PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded
around
1100AD, Jubbal State lies east of Simla between Sirmur and
Rampur-Bushahr. Rawingarh and Dhadi were the tributaries
of this state. The state forests are among the best and
most valuable of the kind in India and were worked
departmentally during the reign of Raja Rana Bhagat Chand.
Occupied by Nepal 1803/1815 and by the British 1832/1840.
The state ranked 22nd in the Panjab Darbar (1890). The
Rana maintains a military force of 50 infantry (in 1892).
Rulers were...
- Rana UGRAN CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal ca1519/1527, married and had issue. He
died 1527.
- Rana Karan Chand (qv)
- Mian Duni Chand, he was granted the jagir of
Rawingarh.
- Mian Mool Singh, he was granted the jagir of
Sairi.
- Rana KARAN CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1527/1558, born ca1499, married and had
issue. He died 1558.
- Rana AMAR CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1558/1575, born ca1529, married and had
issue. He died 1575.
- Rana AMBOO CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1575/1616, born ca1553, married and had
issue. He died 1616.
- Rana KIRTI CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1616/1629, born ca1568, married and had
issue, four sons. He died in 1629.
- Rana Bhag Chand (qv)
- Mian Ganesh Chand of Kanar.
- Mian Hem Singh
- Mian Jalap Singh, Thakur Sahib of Kolhara, married
and had issue, three sons, whose descendents live in
Village Sillori, Pargana Peontra, Chopal, in
southern Jubbal State.
- Kanwar Balibhadra Singh, Thakur Sahib of Kolhara
- Kanwar Sudama Singh of Peontra and Silori.
- Kanwar Nerodh Singh
- Rana BHAG CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1629/1676, born 1585, he was captured
by the Raja of Garhwal, and was a prisoner for several
years in that state. His youngest brother, Rajkumar
Jalap Singh, took over a part of Jubbal State known as
Kolhara and became independent of Jubbal at Kohlara.
He became the Thakur Sahib of Kohlara, which was a
part of northern Jubbal State. When the exiled Bhag
Chand returned to Jubbal, Jalap Singh was forced to
flee to Sirmur and died in prison in Nahan. On the
return of Rana Bhag Chand to Jubbal after many years,
his subjects would not believe he was their ruler,
since he was very good in archery, he performed some
feats which convinced his people that he was indeed
their real Rana! He married and had issue and died in
1676 aged 91.
- Rana Narain Chand (qv)
- Mian Kishen Chand
- Mian Gogar Singh
- Rana NARAIN CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1676/1680, born 1615, married and had
issue. He died 1680.
- Rana Tarem Chand (qv)
- Mian Deep Chand
- Rana TAREM CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1680/1681, married and had issue. He
died 1681.
- Rana Roop Chand (qv)
- Rana Tegh Chand (qv)
- Rana ROOP CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1681/1690, died sp 1690.
- Rana TEGH CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1690/1699, married and had issue.
- Rana GOHAR CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1699/1720, born 1660's, married and had
issue. He died 1720.
- Rana Narpat Chand (qv)
- Mian Karam Chand, married and had issue.
- Kanwar Jalgir Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Mau Singh of Kalonta, married and had
issue.
- Kanwar Jwala Singh, married and had issue.
- Kanwar Jogi Ram, married and had issue.
- Kanwar Rai Singh
- Kanwar Madan Singh, married Kanwarani
Manki Dei, daughter of Kanwar Mollu Ram of
Bherog in Tharoch,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Jatinder Singh, married Kanwarani
Champa Devi, daughter of Kanwar Mohan
Singh of Kumharsain,
and has issue.
- Kanwar Nar Singh, married 1stly, Kanwarani
Jantu Dei, daughter of Kanwar Mollu Ram of
Bherog in Tharoch,
married 2ndly, Kanwarani Jaku Dei, and had
issue.
- Kumari Subhadra Devi, married Kanwar
Kanah Singh of Ghund,
and has issue.
- Kumari Dipti Kumari, maried Kanwar
Devinder Singh of Dhami, and
has issue.
- Kanwar Bhim Singh, married Kanwarani
Dharam Dei, daughter of Kanwar Mollu Ram of
Bherog in Tharoch,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Ranjit Singh, married Kanwarani
Kamla Devi, daughter of Kanwar Ramanand
Singh of Dhadi,
and his wife, Kanwarani Surtu Devi, and
has issue.
- Kumari Amita Kumari, married Kanwar
Devinder Singh of Dhadi, and
has issue.
- Kumari Shakuntala Devi, married Kanwar
Balbir Singh of Kumharsain,
and has issue.
- Kumari Bindra Devi, married Kanwar Sar
Singh of Darkoti,
and has issue.
- Kanwar Dhamia Singh, married and had issue.
- Kanwar Sadh Singh, marrried and had issue.
