PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in 1772, the state ranked 5th in the Punjab Darbar
(1890). The founder of the family's fortunes was Sardar
Sadhu Singh, who was an enterprising zamindar, and founded
four villages in the vicinity of Lahore. The Raja
maintains a military force of 197 cavalry, 829 infantry,
and 13 guns, and is entitled to a salute of 11 guns (as of
1892). Rulers were....
- Sardar Dewa Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Badar Singh, married a sister of Bagh Singh
Halluwalia, a minor Chief of Lahore district, and
had issue. He died 1723.
- Sardar Jassa Singh (see below)
- Sardar Sadar Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Lal Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Manna Singh
- Sardar Gurbaksh Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Kirpal Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Ladha Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Bagh Singh (see below)
- Sardar JASSA SINGH, 1st Sardar of Kapurthala
1772/1783, born 3rd May 1718 at Ahlu or Ahluwal near
Lahore, Sultan-ul-Qaum [cr.1761], leader of the
Ahluwalia misl and of the Dal Khalsa, which in 1758
proclaimed the sovereignty of the Sikhs in the Punjab,
in 1748, a general assembly of Sikhs was convened at
Amritsar which resolved to consolidate the sixty-five
roving Sikh jathds into one command called the Dal
Khalsa under Jassa Singh, its eleven subdivisions were
called misls (the twelfth misl Phulkiari traced a
separate origin), in April 1754, the
Dal Khalsa, under Jassa Singh, routed an Afghan force
from Lahore which had laid siege to Amritsar, in 1757,
he attacked the rearguard of Shahzada Taimur Shah who
was marchjing to Lahore after sacking Kanarpur, on
17th January 1761, he defeated the Marathas at
Panipat, on 17th April 1765, the Sikhs under his
command occupied Lahore, married and had issue. He
died 20th October 1783 in Amritsar and was cremated at
Burj Baba Atal Sahib.
- Bibiji (name unknown), married Sardar Mohr
Singh of Fatehabad, died 1777.
- Bibiji (name unknown), married Sardar Mirar
Singh of Tungwala, and had issue.
- generations
- Sardarni Bishen Kaur, married Rais
Sardar Basant Singh of Behra, and had issue.
- Sardar BAGH SINGH, 2nd Sardar of Kapurthala
1783/1801, born 1748, married and had issue. He died
1801.
- Sardar Fateh Singh (qv)
- Bibiji (name unknown) Sahib, married
General Sardar Rattan Singh of Behra, and had issue.
- Rais Sardar Thakur Singh, born 1812 in
Fatehabad, married and had issue.
- Rais Sardar Ranjit Singh,
married and had issue.
- Rais Sardar Basant Singh of Behra,
married Sardarni Bishen Kaur
of Tungwala (see above)
- Sardar FATEH SINGH, 3rd Sardar of Kapurthala
1801/1836, born 1784, succeeded to the Ahluwalia
chiefship in 1801, took part in almost all the early
campaigns of Maharaja Ranjit Singh - Kasur 1802/1803,
Malwa 1806/1808, Kangra 1809, Multan 1818, Kashmir
1819 and Mankera 1821. He fought in the battle of
Haidru 1813 and held command in the Bhimbar, Rajauri
and Bahawalpur expeditions, in 1806, he acted as the
plenipotentiary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and signed
the first Anglo-Sikh treaty with Lord Lake, he had
bestowed upon him the districts of Dakha, Kot,
Jagraoh, Talvandi, Naraingarh and Raipur after his
Malwa campaigns, he married and had issue. He died
October 1836 at Kapurthala.
- Raja Nihal Singh (qv)
- Kanwar Amar Singh, he conspired
to usurp the gaddi and was encouraged in his
ambition by Maharaja Ranjit Singh as well as by his
minister, Raja Dhian Singh. He died 28th March 1841
in a boat accident on the Ravi.
- Raja NIHAL SINGH, Raja of Kapurthala
1836/1852, he received the towns of Nur Mahal and
Kalal Majra; in the first Anglo-Sikh war, his
sympathies lay with the Khalsa Darbar and in spite of
treaty obligations with the British, he afforded them
little assistance, and he went so far as to fight on
the side of the Sikhs both at Baddoval and 'Alival and
for that he was penalized by the British by the
confiscation of his territories south of the Sutlej,
he was granted the title of Raja in 1849,
married and had issue. He died 13th September 1852.
