PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Lahore
was
founded
in
1805,
by
Sandhu Jats, of whom Sardar Budh Singh was the first
historically
known ancestor, though they claim a rajput descent from
Raja Jaisal,
the founder of Jaisalmer.
An ancestor of Budh Singh, was Bhara Mall, who lived in
Gujranwala
district and had been initiated
into the Sikh faith by the Seventh Guru, Guru Har Rai
1644/1661. Rulers
were...
- Sardar Budh Singh
[Desu], he was an affluent Jat farmer, founder of
the village of
Sukarchak in the Majha tract of the Punjab; he took
part in battles
under him Guru Gobind Singhji and under Banda Singh
Bahadur; married
and had issue, two
sons. He died 1718.
- Sardar Naudh Singh, married 1710, Sardarni Lali
Kaur,
daughter of Gulab Singh of Majitha, and had
issue, four sons. He died
1752 (1763).
- Sardar Charat Singh, Misldar of the Sukerchakia
misl
1752/1772, born about 1721, he distinguished
himself at an early age in
campaigns against Ahmad
Shah Abdali and split from the Singhpuria Misl to
establish the
Sukerchakia Misl in Gujranwala in 1752, he
attacked and plundered
Eminabad, then captured Wazirabad, and in 1761 at
Sialkot put the
Afghans there to flight, he sacked Kassur in April
1763 and again
engaged the Afghans at Sialkot in November 1763;
married 1756,
Sardarni Desan
Kaur Gujranwala,
died 1778, daughter of
Sardar Amir Singh of
Gujranwala, and had issue. He was fatally wounded
in a skirmish in 1772
by the bursting of his own gun.
- Sardar Mahan Singh, Misldar of the Sukerchakia
misl
1774/1792, married 1stly, 1774, Sardarni Raj
Kaur,
a daughter
of Raja Gajpat
Singh
of Jind, married
2ndly, Bibiji Mai Kaur,
daughter of Jai Singh Mann of Mogalchak, and had
issue. He died 1792.
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh (see below)
- Sardar Suher Singh
- Bibiji Raj Kaur, married Sardar Sahib Singh
Gujratia,
and had issue.
- Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur,
married
Sardar Jodh Singh Kalalwala, and had issue.
- Bibiji Khem Kaur, married 1816,
Maharaja
Kharrak Singh of Lahore (see below).
- Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married
Sardar
Suhel
Singh Bhangi.
- Sardar Dall Singh
- Sardar Chet Singh
- Sardar Maghi Singh
- Bibi (name unknown), married Sardar Dal
Singh
Kalianwala (died 1823).
- Sardar Chanda Singh, married and had issue, the
Sandhanwalia Sardars of Raja Sansi, which was
founded in about 1570,
and is the seat of this family.
- Sardar Gulab Singh
- Sardar Didar Singh, married and had issue. He
died 1784.
- Sardar Amir Singh, he succeeded to his
family's
estates, and added to them before his disgrace
in 1803, he accompanied
Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Kasur campaign of
1807, and in the
expedition against the Muhammadan tribes between
the Chenab and the
Indus in 1810, he received the territory of
Jammu in 1809, and
Shakargarh in 1821, married and had issue. He
died
1827.
- Sardar Lehna Singh [Lahina Singh], enjoyed
the
title of Ujjal-didar, Nirmal-buddh,
Sardar-i-ba-waqar(resplendent
presence,
pure
of
intellect, the Sardar with prestige
marked),
married 1stly, a daughter of Sardar Sodh Singh
Chinah, married 2ndly, a
daughter of a Hill Chief, and had issue. He
died 16th September 1843.
- Sardar Pratap Singh, he adopted his
nephew,
married
and had issue. He died 1856.
- (A) Sardar
Gurbachan
Singh, see below.
- Sardar
Thakur Singh, born 1837, appointed by the
British as extra-assistant
commissioner
for Amritsar district, also nominated a
member of the Golden Temple
managing
committee, founder and first President of
the Sri Guru Singh Sabha in
1873,
appointed Prime Minister to Maharaja Dulip
Singh's emigré
government,
he was a distinguished scholar of Persian
and Punjabi, well versed in
Indian as well as in Muslim lore, he married
the daughter of Raja Nahar
Singh of
Ballabhgarh,
and his wife, Rani Kanwal Kaur, and had
issue. He died 18th August 1887
in Pondicherry(#4),
his cremated remains were returned to his
ancestral seat of Rajasansi.
