PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Claiming
descent from Jaisal, founder of the State of Jaisalmer
in 1156, the founder of this Sikh dynasty, Phul, was Chaudhri
(Governor)
of a country located at the south east of Dihli. Phul’s descendants
founded
3 States: Patiala, Jind and Nabha. In 1763, the Emir of Afghanistan
awarded
the Chaudhri the dignity of Raja. The rulers were....
- Raja ALA SINGH 1763/1765, born 1691 at Phul, in present day
Bathinda
district
of the Punjab, the third son of Bhai Ram Singh, granted the title of
Raja,
with the robes of honour as well as with a drum and a banner as
insignia
of royalty by Ahmad Shah Durrani, married at an early age in 1707 to
Rani
Fateh Kaur [Mai Fatto], daughter of Chaudhari Khana, a zamindar of the
village Kaleke, now in Sangrur district of the Punjab and had issue,
she
died in 1773 at Patiala and was cremated at Shahi Samadhan, the royal
cemetery.
He died on 7 August 1765 at Patiala and was cremated in the Fort, now
inside
the city.
- Rajkumar Bhumla Singh, married and had issue. He died vp
about 1743.
- Bibi Rajindar Kaur, born 1739, married Chaudhuri Tilok
Chand of
Phagwara.
She died 1791.
- Rajkumar Sardul Singh, married (a), Rani Hukman Kaur,
daughter of
the Sardar of
Bhikhe,
married (b) Mai Deso, widow of his cousin Jodh Singh, and had issue. He
died
1753.
- Raja-i-Rajgan AMAR SINGH (by Rani Hukman Kaur) (qv)
- Sardar Himmat Singh (by Mai Deso), died 1774.
- Rajkumar Lal Singh, married Bibi Bhagan Kaur, but died spvp.
- Bibi Pardhan Kaur
- Raja-i-Rajgan AMAR SINGH 1765/1781, born 6th June 1748,
Raja-i-Rajgan
[cr.1767],
married (a) Rani Raj Kaur, (b) Mai Deso, his brothers widow, (c) Rani
Khem
Kaur died June 1821, and had issue. He died 5th February 1782.
- Bibi Sahib Kaur, born 1771, married Sardar Jaimal Singh
Kanhaiya, died
1812, and had issue. She died 1801.
- Maharani Chand Kaur, married Maharaja KHARAK SINGH of Lahore
and had issue. She died 13th June 1842 and was cremated the next day.
- Raja-i-Rajgan SAHIB SINGH (qv)
- Rajkumar Budh Singh
- Raja-i-Rajgan SAHIB SINGH 1781/1813, born 18th August 1773,
married
1stly
1787, Rani Ratan Kaur, daughter of Sardar Ganda Singh Bhangi, 2ndly
1792
Rani Aus Kaur, born 1772, daughter of Sardar Gurdus Singh Chattah, she
administered the state during the minority of her son, later retiring
to
her estate at Sanaur, about 7 km south of Patiala, where she spent the
last years of her life dying in 1821, and had issue. He died 26th March
1813.
- Maharaja KARAM SINGH (ex 2nd wife)(qv)
- Rajkumar Ajit Singh, married June 1829.
- Maharaja KARAM SINGH 1813/1845, born 12th October 1797,
Maharaja
[cr.1840],
married and had issue. He died 23rd December 1845.
- Maharaja NARENDRA SINGH (qv)
- Maharajkumar Dip Singh, 1825-1862.
- Maharaja NARENDRA SINGH 1845/1862, born 26th November 1823,
married 7
wives,
including Maharani Karam Kaur, daughter of Sardar Ghulab Singh Buria,
and
had issue, 1 son and 3 daughters. He died 13th November 1862.
- Maharaja MAHENDRA SINGH (qv)
- Maharani Sateha Devi [née Basant Kaur], born 1845,
married into
the Dholpur Royal Family.
- Rani Bishan Kaur, born 1849, married 1859 Raja JASWANT
SINGH of Bharatpur
and had issue. She died 17th February 1870.
