PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded
about
1100 by the Chandela Rajputs. The state ranked 10th in the
Punjab Darbar (1890). Rulers were...
- Raja AJAI CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1100/1171, son of Raja Kahan Chand of
Kahlur (Bilaspur).
- Raja BIJAI CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1171/1201, born 1171, greatly increased
the internal prosperity of the state, died 1201.
- Raja DHAM CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1201/1236
- Raja BAIRANG CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1236/1276
- Raja LACHMANN CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1276/1306
- Raja UTAL CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1306/1316
- Raja JAIMAL CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1316/1338
- Raja AMAR CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1338/1356
- Raja ALAM CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1356/1406, died 1406.
- Raja UDHAM CHAND,
Raja of Hindur 1406/1421
- Raja BIKRAM CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1421/1435, he built Nalagarh Fort in
1421.
- Raja KIDAR CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1435/1448
- Raja JAI CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1448/1477
- Raja NARAIN CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1477/1522
- Raja RAM CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1522/1568
- Raja SANSAR CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1568/1618
- Raja DHARM CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1618/1701
- Raja HIMMAT CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1701/1705, married and had issue.
- Raja Bhup Chand (qv)
- Mian Padam Chand
- Raja BHUP CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1705/1761?
- Raja MAN CHAND,
Raja of Nalagarh 1761/1762, died about 1762.
- Raja GAJE SINGH,
Raja of Nalagarh 1762/1788, from a collateral branch
of the Nalagarh Royal Family; married and had issue.
- Raja Ram Saran Singh (qv)
- Mian Gopal Singh
- Mian Chapal Singh
- Raja RAM SARAN
SINGH, Raja of Nalagarh 1788/1848, born about
1762, married a Rani from Kangra, and had issue, as
well as further issue by secondary unions. He died
1848.
- Raja Bije Singh (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married Raja Pramodh
Chand of Jasrota, Kangra.
She died sp.
- Mian Fateh Singh (by a Brahmin lady), passed over
in the succession, as he was said to be of unsound
mind; married and had issue. He died 1872.
- Mian Kesri Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Bhagwan Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Govardhan Singh, married and had issue.
- Kanwar Brij Mohan Singh, married and had
issue.
- Kanwar Devendra Singh, married a
daughter of Kanwar Bikram Singh of Dhami.
- Kanwar Bhupendra Singh, married a
daughter of Kanwar Roop Singh of Kawalad,
and has issue.
- Kumari Hamis Kumari, married Kanwar
Rajendra Singh of Kotkhai.
- Kumari Rajpriya Kumari, married Kanwar
Rajendra Singh of Kotkhai.
- Kumari Tripta Kumari, married Kanwar
Mahendra Singh of Ghund, and
has issue.
- Kumari Harpriya Kumari, married Kanwar
Udai Singh of Sialba.
- Kumari Sanyukta Kumari, married Rana
Sodhi Singh of Dhuri.
- Mian Raghbir Singh
- Kumari (name
unknown), married Rai Bahadur Megh
Singh, Rai of Kullu.
- Kumari (name
unknown), married Rai Bahadur Megh
Singh, Rai of Kullu.
- Raja Ugar Singh [Agar Singh] (?by a Brahmin
lady)(qv)
- Mian Bir Singh (by a Brahmin lady), died 1873.
- Raja BIJE SINGH,
Raja of Nalagarh 1848/1857 (deposed), succeeded to the
gaddi in 1848 and was deposed by the British in 1857
for taking part in the rebellion of 1857, married a
daughter of Raja Karam Prakash of Sirmur. He died sp
in 1857.
INTERREGNUM 1857/1860
- Raja AGAR SINGH,
Raja of Nalagarh 1860/1876, born 1804, placed on the
gaddi by the British Government in 1860, Wazir of
Nalagarh; married (a), daughter of a Mian of Jaswan,
married (b), daughter of a Chandel Mian of Bilaspur,
and had issue. He died in December 1876.
- Raja Ishri Singh (by first mariage) (qv)
- Raja Jogendra Singh (by 2nd marriage) (qv)
- Raja ISHRI SINGH,
Raja of Nalagarh 1876/1911, born 1836, succeeded 16th
December 1876 (#1),
married Ranis from Guler, Kangra and Kuthar, but had
no children. He died sp on 18th September 1911
and was succeeded by his younger brother.