- Sardar Gurbachan Singh, born 1855,
adopted by
Sardar Pratap Singh, his
uncle; he was nominated to the Statutory
Civil
Service and was in 1886 working as an
assistant commissioner in the
Punjab, Prime Minister to Maharaja Dulip
Singh's emigré
government
following his father's death; in 1899 he
entered the
service of the Raja of Nahan, becoming a
district judge in 1911,
married Sardarni Asil Kaur, died 17th
August
1932, and had issue. He died spm
after 1911 in Nahan.
- Bibiji Baldev Kaur, married and had
issue.
- Rajwant Singh
- Dhanraj Singh, married and
had issue.
- Prithraj Singh
- Bawishraj Singh
- Bibiji Karam Kaur
- Sardar Bakhsish Singh, born 1862,
adopted by
Sardar
Shamsher Singh, married and
had
issue. He died 1907.
- Sardar Raghbir Singh, married and had
issue.
- Major Sardar Bahadur Harinder Singh,
died
1972.
- Sardar Narinder Singh, born 1863 or
1868,
adopted by
Kunwar Dharam Singh of
Dadri,
he was allowed to return to British India
in 1890, married a daughter
of Raja Umrao Singh of Kuchesar, and had
issue, four
sons and three daughters.
- Sardar Dalpat Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Kirpal Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Sukhraj Singh, married and
had issue.
- Sardar Gurshinder Singh
- Sardar Amrit Pal Singh
- Sardar Gurcharan Singh, married and
had
issue.
- Sardar Avtar Singh
- Sardar Rajpal Singh
- Sardar Pukhraj Singh
- Sardar Rajendra Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Bachitar Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Surinder Singh, married and
had
issue.
- Sardar Jaipriy Singh
- Sardar Kanwar Prit Singh
- Sardar Ravinder Singh
- Sardar Joginder Singh, married and
had
issue.
- Sardar Harkrishan Singh
- Sardar Atamjit Singh
- Sardar Rupinder Singh, married and
had
issue.
- Sardar Satinder Pal Singh
- Jasbir Kaur, born about 1912,
(mother-in-law
of
Lieut-Col Jagga Singh Kahlon
(retd)).
- Sardar Gurdit Singh (see below)
- Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur,
married
Sardar
Bhagwan Singh Bahadur Jalawalia of
Alawalpur, born 1866.
- Sardar Basawa Singh, married a daughter of
Raja
Sansar Chand II of Kangra,
and had
issue, as well as further issue.
- Sardar Ajit Singh, on 15th September 1843,
as
Maharaja Sher Singh was
inspecting
troops in the Baradari of Shah Bilaval, Ajit
Singh shot him dead with
an
English rifle which he cunningly pretended
to present to the Maharaja
for
inspection. As the Maharaja fell, Ajit Singh
drew his sword and severed
his head. The senior Sandhanwalia Lahina
Singh murdered the Maharaja's
minor son, Tikka Partap Singh in a garden
close by. Later, inside the
Lahore
Fort, while apportioning the office of prime
minister among themselves,
Ajit Singh killed Dhian Singh on the spot.
Hira Singh, son of Dhian
Singh,
and his uncle, Suchet Singh, aroused a
section of the army, and
besieged
the Fort on 16th September 1843, and in the
resultant action both Ajit
Singh and Lahina Singh were slain. Their
heads were cut off and bodies
quartered and hung on the different gates of
the city, married Bibiji
Kakoh Kaur, daughter of Sardar Fateh Singh
Mann of Manawala.
He died 16th
September
1843.
- Sardar Ranjodh Singh (by a secondary
union),
married and had issue, one
son. He died June 1864.
- Sardar Randhir Singh of Raja Sansi, born
1856 (#3),
married and had issue.
- Sardar Balwant Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Sashpal Singh, died spm
in
1984.
- Sardar
Budh Singh, he entered military service under
Maharaja Ranjit Singh in
1811, and afterwards was sent ot Bahawalpur to
collect tax arrears, he
captured in battle the forts of Mojghar and
Jamghar in
1821, for which he received the jagirs of
Kalar and Nirali; he also
commanded a Sikh force in the battle of Tin in
1823 after which he fell
from favour, but after a victory at Peshawar
he was reinstated, dying
shortly afterwards, married
1stly, a daughter of Sardar Hukum Singh
Attariwala, married 2ndly, a
daughter of Mian Asa Singh of Jasrota, and had
issue. He died
of cholera in 1827.
