PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Claiming descent from Jaisal, founder of the State of
Jaisalmer in 1156, the founder of this Sikh dynasty, Phul,
was Chaudhri (Governor) of a country located at the south
east of Dihli. Phul’s descendants founded three States:
Patiala, Jind and Nabha (in 1755). The state ranks 4th in
the Punjab Darbar. Rulers were..
- Raja HAMIR SINGH,
1st Raja of Nabha 1755/1783, son of Sardar Suratya
Singh, married 1stly, Rani Raj Kour, daughter of Sujan
Singh Mansahia (and widow of his brother), married
2ndly, a daughter of Natha Singh Magharia, married
3rdly, Rani Mai Deso, died 1790, daughter of Sardar
Makhan Singh of Rori, married 4thly, Rani Raj Kour,
daughter of Sardar Dhan Singh of Nirhana, and had
issue. He died December 1783.
- Raja Jaswant Singh (by Rani Raj Kour) (qv)
- Bibi Subha Kaur (by Rani Mai Deso), married Sardar
Sahib Singh Bhangi.
She died 1839.
- Bibi Sada Kaur (by Rani Mai Deso), married Sardar
Jai Singh of Batala.
- Raja JASWANT SINGH,
2nd Raja of Nabha 1783/1840, born 1775, conducted
protracted campaigns, first against Jind and then
against Patiala, to regain disputed territory for his
state, he entered into alliance with Lord Lake against
Jaswant Rao Holkar in 1804, helped the British in the
Gurkha war in 1814 as well as in the Kabul campaign in
1838, married 1stly, Rani Dya Kaur, a daughter of
Sardar Jai Singh Nishanwalia of Lidhran, married
2ndly, Rani Chand Kaur, daughter of Sardar Ram Singh
Dhillon, married 3rdly, Rani Ram Kaur, daughter of
Sardar Bagh Singh Rallon, married 4thly, Rani Har
Kaur, daughter of Sirdar Hari Singh of Jodhpur,
married 5thly, Rani Dharam Kaur, daughter of Sardar
Sujan Singh of Ghumon (#3),
and had issue. He died 22nd May 1840 at Nabha.
- Rajkumar Ranjit Singh (by Rani Dya Kaur), married
1stly, a daughter of Sardar Jodh Singh of Bamne
Kaleki, married 2ndly, a daughter of Sardar Jassa
Singh of Shahpur, married 3rdly, a daughter of
Sardar Dya Singh Bhamma and sister-in-law of Sardar
Gulab Singh Shahid, and had issue. He died 17th June
1832 at Patriri.
- Kanwar Santokh Singh, married Bibi Bhagbari,
daughter of Sardar Sher Singh of Shahabad. He died
sp in
1830.
- Raja Devendra Singh (by Rani Har Kaur) (qv)
- Raja DEVENDRA SINGH,
3rd Raja of Nabha 1840/1846 (deposed), born 5th
September 1822, he ascended the gadi on 5th
October 1840, he sympathised with the Sikhs during the
first Anglo-Sikh war and as a result lost a quarter of
his possessions, he was deposed and exiled to Mathura,
he was granted a pension of 50,000Rs and later moved
to Lahore on 8th December 1855, where he died 10 years
later, married 1stly, Rani Mann Kaur, daughter of
Sardar Wazir Singh of Rangar
Nangalia, married 2ndly, Rani Lilavati, daughter
of Thakur Ishwari Singh Katoch of Kangra, Wazir of
Nabha, married 3rdly, Rani Chetenwali, and had issue,
two sons. He died in November 1865 at Lahore.