- Kanwar Surjan Singh, married Kanwarani
Govinda Devi of Ghund,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Sawan Singh, married Kanwarani
Vidhya Devi, daughter of Mian Bhagwan
Singh from Badshal in Bashahr, and had
issue.
- Kumari Manorama Dei, married Kanwar
Parmodh Singh of Rawingarh,
and has issue.
- Kumari Shankri Dei, married 1924, Kanwar
Mahinder Singh of Tharoch.
She died sp in 1945.
- Kumari Gopi Dei, married Kanwar Gyan
Singh of Kiar in Darkoti,
and has issue.
- Kanwar Durga Singh, married two Kumaris of
Tharoch, and had issue.
- Kanwar Chatter Singh, married Kanwarani
Murtoo Devi, daughter of Kanwar Ram Singh
of Roopa in Ghund,
and his wife, Kanwarani Kasho Devi, and
had issue.
- Kanwar Govind Singh, married Kanwarani
Santosh Devi of Samba, and has issue.
- Kumari Nirmala Devi [Rani Nirmala Devi
of Kuthar], married Rana Arun Chand of Kuthar,
and has issue.
- Kumaru Surtu Dei, married Kanwar Sher
Singh of Ghund,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Jagat Singh, married and had
issue.
- Kanwar Budhi Singh of Kiri-Nerwa, married
and had issue.
- Kanwar Bahadur Singh, married Kumari
Brami Devi, daughter of Kanwar Ram Nand
Singh of Dhadi,
and his wife, Kanwarani Surtu Devi, and
had issue.
- Kanwar Surender Singh, married
Kanwarani Sheela Devi, daughter of
Kanwar Sohan Singh of Ratesh,
and his wife, Kanwarani Shanti Devi of Ghund, and
has issue.
- Kumari Padma Devi, married Kanwar Jai
Singh of Tharoch.
- Kanwar Bhupinder Singh, married
Kanwarani Gopi Devi, daughter of Kanwar
Ram Nand Singh of Dhadi, and
his wife, Kanwarani Surtu Devi, and has
issue.
- Kumari Attam Devi, married Rana Raghunath
Singh of Darkoti,
and had issue.
- Kunwar Manga Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Dharam Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Hari Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Gulab Singh, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Surat Singh, married and had
issue.
- Kanwar Krishen Singh, married and had
issue.
- Kumari Digsha Dei, married Capt.
Kanwar Bhavender Singh of Koti.
- Kanwar Ishwari Singh
- Kanwar Lokinder Singh, married
Kanwarani Saroj Bala, daughter of Kunwar
Sohan Singh of Dhadi, and
had issue.
- Kanwar Mayank Singh
- Kanwar Bhanu Rattan Singh
- Kumari Leela Kanwar, married Kanwar
Madan Singh of Darkoti,
and has issue.
- Kumari Surti Devi, married Kanwar Shiv
Singh of Ghund,
and had issue.
- Rana NARPAT CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1720/1738, born 1680, married and had
issue. He died 1738.
- Rana Yog Chand (qv)
- Mian Atal Singh
- Rana YOG CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1738/1758, born 1712, married and had
issue. He died 1758.
- Rana Hukam Chand (qv)
- Rana Paras Chand (qv)
- Mian Khinchir Singh, he attempted to seize power
in Jubbal in 1773, but was defeated and exiled. He
died in Sirmur.
- Mian Tharu Singh
- Mian Mimtu Singh
- Rana HUKAM CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1768/1773, born 1740, died sp
1773
- Rana PARAS CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1773/1802, born 1753 at Jubbal, married
and had issue. He died 1802.
- Mian Rasbal Singh, died young vpsp.
- Rana Puran Chand (qv)
- Rana PURAN CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1802/1839 (abdicated), born 1772,
confirmed in his state by a sanad dated 18th
November 1815, abdicated in favour of the British
Government who appointed a Tahsildar to
administer the state on their behalf, married 1stly, a
Rani from Rawingarh, married 2ndly, a Rani from Theog,
married 3rdly, a Rani from Kumharsain, died after
1854, and had issue. He died 1843.
- Rana Karam Chand (by Rawingarh lady) (qv)
 Rana KARAM CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1839/1877, born 1835, he was granted
full ruling powers in 1854, married seven wives,
including Ranis from Mangal, Koti and Dhami, and had
issue. He died 17th March 1877 at Chopal in Southern
Jubbal.
- Rana Padam Chand (qv)
- Rajkumar Gambhir Chand, born 1864, he was granted
the jagir of Deortha worth 2,000Rs in value, married
twice, including a Kumari from Koti, and had issue,
four sons and four daughters. He died 14th December
1924?.
- Kanwar Shamsher Singh, born in 1884.
- Kanwar Shiv Singh, born in 1886.
