PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Traditionally,
the ancestor of the family was Bir Chand, Raja of Ajudhia. Founded
before
1600. Rulers were..
- Raja KANDOSI CHAND, 6th Chief of Mahilog.
- Raja UTTAM CHAND, named his state Mahilog, married a sister
of the Raja
of Keonthal.
- Rana AJIT CHAND, lost much of his state to Kangra.
- Thakur NAHAR CHAND -/1801, married the daughter of Raja
BHUP SEN of Keonthal, and had issue. He died 1801.
- Thakur SANSAR CHAND 1801/1849, fled to Nalagarh when the
Gurkhas invaded his state in 1803, received a sanad confirming him as ruler of
Mahilog on 4th September 1815. He died 1849.
- Tikka Jagat Chand, died vpsp.
- Thakur DHALIP CHAND (qv)
- Kanwar Bir Singh, died sp.
- Kanwar Ganesh Singh, died 1900.
- Thakur DHALIP CHAND 1849/1880, married and had issue. He
died 1880.
- Rana RAGHUNATH CHAND (qv)
- Rana RAGHUNATH CHAND 1880/1902, born 1861, succeeded 16th
May 1880 (#1),
granted the title of Rana as a personal distinction in 1890, married
1stly, Rani Rudar Devi of Raipur-Rani, married 2ndly, (name unknown), married 3rdly, a
daughter of Raja BIJAY SINGH of Dada-Siba,
died 1918, married 4thly, a
lady from Sirmur, and
had issue. He died 16th September 1902.
- Thakur DURGA CHAND (by Rani Rudar Devi) (qv)
- Kumari Darshan Kumari (by Rani Rudar Devi), married Capt.
Rao
KRISHAN PAL SINGH of Awagarh, and had
issue. She died 1964.
- Kanwar Shiv Singh (by 2nd marriage), born 1899, died
March 1962.
- Kumari Prathiba Kumari [Rani Prathiba Kumari of
Nalagarh], married Raja
JOGENDRA SINGH of Nalagarh, and had
issue. She died January 1972.
- Kumari (name unknown),
married Capt. Kanwar Shamsher Singh of Bilaspur. She died 1958.
- Thakur DURGA CHAND 1902/1934, born 5th April 1898 (1900),
educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore; married 1918, Thakurani
Purnima Manjree of Barpali, born 1902, died December 1932, and had
issue. He died 16th December 1934.
- Thakur NARENDRA CHAND (qv)
- Kumari Amar Manjree Devi
- Kanwar Mohinder Singh, born 6th April 1928 in Shimla,
died unmarried March 1945 in Shimla.
- Kanwar Ravinder Singh
- Thakur NARENDRA CHAND (see above)
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