PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded
around 1100AD, Jubbal State lies east of Simla between Sirmur and
Rampur-Bushahr.
Rawingarh and Dhadi were the tributaries of this state. The state
forests
are among the best and most valuable of the kind in India and were
worked
departmentally during the reign of Raja Rana Bhagat Chand. Occupied by
Nepal 1803/1815 and by the British 1832/1840. Rulers were...
- Rana UGRAN CHAND c1519/1527, married and had issue. He died
1527.
- Rana KARAN CHAND (qv)
- Mian Duni Chand, he was granted the jagir of of Rawingarh.
- Mian Mool Singh, he was granted the jagir of Sairi.
- Rana KARAN CHAND 1527/1558, born c1499, married and had
issue. He died
1558.
- Rana AMAR CHAND 1558/1575, born c1529, married and had
issue. He died
1575.
- Rana AMBOO CHAND 1575/1616, born c1553, married and had
issue. He died
1616.
- Rana KIRTI CHAND 1616/1629, born c1568, married and had
issue, 4 sons.
He died in 1629.
- Rana BHAG CHAND (qv)
- Mian Ganesh Chand
- Mian Hem Singh
- Mian Jalap Singh, Thakur Sahib of Kohlara, married and
had issue, three
sons, whose descendents live in Village Sillori, Pargana Peontra,
Chopal,
in southern Jubbal State.
- Kanwar Balibhadra Singh
- Kanwar Sudama Singh
- Kanwar Nerodh Singh
- Rana BHAG CHAND 1629/1676, born 1585, he was captured by
the Raja of
Garhwal,
and was a prisoner for several years in that state. His youngest
brother,
Rajkumar Jalap Singh, took over a part of Jubbal State known as Kohlara
and became independent of Jubbal at Kohlara. He became the Thakur Sahib
of Kohlara, which was a part of northern Jubbal State. When the exiled
Bhag Chand returned to Jubbal, Jalap Singh was forced to flee to Sirmur
and died in prison in Nahan. On the return of Rana Bhag Chand to Jubbal
after many years, his subjects would not believe he was their ruler,
since
he was very good in archery, he performed some feats which convinced
his
people that he was indeed their real Rana! He married and had issue and
died in 1676 aged 91.
- Rana NARAIN CHAND (qv)
- Mian Kishen Chand
- Mian Gogar Singh
- Rana NARAIN CHAND 1676/1680, born 1615, married and had
issue. He died
1680.
- Rana TAREM CHAND (qv)
- Mian Deep Chand
- Rana TAREM CHAND 1680/1681, married and had issue. He died
1681.
- Rana ROOP CHAND (qv)
- Rana TEGH CHAND (qv)
- Rana ROOP CHAND 1681/1690, died sp 1690.
- Rana TEGH CHAND 1690/1699, married and had issue.
- Rana GOHAR CHAND 1699/1720, born 1660's, married and had
issue. He died
1720.
- Rana NARPAT CHAND (qv)
- Mian Karam Chand
- Mian Dhan Singh
- Rana NARPAT CHAND 1720/1738, born 1680, married and had
issue. He died
1738.
- Rana YOG CHAND (qv)
- Mian Atal Singh
- Rana YOG CHAND 1738/1758, born 1712, married and had issue.
He died
1758.
- Rana HUKAM CHAND (qv)
- Rana PARAS CHAND (qv)
- Mian Khinchir Singh, attempted to seize power in Jubbal
in 1773, but
was
defeated and exiled. He died in Sirmur.
- Mian Tharu Singh
- Mian Mimtu Singh
- Rana HUKAM CHAND 1768/1773, born 1740, died sp 1773
- Rana PARAS CHAND 1773/1802, born 1753 at Jubbal, married
and had issue.
He died 1802.
- Mian Rasbal Singh, died young vpsp.
- Rana PURAN CHAND (qv)
- Rana PURAN CHAND 1802/1839 (abdicated), born 1772,
confirmed in his
state
by a sanad dated 18th November 1815, abdicated in favour of
the
British Government who appointed a Tahsildar to administer the
state
on their behalf, married 1stly, a lady from Rawingarh, and had issue.
He
died 1843.