- HH Maharani Brinda Devi [née Kumari
Brinda Devi] (by the 2nd wife, from Koti in H.P.),
born 11th January 1892, married Tikka Raja
Paramjit Singh [later HH Maharaja Paramjit Singh
of Kapurthala],
and had issue. She died May 1962 at Woodville
Palace, Simla.
- Kanwar Mahinder Singh, born 1893, died July 1977
in Simla.
- Kumari Bhawani Devi, born 1898, married the Raja
of Tajpur, now in District Bijnor in U.P., and had
issue. She died 1970.
- Kumari Madhwi Devi [later Rani Madhwi Devi],
born 1899, married the Darbar Shri Ala Vajsur
Khachar of Jasdan, and
had issue. She died 1998 in New Delhi.
- Lt.-Col. Kanwar Rajinder Singh, born 1900,
married Kanwarani Bindurani, daughter of Shri
Jodha Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal,
and had issue. He died January 1996 in New Delhi.
- Rani Vidya Devi, born October 1942, married
October 1983, Maharaj Jai Singhji, Raja Saheb of
Jhalai (see also Jaipur).
- Kumari Shree Devi, born 1947, married 1stly
(div.), Mr. Arun Somdutt of Kolkatta, married
2ndly, Sardar Tejinder Singh of New Delhi, and
has issue, by 1st marriage.
- Vivaan Somdutt, born in
1984.
- Kumari Kamala Devi, born 1901, married Major
General Thakur Sheo Dutt Singh, a Rajput from
Bikaner in Rajasthan. She died in 1959.
- Kumari (name unknown), married 1873, Raja
Narendra Chand of Nadaun,
now in District Hamirpur in H.P.
- Rana PADAM CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1877/1898, born 1862, succeeded 17th
March 1877 (#1),
married, 1stly, a daughter of Thakur Pritam Singh,
Thakur of Delath,
married 2ndly, a Princess from the Katoch family of
Dehra Gopipur in Nurpur, Kangra, H.P., married 3rdly,
a Princess from Rawingarh in District Shimla, married
4thly, 1887, a Princess from Sairi in District Shimla,
and had issue, eleven sons. He died 1898 in Jubbal.
- Rajkumar Bharat Chand, born 1880, died 1883.
- Rajkumar Sudhar Chand, died 1886.
- Rajkumar Pratap Chand, died 1887.
- Rajkumar Uday Chand, died 1890.
- Rana Gyan Chand (qv)
- Raja Rana Sir Bhagat Chand Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumar Ishwari Singh, Thakur of Basa-Nerwa, born
2nd September 1890, he was granted the jagir of
Basa-Nerwa, married to a Rajput lady (name not
known) from Badyar in Himachal Pradesh and had
issue, two sons. He died 1936.
- Kanwar Raghubir Singh, born 1916, he contested
the Vidhan Sabha election from Chopal in 1957 on a
Congress ticket and lost to an independent
candidate. He died in 1958.
- Kanwar Bhawani Singh, born 1919, married Raj
Kumari Krishna Kumari, daughter of Rana Jai Singh,
Rana Sahib of Dhadi,
and had issue, three sons. He died in 1998.
- Kanwar Surinder Singh,
born 1953, married 1975, Kanwar Rani Snehlata
Kumari, daughter of Rana Krishen Chand of Khaneti
State, elected as a Zila Parishad member
from the Nerwa Ward in Chopal Constituency in
District Shimla in December 2005, and has issue,
three daughters.
- Kumari Ruchi Kumari, married Kunwar Sangram
Singh Katoch, son of Shri A. K. Katoch D.I.G.
of Indora Kangra, and has issue.
- Shauryaveer Singh Katoch, born 28th
July 2005.
- Venus Kumari, born 31st January
2008.
- Kumari Ambika Kumari
- Kumari Aditi Kumari
- Kanwar Uday Singh, born 2nd February 1957,
married Kumari Kalpana Kumari, born in September
1965, fifth daughter of Kunwar Murat Singh of Tharoch, and has
issue, two sons.
- Dushyant Singh, born 10th May 1983 in Dehra
Dun, Uttaranchal; educated in Tharoch and at
Delhi University.
- Sidharth Singh, born 27th July 1985,
educated at Nerwa and in Simla.
- Kanwar Kuldeep Singh, born 1962, married
Kumari Rajeshwari Kumari of Khaneti, and has
issue, two sons.
- Drishtant Singh, born 1988 at Jubbal.
- Abhinav Singh, born 1993 at Nerwa.
- Rajkumar Nigham Singh, born 1891, died sp
in 1917.
- Rajkumar Lakshmi Singh, born 1893, died 7th April
1894.
- Rajkumar Kishan Singh, born 16th January 1897,
married 1stly, a Rajput lady from Kunihar in
District Solan, married 2ndly, Kanwarani Dharamwati,
daughter of Kanwar Hira Singh of Chamba, and had
issue, four children, three daughters and a son. He
died 24th April 1974.