- Daughter, married Sardar Narain Singh, son of Sardar Dewa
Singh of
Sialba.
- Maharaja MAHENDRA SINGH 1862/1876, born 16th September
1852, married
3rdly
a daughter of Mian Mahtab Singh Dhaliwal and had issue. He died 18th
April
1876.
- HH Maharaja RAJENDRA SINGH Bahadur (qv)
- Raja Sahib Sir Ranbir Singh, K.C.S.I. [cr.1903] , Raja
[cr.1915],
married
and had issue. He died 18th January 1916.
- Yadvhendra Kaur, married Ranabur Kishor Dev Varman of Tripura.
- Daughter, married Raja JAGANNATH SINGH, Jagirdar of Daulatpur.
- Daughter, married 1884, Sardar Jiwan Singh of Shahzadpur,
born 1860,
C.S.I.
[cr.1891]
- SON (by 3rd wife), born 17th October 1867, died young.
- HH Maharaja RAJENDRA SINGH Mahendra Bahadur 1876/1900, born
25th May
1872,
G.C.S.I.,
married (b) 13th April 1893, Harnam Kaur [née Florence Gertrude
Bryan], christened 20th December 1873, daughter of Charles and Minnie
Bryan,
died about 1895, and had issue. He died 8th November 1900.
- Maj.Gen. HH Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia
Mansur-i-Zaman
Amir-ul-Umra
Maharaja Dhiraj Rajeshwar Sir Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan BHUPENDRA SINGH
Mahendra
Bahadur (qv)
- Raja Ram Narain Singh, married Rani Rajbans Kaur from Kot
Fateh (sister Rani Taptej Kaur, married to Raja Birender Singh of Dholpur), and had issue.
- Colonel Rao Raja Shri Birendra Singh Sahib, born 1898,
educated at
Aitchison
Chiefs' College, Lahore; served in the Afghan War 1919, married and had
issue, 6 daughters and 1 son.
- Raja Harendra Singh Sahib, multinational executive,
wildlife
conservationist,
agriculturist, President Rotarian, member of the Masonic Lodge, married
Rani Sarojdevi Harendra Singh, and has issue. (Dehradun, India)
- Raj Kumari Dharmesh Nandini Patel (Patiala
and
Dehradun,
India)
- Raj Kumar Janak Singh, works for DaimlerChrysler AG. (Montreal,
Canada)
- SON (by Florence), born August 1893, died March 1894.
-
 Maj.Gen.
HH Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia Mansur-i-Zaman Amir-ul-Umra
Maharaja
Dhiraj Rajeshwar Sir Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan BHUPENDRA SINGH Mahendra
Bahadur
1900/1938, born 12th October 1891 at Patiala (#1),
educated at the Aitchison College in Lahore, invested with full ruling
powers on 3rd November 1910, G.C.S.I. [cr.1921], G.C.I.E. [cr.1911],
G.C.V.O.
[cr.1922], G.B.E. (Mil) [cr.1918], Member of Standing Committee of
Indian
Princes' Chamber (ten times elected Chancellor of the Chamber of
Princes
during the 1920's and 1930's), Commander-in-Chief of the Patiala
Forces,
Honourary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ist Ludhiana Sikhs, Hon. Col. 15th
Ludhiana Sikhs, Hon. Maj.-Gen. in British Army, Fellow of the Royal
Geographical,
Zoological and Horticultural Societies, Member of the Royal Colonial
Institute,
Member of Royal Asiatic Society, appointed Hon. ADC to HM 1922, served
in WWI 1914/18 receiving Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile, and of
Order of Leopold of Belgium, Grand Cross of of Orders of Crown of
Italy,
Crown of Roumania, and St Saviour of Greece, and of Legion of Honour,
served
in the Afghan War 1919, represented India at League of Nations Assembly
1925, captained the Indian cricket team on its 1911 tour of England,
president
of the All-India Gundog League and vice-president of the Indian Kennel
Association, chancellor and chief patron of the Sikhs' premier
educational
institution - the Khalsa College at Amritsar, he married 1908 HH
Maharani
Bakhtavar Kaur, daughter of Sardar Gurnam Singh of Jind, (mother of
seven
children, five of whom died young), and had issue, 88 children in all.
