PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Traditionally
the
predecessor state was founded by Raja Giri Sen, a son of a
Sena Raja of Bengal, and younger brother of Raja Vira Sen,
founder of Suket in 765AD. The state ranked fifth amongst
the Shimla Hill states and ranked 11th in the Punjab
Darbar (1890). The Raja maintains a military force of 108
infantry and 2 guns (as of 1892). Rulers were...
- Rana BHUP SEN,
70th Raja of Keonthal, married and had issue.
- Rana RAGHUNATH SEN,
71st Raja of Keonthal 1801/1831, after the expulsion
of the Gurkhas, a portion of the State was made over
to the Maharaja of Patiala, and the remainder was
confirmed to the then Rana by a sanad of the British
Government in 1815, married and had issue. He fled to
Suket where he died in 1831.
OCCUPIED BY NEPAL 1803/1814
- Raja SANSAR SEN,
72nd Raja of Keonthal 1831/1862, born in Suket,
granted a valuable khillat and the hereditary
title of Raja in 1858, for his part in the Sepoy
Mutiny; married a Rani from Bashahr, and had issue. He
died 1862.
- Raja MAHENDRA SEN,
73rd Raja of Keonthal 1862/1882, born 1827, he
succeeded in paying off a heavy debt inherited from
his father, married four wives, two from Dhami and two
from Kuthar, and had issue. He died 1882.
- Raja Balbir Sen (by a Dhami Rani) (qv)
- Kanwar Hira Singh, born 1857, died 1892.
- Kanwar Surat Singh, born 1862, died 1923.
- Kanwar Sahib Singh [Shiv Singh], born 1863, died
1917.
- Kanwar Randhir Singh, born 1864, married and had
issue. He died 1916.
- Kanwar Umed Singh, married and had issue.
- Kanwar Lakshman Singh
- Kanwar Ajit Singh, married Kanwarani Padma
Devi of Suket,
and had issue.
- Kumari Sushma Devi, married Kanwar Suresh
Singh of Mandi,
and has issue.
- Kanwar Harinder Singh, married Kanwarani
Kanchan Devi of Surendranagar, and has issue.
- Kanwar Rupeshwar Singh, maried Kanwarani
Savitri Devi of Madhan,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Mohan Singh, born 1866, Wazir of Keonthal
in 1937; married 1stly, a Kumari Saheba from Burail,
in present-day Chandigarh, married 2ndly, a Kumari
from Bhajji, and had issue.
- Rani Tara Devi, married (as his first wife),
1912, Raja Rana Bhagat Chand of Jubbal, and had
issue. She died 1918.
- Sardarni (name
unknown), married 1923, Sardar Sahib
Jagdish Singh of Ramgarh in
Haryana, and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married HH Raja
Shamsher Prakash of Sirmur.
She died before 1890.
- Kumari (name unknown), married HH Raja
Shamsher Prakash of Sirmur.
She died before 1890.
- Raja BALBIR SEN,
74th Raja of Keonthal 1882/1901, born 1852, he
succeeded to the gadi
on 23rd August 1882 (#1), internal
disorders were a feature of his reign, resulting in
the appointment of a Government manager in 1899,
married a Rani from Khairigarh-Singhai,
and had issue. He died 18th March 1901.
- Tikka Ugar Sen, born 1875, married a daughter of
HH Raja Amar Chand Sahib Bahadur, Raja of Bilaspur. He died vpsp in 1892.
- Kumari (name unknown) [Tikkarani Sahiba of
Kashipur], married Tikka Hari Raj Singh of Kashipur.
- Kumari (name unknown) [Tikkarani Sahiba of
Kashipur], married Tikka Hari Raj Singh of Kashipur.
- Raja Bijey Sen (qv)
- Raja BIJEY SEN,
75th Raja of Keonthal 1901/1916, born 13th September
1877 and succeeded to the throne on 18th March 1901.
He was invested with full ruling powers on 26th June
1902. He attended the Coronation Durbar of their
Imperial Majesties, King George V and Queen Mary at
Delhi in 1911, married 1stly, 1900, daughter of Raja
Raghunath Singh of Guler,
married 2ndly 1900, another daughter of Raja Raghunath
Singh of Guler, died sp,
married 3rdly 1904, Rajkumari Indumati Devi of Jubbal
[Rani Indumati Devi of Keonthal], eldest daughter of
Rana Padam Chand of Jubbal,
married 4thly 1904, the second daughter of HH Rana
Padam Chand of Jubbal,
died sp, and had issue, five children. He died
2nd February 1916.
- Rajkumari Kamarenda Mati Devi Sahiba [HH Maharani
Kamarenda Mati Devi] (by 1st wife), born 20th March
1901, married February 1916, HH Maharaja Narendra
Shah of Tehri
Garhwal in Uttaranchal, and had issue. She
died in 2000 at the age of 99 years.
- Rajkumari Indu Mati Devi Sahiba, born 1902,
married February 1916, HH Maharaja Narendra Shah of
Tehri Garhwal
in Uttaranchal, and had issue. She died in an
automobile accident in 1932.
- Raja Hemendra Sen (by Rani Indu Mati Devi)(qv)
- Rajkumari Vidya Wati Devi (by Rani Indu Mati
Devi), she married the Tikka Sahib of Vizianagram in
South India [later Maharaja Sahib Alaka Narayana
Gajapathi Raju of Vizianagram.]
- Rajkumar Inder Vikram Singh ["Prince I.V."] (by
Rani Indu Mati Devi), born 1911, married Kumari Indu
Mati Kumari, eldest daughter of Kanwar Shamsher
Singh of Kotkhai, and
had issue, six children. He died 1991.