- Kumari Ramawati Kumari, married Thakur Pratap
Singh of Ghund in
Simla, and had issue, four children. She died 24th
April 1974.
- Kumari Kamla Kumari, born 1932, married 1951,
Mian Avtar Singh Mankotia, second son of Mian
Dalip Singh of Mankot,
and has issue, two sons.
- Kumari Lalita Kumari, born 1934, married Apji
Girdhar Singh of Kotah, son of Apji Chattar Singh
of Kotah, ADC to Her Highness the Rajmata Sahiba
of Kotah, and has issue, two children, a son and a
daughter.
- Vijay Singh, born 1957,
married to a Rajput lady from Sahibabad in
U.P.
- Kalpna Kumari, born 1958,
married 28th May 1987 to Kuldeep Singh, son of
Kanwar Narbir Singh of Sirmur State.
- Kanwar Bhopal Singh, born 1st February 1935 in
Jubbal, married Kumari Urmilla Devi, daughter of
Lieutenant Thakur Nand Singh, (ADC to H.H. The
Maharaja of Jhalawar), born on 13th April 1940 at
Jhalawar, and had issue, three children. He died
1st June 2000.
- Kumari Rajeshwari Devi, born 5th December 1961
at Jubbal, married 28th November 1983, Thakur
Chetan Singh of Narsinghgarh in M.P., and has
issue, two children.
- Yaksht Pratap Singh, born
10th April 1985 at Vidisha in M.P.
- Kumari Deepshika Kumari,
born 1987.
- Harshvardhan Singh, born 8th February 1963 at
Jhalawar, married May 1992, Kumari Gita Devi,
daughter of Thakur Roop Singh of Sirmur, and has
issue, two children.
- Suryavardhan Singh, born 1st September 1994
in Jubbal.
- Kumari Vaishali Kumari, born 26th December
1996 in Jubbal.
- Kumari Nirupama Kumari, born 8th March 1965 at
Jagir Kerag in Chopal in Southern Jubbal,
married Tikka Kirti Chand of Theog, and has
issue, two children, a son and a daughter.
- Rajkumar Durga Singh, born 15th July 1897, when
Rana Gyan Chand of Jubbal died in 1910,
without having any children, his mother claimed the
throne for Rajkumar Durga Singh on the grounds that
she was the senior most Rajmata of Jubbal State and
that her second son, Rajkumar Durga Singh, should be
made the ruler of Jubbal as he was the full brother
of Rana Gyan Chand. She filed a case at the High
Court of Calcutta in Bengal (there was no Supreme
Court in India in those days) and even went there
herself to Calcutta, which was nearly 2,000
kilometers away, (there were no aeroplanes then and
Calcutta was the capital of India in 1910). However,
the judgement went in favour of Rana Bhagat Chand,
as in the eyes of the British Government, all legal
wives of the ruler were of equal rank, and the
throne would pass to the next elder son, regardless
of whether he was a full or step brother of the
deceased ruler. He married four wives, the first two
were from Dhami State, the third was from Bhajji
State and the fourth, Kumari Mangla Devi, died 2000,
also from Dhami, and
had issue, fourteen children.
- Kanwar Bhupinder Singh, born 23rd July 1923 at
Jubbal, married October 1950, Kumari Chandra
Prabha Devi, daughter of Kanwar Gopal Singh of Baghat, and his
wife, Kanwarani Devwati, and had issue, two
daughters. He died 13th June 2000 in Solan,
Himachal Pradesh.
- Kumari Lata Kumari, born 1952, married 1972,
Kunwar Uma Pratap Singh of Isenagarh in Uttar
Pradesh, killed in an automobile accident in
1991, and has issue, two sons.
- Divya Singh, born 2nd March 1975.
- Rudra Pratap Singh, born November
1979.
- Kumari Sunita Kumari, born 27th January 1966,
married Mian Parmindar Singh of Nalagarh,
District Solan, and has issue, one daughter.
- Kumari Vedpriya Kumari, born 1924, married
Maharaj Shri Umrao Singhji of Thikana Indergarh in
Kotah, Rajasthan, and had issue, one daughter. She
died in 1998.
- Kanwar Jagdish Singh, born 1926, died unmarried
22nd June 1983.
- Kumari Tejwati Kumari, born 1926, married Thakur
Salam Singh of Bikaner, Rajasthan.
- Kanwar Bhairav Singh (by the second wife), born
December 1935, married 1966, Kumari Shakuntala
Devi, daughter of Kanwar Mohan Singh of Kumharsain, and
had issue, two sons and a daughter. He died 12th
June 1986.
- Sagar Singh, born 1968, married 26th April
2001 at Simla, Kumari Jayanti Devi, daughter of
Mian Mahinder Singh of Kumharsain,
and his wife, Kanwarani Krishna Devi, and has
issue, one daughter.
- Dharmender Singh, born 1970.