- Rana KARAM CHAND (by Rawingarh lady) (qv)
- Rana KARAM CHAND 1839/1877, born 1835, granted full ruling
powers in
1854,
married 7 wives, and had issue. He died 17th March 1877 at Chopal in
Southern
Jubbal.
- Rana PADAM CHAND (qv)
- Rajkumar Gambhir Chand, born 1864, granted a jagir of
2,000Rs in value,
married twice, and had issue, 4 sons. He died 14th December 1924?.
- Kanwar Shamsher Singh, born in 1884.
- Kanwar Shiv Singh, born in 1886.
- HH Maharani Brinda Devi [née Kumari Brinda Devi]
(by the 2nd
wife,
from Koti in H.P.), born 11th January 1892, married Tikka Raja Paramjit
Singh [later HH Maharaja PARAMJIT SINGH of Kapurthala],
and had issue. She died May 1962 at Woodville Palace, Simla.
- Kanwar Mahinder Singh, born 1893, died July 1977 in
Simla.
- Kumari Bhawani Devi, born 1898, married the Raja of
Tajpur, now in
District
Bijnaur in U.P., and had issue. She died 1970.
- Kumari Madhwi Devi [later Rani Madhwi Devi], born 1899,
married the
Darbar
Shri ALA VAJSUR KHACHAR of Jasdan, and had
issue.
She died 1998 in New Delhi.
- Kanwar Rajinder Singh, born 1900, married and had
issue. He died
January
1996 in New Delhi.
- Rani Vidya Devi, born October 1942, married October
1983, Raja Saheb
JAI
SINGH of Jaipur/Jhalai.
- Kumari Shree Devi, born 1947, married 1stly (div.),
Mr. Arun Somdutt of
Kolcutta, married 2ndly, Sardar Tejinder Singh of New Delhi, and has
issue,
by 1st marriage.
- Vivaan Somdutt, born in 1984.
- Kumari Kamala Devi, born 1901, married Major General
Sheo Dutt Singh, a
Rajput from Bikaner in Rajasthan. She died in 1959.
- Kumari (name unknown), married 1873, Raja NARENDRA
CHAND of Nadaun,
now in District
Hamirpur in H.P.
- Rana PADAM CHAND 1877/1898, born 1862, succeeded 17th March
1877 (#1),
married 4 wives, 1stly, a Princess of Delath in H.P., married 2ndly, a
Princess from the Katoch family of Dehra Gopipur in Nurpur, Kangra,
H.P.,
married 3rdly, a Princess from Rawingarh in District Shimla, married
4thly,
1887, a Princess from Sairi in District Shimla, and had issue, 11 sons.
He died 1898 in Jubbal.
- Rajkumar Bharat Chand, born 1880, died 1883.
- Rajkumar Sudhar Chand, died 1886.
- Rajkumar Pratap Chand, died 1887.
- Rajkumar Uday Chand, died 1890.
- HH Rana GYAN CHAND (qv)
- HH Raja Rana Sir BHAGAT CHAND Bahadur (qv)
- Rajkumar Ishwari Singh, born 2nd September 1890, married
to a Rajput
lady
(name not known) from Badyar in Himachal Pradesh and had issue, 2 sons.
He died 1936.
- Kanwar Raghubir Singh, born 1916, he contested the
Vidhan Sabha election from Chopal in 1957 on a Congress ticket and lost
to an independent candidate. He died in 1958.
- Kanwar Bhawani Singh, born 1919, married Raj Kumari
Krishna Kumari,
daughter
of Rana Dharam Singh of Dhadi, and had
issue, 3 sons. He died in 1998.
- Kanwar Surinder Singh, born
1953,
married 1975, Kanwar Rani
Snehlata Kumari, daughter of Rana Krishen Chand of Khaneti
State, elected as a Zila Parishad member from the Nerwa Ward in
Chopal Constituency in District Shimla in December 2005, and has issue,
3 daughters.
- Kumari Ruchi Kumari
- Kumari Ambika Kumari
- Kumari (name unknown)
- Kanwar Uday Singh, born 2nd February 1957, married
Kumari
Kalpana Kumari of
Tharoch
State, born September 1965, and has issue, 2 sons.
- Dushyant Singh, born 10th May 1983 in Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal; educated
in Tharoch and at Delhi University.