- HH Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Sir Randhir Singh Bahadur
(see below)
- Kanwar Bikram Singh Bahadur (Photo),
born 1835 at Kapurthala, C.S.I. [cr.1879], Sardar
Bahadur [cr.1858], awarded the Mutiny Medal for his
part during the Indian Mutiny, by commanding a
Kapurthala contingent, present at the Imperial
Durbar in Delhi in 1877, where he was awarded the
Kaiser-i-Hind medal, Honourary Magistrate and
Honourary Assististant Commissioner for Jullundur
District in 1879, President of the Jullundur
Municipal Board, founder of the Khalsa Akhbar,
founder of the Khalsa Press in Lahore, author of
"Upma Sar Granth", founder of the Singh Sabha,
married 1stly, 16th February 1849, and had issue,
two sons and one daughter. He died 8th May 1887 at
Jullundur.
- Col. Kanwar Pratap Singh Bahadur (Photo), born 1871 at
Jullundur, K.C.S.I. [cr.1911], C.S.I. [cr.1909],
Honourary Magistrate and Civil Judge, Punjab,
Honourary ADC to the Maharaja of Kapurthala in
1893, M.L.C. Punjab 1906/1911, Member of the
Imperial Legislative Council 1910/1911, founder of
the Punjab Chiefs' Association, awarded the Delhi
Durbar Silver Medal in 1903, married and had
issue, two sons. He died 5th December 1911.
- Maj. Kanwar Jasjit Singh, born 12th April
1893, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore;
Honourary Magistrate for Jullundur District
1915/1943, commissioned as Honourary 2nd-Lt.,
ILF in 1918, attached to the 6th Duke of
Connaught's Own Lancers, served in Afghanistan
and the NWF in 1919, where he received the
Waziristan medal, promoted to Honourary
Lieutenant in 1919, Honourary Captain in 1923,
and Honourary Major in 1936, Vice-Chairman of
the Jullundur District Board, awarded the Delhi
Durbar Silver Medal in 1911, the Silver Jubilee
Medal in 1935, and the Coronation Medal in 1937,
married 1stly, daughter of the Hon. Buta Singh
of Rawalpindi, married 2ndly, daughter of the
Jagirdar of Butari in Ludhiana District, and had
issue, three sons and one daughter. He died 29th
March 1943.
- Capt. Kanwar Prithvijit Singh, born 11th May
1912, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore;
Royal Military College, Sandhurst;
commissioned as a 2nd-Lieut, IA (KCIO) in
1932, attached to the 1st Battalion, 7th
Rajput Regiment in 1934, married Bibi Surjit
Kaur, daughter of Sardar Dwarka Nath Singh,
Minister, Kapurthala State, and had adopted
issue. He died 1943 at Lucknow.
- Kanwar Shri Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh (son
of Kanwar Ranjit Singh - see below, adopted
by Kanwarani Surjit Kaur, widow of Kanwar
Prithvijit Singh), born 29th October 1946,
educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun;
Member of Parliament, India (Rajya Sabha)
1982 to 1988 and 1988 to 1994, married 8th
May 1989, Kumari Vijay Thakur (Kanwarani
Vijay Thakur Singh), Diplomat (Indian
Foreign Service), daughter of Late Justice,
Thakur Hira Singh of the Himanchal High
Court.
- Kanwar Manjit Singh, born 1918, educated at
Scindia Sardar's School, Gwalior; Hon. Lieut.
ILF (1945), married and had issue, two sons.
He died 1962.
- Kanwar Chandrajit Singh, born 25th
December 1946, Businessman.
- Kanwar Aniljit Singh, born 15th August
1950 at Jalandhar, educated at Modern
School, Jalandhar; Queen Mary College,
London (B.Sc.); Imperial College, London
(M.Sc.); Berkbeck College, London (M.Sc.);
Computer Scientist, Businessman, married 7th
November 1985 in London, Miss Padma Bisram,
daughter of Mr. Balram Bisram (Civil
Servant, UK), and has issue, one son.