- Kumari Raj Rajeshwari Kumari, born 1973,
married Surinder Singh of Shivan, and has issue,
a daughter and a son.
- Kumari Shruti Kunwar.
- (name
unknown) Singh
- Kanwar Rajender Singh (by the third wife),
married 1971. He died in a car accident in 1971,
having been married for only 10 days.
- Kanwar Birendra Singh (by third wife), married
Kumari Sheila Devi, daughter of Mian Sher Singh of
Tharoch, and had
issue, two sons and a daughter. He died in 1997.
- Kumari Pushpa Devi
- Kamlesh Singh, married Kumari Nimya Devi,
daughter of Thakur Roop Singh.
- Rajendra Singh, married Kumari Usha Devi of
Sirmur.
- Kumari Santosh Kumari
- Kumari Maheshwari Kumari, married Mian Vikram
Singh of Khaneti.
- Kumari Bhagyawati Kumari, married Thakur Shakti
Mohan Singh, a Rajput gentleman from Uttar
Pradesh.
- Kanwar Homendra Singh (Prince Jathu) (by the
fourth wife), born 1938, a Forest and Public Works
Department contractor and contested several
Panchayat elections successfully, married
Kanwarani Gyan Devi of Tharoch, died 1st
May 2008 at Dehra Dun, and had issue, six
children, four daughters and two sons. He died
1984.
- Kumari Radha Kumari, married in Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal, Kanwar Raghvinder Singh from
Banjara, and has issue, three daughters.
- Kumari Anita Kumari,
married Rajkumar Ravinder Singh of Dhadi, born 1958,
and has issue, two sons.
- Kumari Ranjana Kumari (third daughter),
married Tikka Sahib (later Rana) Hemendra Singh
of Kotkhai, and
had issue.
- Kumari Rekha Kumari, married Kanwar Narender
Singh of Bhajji.
- Yudhvir Singh, born 1969, married Kumari Kusam
Kumari, daughter of Thakur Devinder Chand of Madhan, and his
second wife, Thakurani Leelawati Devi, and has
issue, one son and one daughter.
- Shubhan Singh, born 1996,
- Kumari Kritika Kumari, born 1997.
- Karanvir Singh, born 1972.
- Kanwar Narendra Singh (by the fourth wife), born
1943, married Kumari Vimla Devi, daughter of Mian
Devi Singh of Tharoch,
and has issue, four children, two daughters and
two sons.
- Kumari Hemlata Devi
- Kumari Rajeshwari Devi
- Rajir Singh
- (name
unknown) Singh
- Kanwar Shamsher Singh (by the fourth wife), born
1944, married Kumari Shanti Devi, and has issue,
two sons and two daughters. He died in 1995.
- Hemant Singh
- Vinod Singh
- Kumari Ritu Devi
- Pravin Devi
- Kanwar Balbir Singh, born 1948, served in the
Indian army as a Non-Commissioned Officer, married
Kumari Krishna Kumari, daughter of Mian Lal Singh
of Tharoch, and
has issue, two sons.
- Rajkumari Indumati Devi (daughter of the Dehra
Gopipur Rani), married (as his 3rd wife) 1904, Raja
Bijey Sen of Keonthal.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) Sahiba (by the
Bhadiyar, H.P. Rani), married (as his fourth wife)
1904, Raja Bijey Sen of Keonthal. She died sp.
- Daughter3, married (as his third wife), Yuvraj
Bhagwant Singh of Orchha,
and had issue, a daughter.
- Daughter4, married Raja Bikram Singh of Baghal, now in
District Solan.
- Rajkumari Shyama Devi, married Raja Bikram Singh
of Baghal.
- Rana GYAN CHAND,
Rana of Jubbal 1898/1910, born 1887, educated at
Aitchison Chief's College, Lahore; married 1stly,
1904, sister of Raja Pratap Bikram Shah of Khairigarh-Singhai,
married 2ndly, 1904, Rani Sita Devi, died in Hardwar
in 1980, sister of Raja Pratap Bikram Shah of Khairigarh-Singhai.
He died sp on 29th April 1910.
 Raja Rana Sir BHAGAT
CHAND Bahadur K.C.S.I., Raja of Jubbal
1910/1946, born 12th October 1888 and succeeded on
29th April 1910 (#3),
Raja (Hereditary) [cr.1918], K.C.S.I. [cr.1936],
C.S.I. [cr.1928], educated at Aitchison's Chiefs
College in Lahore, Pakistan and graduated with a
diploma in 1907, Zamindar in the Dehra Dun District of
Uttaranchal, as well as owner of extensive properties
in Simla, Delhi and Jagadhri in Haryana. He attended
the Coronation Durbar of Their Imperial Majesties King
George the Fifth and Queen Mary at Delhi in 1911. He
represented the Simla Hill States in the Council of
Princes from 1921 to 1924, he was elected a Member of
the Standing Committee of the Chamber of Princes in
1939. He created an Endowment Trust Fund to make
Education and Medical Relief free and independent of
the State in memory of his late father, Rana Padam
Chand Bahadur of Jubbal State. He abolished many small
taxes in the State on the Occasion of his Silver
Jubilee in 1935. He made an extensive tour round the
world accompanied by the Rani Sahiba fom 1932 to 1934.
