PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Billawar
was the capital till 1630. State annexed in 1816. Rulers were...
- Raja JAS DEV fl.1019
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- Raja KIRTIDHARA fl.1090
- Raja AJYADHARA
- Raja VIJAYADHARA
- Raja VAJRADHARA fl.1110
- Raja VAJRALADHARA c1110/1125
- Raja SURYA DEV c1125/c1150, first to use the suffix 'Dev'
- Raja BHUJ DEV c1150/c1175, married and had issue.
- Raja AUTAR DEV (qv)
- Raja KARAN DEV founder of Jasrota
c1200.
- Raja BHARURAK DEV, feeble-minded eldest son, bypassed in
the
succession,
married and had issue.
- Raja BIR DEV, married and had issue.
- Raja KIRPAL DEV, married and had issue.
- Raja AHL DEV, married and had issue.
- Raja MANAK DEV, conquered some villages near the
town of Ramkot, built
a fort there, which he named after himself and made it his capital,
becoming
the founder of Mankot c1300.
- Raja AUTAR DEV c1175/c1195
- Raja JAS DEV, founded the town of Jasrota, later made the
capital of
Jasrota
State.
- Raja SANGRAM DEV I
- Raja JASAKARA DEV
- Raja CHAK DEV
- Raja BRAJ DEV
- Raja NARSINGH DEV 1272/1314
- Raja ARJU DEV
- Raja JODHA DEV
- Raja MAL DEV fl.c1370
- Raja BHIM DEV
- Raja HAMIR DEV
- Raja AJAB DEV fl.1462
- Raja VIRAMA DEV
- Raja GHOGAR DEV
- Raja KAPUR DEV, during his reign the state was split
between the twin
sons
of the Raja, married and had issue.
- Raja SAMAHAL DEV (qv)
- Raja JAI DEV 1560/1585, received Bahu as his share of the
patrimony,
his
descendants becoming known as Bahuwals, married and had issue.
- Raja PARASRAM DEV of Bahu 1585/1610, married and had
issue.
- Raja KRISHEN DEV of Bahu 1610/1635, married and had
issue.
- Raja AZMAT DEV 1635/1660
- Raja KIRPAL DEV of Bahu 1660/-, last Raja of Bahu,
which was reabsorbed
into the parent state of Jammu, by Raja Hari Dev.
- Raja SAMAHAL DEV 1560/1594, his descendants became known as
Jamwals.
- Raja SANGRAM DEV (son) 1594/1626, died 1626. Ancestor of
the Dalpatpur
Royal Family.
- Raja BHUPAT DEV 1626/c1650
- Raja HARI DEV (grandson of Raja Sangram Dev) 1650/c1675,
during his reign
Bahu was reunited to Jammu, married daughter of Raja SURAJ SEN of Mandi.
Ancestor of the Aknur/Akhnoor Royal Family.
- Raja GAJAI DEV 1675/1703, married and had issue.
- Raja DHRUV DEV 1703/1725, married and had issue.
- Raja BALWANT SINGH (qv)
- Raja RANJIT DEV (qv)
- Mian Surat Singh Dev, married and had issue.
- Mian Dhalla Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Dhaddan Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Mota Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Bibhut Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Bhupa Singh
- Mian Zorawar Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Ghansar Dev, married and had issue.
- Mian Katar Dev, married and had issue.
- Mian Hamir Dev, married and had issue.
- Mian Mahtab Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Labh Singh, married and had issue.
- Daughter, married Raja UMED SINGH of Chamba,
and had issue.
- Raja BALWANT SINGH 1725/1763 of Jasrota, married and had
issue. He died
1763.
- Mian Shyam Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Lahna Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Nihal Singh
- Mian Bir Singh
- Raja RANJIT DEV 1763/1780 or 1750/1781, married and had
issue. He died
1780.
- Raja BRIJRAJ DEV (qv)
- Raja DALEL SINGH (qv)
- Daughter, married 1759 Raja AMRIT PAL of Basohli.
- Raja DALEL SINGH 1780/1782 or 1780/1781, married and had
issue.
- Mian Bhagwant Singh, died 1782.
- Raja JIT SINGH (qv)
- Raja BRIJRAJ DEV 1782/1787, married and had issue. He died
1787.
- Raja SAMPURAN DEV 1787/1797, born 1786, died 1797.
- Raja JIT SINGH 1797/1816, married and had issue. He died
1816.
- Mian Devi Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Nar Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Chatar Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Tara Singh, died 1880.
- Raja Raghubir Dev of Akhrota, married and had issue. He
died 1868.
- Raja Indar Singh of Akhrota, married and had issue. He
died 1895.
- Raja Sant Singh of Akhrota, born 1882. (?Head of the
Senior line of the
Rajas of Jammu 1895/-)
- Raja KISHOR SINGH 1820/1822, Jagirdar of Andarwah, married
and had issue.
He died 1822.
- Maharaja GHULAB SINGH (qv)
- Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Kalan Bahadur DHIAN SINGH, born 22nd
August 1796,
employed
in 1812 by his elder brother, Gulab Singh, as a trooper on a monthly
salary
of sixty rupees, in 1818 became deorhidar or chamberlain to the
royal household. He took part in the battle of Naushera in March 1823.
He was granted a large number of jagirs in the hilly country of Jammu,
including that of Poonch in 1827, and
created
Raja in 1822, and Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Kalan Bahadur on 20th June 1827,
and
further created Naib-us-Salatnat-i-'Azamat, Khairkhwah-i-Samimi-i-Daulat-i-Sirkar-i-Kubra,
Wazir-i-'Azam, Dastur-i-Mu'azzam, Mukhtar-i-Mulk,
made a Wazir, principal minister or counsellor of the Sikh State
1828/1843,
married two princesses of Siba State and had issue. He died 15th
September
1843.
- Raja HIRA SINGH, born 1816 at Ramgarh, about 25 km from
Jammu, Prime
Minister
of the Sikh kingdom of Lahore from 17th September 1843 to 21st December
1844, Maharaja Ranjit Singh conferred upon him the title of Raja in
1828
of Poonch, and of Jasrota in 1834, as well as proclaiming him Farzandi-Khas,
i.e. the favoured son, married the grand-daughter of Mian Fateh Chand
of Kangra-Rajgir
and died sp 21st December 1844.
- Raja JAWAHIR SINGH, 3rd Raja of Poonch.
- Raja MOTI SINGH, 4th Raja of Poonch.
- Raja SUCHET SINGH, born 18th January 1801, in 1822, he
was created Raja
of Bandralta and Samba, as well as Raja of Ramnagar,
he was also made the commander of the Charyari Sowars, Ranjit Singh's
crack
cavalry brigade. He took part in the Peshawar campaigns of 1834/1835
and
1837 and was charged with the administration of Tonk and Bannu area in
1836. In recognition of his services in the Peshawar campaigns, Jasrota
was farmed out to him in July 1835, Atalgarh and Kothi were given him
as
jagirin December 1836, and Nadaun worth 70,000 rupees in May 1838. He
held
jagirs worth 306,865 rupees annually, married, his ranis committed sati.
He died sp 27th March 1844 in Lahore.
- Maharaja GHULAB SINGH 1822/1846, Raja [cr.1820] and
received Jammu soon
after, conquered Kashmir in 1846, becoming the first Maharaja of Jammu
& Kashmir.
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