- Kanwar Lokendra Singh, born 1939, married Kumari
Chandra Prabha, daughter of Rana Jai Singh of Dhadi, and had issue,
three children. He died in 1995.
- Anurag Singh, born January 1964, died 1970.
- Capt. Rupendra Sen, born 9th December 1966, a
trained airline pilot, maried July 1996, Kumari
Durgeshwari Kumari of Khareda in Gujarat, and
has issue.
- Kumari Tarini Kumari, born 17th March 1998.
- Kumar Avajit Sen, born 4th July 2002.
- Kumari Mahima Kumari, born 9th April 1968,
married Kunwar Dharamvir Singh of Banswara, and
has issue, two children.
- Kumari Dravika Kumari
- Pranay Singh
- Kumari Lalita Kumari, born 31st March 1942,
married Kanwar Mohinder Singh, son of Raja Chattar
Singh, Raja of Basantpur in Baghal, and has
issue, four sons.
- Kumari Asha Kumari, married Kanwar Virender
Singh Pathania, son of Kanwar Punjab Singh of Reh
in District Kangra, and has issue, two sons and a
daughter (see Nurpur).
- Kumari Madhu Kumari, married Kunwar Prahlad
Singh of Bilhari in M.P.
- Kanwar Pradeep Singh, born 28th April 1947 in
Chail, married in New York, Miss Elizabeth Ann (surname
unknown) of New York, and has issue, three
children. (United States of
America)
- Miss Rachel Ann Sen
- Master Rabindra Robert Sen
- Miss Rita Indu Sen
- Kumari Brindu Singh, born 1953, married to
Kanwar Rajeshwar Singh of Kathlor in District
Pathankot, Punjab, and has issue, four daughters.
-
 Raja HEMENDRA SEN,
76th Raja of Keonthal 1916/1940, born 21st January
1905, succeeded 2nd February 1916 (#2),
educated at Aitchison's Chiefs College, Lahore; C.S.I.
[cr.1936]; married 1stly, 1924, Rani Vindheshwari
Devi, daughter of Rao Bahadur Raja Harpal Singh of Alipura, married 2ndly,
Rani Prasan Kumari of Sayla,
and had issue. He died 1940.
- Raja Hitendra Sen (qv)
- Rajkumar Dalip Singh, born 8th July 1928, married
1961, Kumari Mankya Kumari, daughter of the Thakur
Sahib of Borsu in Jaipur, and had issue, a son and a
daughter. He died 1994.
- Kanwar Giri Raj Singh, born 16th May 1963,
married 4th December 2001, the daughter of the
Raja Sahib of Kama in
Jaipur.
- Kumari Taruna Kumari, born 1972, married 22nd
November 2002, Kunwar Ajatshatru Sinhji, son of
Kunwar Jai Sinhji of Sitamau,
and has issue.
- Rajkumari Tara Devi [Rani Tara Devi of Baghal],
born on 31st October 1929, married 2nd November
1948, Raja Rajinder Singh of Baghal, and had issue,
three surviving children. She died 22nd February
2005 at the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Simla.
- Raja HITENDRA SEN,
77th Raja of Keonthal 1940/2002, born 13th September
1925, married 1stly in May 1944, Rajkumari Shanta
Devi, died July 1960, daughter of Rana Krishan Chand
of Kuthar, and his wife,
Rani Krishna Devi, married 2ndly in 1964, Kumari
Sheela Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Ranjit Singh of Koti in H.P., and had
issue. He died 13th December 2002.
- Rajkumari Sudha Kumari [HH Rani Sudha Kumari of
Jubbal], born 1st April 1946 in Junga, married 5th
May 1960, HH Raja Rana Yogender Chand of Jubbal, and has issue.
- Tikka Jogendra Sen, born on 11th April 1947 in
Junga, died unmarried 15th October 1981 at Simla in
his sleep when the building he was staying in
accidently burnt down.
- Rajkumar Arun Sen, born 8th January 1949 in Junga,
declared heir to the throne of Kuthar in September
1986, and is now known as Rana Arun Chand of Kuthar.
- Rajkumari Pratibha Kumari, born 16th June 1956 in
Shimla, educated at Loreto Convent, Tara Hall,
Shimla and Government College for Women, Chandigarh
(B.A.); elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004,
Member of the Committee on Social Justice and
Empowerment, Member of the Consultative Committee,
Ministry of Tourism; Chairperson of
the Association for Social Health in India
(Himachal Chapter); Vice Chairperson of the H.P.
State Red Cross Society 1985/1990, 1994/1998 and
2003/-; Member of the
State Planning Board since 2003; Member of the
State Women Empowerment Board since 2003 and
Member of the Central Advisory Education Board
2004; married 28th October 1985 at Junga
(as his second wife), HH Raja Virbhadra Singh of
Rampur-Bashahr, and
has issue.
- Raja Veer Vikram Sen (qv)
- Rajkumar Prithvi Vikram Sen, born 1st April 1970
in Junga; married 28th September 2000, Rajkumarani
Dr. Savita Sen, and has issue, two daughters and one
son.
- Kumari Kadambari Sen, born 23rd March 2002 in
Shimla, H.P.
- Kumari Sanjogita Sen, born 27th September 200x
in Shimla, H.P.
- Kunwar Lalit Aditya Sen, born 5th May 2008 in
Shimla, H.P.
- Raja VEER VIKRAM
SEN, 78th Raja of Keonthal (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari (name
unknown), married Raja Fateh Prakash, Raja of
Sirmur, and had issue.
- Kanwarani Savitri Kumari, married Kunwar Mohan Singh
of Kotkhai, and had issue.
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