He abdicated from the throne on 12th October 1946, in
favour of his eldest son Tikka Digvijay Chand, after
ruling for 36 years. During his long reign, Jubbal
State made great economic progress, 18 Forest Rest
Houses were constructed in Chopal, the Southern
portion of Jubbal State and one at Deorah, the capital
of Jubbal State, which is in the Northern part of the
State. The State was one of the first Princely
Kingdoms to avail itself of electricity with the
construction of a hydro-electric plant in 1924.
Education and Medical Services were made free by him
in the State and the Raja Sahib established a college
of higher education for his subjects in Simla, married
1stly, 1912, Rani Tara Devi, died 1918, daughter of
Kanwar Mohan Singh of Keonthal,
married 2ndly, 11th May 1919, Rani Bai Shri Leila Ba
Kunverba Sahiba, born 14th February 1893 in Gondal,
died 7th March 1975 at New Delhi, daughter of HH
Maharaja Shri Sir Bhagwatsinhji Sagramsinhji Sahib of
Gondal, and his first
wife, HH Maharani Shri Nandkunverba Sahiba, and had
issue. He died on 5th October 1951 at Woodville
Palace, Simla, leaving behind an efficient and modern
state with sound finances.
- Raja Rana Digvijay Chand [Prince Digbee] (by 1st
marriage)(qv).
- Rajkumar Narbir Chand [Prince Noor] (by 1st
marriage), born 31st July 1914 at Jubbal, educated
at the Aitchison's Chiefs College, Lahore (now in
Pakistan), married 1937, Kumari Balbir Wati, a
Rajput lady from the noble family of Ramgarh, now in
Haryana, died in 2002 at Dehra Dun, and had issue,
three children. He died 13th January 1986 in Dehra
Dun, Uttaranchal.
- Kumari Kusum Devi, born in 1939, married to Mr.
Mohan Krishan Wazeer from Jammu and Kashmir and
has issue, three children.
- a son, born 25th January
1959.
- Ajay Vir Wazeer, born 13th
October 1962.
- Anupama Wazeer, born on 23rd
April 1968.
- Kanwar Yashodhar Singh, born 31st August 1942,
educated at Col. Brown's School in Dehra Dun and
later did his Bachelor's Degree from Government
College, Chandigarh. He worked as a Manager for
Solan Breweries Limited, Solan. He died unmarried
26th June 1990 in Dehra Dun.
- Capt. Kanwar Karan Vir Singh, born 30th January
1950, educated at Col. Brown's School in Dehra Dun
and did his Bachelor's Degree from Government
College for Men at Bhopal, M.P. He is a commercial
pilot with Indian Airlines, married 1stly in
February 1975 (div. 1977), Rajkumari Indra Devi,
daughter of the late Raja Chandra Chur Prasad
Singh Deo of Udaipur
in Chattisgarh, married 2ndly, 10th July 1981,
Kumari Preeti Devi, daughter of Kumar Shri
Zorawarsinhji Godji of Kutch,
and his wife, Kumar Rani Rani Pushpawali Kunwar,
and has had issue, one son by each wife.
- Siddarth Singh (by 1st wife), born 25th April
1976.
- Bhriguraj Singh (by 2nd wife), born 14th
September 1983.
- Rajkumar Lokendra Singh [Prince Lokhra] (by 1st
marriage), born 18th November 1915 in Jubbal,
educated at Aitchison's Chiefs College, Lahore (now
in Pakistan), officer in the Indian Forest Service
and was a Conservator of Forests, married 1945,
Kumari Ramneek Kumari, a Rajput lady from
Surendranagar in Gujarat (married 2ndly, 1969,
Colonel K.N. Bhalla), died 1986,
 and had issue. He died
7th June 1959 at Mandi, H.P.
- Kanwar Surinder Singh, born 20th April 1952,
educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun, and earned his
Bachelor's Degree from Hindu College, Delhi
University in 1974, married 21st April 1977,
Kumari Uma Devi, daughter of Rana Ram Chandra
Sinhji of Vana in Gujerat, born 25th January 1954.
He died sp in September 1989 at Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal.
- HH Rani Umawati Devi (by 1st marriage), born 1916,
married 18th May 1931, HH Raja Sir Anand Chand of Bilaspur, and had
issue. She died March 1961.