- Sardar
Shamsher Singh, born 1816, he distinguished
himself as a soldier and
served on active
duty in the Peshawar area, he was appointed
a member of the Council of
Regency in December
1846, he was placed in charge of the civil
and
military establishments in Amritsar by the
Resident in February 1848,
he was appointed a Magistrate within his
jagir in February 1862; married a daughter
of Sardar Sudh Singh Chinah,
and had adoptive issue. He
died sp in 1871.
- (A) Sardar
Bakhsish
Singh (see above)
- Sardar Attar Singh, carried the titles Ujjal
Didar
[of
immaculate
appearance], Nirmal Buddh [of clear
intelligence], Sardar-i-ba-Wagar
[the Sardar with prestige], Kasir-ul-Igtadar
[eagle of power], Sardar-i-Garoh-i-Namdar
[leader of the renowned group], 'All Taba'
[of exalted nature], Shuja'-ud-Daula
[valour of the State], Sardar Atar
Singh Shamsher-i Jang
Bahadur
[the valiant sword of battle], lived in exile
at Thanesar along with
the
few remnants of the Sandhanwalia family who
had escaped destruction in
1843, married a daughter of Sardar Jai Singh
Mann, and had issue. He
died in May 1844.
- Sardar Kehar Singh, imprisoned by Maharaja
Sher
Singh in January 1842
for
conspiring against the State, he was exiled
to Thanesar in British
territory
where
he died, married Sardarni Har Kaur, and had
issue, one daughter. He
died in February
1864 at Thanesar.
- Bibiji (name
unknown) Kaur, married 1864,
Sardar Sarup Singh of Malwai.
- Sardar Jaimal Singh, died 1810.
- Sardar Ratan Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Khazan Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Jagat Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Dhian Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Arjan Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Ajaipal Singh
- Sardar Darshan Singh
- Sardar Sevinder Pal Singh
- Sardar Avtar Singh
- Sardar Kartar Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Jagjit Singh
- Sardar Bhupinder Singh, married and
had
issue.
- Sardar Devinder Singh, married and
had
issue.
- Sardar Niranjan Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Bhagwan Singh
- Sardar Ram Singh
- Sardar Bhagat Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Buta Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Gopal Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Balwant Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Apar Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Kanwal Nain Singh
- Sardar Harnarain Singh
- Sardar Nadhan Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Gurmukh Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Fateh Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Kishen Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Bur Singh
- Sardar Jawand Singh
- Sardar Jiwan Singh
- Sardar Kahan Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Basant Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Harnam Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Balwant Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Angad Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Harjit Singh
- Sardar Manprit Bir Singh
- Sardar Iqbal Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Mohinder Singh
- Sardar Himmat Singh
- Sardar Harinder Singh
- Sardar Sukhwant Singh
- Sardar Saran Singh
- Sardar Gurcharan Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Bakhsish Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Hardip Singh
- Sardar Amrik Singh
- Sardar Kartar Singh, married and had
issue.
- Sardar Rajinder Singh
- Sardar Harbans Singh
- Sardar Balbir Singh
- Sardar Pritam Singh
- Sardar Sham Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Sher Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Nihal Singh
- Sardar Mastan Singh
- Sardar Bhag Singh
- Sardar Pratap Singh
- Sardar Baghel Singh, married and had issue.
- Sardar Sarmukh Singh
- Sardar Khushal Singh
- Sardar Gurbaksh Singh
- Maharaja RANJIT
SINGH,
Maharaja
of
Lahore
1801/1839 and Misldar of the Sukerchakia misl
1792/1801, born
13th November 1780 in
Gujranwala,
he assumed the title of
Maharaja in April 1801, married 16 wives, including
amongst others
1stly, 1796, Rani Mahtab
Kaur, born 1780, died
1840, married 2ndly, 1798, Rani Datar Kaur [Raj Kaur],
daughter of
Nakai
Sardar Khazan Singh, died 1818, married 3rdly, 1813,
Rani Ratan Kaur,
married
4thly, 1835, Maharani Jind Kaur, died 1st August 1863
in London and had
issue. He died 27th June 1839 in Lahore.
- Maharaja Kharak Singh (by second wife)(qv)
- Kunwar Ishwar Singh (by 1st wife), born 1804, died
1805.
- Maharaja Sher Singh (twin son of first wife)(qv)
- Shahzada
Tara Singh, born December 1807 (twin son of first
wife), an imbecile, he was supported by his brother;
married 1stly,
Rani Dharam Kaur Randhavi, daughter of Sardar Jodh
Singh of Randhawa,
married
2ndly, Rani Nand Kaur, died 1843, daughter of Chanda
Singh. He died sp
September 1859.