- Sidharth Singh, born 27th July 1985, educated at
Nerwa and in Simla.
- Kanwar Kuldeep Singh, born 1962, married Kumari
Rajeshwari
Kumari of Khaneti
State,
Simla Hills, and has issue, two sons.
- Drishtant Singh, born 1988 at Jubbal.
- Abhinav Singh, born 1993 at Nerwa.
- Rajkumar Nigham Singh, born 1891, died sp 1917.
- Rajkumar Lakshmi Singh, born 1893, died 7th April 1894.
- Rajkumar Kishan Singh, born 16th January 1897, married a
Rajput lady
from
Kunihar State in District Solan, and had issue, 4 children, three
daughters
and a son. He died 24th April 1974.
- Kumari Ramawati Kumari, married Thakur Pratap Singh of
Ghund in Simla,
and had issue, 4 children. She died 24th April 1974.
- Kumari Kamla Kumari, born 1932, married 1951, Mian
Avtar Singh
Mankotia,
and has issue, 2 sons.
- Kumari Lalita Kumari, born 1934, married Girdhar Singh
of Kotah, son of
Aapji Chattar Singh of Kotah, ADC to Her Highness the Rajmata Sahiba of
Kotah, and has issue, 2 children, a son and a daughter.
- Vijay Singh, born 1957, married to
a
Rajput lady from Sahibabad
in U.P.
- Kalpna Kumari, born 1958, married
28th
May 1987 to Kuldeep
Singh, son of Kanwar Narbir Singh of Sirmaur State.
- Kanwar Bhopal Singh, born 1st February 1935 in Jubbal,
married Kumari
Urmilla
Devi, daughter of Lieutenant Thakur Nand Singh, (ADC to H.H. The
Maharaja
of Jhalawar), born on 13th April 1940 at Jhalawar, and had issue, 3
children.
He died 1st June 2000.
- Kumari Rajeshwari Devi, born 5th December 1961 at
Jubbal, married 28th
November 1983, Chetan Singh of Narsingarh in M.P., and has issue, 2
children.
- Yaksht Pratap Singh, born 10th
April
1985 at Vidisha in M.P.
- Kumari Deepshika Kumari, born
1987.
- Harshvardhan singh, born 8th February 1963 at
Jhalawar, married May
1992,
Kumari Gita Devi, daughter of Thakur Roop Singh of Sirmaur, and has
issue,
2 children.
- Suryavardhan Singh, born 1st September 1994 in
Jubbal.
- Kumari Vaishali Kumari, born 26th December 1996 in
Jubbal.
- Kumari Nirupama Kumari, born 8th March 1965 at Jagir
Kerag in Chopal in
Southern Jubbal, married Tikka Kirti Chand, son of Thakur
Krishan Chand of Theog, and has issue, 2
children, a son and a daughter.
- Raj Kumar Shardul Chand,
born 26th March 1997.
- Raj Kumari Shivani Kumari,
born 20th March 1998 at
Jubbal.
- Rajkumar Durga Singh, born 15th July 1897, when Rana Gyan
Chand of
Jubbal died in 1910, without having any children, his mother
claimed the throne for Rajkumar Durga Singh on the grounds that she was
the senior most Rajmata of Jubbal State and that her second son,
Rajkumar Durga Singh, should be made the ruler of Jubbal as he was the
full brother of Rana Gyan Chand. She filed a case at the High Court of
Calcutta in Bengal (there was no Supreme Court in India in those days)
and even went there herself to Calcutta, which was nearly 2,000
kilometers away, (there were no aeroplanes then and Calcutta was the
capital of India in 1910). However, the judgement went in favour of
Rana Bhagat Chand, as in the eyes of the British Government, all legal
wives of the ruler were of equal rank, and the throne would pass to the
next elder son, regardless of whether he was a full or step brother of
the deceased ruler. He married four wives, the first two were from
Dhami State, the third was from Bhajji State and
the fourth, Kumari Mangla Devi, died 2000, also from Dhami State, and
had issue,
14 children.
- Kanwar Bhupinder Singh, born 23rd July 1923 at Jubbal,
married October 1950, Kumari Chandra Prabha Devi of Baghat State, and
had issue, 2 daughters. He died 13th June 2000 in Solan, Himachal
Pradesh.