- Kanwar Amarjit Singh, born 14th June
1989 in London, presently being educated
at Charterhouse School, UK.
- Kanwar Ranjit Singh, born 1922, educated at
Scindia Sardar's School, Gwalior; married and
had issue, 1 son. He died 1953.
- Kanwar Shri Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh
(adopted by Kanwarani Surjit Kaur, widow of
Kanwar Prithvijit Singh – see above), born
29th October 1946, educated at Doon
School, Dehra Dun; Member of Parliament,
India (Rajya Sabha) [3.4.1982] to [2.4.1988]
and [3.4.1988] to [2.4.1994], married 8th
May 1989, Kumari Vijay Thakur (Kanwarani
Vijay Thakur Singh), Diplomat (Indian
Foreign Service), daughter of Late Justice,
Thakur Hira Singh of the Himachal High
Court.
- Kumari Uma Devi, married Lt.-Gen. Daulat
Singh IA (KCIO), born 4th January 1911 at
Lahore, died 22nd November 1963 in a
helicopter crash at Poonch, son of Col.
Wazir ud-Daula, Rai Bahadur Dina Nath, and had
issue, three sons and one daughter.
- Jitendra Daulat Singh,
Diplomat (Indian Foreign Service),
educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; and at
Cambridge, UK; Former Indian Ambassador to
Norway, married Renuka Singh, daughter of
Brigadier Shiv Dayal Singh IA, and has
issue, one son and daughter daughter.
- Surendra Daulat Singh,
born 4th June 1942, educated at Mayo
College, Ajmer; and St Stephens College,
Delhi B.A. (Hons. in History); former
Banker (BBME, Grindlays etc.), C.E.O.
Executive Search (GKR. Daulat-Singh),
married 6th October 1967, Purnima Bawa,
daughter of late Bawa Gyan Singh of
Lahore, and has issue, one son and two
daughters.
- Vijayendra Daulat Singh,
born 13th June 1946 at Delhi, educated at
Mayo College, Ajmer; passed out at Bishop
Cotton School (Ibbetson House), Simla in
1963; St Stephens College, Delhi; Chairman
of the Institute of Technology and
Management, Gurgaon; married 16th April
1976, Hareena Singh, daughter of Late Col.
Gurbaksh Singh, and has issue, two sons
and one daughter.
- Chandrika Devi, born
19th February 1939 at Indore, educated at
Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls' Public
School, Jaipur; Lady Irwin College, New
Delhi; married 13th December 1958, Ganesh
Saran Mehra, and has issue, three sons and
one daughter.
- Kanwar Madanjit Singh, born 1898, died 1930.
- Hon. Raja Sir Daljit Singh, born 7th December
1882 at Kapurthala, educated at Aitchison College,
Lahore; K.B.E. [cr.1919], C.S.I. [cr.1911],
Honourary Magistrate for Jullundur District,
M.L.C. (Punjab) 1913/1915, Member of the Imperial
Legislative Council at Calcutta 1913/1915, Member
of the Council of State 1915/1917, Member of the
Third Council of the Lieutenant Governor of the
Punjab [14.1.1913] - [19.4.1916], Chief Minister
of Jammu and Kashmir State 1917/1921, awarded the
Delhi Durbar silver medal in 1911, married Rani
Jasbir Kaur [Lady Daljit Singh], born September
1886 at Hansa, Ludhiana, died December 1938,
daughter of Sardar Hardit Singh of Hansa, and had
issue, two sons. He died 6th November 1946.
- Rajkumar Atamjit Singh, born 1900, educated at
Aitchison College, Lahore; commissioned in 1925
as Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army, married
and had issue, one son. He died 1925.
- Kanwar Satyajit Singh, born 28th December
1922 at Jullundur, educated at Bishop Cotton
School, Shimla; and St Stephen's College,
Delhi; agriculturist and Shakespearean actor,
married Kumari Kamini Devi [Kanwarani Kamini
Satyajit Singh], born 12th April 1928, died
6th October 1999, daughter of Ishwar Das
Mahendru of Multan, and had issue, one son and
one daughter. He died 22nd November 1980 at
Lucknow.
