PREDECESSORS AND SHORT
HISTORY: Founded by Kirat Singh around
1000AD. Formerly a feudatory of Bashahr, the state was
declared independent after the expulsion of the Gurkhas in
1815, by a sanad
dated February 1816, but at the same time it lost its own
tributary states of Bharauli and Madhan. The Rana
maintains a military force of 45 infantry and 1 gun (as of
1892). Rulers were...
- Rana AJMIR SINGH,
49th Rana of Kumharsain -/1725, married and had issue.
- Rana ANUP SINGH,
50th Rana of Kumharsain 1725/1755, married and had
issue. He died 1755.
- Rana Dalip Singh (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married Raja Ram
Singh of Bashahr.
- Mian Ram Singh, Wazir of Kumharsain, married and
had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Raja
Devi Chand, Raja of Bilaspur.
- Mian Surat Singh
- Rana DALIP SINGH,
51st Rana of Kumharsain 1755/1789, married and had
issue.
- Rana Govardhan Singh (qv)
- Rana Kehar Singh (qv)
- Rana GOVARDHAN
SINGH, 52nd Rana of Kumharsain 1789/1803,
died sp in
1803.
GURKHA OCCUPATION 1803/1815
- Rana KEHAR SINGH,
53rd Rana of Kumharsain 1803/1839, he took refuge in
Kullu during the Gurkha occupation, the state lapsed
to the British authorities on his death without
surviving issue. He died sp in 1839.
INTERREGNUM 1839/1840, in consideration of the late Rana's
early attachment to British interests during the
Gurkha war, the Government confirmed the State to a
collateral heir of the family.
- Rana PRITAM SINGH,
54th Rana of Kumharsain 1840/1858, married and had
issue. He died 1858.
- Rana Bhawani Singh (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married Rana Ram
Saran Singh of Kotkhai,
and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Rana Ram
Saran Singh of Kotkhai,
and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Raja
Shamsher Singh of Bashahr.
- Rana BHAWANI SINGH,
55th Rana of Kumharsain 1858/1874, married and had
issue. He died 1874.
- Rana Hira Singh (qv)
- Kanwar Indar Singh, born 1872, married Kanwarani
Janki Devi of Delath,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Baldev Singh, married Kanwarani Hemawati
Kanwar, daughter of Kanwar Mahendra Singh of Suket, and had issue,
two sons and three daughters.
- Kumari Ramarani Kumari, married Col. Kanwar
Devinder Singh of Reh, and has issue (see Nurpur).
- Rana Surendra Singh (qv)
- Kumari Mahamaya Kumari, married Kanwar
Prakritibhushan Singh of Balsan, and has
issue.
- Kanwar Mrigender Singh, married Kanwarani
Sunita Singh, daughter of Kanwar Surat Singh of
Karangra, and has issue, one son.
- Kumari Sharda Devi, married Capt. Kanwar
Romesh Katoch, son of Kanwar Raghunath Chand
Katoch, and his wife, Kanwarani Sansar Dei of
Jalari in Nadaun, and has issue.
- Kumari Richa Katoch, married Kanwar Arun
Singh of Koti.
- Kumari (name unknown), married HH Raja Amar
Chand Sahib Bahadur of Bilaspur.
- Kumari (name unknown), married HH Raja Amar
Chand Sahib Bahadur of Bilaspur.
- Rana HIRA SINGH,
56th Rana of Kumharsain 1874/1914, born 1851, he
succeeded to the gadi
on 12th November 1874 (#1), he was of
unsound mind and the state was controlled by the
Council of Regency 1874/1896, married and had issue.
He died 24th August 1914.
- Tikka Bedar Singh, died vpsp in 1913.
- Rana Vidyadhar Singh (qv)
- Rana VIDYADHAR
SINGH, 57th Rana of Kumharsain 1914/1945,
born 1895 and succeeded to the gadi on 24th
August 1914 (#2),
educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; married 1stly,
1913, a daughter of Rana Durga Singh of Bhajji, married 2ndly,
1st February 1918, Rani Pratibha Devi, daughter of
Raja Dhayan Singh of Baghal,
married 3rdly, 1929, a daughter of Mian Partab Singh
of Baghal, died in
1936, and had issue. He died 1945.
- Rana Sumeshwar Singh (by third wife)(qv)
- Rajkumari Shahshi Kumari (by third wife), married
(as his first wife), Shri Jagdish Shumsher Jung
Bahadur Rana of Nepal,
and had issue.
- Rana SUMESHAWAR
SINGH, 58th Rana of Kumharsain 1945/1996,
born 1930, married Rani Ishwari Rajya Lakshmi Devi,
daughter of Gen. Shri Sur Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana
of Nepal,
and his wife, a daughter of HH Maharaja Dhiraj Prithvi
Bir Bikram of Nepal, and had issue. He died 1996.
- Rajkumari Pratima Kumari
- Rajkumari Rajeshwari Kumari
- Rana SURENDRA SINGH,
59th Rana of Kumharsain (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari (name
unknown), married Raja Fateh Prakash, Raja of
Sirmur, and had issue.
- Kanwar Prem Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumari Vimla Devi, married Mian Baldev Singh of
Tehri-Garhwal, and had issue.
- Kanwarani Sarojini Devi, married Kanwar
Satdev Singh of Sirmur,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Mohan Singh, married and had issue.
- Kanwarani Champa Devi, married Kanwar Jatinder
Singh of Jubbal, and
had issue.
- Kanwarani Shakuntala Devi, married Kanwar Bhairav
Singh of Jubbal, and
had issue, two sons and one daughter.
- Kanwar Balbir Singh, married Kanwarani Shakuntala
Devi, daughter of Kanwar Bhim Singh of Jubbal, and his wife,
Kanwarani Dharam Dei, and has issue.
- Mian Mahinder Singh, married Kanwarani Krishna Devi,
married and had issue.
- Kumari Jayanti Devi, married 26th April 2001 at
Simla, Kanwar Sagar Singh of Jubbal, and has issue,
one daughter.
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