- Kumari Lata Kumari, born 1952, married 1972,
Kunwar Uma Pratap Singh of Isenagarh in Uttar Pradesh, killed in an
automobile accident in 1991, and has issue, 2 sons.
- Divya Singh, born 2nd March 1975.
- Rudra Pratap Singh, born November 1979.
- Kumari Sunita Kumari, born 27th January 1966,
married Mian Parmindar Singh of Nalagarh, District Solan, and has
issue, one daughter.
- Kumari Vedpriya Kumari, born 1924, married Maharaj
Umrao Singh of Thikana Indargarh in Kotah State, Rajasthan, and had
issue, one daughter. She died in 1998.
- Kanwar Jagdish Singh, born 1926, died unmarried 22nd
June 1983.
- Kumari Tejwati Kumari, born 1926, married Salam Singh
of Bikaner, Rajasthan.
- Kanwar Bhairav Singh (by the second wife), born
December 1935, married 1966, Kumari Shakuntala Devi of Kumharsain
State, and had issue, 2 sons and a daughter. He died 12th June 1986.
- Sagar Singh, born 1968, married 26th April 2001 at
Simla, Kumari Jayanti Devi, daughter of Mian Mahinder Singh of
Kumharsain State, and has issue, one daughter.
- Dharmender Singh, born 1970.
- Kumari Raj Rajeshwari Kumari, born 1973, married
Surrinder Singh of Shivan, and has issue, a daughter and a son.
- Kumari Shruti Kunwar.
- (name
unknown) Singh
- Kanwar Rajender Singh (by the third wife), married
1971. He died in a car accident in 1971, having been married for only
10 days.
- Kanwar Birendra Singh (by third wife), married Kumari
Sheila Devi of Tharoch State, and had issue, 2 sons and a daughter. He
died in 1997.
- Kumari Pushpa Devi
- Kamlesh Singh, married Kumari Nimya Devi, daughter of
Thakur Roop Singh.
- Rajendra Singh, married Kumari Usha Devi of Sirmur.
- Kumari Santosh Kumari
- Kumari Maheshwari Kumari, married Mian Vikram Singh of
Khaneti.
- Kumari Bhagyawati Kumari, married Shakti Mohan Singh, a
Rajput gentleman from Uttar Pradesh.
- Kanwar Homendra Singh (Prince Jathu) (by the fourth
wife), born 1938, a Forest and Public Works Department contractor and
contested several Panchayat elections successfully, married
Kanwar Rani Gyan Devi of Tharoch State, died 1st May 2008 at Dehra Dun,
and had issue, 6 children, 4
daughters and 2 sons. He died 1984.
- Kumari Radha Kumari, married in Dehra Dun,
Uttaranchal, Raghvinder Singh from Banjara, and has issue, 3 daughters.
- Kumari Anita Kumari, married Raj
Kumar Ravinder Singh of Dhadi, second son of Rana Narinder Singh
of Dhadi, born 1958, and has issue, 2
sons.
- Kumari Ranjana Kumari (third daughter), married Tikka
Sahib Hamendra Singh, son of Rana Narendra Singh of Kotkhai.
- Kumari Rekha Kumari, married Mian Narender Singh of
Bhajji State.
- Yudhvir Singh, born 1969, married Raj Kumari Kusam
Kumari, daughter of Thakur Devinder Chand of Madhan State, and has
issue, 1 son and 1 daughter.
- Shubhan Singh, born 1996,
- Kumari Kritika Kumari, born 1997.
- Karanvir Singh, born 1972.
- Kanwar Narendra Singh (by the fourth wife), born 1943,
married Kumari Vimla Devi, daughter of Mian Devi Singh of Tharoch
State, and has issue, 4 children, 2 daughters and 2 sons.
- Kumari Hemlata Devi
- Kumari Rajeshwari Devi
- Rajir Singh
- (name unknown)
Singh
- Kanwar Shamsher Singh (by the fourth wife), born 1944,
married Kumari Shanti Devi, and has issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters. He
died in 1995.