- Kanwar Mukuljit Singh, born 6th October
1961, educated at Colvin Taluqdars' College,
Lucknow and Lucknow University; Secretary of
the Tiger Haven Society, Rifle Shooting
Champion, married 19th October 1996, Kumari
Pragya Devi, [Kanwarani Pragya Singh],
daughter of Colonel Ranbir Singh
Chouhan, and has issue, one son.
- Samarjit Singh, born 1997.
- Kumari Bani Kaur, born 14th September
1965, married 29th November 1987, Harjit
Singh Ahuja, C.E.O. Forbes, Mumbai; son of
Brigadier Gurdial Singh Ahuja, and has
issue, two daughters.
- Anahita Kaur Ahuja,
born 1989.
- Anandita Kaur Ahuja,
born 1991.
- Raja Padamjit Singh, born 1909, educated at
Bishop Cotton School, Shimla; and
Aitchison College, Lahore; married Padma
[Kunwarani Padamjit Singh], daughter of Sardar
Bahadur Kishan Singh Rais of Fatehabad, and had
issue, three daughters. He died 9th January
1971.
- Rajkumari Lalita Kumari, born 1932, educated
at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla; and
at St Bedes College, Shimla; married Lt.-Gen.
Inderjit Khanna, served in the Indian Army
(4th Guards), and has issue, two daughters.
- Kumari Ilika Nandini,
born 1961, married Sardar Jagdeep Singh
Mann, son of Sardar Charanjiv Singh Mann
of Kot Shera.
- Kumari Shailaja Nandini,
born 1964.
- Rajkumari Anita Singh, born 1939, educated
at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla; and
at St Bedes College, Shimla; founder of the
Indian Music Society, Member of the Kapurthala
Heritage Trust, Member of the Governing
Council of the Punjabi Academy for the
Government of Delhi, Member of the Governing
Council of the National Media Centre, Member
of the Governing Council of the Punjab Sangeet
Natak Academy, Advisor on Culture and Heritage
in the Government of Punjab, married (div.)
Colonel Jitinder Chaudhary, and has issue, a
daughter.
- Kumari Haripriya, born
27th August 1964, married Sardar Govind
Singh Mann, son of Sardar Brijendra Pal
Singh Mann of Manawala, Agriculturist, and
has issue, three sons.
- Rajkumari Rama Singh, born 1941, educated at
the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla; and at
St Bedes College, Shimla; married Mohindar
Puri, President of the Punjab, Haryana and
Delhi Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
President of Mohindar Puri and Co., and had
issue, one son.
- Ambuj Puri, born 1980,
died 1992 at Shimla.
- Kumari (name unknown) (elder daughter),
married Sardar Amar Singh of Patiala, and had
issue, four daughters.
- Kumari (name unknown) (younger daughter),
married Sardar Devinder Singh of Gurdasar, and had
issue, two sons and one daughter.
- Sardar Brijnandan Singh
- Sardar Prithinandan Singh,
Inspector General of Police Kashmir (retd.)
- Bibi Sukhnandan Kaur,
married Dr. P. C. Hoon of the Doon School
Dehra Dun, and had issue, three sons and one
daughter.
- Kanwar Suchet Singh, born 1837, married 1stly, 5th
February 1852, and had issue. He died 1901.
- The Hon. Raja Sardar Charanjit Singh, born 1883,
Raja [cr.1932], married and had issue. He died
1970.
- Rajkumar Ajit Singh, born 18th April 1901,
educated at Harrow 1915/1918.
- Rajkumar Sarabjit Singh, born 3rd August 1902,
educated at Eton College, married and had issue.
-
Kumari Devika Sarabjit Singh, married
H.E. Ambassador J. N. Dhamija, died 1999,
and has issue, two sons.
-
Dinesh Dhamija, born 1950,
educated at King's School, Canterbury
and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge;
married Tani Malhotra, and has issue,
two sons.
-
Biren Dhamija, educated at
Harrow and London University.
-
Darun Dhamija, educated at
Harrow and London University.
-
Sumant Dhamija, born 1952,
educated at King's School, Canterbury
and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge;
married Iqrup Singh, and has issue, one
daughter.