- Raja Bharpur Singh (by Rani Mann Kaur) (qv)
- Raja Bhagwan Singh (by Rani Mann Kaur) (qv)
- Raja BHARPUR SINGH,
4th Raja of Nabha 1846/1863, born 4th October 1840, he
replaced his father, on the gadi in January
1847, during his minority, the state affairs were
managed by his grandmother, Rani Chand Kaur, he was an
enlightened ruler and a devout Sikh, he provided help
to the British during the mutiny of 1857 and was
rewarded with the grant of the divisions of Bawal and
Kanti, he was granted the right of adoption, the power
of life and death over his subjects and the promise of
non-interference by the British in the internal
affairs of his state, he was nominated a member of the
Viceroy`s Council in September 1863, but died sp
shortly afterwards on 9th November 1863 at Nabha.
- Raja BHAGWAN SINGH,
5th Raja of Nabha 1863/1871, born 30th November 1842
in Nabha, he ascended the gadi on 17th
February 1864. He died sp of tuberculosis at
Nabha on 31st May 1871.
- HH
Farzand-i-Arjmand Akidat Paiwand Daulat-i-Inglishia
Brar Bans Sarmor Raja Sir HIRA SINGH Malvinder
Bahadur, 6th Raja of Nabha 1871/1911, G.C.S.I
[1879], born 19th December 1843, son of Sardar Sukkha
Singh of Badrukhan, installed on the gaddi of
Nabha state on 10th August 1871, he granted the titles
of Raja-i-Rajgan and Maharaja,
provided funds for the establishment of the Khalsa
Printing Press at Lahore, supported the Khalsa College
at Amritsar and promoted the reformist (Anand) form of
Sikh marriage; married
HH Rani Jasmer Kaur, died 1921, daughter of Sardar
Anokh Singh Longowalia, and had issue. He died 25th
December 1911 at Nabha (#4).
- HH Farzand-i-Arjmand Akidat Paiwand
Daulat-i-Inglishia Brar Bans Sarmor Maharaja
Ripudaman Singh Malvinder Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharani Ripudaman Kaur, married HH Maharaja
Rana Ram Singh of Dholpur.
- HH
Farzand-i-Arjmand Akidat Paiwand Daulat-i-Inglishia
Brar Bans Sarmor Maharaja RIPUDAMAN SINGH Malvinder
Bahadur, 7th Raja of Nabha 1911/1923
(deposed), born 4th March 1883 in Nabha, educated
privately, Member of the Imperial Legislative Council
in Calcutta 1906/1908, introduced the Anand Marriage
Bill, presided over the Indian National Social
Conference held at Lahore in 1909, attended the
coronation of King George V at Westminster on 22nd
June 1911, succeeded his father as Maharaja, and
installed on the gaddi
on 24th January 1912, investiture took place on 20th
December 1912, granted a local salute of 15 guns in
1921, signed a letter of voluntary abdication on 7th
July 1923, and the British government formally deposed
him on 2nd February 1928 and he was sent to Dehra Dun
on an annual pension of 300,000Rs, deprived of the
title Maharaja in 1923, later moved in 1926 to
Kodaikanal on a reduced pension where he died; early
in 1927 he went on a pilgrimage to Sri Abichalnagar
Hazur Sahib, Nanded, where he took the Khalsa pahul
(initiation rites) a second time and was renamed
Sardar Gurcharan Singh, he married 1stly, 1901, HH
Maharani Bibi Jagdhish Kaur, born 1884, died 4th
August 1927, daughter of Sardar Gur Dayal Singh Mann,
married 2ndly, 10th October 1918, HH Maharani Sarojani
Devi, daughter of Maj. Sardar Prem Singh Raipuria,
married 3rdly (unequally), Sardarni Gurcharan Kaur,
and had issue, three sons and two daughters, as well
as further issue. He died 13th December 1942 in
Kodaikanal.
- HH Farzand-i-Arjmand Akidat Paiwand
Daulat-i-Inglishia Brar Bans Sarmor Maharaja Pratap
Singh Malvinder Bahadur (by HH Maharani Bibi
Jagdhish Kaur) (qv)
- Rani Bibi Amrit Kaur Sahiba (by Jagdhish Kaur),
born 8th October 1907, married 16th February 1925,
Raja Ravi Sher Singh Sahib Bahadur of Kalsia, and had issue.