- Hemant Singh
- Vinod Singh
- Kumari Ritu Devi
- Pravin Devi
- Kanwar Balbir Singh, born 1948, served in the Indian
army as a Non-Commissioned Officer, married Kumari Krishna Kumari,
daughter of Mian Lal Singh of Tharoch State, and has issue, 2
sons.
- Rajkumari Indumati Devi (daughter of the Dehra Gopipur
Rani), married
(as
his 3rd wife) 1904, Raja BIJEY SEN of Keonthal.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) Sahiba (by the Bhadiyar,
H.P. Rani),
married
(as his fourth wife) 1904, Raja BIJEY SEN of Keonthal.
She died sp.
- Daughter3, married Yuvraj Bhagwant Singh of Orchha, and
had issue, a
daughter.
- Daughter4, married Raja BIKRAM SINGH of Baghal,
now in District Solan.
- Rajkumari Shyama Devi, married Raja BIKRAM SINGH of Baghal.
- HH Rana GYAN CHAND 1898/1910, born 1887, educated at
Aitchison Chief's
College, Lahore; married 1stly, 1904, sister of Raja Pratap Bikram Shah
of Khairigarh-Singhai, married 2ndly, 1904, Rani Sita Devi, died in
Hardwar
in 1980, sister of Raja Pratap Bikram Shah of Khairigarh-Singhai.
He died sp 29th April 1910.
 HH
Raja Rana Sir BHAGAT CHAND Bahadur 1910/1946, born 12th October 1888,
Raja
(Hereditary) [cr.1918], K.C.S.I. [cr.1936], C.S.I. [cr.1928], educated
at Aitchison's Chiefs College in Lahore, Pakistan and graduated with a
diploma in 1907, Zamindar in the Dehra Dun District of Uttaranchal, as
well as owner of extensive properties in Simla, Delhi and Jagadhri in
Haryana.
He attended the Coronation Durbar of Their Imperial Majesties King
George
the Fifth and Queen Mary at Delhi in 1911. He represented the Simla
Hill
States in the Council of Princes from 1921 to 1924, he was elected a
Member
of the Standing Committee of the Chamber of Princes in 1939. He created
an Endowment Trust Fund to make Education and Medical Relief free and
independent
of the State in memory of his late father, Rana Padam Chand Bahadur of
Jubbal State. He abolished many small taxes in the State on the
Occasion
of his Silver Jubilee in 1935. He made an extensive tour round the
world
accompanied by the Rani Sahiba fom 1932 to 1934. He abdicated from the
throne on 12th October 1946, in favour of his eldest son Tikka Digvijay
Chand, after ruling for 36 years. During his long reign, Jubbal State
made
great economic progress, 18 Forest Rest Houses were constructed in
Chopal,
the Southern portion of Jubbal State and one at Deorah, the capital of
Jubbal State, which is in the Northern part of the State. The State was
one of the first Princely Kingdoms to avail itself of electricity with
the construction of a hydro-electric plant in 1924. Education and
Medical
Services were made free by him in the State and the Raja Sahib
established
a college of higher education for his subjects in Simla, married 1stly,
1912 Rani Tara Devi, (cousin of the Raja of Keonthal), died 1918,
married
2ndly, 11th May 1919, Rani Bai Shri Leila Ba Kunverba Sahiba of Gondal,
born 14th February 1893 in Gondal, died 7th March 1975 at New Delhi,
and
had issue. He died on 5th October 1951 at Woodville Palace, Simla,
leaving
behind an efficient and modern state with sound finances.
- HH Raja Rana DIGVIJAY CHAND [Prince Digbee] (by 1st
marriage)(qv).
- Rajkumar Narbir Chand [Prince Noor] (by 1st marriage),
born 31st July
1914
at Jubbal, educated at the Aitchison's Chiefs College, Lahore (now in
Pakistan),
married 1937, Kumari Balbir Wati, a Rajput lady from the noble family
of
Ramgarh, now in Haryana, died in 2002 at Dehra Dun, and had issue, 3
children.
He died 13th January 1986 in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal.
- Kumari Kusum Devi, born in 1939, married to Mr. Mohan
Krishan Wazeer
from
Jammu and Kashmir and has issue, 3 children.
- a son, born 25th January 1959.
- Ajay Vir Wazeer, born 13th October
1962.
- Anupama Wazeer, born on 23rd April
1968.