-
Ritika Aiysha Dhamija, born
1984, educated at Oxford University
(2004)
-
Udai Dhamija, born April 1998,
presently studying at Eton College
2003/-
- Lt.-Col. Rajkumar Ripjit Singh, born about
1907, married Rajkumar Rani Naina Devi (Nilina
Sen), died November 1993 aged 76, grand daughter
of Maharishi Keshub Chandra Sen (see Sen family), and
had issue. He died 1949.
- Kumari Nilika Ripjitsingh
- Kanwar Karanjit Singh
- Kumari Reena Ripjitsingh
- Kanwar Ratanjit Singh, married Kanwarani
Pronoti Devi, daughter of Sailen Prasad
Barooah, an aristrocrat from the foremost and
renowned family of Assam (Jorhat), and has
issue.
- (name unknown) Singh, married the
daughter of Kanwar Akshob Singh of Kashipur.
- Kumari Pamela Devi [Kunwarani Pamela Prasada
of Shahjehanpur], born 1916, married Kunwar
Jyoti Prasada, Zamindar of Shahjehanpur,
and had issue. She died 2002.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Sardar Diwan
Singh of Makandpur (Nikandpur), and had issue. She
died 1845.
- HH Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Sir RANDHIR SINGH Bahadur,
Raja of Kapurthala 1852/1870, G.C.S.I. [1864], born in
March 1831, he was granted the title of Raja-Rajgan in
1862; married 1stly, 21st February 1848, Rani (name
unknown), died 1853, married 2ndly, Rani (name
unknown), died 1857, married 3rdly, Rani (name
unknown), born 1846, and had issue. He died 2nd
April 1870 at Aden.
- HH Raja-i-Rajgan Kharak Singh Bahadur (by 1st
wife)(see below)
- Hon. Raja Sir Harnam Singh (by 1st wife), born
15th November 1851, K.C.I.E. [cr.1899], C.I.E.
[cr.1885], Raja (for personal use only) [cr.1907],
made hereditary in 1911; managed the Kapurthala
Estates in Oudh for 18 years; Member of Council of
Governor-General of India and of Legislative Council
of Punjab 1900/1902; Member of the Hemp Drugs
Commission 1893/94; Honourary Life Secretary of the
British India Association of Taluqdars of Oudh;
Fellow of Punjab University; Member of Council of
State for India; President of the National
Missionary Society of India; he was awarded the
Delhi Durbar Silver Medals in 1903 and 1911; married
1875, Kanwar Rani Sahiba, and had issue, seven sons
and one daughter. He died 20th May 1930.
- Rajkumar Raghbir Singh, born 1876, educated at
Harrow 1890/1894.
- Raja Sir Maharaj Singh, born 17th May 1878 in
Kapurthala, C.I.E. [cr.1915], Kt. [cr.1933],
C.St.J. [cr.1937]; Governor of Bombay 1948/1952;
educated at Harrow 1891/1896 and at Balliol
College, Oxford (B.A. 1900, M.A. 1910); called to
the Bar Middle Temple 1902; appointed Deputy
Collector, United Provinces, India 1904; Assistant
Registrar, Co-operative Credit Societies 1908
(Officiating Registrar 1909/10); Assistant
Secretary, Department of Education 1911; Senior
Assistant Secretary 1915; Magistrate and Collector
1917; Secretary to Government of United Provinces
1919; Deputy Secretary to Government of India
1920; Deputy Commissioner United Provinces 192;
Chief Minister of Jodhpur State 1931; Agent to
Government of India in South Africa 1932; Member
of the Executive Council in UP 1935/1937;
Chancellor of Lucknow University 1941; briefly
Prime Minister of Kashmir; he was awarded the King
George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935, the King
George VI Coronation Medal in 1937 and the Indian
Independence Medal in 1947; in cricket he is noted
for being both the oldest cricketer to make his
first class debut and the oldest player to play
the first class game (aged 72); married February
1918, Rani Gunwati Maya Das, and had issue, two
sons and one daughter. He died 6th June 1959 in
Lucknow (#2).
- Raja Ranbir Singh, born 11th June 1919,
educated at Bishops School in South Africa and
Balliol College, Oxford. A diplomat for the
Indian government serving as a Charge D’Affaires
in Tokyo, Cairo, The Hague and Dublin, married
22nd April 1967, Catherine Auriole Lycett Green,
born 23rd April 1935, daughter of daughter of
Commander David Cecil Lycett Green, and his
first wife, Angela Courage, and had issue. He
died June 1996 in New Delhi.