- Lt.-Col. Rajkumar Birendra Singh [Prince Baby]
(by 2nd marriage), born 15th May 1920 at Jubbal,
educated at the Prince of Wales Military School in
Dehra Dun, commissioned (I.C. 365) as a Second
Lieutenant from the Indian Military Academy (I.M.A.)
in Dehra Dun in December 1940, first served as an
officer in King George the Fifth's Nineteenth
Lancers (now in Pakistan), later he was in the
Rajputana Rifles, commandant of the 16th Sikhs
Regiment, he served in the Burma Campaign in the
Second World War 1939-1945 and was shot in the leg
and was sent back to India for recuperation. He was
awarded the following medals whilst in the Army:
namely, the Coronation Medal of 1937 and of 1953,
the Medal of 1939/45, the Burma, Africa and Pacific
Stars, the Defence, War and I.G.S. Medals of 1945
and the Indian Independence Medal of 1947. He
retired from the army in 1953 and lived at Woodville
Palace, Simla till his death. He was a keen hunter
in his leisure-time. He married Maharajkumari
Ourmilla Devi of Kapurthala,
[Rajkumar Rani Ourmilla Devi of Jubbal], and had
issue. He died 15th May 1961 at Simla (#2).
 Kanwar Uday Singh, born 25th
October 1949 in Saint Elizabeth's Nursing Home in
Bombay, Maharashtra, Managing Director &
C.E.O. of Woodville Palace Resorts Private
Limited, C.E.O.of Woodville Orchards (which has 54
acres and 4,000 apple trees, being near Village
Sillori in Pargana Peontra in Chopal, which is in
the southern part of Jubbal State), educated at
Chalet Nursery Day School and at Bishop Cotton
School in Simla, later in 1967, joined Hindu
College, Delhi University, graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts (History, 1970) and Master of
Arts (History, 1972), became a permanent member of
Delhi Gymkhana Club in 1972, a life member of the
National Rifle Association of India in 1974,
President of the Himachal Pradesh Karate
Association from 1983/1990, appointed President of
District Shimla Kisan (Farmers) Congress in 1991
and still holds this post, President of the
Chopal-Nerwa (part of former Jubbal State) Fruit
Grower's Association, an elected member of the
Himachal Pradesh State Congress Committee (P.C.C.)
since 1993 and still holds this post, a Director
of the H.P. State Land Use and Wasteland
Development Board, former member of the Telecom
Advisory Committee, Simla, from 1994 to 1998,
member of The Indian Heritage Hotels Association
of India since 1995, member of The All India Hotel
and Restaurants Federation of India, member of
I.T.C.Welcome Heritage (a chain which markets 40
palace hotels in India), Member of the Pacific
Asian Travel Association, (P.A.T.A.) Indian
Chapter, and also a Member of the Confederation of
Indian Industry (C.I.I.), unsuccessfully contested
the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha State
Legislature elections in October 1993 from Chopal
constituency in District Shimla on an Indian
National Congress (INC) ticket, elected to the
Bishop Cotton School Old Cottonians' Association
(Simla Chapter) for a year as executive member on
6th November 2005; President of The International
Wilderness Association; interests include
philately and numismatics, enjoys reading, surfing
the net and listening to western music of the
sixties and seventies (the Doors are a favourite
rock group, as well as the Beatles and Elvis
Presley), a collector of rare books and a keen
squash player, married 12th December 1976 at
Lucknow, U.P., Rajkumari Vibhuti Shah of Khairigarh, U.P.
[Kanwar Rani Vibhuti Singh of Jubbal], born 23rd
February 1951 at Lucknow, educated at Loreto
Convent School, Lucknow, and graduated from Loreto
Convent College, Lucknow; contested the District
Simla Zila Parishad election in December 1995 from
Kedi-Kupvi ward in Tehsil Chopal (now in Southern
Jubbal State) and defeated her opponent by a
record margin of 8,352 votes, a member for 5
years, up to December 2000, and has issue. (Woodville Palace, Raj Bhawan Road,
Simla - 171002, District Simla, H.P., India)
 Diviya Kumari, born 19th January
1979 at New Delhi, educated at Chalet Day
Nursery School and later at The Convent of Jesus
and Mary. She finished her schooling at The
Lawrence School, Sanawar, Simla Hills. She then
did her Bachelors in Business Administration
from The Indian Institute of Learning in
Management (I.I.L.M.), Lodhi Estate, New Delhi,
and passed out in 2000; initially a Director and
now an Executive Director in Woodville Palace
Resorts Private Limited, Shimla; married 8th
October 2009 at Woodville Palace, Shimla, Angad
Singh Sandhu, son of Mr. Satinder Jeet Singh
Sandhu, Chairman and Managing Director of
Shivalik Bimetal Controls Limited in Chambaghat,
District Solan - 173 213, and his wife, Mrs.
Sarita Singh Sandhu.