- Kunwar Multana Singh (by third wife), born 1819,
married
Rani Chand Kaur,
and
had issue. He died 1848.
- Kunwar Kishan Singh (by Chand Kaur), born 1840.
- Kunwar Kesra Singh (by Chand Kaur), born 1842.
- Kunwar Arjan Singh (by Man Kaur, concubine),
born 1840.
- Kunwar Kashmira Singh (by Daya Kaur), born 1821,
he was
granted the
jagir
of Sialkot, married and had issue. He died 7th May
1844.
- Kunwar Fateh Singh, born 1844.
- Kunwar Peshaura Singh (by third wife), born 1823,
married
and had issue. He died
30th August 1845.
- Kunwar Jagjit Singh, born 1843.
- HH Maharaja Dhuleep Singh (by fourth wife)(qv)
- Maharaja KHARAK
SINGH,
Maharaja
of
Lahore
1839/1840, born 31st January 1802,
married 1stly,
February 1812, Maharani Chand Kaur (qv), married
2ndly, 1816,
Maharani Bibi Khem Kaur Dhillon, daughter of Sardar
Jodh Singh
Kalalwala, married 3rdly,
1818, Rani Kishan Kaur, daughter of Chaudhri Raja
Singh of Samra,
married 4thly (by chaddar-dalna),
1815,
Rani
Ishar
Kaur,
daughter
(or
sister) of Sardar Mangal Singh Sandhu of Sirarivali,
in Sialkot
district
of
the Punjab, committed sati on 5th November
1840, and had issue.
He
died 4th November
1840 and was cremated the next day.
- Maharaja Naunihal Singh (by Chand Kaur)(qv)
- Maharaja
NAUNIHAL SINGH, Maharaja of Lahore 1840 (4th
to 5th November),
born 9th March
1821, married
1stly, in March 1837, Maharani Sahib Kaur [Bibiji
Nanaki], died
November 1856, daughter of
Sardar Shyam
Singh Attariwala, married 2ndly, Rani Sahib Kaur,
died 1841, daughter of Sardar Gurditt Singh
Gilwaliwala, married 3rdly,
Rani Bhadauran, committed sati
in November 1840, daughter of Sardar Jawahar Singh of
Bhadaur, married
4thly,
Rani Katochan, committed sati
in November 1840, daughter of Mian Rai Singh,
illegitimate son of Mian
Fateh Singh of Lambagraon.
He died sp
on 5th November 1840.
- Stillborn son, born July 1841.
- Maharani Chand Kaur
Kunwar,
Maharani
of
Lahore
1840/1841, born 1802 in
Fatehpur, daughter of
Sardar Jaimal Singh of the Kanhaiya misl,
proclaimed the
Maharani
of the Punjab, with the title of Malika Muqaddasa
(Emperess
Immaculate)
on 2nd December 1840, she relinquished her claim to
the throne on 17th
January
1841 and was pensioned off with a jagir worth 900,000
rupees annually,
married February 1812, Maharaja Kharak Singh, and had
issue. She died
12th
June 1842 and was cremated the next day.
- Maharaja SHER SINGH,
Maharaja
of
Lahore
1841/1843, born December 1807, ascended
the throne
on 29th January 1841, with the tilak ceremony
being performed a
week later, married 1stly, 1819, Rani Desa Kaur, died
sp in 1821,
daughter of Sardar Mhor
Singh Nakai, married 2ndly, 1822, Maharani Prem Kaur,
born 1809,
daughter of Hari
Singh,
received a pension of 7,200Rs per mensem after
1843, married
2ndly,
1825, Maharani Pratap Kaur, daughter of Chaudhri Jagat
Singh of Kot
Kapura,
died 23rd August 1857, married 3rdly, July 1842, Rani
Dakno Devi,
daughter
of Mian Narendar Singh of Suket,
died at
Rai Bareilly as prisoner of the British, and
had issue. He died 15th September 1843.
- Tikka Pratap Singh (by Prem Kaur), born 1831, died
15th
September 1843.
- Kunwar Dewa Singh (by Chand Kaur, his
sister-in-law),
born 1838, died 1874.
- Kunwar Narain Singh, married and had issue.(#1)
- Kunwar Harnam Singh
- Kunwar Attar Singh
- Shahzada Bahadur Shah Dev Singh (by
Rani Dakno),
born
1843 [1844 (#2)],
he was granted the Taluq of Pandriganeshpur in Oudh
in 1864; married in
April 1860, a daughter of Sardar Fateh Singh,
Jagirdar of Suga (see
Shamgarh), and had
issue.