- Raja Jai Singh, educated at Harrow School
1965/1970, living in Florida, USA .
- Rajkumar Pratap Singh, educated at Harrow
School 1968/1972, living in Bath, England,
married and has issue, one son and one
daughter.
- Rajkumari Xenia Ranbirsingh, engaged January
2005 to the Hon. Thomas Philip Watson, born
1958, son of the late 3rd Baron Manton and of
Mary Baroness Manton (#1).
- Rajkumari Prem Kaur, living in Lucknow, India,
married and has issue.
- Rajkumar Mahindar Singh, married and had
issue. He died 15th August 2004 in Chandigarh.
- Kumari Nihar Kaur (Nihar Das), married 1992,
Proshant Das, and has issue, two sons. (Chandigarh,
India)
- Rajkumar Shamsher Singh, born 1879.
- Rajkumar Rajinder Singh, born 1881, died 1882.
- Rajkumar Inderjit Singh, born 1883.
- Rajkumar Jasbir Singh, born 1885, married and
had issue.
- Lt. Kunwar Arjan Singh [Billy], a well known
conservationist, born 15th August 1917 in
Gorakhpur, he was commissioned as a Second
Lieutenant in the British Indian Army and fought
in WWII, retiring in 1946 as a Lieutenant, on
his return to India he purchased a farm on the
edge of Dudhwa National Park; he has been
honoured with a number of awards for his
conservation efforts, including the Padma
Shri (1995), World Wildlife gold medal
(1996), the Order of the Golden Ark (1997), and
the lifetime award for tiger conservation
(1999), the 28th J. Paul Getty Wildlife
Conservation Prize (2005) in "recognition of
his outstanding contributions to the
protection of tigers and the Dudhwa reserve",
and the Padma Bhushan (2006); Author of
(amongst others), Tara: The Tigress
(1981), The Legend of the Man-Eater
(1993), Tiger Haven (1998), Prince
of Cats (2001) and Watching India's
Wildlife (2004). He died February 2010.
- Kunwar Balram Singh (+), married Kanwarani
Mira (+)
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur D.St.J., a politician and
social activist, born 2nd February 1889 in
Lucknow, educated at Sherborne School for Girls in
Dorset, England, and at Oxford University,
England; Member of the Lok Sabha 1952/1957; Union
Minister of Health 1947/1957; Union Minister of
Health and Communications 1951/1952; Member of the
Rajya Sabha 1957/1964; Secretary to Mahatma Gandhi
for 16 years; served as the Chairperson of the All
India Women’s Education Fund Association; member
of the Executive Committee of Lady Irwin College
in New Delhi; member of the Board of Trustees of
the All India Spinners’ Association; she helped
establish the All India Institute of Medical
Sciences in New Delhi, and became its first
president; member of the Indian delegation to
UNESCO conferences in London in 1945 and Paris in
1946; President of the World Health Assembly 1950
and the International Red Cross Conference, New
Delhi 1957; Founder-Member and Chairman, Managing
Body of Indian Red Cross Society for fourteen
years; she founded the Tuberculosis Association of
India and the Central Leprosy Teaching and
Research Institute in Madras; she also founded the
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing and the
National Sports Club of India; President of the
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the
Tuberculosis Association of India, and the St.
John’s Ambulance Corps till her death; she was
awarded the Rene Sand Memorial Award. She died
unmarried, 10th February 1964.
- Kumari (name unknown) (by 1st wife), born
1850, married 1863, Sardar Buta Singh Sirnanwi.
- Rajkumar (name unknown) (by 2nd wife), died
aged 2 months.
- Rajkumari Melvina (by 3rd wife), born about 1860.
- Rajkumari Helen (by 3rd wife), born about 1864.
- HH Raja-i-Rajgan KHARAK SINGH Bahadur, Raja
of Kapurthala 1870/1877, born August 1849, installed
on the gaddi
on 12th May 1870, married and had issue. He died 5th
September 1877.