 Divraj Singh, born 2nd
December 1982 at Lucknow, educated at Chalet Day
Nursery School and later at The Lawrence School,
Sanawar, Simla Hills, and ended his schooling
from Bishop Cotton School, Simla, securing a
First Division; he has undertaken a course in
Hotel Management from The Merit Swiss-Asian
School of Hotel Management in Ooty, Nilgiri
Hills, Tamil Naidu State, South India and in
August 2006, achieved a first division in Hotel
Management from the University of Tamil Nadu and
is now (2006) working as a full
time Executive Director at Woodville
Palace.
- Kumari Neira Devi, born 8th December 1944 at
Portmore Sanitorium (a British hospital), educated
at Chalet Nursery Day School and at Tara Hall
Convent, passing out in 1960, later at St. Bede's
College for women (Bachelor's Degree), teacher at
Chalet Nursery Day School in Simla, Ground Hostess
in New Delhi for Air India in 1966, married 4th
April 1968, Mr.Ashok Sikand of New Delhi, born
18th October 1941, Director in Sikand and Company,
New Delhi, and Managing Director of Sikand Motors,
New Delhi, died 5th October 1983 at New Delhi, and
has issue, a daughter and a son.
- Tara Sikand, born 15th April
1972 in New Delhi, married 11th April 1993 at
New Delhi, Bir Singh Atwal, son of Sardar and
Sardarni K. S. Atwal of Punjab, born 14th
November 1967, and has issue, a
daughter.
- Miss Gayatri Singh Atwal,
born 10th December 1994 at New Delhi.
- Viraj Sikand, born 11th
September 1976 in New Delhi.
- HH Maharani Ila Devi (by 2nd marriage), born 16th
April 1923 at Jubbal, married 5th May 1940 at
Woodville Palace, Yuvaraj Harish Chandra Singh
[later HH Maharaja Rana Harisch Chandra Singhji] of
Jhalawar, and has issue.
She died 3rd February 2007 in the Sawai Man Singh
Medical College Hospital, Rajasthan.
- Raja Rana DIGVIJAY
CHAND, Raja of Jubbal 1946/1966, born 1913,
educated at the Aitchison's Chiefs College in Lahore,
now in Pakistan, Honourary A.D.C. to the President of
India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, from 1957 to 1960, held
the Honarary rank of Major in the Brigade of Guards,
married 31st January 1932, Rani Hemant Kanwar, born
13th September 1913, died 11th March 1964, daughter of
HH Shri Huzur Raja Sir Arjun Singhji Sahib Bahadur,
Raja of Narsingarh,
and his first wife, HH Rani Shiv Kunwarji, and had
issue. He died 30th December 1966.
- Maharani Devender Kumari, born 13th July 1933 in
Simla, married 21st April 1948 at Woodville Palace,
Maharaja Madaneshwar Singh Deo of Surguja, and has
issue.
- Rajkumari Rattan Kumari, born 16th August 1934 in
Jubbal, married 28th May 1954, HH Raja Virbhadra
Singh of Bashahr,
(currently the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
for a record fifth term), and had issue, four
daughters. She died 27th September 1983 in Simla.
- Tikka Dig Pal Chand, born 1935, died 10th October
1936.
- Raja Rana Yogender Chand (qv)
- Raja Rana YOGENDER
CHAND, Raja of Jubbal (see above)
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born 20th July 1937 in Jubbal, educated at
the Doon School, Dehra Doon, Uttaranchal, and passed out
in 1954. He graduated in 1958 from Hindu College, Delhi
University. He contested the H.P. Vidhan Sabha elections
from 1985 to 2003 continuously, winning three elections
and losing two. He was Spokesperson for the Himachal
Pradesh Congress Party (H.P.C.C.) from 1998 till 2000. He
is presently Vice-President of the H.P.C.C.,
Convener-Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural
Heritage, (HP); Chairman of Bhagat Chandra Educational
Society, Jubbal. Chairman of Hainault Educational Society,
Shimla; President of Dr. Y.S. Parmar Institute of
Mathematical Science, Shimla. President of State Amateur
Boxing Association since 1971; General
President, S.D. Pratinidhi Sabha, Educational Society,
1967/1977; Member of the World Life Fund. Member of the
State Bank of India, Local Board, Delhi (two terms) from
1971, and Member of Policy Holder's Council, LIC, 1967 to
1977. Elected to State Legislative Assembly in 1985 on
Indian National Congress ticket and in November in 1993 as
an Independent candidate. Returned to the House in 1998 as
a Congress Candidate. He contested the Vidhan Sabha
election again from Chopal in February 2003 on a Congress
ticket, but lost to an independent candidate. He retired
from active politics in December 2007 and resigned from
the Congress party at the same time. Interests and
pastimes include, agriculture / horticulture, education
and tourism, music, photography, reading and sports,
married 5th May 1960, Rani Sudha Kumari, daughter of Raja
Hitender Sen of Keonthal,
and has had issue, one son and four daughters.