PRESENT RULER: Thakur
KRISHAN CHAND, present Thakur Saheb of Theog since 10th August
1962. (The Palace, Sainj, Tehsil Theog, District
Simla, Himachal
Pradesh, India)
born 8th August 1933 at Lady Reading Hospital, Simla; succeeded
to the throne on 10th August 1962 and was installed in
January
1963, educated
in Sainj and the Butler High School, Simla; married 26th February 1952,
Kumari Vidya Devi, daughter of Mian Ranjit Singh of Koti State, born
12th
September 1933, and has issue, four children.
- Kumari Vindeshwari Kumari, born 1st March 1953 at
Sainj, married
February
1973 at Chandigarh, Kanwar Ari Daman Singh Doad, youngest brother of
Rana
Gajender Chand of Manswal, born 1947, and has issue, a daughter,
- Kumari Gita Singh, born 1st February
1975.
- Tikka Kirti Chand, born 23rd February 1954 at Sainj;
educated at Saint
Edward's School, Simla and the DAV College at Chandigarh; married
Kumari
Nirupama Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Bhopal Singh of Jubbal,
and has issue, two children.
- Kunwar Shardul Chand, born 26th March 1997 at Lady
Reading Hospital,
Simla.
- Kumari Shivani Kumari, born 20th March 1998 at the
Government
Hospital,
Jubbal.
- Kunwar Bhim Singh, born 19th November 1955 at
Sainj, educated
at Saint Edward's School, Simla; married 6th July 1981, Kumari
Kaushalya
Devi, daughter of Mian Sohan Singh of Ratesh, born 30th December
1957, and has issue, two children.
- Kanwar Vapush Man Singh, born 16th July 1982 at the
Government
Hospital,
Theog.
- Kanwar Anshuman Singh, born 10th May 1985 at Sainj.
- Kumari Veereshwari Kumari, born 8th January 1958 at
Snowdon
Hospital,
Simla; married 7th December 1978, Kanwar Ravender Pal of Kutlehar,
born 1948, and has issue, a
daughter
and a son.
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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The
rulers share a common line of descent with the founders of Ghund and
Madhan,
who were all together sons of a Chandel Rajput of Jaipur. The state was
made subordinate to Keonthal by a sanad of September 1815.
Estate holders
were....
- Thakur BHUP CHAND,
Thakur of Theog 1847/1866, succeeded to the throne in
1847,
married and had issue, three children. He died 1866.
- Thakur Hari Chand (qv)
- Kanwar Nand Singh, born 1855, married and had issue,
one son.
- Mian Hira Singh, married and had issue, four sons.
- Mian Jai Singh
- Mian Narayan Singh
- Mian Parmatma Singh
- Mian Kishan Singh
- Kanwar Nitu Singh, born 1860.
- Thakur HARI CHAND,
Thakur of Theog 1866/1892, born 1840, succeeded to the
throne in
1866, married two wives, including a daughter of Rana of Balsan, and
had issue, five children.
- Thakur Shumsher Chand (qv)
- Kanwar Madan Singh , born 1864.
- Kanwar Goverdhan Singh (by 2nd wife), born 1870,
married and had issue, one son.
- Kanwar Bijey Singh, born 1876, married and had
issue, one son.
- Kanwar Karam Singh, born 1880, married a daughter of
Kanwar
Madan Singh of Ratesh, she died in
1909.
- Thakur SHUMSHER CHAND,
Thakur of Theog 1892/1909, born 1859/1860, succeded
in
1892, married and had issue, three children. He
died
1909.
- Thakur Padam Chand (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married (as his first
wife), Rana Ram Saran
Singh of Khotkhai.
- Kanwar Kharak Singh, born 1889, married a Kumari of
Khaneti, and had issue, four children.
- Kanwar Shiv Singh
- Kanwar Kedar Singh
- Kanwar Inder Singh
- Kanwar Guman Singh, married and had issue, six
children, three sons and three daughters.
- Kumari Tara Devi, born 10th September 1956,
married Rajkumar Gandharva Singh, third son of Rana Raghunath Singh of Kotkhai.
- Kumari Pushpa Devi [Thakurani Pushpa Devi of Beja],
married (as his second wife), 1986, Thakur Vijay
Chand of Beja, and has issue.