- Col. HH Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad
Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Sir
Jagatjit Singh Sahib Bahadur (qv)
 Col. HH
Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad Daulat-i-Inglishia
Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Sir JAGATJIT SINGH Sahib
Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala 1877/1949, born
in September 1872 (#5) or
24th November 1872 (#3),
assumed full ruling powers in November 1890, K.C.S.I.
[cr.1897], G.C.S.I. [cr.1911], G.C.I.E. [cr.1921],
G.B.E. [cr.1927], Maharaja [cr.1911], awarded a salute
of 13 guns (15 guns personal), Honorary Colonel of the
45th (Rattreys' Sikhs) in the Indian Army, and was
promoted to be a Brigadier early in 1943, awarded the
Grand Cross of Legion of Honour of France [1924],
Grand Cordon of of Order of the Nile, and Grand Cross
of Orders of Cuba, Chile, Peru and Morocco,
Representative of the League of Nations Assembly in
1926, 1927 and 1929, appointed Up-Rajpramukh of PEPSU,
married 1stly, 16th April 1886 (#3),
HH Maharani Harbans Kaur, daughter of Mian Ranjit
Singh Guleria of Poprola, married 2ndly, a Princess of
a Katoch Rajput family from Kangra, married 3rdly, a
Princess of a Rajput family from Bushahr, died sp
1959 in Kapurthala, married 4thly, Rani Kanari,
married 5thly, 28th January 1908 (div.), Maharani Prem
Kaur [née Anita Delgado], born 1890 in Malaga,
Spain, died 7th July 1962, married 6thly, 1942,
Maharani Tara Devi [née Evgeniya Grosupova],
daughter of a Czech Count and Nina Grosupova, an
actress, she commited suicide by jumping off the Qutub
Minar in Delhi, and had issue. He died 19th June 1949
(#4).
- HH Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad
Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Paramjit
Singh Sahib Bahadur (by Maharani Harbans Kaur) (qv)
- Maharajkumar Mahijit Singh (by Maharani Harbans
Kaur), born June 1893, Manager of the Kapurthala
estate in Oudh, Minister of Government in U.P. of
Agra and Oudh, married Maharajkumari Anar Devi of
Kangra in Himachal Pradesh, and had issue. He died
1932.
- Rajkumari Usha Devi [later Rani Usha Devi of
Dada-Siba], born 25th October 1919 in Kapurthala,
married the late Raja Harmahendra Singh of Dada-Siba in Kangra,
died May 2000, and had issue. She died 3rd October
2004 at New Delhi.
- Lt.Col. Maharajkumar Amarjit Singh (by the
Katochni Rani), born 5th August 1893, C.I.E.
[cr.1935], educated at Oxford College (Master of
Arts), Vice-President of the State Council and
Household Minister to the Maharaja. He served in the
Indian Army in France from 1914 to 1916 and was
promoted to the rank of Lt. Col. in the Indian Army
in 1943, married Rani Sonia Amarjit Singh, died 4th
July 1947. He died in September 1944 at Srinagar.
- Maharajkumar Karamjit Singh (by Rani Kanari), born
1896 at Kapurthala, educated at Harrow 1910/1913 and
in France, appointed Vice President of State Council
in 1944, married 1928, Maharajkumari Sita Devi, born
1915, died 2002 in New Delhi, daughter of Raja Uday
Raj Singh of Kashipur,
and had issue. He died 7th June 1967.
- Rajkumar Shri Arun Singh, born 29th August 1944,
B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Cantab), educated at Doon
School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, passing out in
1960, graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi
University in 1964, Member of the Rajya Sabha
[3.4.1984] - [17.8.1988], Parliamentary Secretary
to the Prime Minister 1984/1985, Union Minister of
State, Department of Defence Research and
Development, 1985/1987; married Shrimati Kunwarani
Nina Singh and has issue, two sons and one
daughter. (St. Helen’s Cottage,
Mussoorie, Uttar Ranchal, India)
- Kumari Devaki Kaur, born 1968 at New Delhi,
married 1st October 2006 at New Delhi, Marakand
Paranjape, son of Ramchandra Laxman and
Prabhavati Paranjape.
- Kunwar Hanut Singh, born 1970, married 1999 at
New Delhi, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bhalla.
- Kunwar Anirudh Singh, born 1975 in New Delhi.
