PRESENT RULER: Thakur
KRISHAN CHAND,
succeeded to the throne on 10th August 1962 and was installed in
January
1963. (The Palace, Sainj, Tehsil Theog, District
Simla, Himachal
Pradesh, India)
born 8th August 1933 at Lady Reading Hospital, Simla; educated
in Sainj and the Butler High School, Simla; married 26th February 1952,
Kumari Vidya Devi, daughter of Mian Ranjit Singh of Koti State, born
12th
September 1933, and has issue, 4 children.
- Raj Kumari Vindeshwari Kumari, born 1st March 1953 at
Sainj, married
February
1973 at Chandigarh, Kanwar Ari Daman Singh Doad, youngest brother of
Rana
Gajender Chand of Manswal, born 1947, and has issue, a daughter,
- Kumari Gita Singh, born 1st February
1975.
- Tikka Kirti Chand, born 23rd February 1954 at Sainj;
educated at Saint
Edward's School, Simla and the DAV College at Chandigarh; married
Kumari
Nirupama Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Bhopal Singh of Jubbal,
and has issue, 2 children.
- Raj Kumar Shardul Chand, born 26th March 1997 at Lady
Reading Hospital,
Simla.
- Raj Kumari Shivani Kumari, born 20th March 1998 at the
Government
Hospital,
Jubbal.
- Raj Kumar Bhim Singh, born 19th November 1955 at
Sainj, educated
at Saint Edward's School, Simla; married 6th July 1981, Kumari
Kaushalya
Devi, daughter of Mian Sohan Singh of Ratesh State, born 30th December
1957, and has issue, 2 children.
- Kanwar Vapush Man Singh, born 16th July 1982 at the
Government
Hospital,
Theog.
- Kanwar Anshuman Singh, born 10th May 1985 at Sainj.
- Raj Kumari Veereshwari Kumari, born 8th January 1958 at
Snowdon
Hospital,
Simla; married 7th December 1978, Ravender Pal of Kutlehar,
District Una, Himachal Pradesh (son of Kanwar Shiv Pal Singh, uncle of
the present Raja Sahib of Kutlehar), born 1948, and has issue, a
daughter
and a son.
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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The
rulers share a common line of descent with the founders of Ghund and
Madhan,
who were all together sons of a Chandel Rajput of Jaipur. The state was
made subordinate to Keonthal by a sanad of September 1815.
Rulers
were....
- Rana BHUP CHAND 1847/1866, succeeded to the throne in 1847,
married and had issue, 3 children. He died 1866.
- Tikka Hari Chand, later Rana HARI CHAND (qv)
- Raj Kumar Nand Singh, born 1855, married and had issue,
one son.
- Kanwar Hira Singh, married and had issue, four sons.
- Jai Singh
- Narayan Singh
- Parmatma Singh
- Kishan Singh
- Kanwar Nitu Singh
- Rana HARI CHAND 1866/1892, succeeded to the throne in
1866, married 2 wives, and had issue, 5 children.
- Tikka Shumsher Chand, later Rana SHUMSHER CHAND (qv)
- Raj Kumar Madan Singh
- Raj Kumar Goverdhan Singh (by 2nd wife), born 1890,
married and had issue, 1 son.
- Raj Kumar Bijey Singh, born 1896, married and had
issue, 1 son.
- Raj Kumar Karam Singh, married a daughter of Kanwar
Madan Singh of Ratesh, she died in 1909.
- Rana SHUMSHER CHAND 1892/1909, born 1859, succeded in
1892, married and had issue, 3 children. He
died
1909.
- Tikka Padam Chand, later Thakur PADAM CHAND (qv)
- Daughter, married (as his first wife), Rana RAM SARAN
SINGH of Khotkhai.
- Kanwar Kharak Singh, born 1889, married a Rajput lady
from Khaneti State, and had issue, 4 children.
- Kanwar Shiv Singh
- Kanwar Kedar Singh
- Kanwar Inder Singh
- Kanwar Guman Singh, married and had issue, 6
children, 3 sons and 3 daughters.
- Kumari Tara Devi, born 10th September 1956,
married Raj Kumar Gandharva Singh, third son of Rana RAGHUNATH SINGH of
Kotkhai.
- Kumari Pushpa Devi, married 1986, Thakur VIJAY
CHAND of Beja.
- Thakur PADAM CHAND 1909/1940, born 1886, succeeded to the
throne and
was installed in 1909, married 1stly, a Kumari of Keonthal,
married 2ndly, Raj Kumari (name
unknown), daughter of the Rana Sahib of Balsan State, and had
issue, 1 son and 1 daughter by 1st wife, and 2 sons by the 2nd wife. He
died
June 1940.
- Tikka Karan Chand, later Thakur KARAN CHAND (by 1st wife)
(qv)
- Raj Kumari (name unknown)
(by 1st wife), married Rana VASHISHT CHAND of Koti
in Shimla, and had issue, 5 children.
- Raj Kumar Mohan Singh (by 2nd wife), married Kumari
Padmawati Devi, daughter of Mian Shamsher Singh of Ratesh.
- Raj Kumar Kedar Singh (by 2nd wife), married the daughter
of Kanwar Shiv Singh of Ghund, and had issue, 5 children.
- Kanwar Raghubir Singh, born 1942.
- Kumari Uma Devi, born 1944, married 1961, Mian Jitender
Singh, son of Mian Lachchman Singh of Bhajji State, and has issue, 1
son.
- Kanwar Kameshwar Singh, born 1946, married 1982, and
has issue, a son and a daughter.
- Kanwar Rajinder Singh, born 1948, married to a Kumari
of Madhan State, and has issue, 2 sons and a daughter.
- Kanwar Someshwar Singh, born in 1950, married December
1985, a Rajput lady from Madhan State, and has issue, a daughter.
- Kumari (name unknown),
born 29th May 1987.
- Thakur KARAN CHAND 1940/1962, born 30th November 1904 at
Parala, Theog;
educated privately and succeeded to the throne in December 1940, he
signed the merger treaty with the Union Government of India in 1948,
married 1stly, a Kumari from Rawin, married 2ndly, Kumari Triveni Devi,
sister of Rao Madho Singh of Suwhli estate in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh,
born 1911, died 1938, and had issue, 3 children. He died 10th August
1962 at Simla.
- Tikka Krishan Chand (later Thakur KRISHAN CHAND)(qv)
- Raj Kumari Savitri Devi, born December 1935, died
unmarried May 1977.
- Raj Kumari Shakuntla Devi, born 30th December 1937,
married 26th February 1971, Thakur Baiju Singh from Kumaon,
Uttaranchal, born 1934, and has issue, 2 children, a son
and a daughter. (New Delhi, India).
- Kunwar Siddarth Singh, born April 1973, died November
1986.
- Kumari Urvashi Devi, born 8th
September 1974 at New Delhi, married Shri Sagar Shumsher Jung Bahadur
Rana of Nepal.
- Thakur KRISHAN CHAND (see above)
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