He died at Patiala, from heart failure, on 22nd March 1938.
- Lt.Gen. HH Shri Maharajadhiraja Sir YADAVENDRA SINGHJI
Mahendra Bahadur
(qv)
- HH Maharani Kailash Kumari Devi, married 1932, HH
Maharajah Sir
RAJENDRA
NARAYAN SINGH Deo of Patna.
- Raja
Brijinder Singh [Prince John I], born 7th August 1912, married and had
issue, an only daughter. He died in 1958.
- Raja Bhalendra Singh (Prince Peter),
born 9th October 1919 (?19th
August
1919 #2), educated at the Aitchison
College,
Lahore, and at Cambridge University, became a life member of the
International
Olympic Committee in 1947, President of the Patiala Union Olympic
Association
till 1957, Vice-President of the Punjab Olympic Association till 1960,
President of the Amateur Athletics Federation of India, President of
the
Indian Olympic Association 1959/1975 and 1980/1984, honoured with the
Padma
Bhushan Award in recognition of his services to sports, as well as the
International Distinguished Service Award in 1982 (presented by the US
Sports Academy), chief architect in the formation of the Olympic
Council
of Asia, elected to the Punjab Legistature Assembly in 1958, he worked
in the home and education departments of PEPSU, also served as Director
of the State Bank of Patiala, married 1stly, Rani Pushpa Kumari of
Saharanpur,
married 2ndly, Rani Harminder Kaur, born 1932, died 1st August 2000,
and
had issue. He died 16th April 1992 at New Delhi (#1).
- Raja Randhir Singh (by 1st wife), born 18th October
1945, Secretary
General of the Indian
Olympic Association and the Olympic Council of Asia, married 25th May
1971,
Rani Uma Kumari of Sirmur, and has issue.
- Rani Padmesh Kaur (by 2nd wife), born 2nd September
1953, married, Kanwar Ajay Bahadur
Singh of Sirmur.
She died 30th
May 2003 at Simla.
- Rajkumari Nikki Kaur, married 1981 (div.), Navin Ansal,
born 1957, (married 2ndly, Raseel Gujral), educated at Lawrence School
in Sanawar, Himachal Pradesh and Hindu College in Delhi, graduating in
History; Delhi businessman.
- Raja Bhartindra Singh [Prince Billy], born October 1919.
- Raja Brajendra Singh, married and had issue. He died 1958.
- Rani Durgeshnandini Devi, married Raja Shri BRAJENDRA
CHANDRA DEO BAJRADHAR NARENDRA
MAHAPATRA of Ranpur in
Orissa, and had issue, three sons and
one daughter.
- Rani Sudha Devi, married (div.), (as his first wife),
Raja BIRENDRA SHEKHAR DEO, Raja Saheb of Gangpur.
- Raja Kamendra Singh [Prince Ralph] (by a Belgian lady),
died in an aircrash, test flying in 1995.
- Raja Gamendra Singh [Prince Richard], born 12th February
1926.
- Raja Raghavendra Singh [Prince David], born 11th July
1926, died 1985 in Patiala.
- Raja Hitendra Singh [Prince Robert], born September 1927.
- Raja Mrigendra Singh [Prince William], born July 1928,
artist and scholar (Doctorate in Education)
- Raja Kiraninder Singh [Prince Dicky], born 29th November
1928.
- Raja Janandendra Singh [Prince Georgie], born March 1930.
- Raja Mohanindra Singh [Prince Jimmy], born December 1931.
- Raja Kamalendra Singh [Prince Nevil], born 17th February
1932 at Patiala.
- Raja Khargendra Singh [Prince Stanley], born August 1932,
entered East Germany and his present whereabouts is unknown.
- Raja Khagendra Singh [Prince Edward], born September 1932.
- Raja Ramendra singh [Prince Roy], born 23rd December 1932
at Patiala.