- Rajkumar Martand Singh, born 1947 at Kapurthala,
educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal,
passing out in 1963, graduated from St. Stephen's
College, Delhi University in 1967.
- Maharajkumar Ajit Singh (by Anita), born 26th
April 1908, educated at Clifton College, Bristol
from April 1922 to December 1924, at St Catherine's
College, Cambridge University (University Boxing
colours, B.A. 1931) and at the Military Academy,
Dehra Dun; he served with the Paramijit Infantry,
Kapurthala Internal Security 1939/1942, and as
Attaché to the Indian Government Trade
Commission to South America 1942/1946, died
unmarried 1982, having issue, one daughter by Zahra
Ajami.
- Maha Akhtar, born 1965, worked for a while as a
production assistant for The Cure, the British new
wave rock band, and then for 15 years in New York
with veteran CBS news anchor Dan Rather, she begab
studying flamenco in 1996, and became a
professional flamenco dancer in 2005.
- HH Rani Amrit Kaur (by Rani Kanari), born 1904,
married 8th February 1923, Maj. HH Raja Sir Joginder
Sen Bahadur of Mandi,
and had issue. She died 1948.
- HH Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad
Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja PARAMJIT
SINGH Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala
1949/1955, born 18th May 1892, educated at Harrow
1906/1907, granted the title of Tikka Raja by the
British authorities, President of the State Council,
Colonel-in-Chief of the Paramjit Infantry, married
1stly, HH Maharani Brinda Devi of Jubbal, born 11th
January 1892 in Jubbal, author of an autobiography,
"Maharani" with Elaine Williams, written in 1951 and
later reprinted in 2001 and given a new
title,"Maharani --- the Memoirs of a Rebellious
Princess". She was widely travelled person who knew
Heads of State and famous Hollywood Stars, died May
1962 at Woodville Palace, Simla, married 2ndly, in
1932, Tikka Rani Sahiba Lilawati Devi of Kangra, died
aged 21, married 3rdly, July 1937, Maharani Narinder
Kaur [née Stella Mudge aka Beady], born
13th October 1904 in Carlton, Kent, died 23rd February
1984 in Delhi, and had issue. He died 1955.
-
 Maharajkumari
Indira
Devi (Princess Indee) (by Maharani Brinda Devi),
born 26th February 1912 at Kapurthala, worked in the
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London as
a news reader from 1945 to 1968, died unmarried 1979
in Ibitza, Spain.
- Maharajkumari Sushila Devi (Princess Shushu) (by
Maharani Brinda Devi), born 14th December 1918 at
Kapurthala, married 19th February 1942 (div. 1958),
Raja Giriraj Saran Singh of Bharatpur, and had
issue. She died 1974 in Simla.
- Maharajkumari Ourmilla Devi (Princess Moumou) (by
Maharani Brinda Devi) [Rajkumar Rani Ourmilla Devi
of Jubbal], born 29th November 1919 at Kapurthala,
married Lt.-Col. Rajkumar Birendra Singh of Jubbal.
- Maharajkumari Ash Kaur (by Tikka Rani Sahiba
Lilawati Devi), born October 1933 at Kapurthala,
married 1958 (div.), Mr. Hari Bhagat of New Delhi,
and has issue.
- Prithvi Raj Singh Bhagat, born
1959.
- Brig. HH Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad
Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja Sri
Sukhjit Singh Sahib Bahadur (by Tikka Rani Sahiba
Lilawati Devi) (qv)
- Brig. HH Farzand i-Dilband Rasikhul-Itiqad
Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajgan Maharaja SUKHJIT
SINGH Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala (see
above)
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born 16th October
1934 in Kapurthala, educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal, and then attended the Indian Military
Academy, (I.M.A.) Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, and was
commisioned in 1954, as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian
Army, rose to the rank of Brigadier in the Indian Army and
won the Maha Vir Chakra (MVC), the second highest
gallantry award in the 1971 Indo-Pak war, married 1957 in
New Delhi, HH Maharani Geeta Devi, born 21st March 1936,
daughter of Darbar Shri Ala Vajsur Khachar of Jasdan, and his second wife,
Rani Madhvi Devi, and has issue.