- Thakur PADAM CHAND,
Thakur of Theog 1909/1940, born 1886, succeeded to the
throne and
was installed in 1909, married 1stly, a Kumari of Keonthal,
married 2ndly, Rajkumari (name
unknown), daughter of the Rana Sahib [?Attar Singh] of Balsan, and had
issue, one son and one daughter by 1st wife, and two sons by the 2nd
wife. He
died
June 1940.
- Thakur Karan Chand (by 1st wife)
(qv)
- Kumari (name unknown)
(by 1st wife), married Rana Vashisht Chand of Koti
in Shimla, and had issue, five children.
- Kunwar Mohan Singh (by 2nd wife), married (a), Kumari
Padmawati Devi, daughter of Rana Shamsher Singh of Ratesh, married (b),
another daughter of Rana Shamsher Singh of Ratesh,
and had issue.
- Kunwar Kidar Singh (by 2nd wife), Thakur of Kiar in
Theog, married the daughter
of Kanwar Shiv Singh of Ghund, and his
wife, Kanwarani Surti Devi, and
had issue, five children.
- Kanwar Raghubir Singh, Thakur of Kiar in
Theog, born 1942.
- Kumari Uma Devi, born 1944, married 1961, Kanwar
Jitender
Singh, son of Mian Lachchman Singh of Thog in Bhajji, and has issue,
one
son.
- Kanwar Kameshwar Singh, born 1946, married 1982,
Kanwarani Madhu Kumari of Dhami, and
has issue, a son and a daughter.
- Kanwar Rajinder Singh, born 1948, married Kanwarani
Shakuntala
Kumari, daughter of Thakur Devinder Singh of Madhan,
and his first wife,
Thakurani Dwarka Devi, and has issue, two sons and a daughter.
- Kanwar Someshwar Singh, born in 1950, married December
1985, a Kumari of Madhan, and has issue, a daughter.
- Kumari (name unknown),
born 29th May 1987.
- Thakur KARAN CHAND,
Thakur of Theog 1940/1962, born 30th November 1904 at
Parala, Theog;
educated privately and succeeded to the throne in December 1940, he
signed the merger treaty with the Union Government of India in 1948,
married 1stly, a Kumari from Rawingarh, married 2ndly, Kumari Triveni
Devi,
sister of Rao Madho Singh of Suwhli estate in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh,
born 1911, died 1938, and had issue, three children. He died 10th
August
1962 at Simla.
- Thakur Krishan Chand (qv)
- Kumari Savitri Devi, born December 1935, died
unmarried May 1977.
- Kumari Shakuntala Devi, born 30th December 1937,
married 26th February 1971, Thakur Baiju Singh from Kumaon, born 1934,
and has issue, two children, a son
and a daughter. (New Delhi, India).
- Kunwar Siddarth Singh, born
April 1973, died November
1986.
- Kumari Urvashi Devi, born 8th
September 1974 at New Delhi, married Shri Sagar Shumsher Jung Bahadur
Rana of Nepal.
- Thakur KRISHAN CHAND,
Thakur of Theog (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Kumari Kasho Devi, married Mian Ram Singh of Ghund, and had issue.
- Kanwar Bhim
Singh, married Kumari Kaushalya Devi, daughter of Kanwar Sohan Singh of
Ratesh, and his wife,
Kanwarani Shanti
Devi, and had issue.
- Kanwar Udham Singh of Jagir Kanali in Theog, married and
had issue.
- Kumari Kala
Devi, married Rajkumar Ajan Singh of Ratesh,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Sunder Singh from Khanali Jagir of Theog, married
and had issue.
- Kumari Tara Devi, married Rajkumar Govardhan Singh of Ratesh, and has issue.
- Kanwar Kehar Singh of Jagir Kaushya in Theog, married and
had issue.
- Kumari Savitri
Devi, married Rajkumar Sudarshan Singh of Ratesh,
and has issue.
- Kanwar Sukham Singh, married and has issue.
- Kumari Uma Devi, married Kanwar Dhaneshwar Singh of Ratesh, and has issue.
- Kumari Vidya Devi, married (as his second wife), Raja
Rajendra Chand,
5th Raja of Nadaun, and had issue.
- Kanwar Durga Singh of Theog,
and had issue.
- Kanwarani Leela Kumari, married Kanwar Someshwar Singh of
Kotkhai, and has issue.
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