- Raja Devendra Singh [Prince Brian], born 14th July 1933,
married a Sikh
lady from the
noble
family of Shahzadpur Estate in Haryana, and has issue, 2 children, a
boy
and a girl.
- Raja Jatendra Singh [Prince Bobby], born 12th September
1933.
- Raja Hemendra Singh [Prince Mervyn], born December 1933.
- Raja Amarendra Singh [Prince Geoffrey], born 6th June
1934.
- Raja Hinendra Singh [Prince Maurice], born August 1934,
died 1982 in Calcutta.
- Lieutenant Colonel Raja Birindra Singh
- Maharajkumari Sumair Kumari, born 1918 at Patiala,
disappeared in
Shanghai after
1946.
-
Maharajkumari ...... Kaur [Princess Diamond], born
1927,
married 1951,
Colonel Sardar Kanwar Bharat Singh, elder brother of Kanwar Natwar
Singh
(see below), and has issue, 2 children, a son and a daughter.
- Maharajkumari Kumudesh Kaur [Princess Ruby], born 1929,
married Shri
Romesh
Bhandari, former Governor of Uttar Pradesh 1996/-, born 29th March 1928
in Lahore, son of Sri Amar Nath Bhandari, Chief Justice of the Punjab
High
Court, and has issue, one son and one daughter, both of whom are
married.
- Maharajkumari Kamlesh Kaur [Sardarni Kamlesh Kumari],
born 1931, married Sardar Jasbir Singh, an Industrialist.
- Maharajkumari Dinesh Kaur [Princess
Brownie], married 1931 in Patiala, to a Kunwar Sahib of
Bijawar State, and had issue, two daughters and a son. She died in
September 2005.
- Rani Shailendra Kumari, married 1951, Maharaj Sri Himmat
Singh of Jodhpur,
and has issue.
- Maharajkumari Ramesh Kaur [Kunwarani Ramesh Kumari],
married 18th February 1942 at Patiala, Raj Kumar Suresh Prakash
Singh, son of the Raja Sahib of Tikra.
- Daughter, married Maharaja GOVIND SINGH of Maihar.
- Maharajkumari Yadunandan Kaur [HH Rani (now Rajmata)
Yadunandan Kumari
of Nalagarh], married HH Raja SURENDRA SINGH of Nalagarh.
- Maharajkumari Shashank Kumari, married into the Dalippur
Royal Family.
- Maharajkumari Surendra Kumari, married Major/General
Ranbirpal Singh Randhawa, and had issue.
- Tikka Ranshere Singh Randhawa, born 27th
September 1948 in Patiala.
- Maharajkumari Naginder Kaur, married Vipin Khanna, and
had issue.
- Arvind Khanna, born 1967, MLA from
Sangrur, Punjab; educated at
Milfield School, U.K. and at Pepperdien University,
California (B.B.M 1989), general secretary of the
district unit of the youth wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal in 1997, Director of Clan Morgan Holdings Private
Limited, President and Managing
Director of TSL
Technologies Pvt Ltd, President
of the Professional Golfers’ Association of India and President of the
Fencing Association of India.
-
 Lt.Gen.
HH Shri Maharajadhiraja Sir YADAVENDRA SINGHJI Mahendra Bahadur
1938/1974,
born 7th January 1913, educated at Aitchison College at Lahore, spent
some
time at the Punjab Police School, Phillaur, in 1931, he was made
Superintendent
of Police for Patiala district, graduating two years later to the rank
of Inspector-General. In 1933, he was appointed the Chancellor of
Khalsa
College, Amritsar, and he held this position for a number of years. He
donned Indian colours in 1934 when he was selected to play against
England,
he was also north Indian tennis champion, and led the Patiala polo
team.
