sheila Kanwar
of
Junga, Keonthal
State,
and has issue.
- Kumari Shakuntala Devi, married Professor Vijay Vir
Singh
Jaswal, and has
issue,
a son and a daughter.
- Kumari Salochna Devi, married Colonel M. K. Chauhan,
and has
issue, a son and
a daughter.
- Kuldeep Singh, married Kumari Reena Devi, and has
issue, 2
sons.
- Bhanu Pratap Singh
- (name unknown)
Singh
- Kumari Uma Devi, married Madhan Verma, and has issue, a
son
and a daughter.
- Bhupender Singh, married Kumari Sangita Devi, and has
issue, 2
daughters.
- Kumari Jyoshna Devi
- Kumari Ragini Devi
- Yogendra Singh, married Kumari Anupama Devi, and has
issue, 2
sons.
- Mohan Singh (by Saryu Devi), born in September 1931. He
died unmarried
in 1966.
- Prem Singh (by Saryu Devi), born 8th January 1934. He is
unmarried.
- Kaushalya Devi (by Saryu Devi), born 16th June 1937 at
Simla, married
22nd
May 1964 in Simla, Brigadier (ret'd.) Mehar Ranjan Dutt, Military Cross
(M.C.), son of the late Rai Bahadur G. R. Dutt from Tripura State in
Eastern
India, born 14th December 1919, Commandant of the 6th Batallion,
Rajputana
Rifles, later commanded the 3rd Batallion of the Sikh Regiment. Later
still,
he commanded the 15th Batallion of the Dogra Regiment and lastly, he
commanded
the Prince of Wales Own Regiment, later known as the 1st Batallion of
the
Dogra Regiment, died sp in Simla in April 2004 of heart failure.
- Rana DEVESH CHAND 1970/1998, born 25th July 1921, succeeded
to the
throne
on 8th July 1970, married Rajkumari Jayanti Devi, daughter of Maharaj
Kumar
Karan Singh of Orchha, and had issue, 5
children. He died 10th October
1998 at Chandigarh.
- Rana TRIVIKRAM CHAND (qv)
- Rajkumari Meera Devi, born 1942, married 1962, Mian
Bhupender Singh,
son
of Mian Budhi Singh of Jubbal, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
- Rajkumar Ranvijay Singh, born 1946, married Kumari Prabha
Devi of Datia
State, M.P., and had issue, two daughters. He died 14th January
1996.
- Kumari Shelja Kumari, born 5th November 1992.
- Kumari Girija Kumari, born 14th January 1994.
- Rajkumari Neera Kumari, married Colonel Dr. Vishwanath S.
Rana, and has
issue, two daughters.
- Miss Shreepanchmi Rana, married and has issue,
one son, Virvikram Singh Tomar.
- Miss Priyadarshini Rana
- Rajkumari Veera Kumari, married Mr. Arvind Raghav, and
has issue, a
daughter
and a son.
- Miss Anchal Raghav
- Raghuvinder Raghav
- Rana TRIVIKRAM CHAND (see above)
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