- Kanwar Yashodhar Singh, born 31st August 1942, educated
at Col. Brown's
School in Dehra Dun and later did his Bachelor's Degree from Government
College, Chandigarh. He worked as a Manager for Solan Breweries
Limited,
Solan. He died unmarried 26th June 1990 in Dehra Dun.
- Kanwar Karan Vir Singh, born 30th January 1950,
educated at Col.Brown's
School in Dehra Dun and did his Bachelor's Degree from Government
College
for Men at Bhopal, M.P. He is a commercial pilot with Indian Airlines,
married 1stly in February 1975 (div. 1977), Rajkumari Indra Devi,
daughter
of the late Raja CHANDRA CHUR PRASAD SINGH Deo of Udaipur
in Chattisgarh, married 2ndly, 10th July 1981, Kumari Preeti Devi,
daughter
of a Kanwar Sahib of Kutch in Gujarat, and has had issue, one son by
each
wife.
- Siddarth Singh (by 1st wife), born 25th April
1976.
- Bhriguraj Singh (by 2nd wife), born 14th September
1982.
- Rajkumar Lokendra Singh [Prince Lokhra] (by 1st
marriage), born 18th
November
1915 in Jubbal, educated at Aitchison's Chiefs College, Lahore (now in
Pakistan), officer in the Indian Forest Service and was a Conservator
of
Forests, married 1945, Kumari Ramneek Kumari, a Rajput lady from
Surendranagar
in Gujerat (married 2ndly, 1969, Colonel K.N.Bhalla), died 1986, and
had
issue. He died 7th June 1959 at Mandi, H.P.
- Kanwar Surrinder Singh, born 20th April 1952, educated
at Doon School,
Dehra Dun, and earned his Bachelor's Degree from Hindu College, Delhi
University
in 1974, married 21st April 1977, Kumari Uma Devi, daughter of Rana Ram
Chandra Sinhji of Vana in Gujerat, born 25th January 1954. He died sp
September 1989 at Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal.
- HH Rani Umawati Devi (by 1st marriage), born 1916,
married 18th May
1931,
HH Raja Sir ANAND CHAND of Bilaspur.
She
died March 1961.
-
 Lt.-Col.
Rajkumar Birendra Singh [Prince Baby] (by 2nd marriage), born 15th May
1920 at Jubbal, educated at the Prince of Wales Military School in
Dehra
Dun, commissioned (I.C. 365) as a Second Lieutenant from the Indian
Military
Academy (I.M.A.) in Dehra Dun in December 1940, first served as an
officer
in King George the Fifth's Nineteenth Lancers (now in Pakistan), later
he was in the Rajputana Rifles, commandant of the 16th Sikhs Regiment,
he served in the Burma Campaign in the Second World War 1939-1945 and
was
shot in the leg and was sent back to India for recuperation. He was
awarded
the following medals whilst in the Army: namely, the Coronation Medal
of
1937 and of 1953, the Medal of 1939/45, the Burma, Africa and Pacific
Stars,
the Defence, War and I.G.S. Medals of 1945 and the Indian
Independence
Medal of 1947. He retired from the army in 1953 and lived at Woodville
Palace, Simla till his death. He was a keen hunter in his leisure-time.
He married Maharajkumari Ourmilla Devi of Kapurthala,
[Rajkumar Rani Ourmilla Devi of Jubbal], and had issue. He died 15th
May
1961 at Simla (#2).
-
 Kanwar Uday
Singh, born 25th October 1949 in Saint Elizabeth's Nursing Home in
Bombay,
Maharashtra, Managing Director & C.E.O. of Woodville Palace Resorts
Private Limited, C.E.O.of Woodville Orchards (which has 54 acres and
4,000
apple trees, being near Village Sillori in Pargana Peontra in Chopal,
which
is in the southern part of Jubbal State), educated at Chalet Nursery
Day
School and at Bishop Cotton School in Simla, later in 1967, joined
Hindu
College, Delhi University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (History,
1970) and Master of Arts (History, 1972), became a permanent member of
Delhi Gymkhana Club in 1972, a life member of the National Rifle
Association
of India in 1974, President of the Himachal Pradesh Karate Association
from 1983/1990, appointed President of District Shimla Kisan (Farmers)
Congress in 1991 and still holds this post, President of the
Chopal-Nerwa
(part of former Jubbal State) Fruit Grower's Association, an elected
member
of the Himachal Pradesh State Congress Committee (P.C.C.) since 1993
and
still holds this post, a Director of the H.P. State Land Use and
Wasteland
Development Board, former member of the Telecom Advisory Committee,
Simla,
from 1994 to 1998, member of The Indian Heritage Hotels Association of
India since 1995, member of The All India Hotel and Restaurants
Federation
of India, member of I.T.C.Welcome Heritage (a chain which markets 40
palace
hotels in India), Member of the Pacific Asian Travel Association,
(P.A.T.A.)