President of Indian Olympic Association 1938/1960, appointed an
aide-de-camp
to the British King and pro-chancellor of the Chamber of Princes in
March
1946. Rajpramukh of PEPSU, which in November 1956, in accordance with
the
recommendations of the States Reorganization Commission, was merged
with
East Punjab. Member of the Indian delegation to the 11th session of the
United Nations General Assembly. In 1958, he represented India in Paris
at the 10th annual conference of UNESCO, and in 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963,
1967 and 1969 he led the Indian team at meetings of the UN Food and
Agricultural
Organization (FAO). In 1960, the government made him chairman of
the newly created Indian Council of Sports, a body designed to oversee
the whole sporting sphere and advise on the allocation of public money
to sports teams and facilities. In 1965, he was appointed to the
prestigious
post of Indian Ambassador in Rome, where he served until 1967. He
presided
over the Sikh Eductional Conference annual sessions held at Patiala
(1949),
Delhi (1952) and Indore (1961). He was also the chairman of the Punjabi
University Commission which preceded the establishment in 1962 of
Punjabi
University at Patiala. He was chosen president of the Guru Gobind Singh
Foundation as well as of the Guru Nanak Foundation, the former set up
to
honour the tercentenary of the birth of Guru Gobind Singh (1967) and
the
latter the quincentenary of the birth of Guru Nanak (1969). In
1970
he took on a new role as chairman of the Indian Horticulture
Development
Council and the following year took up his second and last permanent
diplomatic
posting at the Hague in the Netherlands, married 1stly, 1933, HH
Maharani
Hem Prabha
Devi, second daughter of Raja ADITYA PRATAP SINGH Deo of Seraikella, born 1913, married 2ndly,
1938, HH
Maharani
Mahindar Kaur, born 1922, daughter of Sardar Harchand Singh Jaijee, and
had issue. On the 17th June 1974, he suffered a severe heart attack and
died. His body was flown to India and was cremated with full state
honours
on 21st June at Patiala in the family crematorium, the Shahi
Samadhan.
- Capt. HH Maharajadhiraj Shri AMARINDER SINGH (qv)
- Maharajkumar Malwinder Singh, born 1944, married
Maharajkumari Harpriya Kaur.
- Maharajkumari Heminder Kaur, born 1st June 1939, married
21st August
1967,
Kanwar Natwar Singh, born 16th May 1931 in Bharatpur, educated at St.
Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi (Arts), at Cambridge
University (Corpus Christi), England and at Peking
University, China; Member of the Indian Foreign Service
(IFS) 1953/1984, serving in Beijing, China 1956/1958, and New
York 1961/1966. In 1966, he was posted
to the Prime Minister's Secretariat under Mrs Indira Gandhi and served
in various capacities to 1984. He was elected to the eighth Lok Sabha
from Bharatpur constituency in Rajasthan in 1984, served as Minister of
State
(Steel, Coal
and Mines), and Minister of Agriculture 1985, Minister of State
for External Affairs 1986/1989, re-elected to
the twelfth Lok Sabha in 1998 from Bharatpur, elected
to the Rajya Sabha
from Rajasthan in 2002, appointed to the cabinet
as Minister for External Affairs, being removed from the post on 7th
November 2005 (though retaining a cabinet role as minister
without portfolio), and eventually resigning from the cabinet on 6th
December 2005, author of "E.M.Forster : A Tribute", NY 1964; "The
Legacy of Nehru", NY 1965; "Tales from Modern India", NY 1966; "Stories
from India", UK 1971; "Maharaja
Suraj Mal (1707-63)", UK 1981; "Curtain Raisers", Delhi 1984; "Profiles
& Letters", Delhi 1997; "The Magnificent Maharaja Bhupinder
Singh of Patiala",
Delhi 1997; "Heart to Heart", Delhi 2003; and has issue.
- Jagat Singh, born 1973, M.L.A. from
Rajasthan from the Congress
Party, All India Youth Congress General Secretary, married October
1993,
Natasha Masiri, born 1971, died 17th March 2002 in New Delhi, and has
issue,
2 children, a boy and a girl.
- Ritu Singh, born 1975, fashion
designer,
died unmarried 9th
May 2002, cremated 10th May at the Lodhi Road crematorium in New Delhi.
- Maharajkumari Roopinder Kaur, born 1940, married Major K.
S. Dhillon of
the Hodsons Horse.
- Capt. HH Maharajadhiraj Shri AMARINDER SINGH (see above)
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