She died after 1945.
- Maharajkumar Shri Kharagh Singh (by HH Maharani
Bibi Jagdhish Kaur)
- Maharajkumar Shri Gurbaksh Singh (by HH Maharani
Bibi Jagdhish Kaur), married 1950, Maharajkumari
Chandra Prabha Kumari Sahiba, daughter of Lt.-Col.
HH Maharana Shri Sir Vijaysinhji Chhatrasinhji Sahib
of Rajpipla, and
his second wife, HH Maharani Padmini Kunverba
Sahiba, and had issue. He died November 1963.
- Rajkumar Vivek Singh
- Krishna Kumari
- Tuhina Kumari
- Maharajkumari Kamla Devi
- Maharajkumari Vimla Devi
- Raja Shri Narinder Singh
- Rajkumar Shri Jasmer Singh
- Rajkumar Shri Shamsher Singh
- Raja Shri Fateh Singh, born 1935, married 1964 in
New Delhi, Kanwarani Sohinder Nabha, daugther
of Shri Khazan Singh Chaudri, and has issue, two
sons.
- Rajkumar Ranjeet J. B. Singh Nabha, born 1965,
married 1995 in New Delhi, Kanwarani Udita Nabha,
daughter of Shri Jayant Kumar Malhoutra, Member of
Parliament, and has issue, one daughter.
- Kumari Naia Nabha, born 2003.
- Rajkumar Rajeet Singh Nabha, born 1968.
- Rajkumari Shri Vijay Kaur
- Rajkumari Shri Charanjit Kaur [Mrs. Jeet Nabha
Khemka], married Mr. Nand Khemka of New Delhi,
industrialist, and has issue, two sons.
- Rajkumari Shri Nandham Kaur
-
 HH Farzand-i-Arjmand
Akidat Paiwand Daulat-i-Inglishia Brar Bans Sarmor
Maharaja PRATAP SINGH Malvinder Bahadur, 8th
Maharaja of Nabha 1923/1995, born 21st September 1919
in Mussoorie, educated privately and at Woodstock
School and later in England, Member of the Imperial
Council, K.S.C.I. [cr.1946], G.S.C.I. [cr.1933],
married 25th April 1944, HH Maharani Urmilla Devi,
daughter of Lt.Col. HH Rais ud-Daulah Sipahdar ul-Mulk
Saramad Rajha-i-Hind Maharajadhiraj Sri Sawai Maharaj
Rana Sir Udaibhan Singh Lokindra Bahadur Diler Jung
Jai Deo of Dholpur,
and his wife, HH Maharani Malvender Kaur, and had
issue. He died 24th July 1995 in Delhi and cremated
the next day at the Royal Cemetary in Nabha.
- Maharajkumari Sneh Lata Kaur, born 1947, graduated
in 1968, from Miranda House College for Girls, Delhi
University, married 1971 in New Delhi, HH Saramad-i-Rajha-i-Bundelkhand
Maharaja Mabindra Sawai Shri Madhukar Shah Deo
Bahadur of Orchha,
born 8th December 1944, and has issue, one son and
three daughters.
- HH Farzand-i-Arjmand Akidat Paiwand
Daulat-i-Inglishia Brar Bans Sarmor Maharaja
Hanuwant Singh Malvinder Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharaj Rana Hemant Singh, 6th Maharaja Rana of
Dholpur (qv)
- Maharaj Himmat Singh, born 1952, educated at the
Doon School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, married
December 1976 at Lucknow, a Princess of Nepal, and
has issue, a son and a daughter. (New
Delhi, India)
- Rajkumar (name unknown), married February
2008, Preeti Parhiar.
- Rajkumari Kirtishri Kumari
- HH
Farzand-i-Arjmand Akidat Paiwand Daulat-i-Inglishia
Brar Bans Sarmor Maharaja HANUWANT SINGH Malvinder
Bahadur, 9th Maharaja of Nabha (see above)
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