He
died at Rai Bareilly as prisoner of the British.
- Kunwar Sukh Dev Singh
- Shahzada Bas Dev Singh [Basudeo Singh], Taluqdar
of Pandriganeshpur, Baenti, Gokalpur etc., after
his death the estate was inherited by his nephew,
the Maharaja of Dholpur. He died after 1910 and
before 1930.
- HH Maharani Harbans Kaur, married Maj.
HH
Rais
ud-Daulah
Sipahdar
ul-Mulk
Maharajadhiraj Sri Sawai Maharaja Rana Nihal
Singh
Lokindra
Bahadur Diler Jung Jai Deo of Dholpur,
and
had
issue.
- Lt.-Col.
HH
Rais
ud-Daulah Sipahdar
ul-Mulk Saramad Rajha-i-Hind Maharajadhiraj
Sri Sawai Maharaja Rana Sir
Udaibhan Singh Lokindra Bahadur Diler Jung
Jai Deo of Dholpur.
- Kunwar Bakshish Singh
- Kunwar Thakur Singh
- (A) Kunwar
Karan Singh, born 1838, son of a Zamindar of
Mukerian, adopted (1838)
son of Rani Dharam Kaur, first wife of Shahzada
Tara Singh.
- HH Maharaja DHULEEP
SINGH,
Maharaja
of
Lahore
1843/1893, born 5th September
1838, married 1stly,
6th July 1864 in Cairo, HH Maharani Bamba Müller,
born 1847, died
18th
September 1887 in Suffolk, married 2ndly, May 1889 in
Paris, Ada
Douglas Wetherill,
born 1867, died August 1930, and had issue. He died
23rd October 1893
in
Paris.
- HH Maharaja Victor Albert Jay Dhuleep Singh (qv)
- HH Maharaja Frederick Victor Dhuleep Singh (qv)
- Princess Bamba Sofia Jindan Duleep Singh, born
29th
September 1869
in London,
married
Dr. Sutherland. She died sp 3rd October 1957
in Lahore.
- Princess Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh, born 27th
October
1871,
died sp
1947.
- Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh, born 8th
August
1876, died sp
22nd
August 1948.
- Prince Albert Edward Alexander Dhuleep Singh, born
20th
August
1879 in Suffolk,
died 22nd April 1893 in Suffolk.
- Princess Paulina Alexandra Duleep Singh, born 26th
December 1887,
married J.S.
Torry.
She died sp.
- Princess Ada Irene Helen Beryl Duleep Singh, born
25th
October
1889, married
M.Villement. She died sp October 1926 in
Monaco.
- HH Maharaja VICTOR
ALBERT JAY DHULEEP SINGH, 'Maharaja of
Lahore'
1893/1918, born 10th
July 1866 in London, married 4th January 1898, Lady
Anne Blanche
Coventry, born 27th January 1874, died sp 2nd July 1956,
daughter of Lord
George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry. He died
sp
7th June 1918.
- HH Maharaja FREDERICK VICTOR DHULEEP SINGH,
'Maharaja of
Lahore'
1918/1926, born 28th
January 1868 in London, died unmarried 15th August
1926 in Norfolk.
- Sardar GURDIT SINGH
SANDHANWALIA, Head of the Family 1926/-, as
his older brothers
were all adopted out, he became the only legal heir to
his father, he
applied for forgiveness of
the government for himself and his brothers which was
granted in 1890,
and returned to British India, and living at
Manariwala, following the
resumption of the
jagir, he and his brothers were granted an annual
income of 1,200Rs,
married and
had issue.
- Sardar Sarup Singh, died before 1947.
- Sardar Pritam Singh (qv)
- Sardar PRITAM SINGH
SANDHANWALIA, Head of the Family -/1978, born
1897, after
Independence, he received
in compensation, a politicial sufferer's grant of
6,000Rs from the
Punjab government, married
and had issue.
He died 1978.
- Sardar Beant Singh Sandhanwalia (qv)
- Sardar BEANT SINGH
SANDHANWALIA, Head of the Family (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Sardar Gurpal Singh Sandhu, married Maharajkumari
Jai Inder
Kaur Sahiba, daughter of Capt. HH
Maharajadhiraj
Shri Amarinder Singh of Patiala,
by
his wife, HH Maharani Parneet
Kaur, and has issue.
- Kanwar Angad Singh Sandhu
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