 Raja
JOGENDRA SINGH, Raja of Nalagarh 1911/1946,
born 1877 and succeeded 18th September 1911 (#2), educated at Aitchison
Chiefs' College, Lahore; married Kumari Prathiba
Kumari [?Rani Parikshita Kumari / Rani Prathiba Kumari
of Nalagarh], daughter of Thakur Raghunath Chand of Mahilog, District
Solan, H.P., and had issue, four children. He died
1946.
- HH Raja Surendra Singh (qv)
- Rajkumar Arimardan Singh, died as a young boy in
1929.
- Rajkumari Kalawati Kumari, married 11th July 1938,
Rana Bikram Singh, son of Kanwar Govardhan Singh of
Manimajra in Haryana, and had issue, three children.
She died in April 1952.
- Rajkumari Man Pyari Kumari, married 11th July
1938, Kanwar Balbir Singh, son of Kanwar Govardhan
Singh of Manimajra in Haryana, twin brother of Rana
Bikram Singh (see above), both born 15th June 1911,
and had issue, five children.
- HH Raja SURENDRA
SINGH, Raja of Nalagarh 1946/1971, born 13th
January 1922, educated at Aitchison's Chiefs' College
in Lahore, now in Pakistan; married 7th January 1944
at Patiala, Maharaj Kumari Yadhunandan KUmari [HH Rani
(now Rajmata) Yadhunandan Kumari], daughter of
Maj.-Gen. HH Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia
Mansur-i-Zaman Amir-ul-Umra Maharaja Dhiraj Rajeshwar
Sir Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan Bhupendra Singh Mahendra
Bahadur of Patiala,
and had issue. He died 5th May 1971.
- Rajkumari Madhu Nandini (Princess Maggie), born
1st December 1944 at Patiala, married 19th November
1967 (div. 28th August 1985), Captain G. S. Bath,
son of Dr. Teja Singh Bath and Bibi Badhan Kaur,
born 5th February 1939, and has issue, one son and
one daughter.
- Miss Ragnee Singh Bath, born
1968, presently working in Delhi, India.
- Mr. Iknam Singh Bath, born
1969, married Ashima Bath (née Bahl), and
has issue, one daughter.
- Raja Vijayendra Singh (qv)
- Kanwar Karanendra Singh, born 18th March 1948 in
Patiala, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal; married 22nd January 1971, Miss
Sundarjit Kaur [Kanwar Rani Rati Kumari], daughter
of Colonel K. S. Dhaliwal of the Punjab, born 23rd
January 1950. He died sp 16th November 1982
in an automobile accident.
- HH Raja VIJAYENDRA
SINGH, Raja of Nalagarh (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- a daughter of the Raja of Nalagarh, married Kanwar
Madhan Singh of Sirmur,
and had issue.
- Mian Parmindar Singh, married Kumari Sunita Kumari,
born 27th January 1966, daughter of Kanwar Bhupinder
Singh of Jubbal, and
his wife, Kanwarani Chandra Prabha Devi, and has
issue, one daughter.
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born
26th June 1946 in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (now
Uttaranchal), succeded to the throne on 5th May 1971,
educated at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, Uttaranchal
and later at the Yadavendra Public School (Y.P.S.) in
Patiala, Punjab. He finished his schooling from the Doon
School at Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal in 1962 and then
graduated from Hindu College, Delhi University, in 1966.
Member of the Legislative Assembly in the State of
Himachal Pradesh 1977/1999, Chief Parliamentary Secretary
1982/1983, Minister of State 1984/1985 and 1988/1989,
married 7th April 1968 in Chandigarh, U.T., Raymon Singh
[Rani Sukriti Kumari], born 1st September 1948 in Delhi,
educated at Welham Girls' High School in Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal, and graduated from Government Girls' College,
Chandigarh, daughter of Sardar Jaspal Singh of Jandiala
Guru in Amritsar District, Punjab, and of Sardarni
Mohinder Kaur, daughter of the late Sir and Lady Sobha
Singh of New Delhi and Hadali,
and has issue, one son and one daughter.