Indian Chapter, and also a Member of the Confederation of Indian
Industry
(C.I.I.), unsuccessfully contested the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha
State
Legislature elections in October 1993 from Chopal constituency in
District
Shimla on an Indian National Congress (INC) ticket, elected to the
Bishop Cotton School Old Cottonians' Association (Simla Chapter) for a
year as executive member on 6th November 2005; President of The
International Wilderness Association; interests include
philately
and numismatics, enjoys reading, surfing the net and listening to
western
music of the sixties and seventies (the Doors are a favourite rock
group, as well as the Beatles and Elvis Presley), a collector of rare
books
and
a keen squash player, married 12th December 1976 at Lucknow, U.P.,
Rajkumari
Vibhuti Shah of Khairigarh, U.P.
[Kanwar
Rani Vibhuti Singh of Jubbal], born 23rd February 1951 at Lucknow,
educated
at Loreto Convent School, Lucknow, and graduated from Loreto Convent
College,
Lucknow; contested the District Simla Zila
Parishad election in
December
1995 from Kedi-Kupvi ward in Tehsil Chopal (now in Southern Jubbal
State)
and defeated her opponent by a record margin of 8,352 votes, a member
for
5 years, up to December 2000, and has issue. (Woodville
Palace,
Raj Bhawan Road, Simla - 171002, District Simla, H.P., India)
 Diviya
Kumari, born 19th January 1979 at New Delhi, educated at Chalet Day
Nursery
School and later at The Convent of Jesus and Mary. She finished her
schooling
at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, Simla Hills. She then did her
Bachelors
in Business Administration from The Indian Institute of Learning in
Management
(I.I.L.M.), Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, and passed out in 2000; initially
a Director and now an Executive Director in Woodville Palace Resorts
Private Limited,
Shimla; married 8th October 2009 at Woodville Palace, Shimla, Angad
Singh Sandhu, son of Mr. Satinder Jeet Singh Sandhu, Chairman and
Managing Director of Shivalik Bimetal Controls Limited in Chambaghat,
District Solan - 173 213, and his wife, Mrs. Sarita Singh Sandhu.
 Divraj
Singh, born 2nd December 1982 at Lucknow, educated at Chalet Day
Nursery
School and later at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, Simla Hills, and
ended
his schooling from Bishop Cotton School, Simla, securing a First
Division; he has undertaken a course in Hotel Management from The Merit
Swiss-Asian
School of Hotel Management in Ooty, Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Naidu State,
South
India and in August 2006, achieved a first division in Hotel Management
from the University of Tamil Nadu and is now (2006) working as a
full time Executive Director at Woodville Palace.
- Kumari Neira Devi, born 8th December 1944 at Portmore
Sanitorium (a
British
hospital), educated at Chalet Nursery Day School and at Tara Hall
Convent,
passing out in 1960, later at St. Bede's College for women (Bachelor's
Degree), teacher at Chalet Nursery Day School in Simla, Ground Hostess
in New Delhi for Air India in 1966, married 4th April 1968, Mr.Ashok
Sikand
of New Delhi, born 18th October 1941, Director in Sikand and Company,
New
Delhi, and Managing Director of Sikand Motors, New Delhi, died 5th
October
1983 at New Delhi, and has issue, a daughter and a son.
- Tara Sikand, born 15th April 1972
in
New Delhi, married 11th
April 1993 at New Delhi, Bir Singh Atwal, son of Sardar and Sardarni K.
S. Atwal of Punjab, born 14th November 1967, and has issue, a
daughter.
- Miss Gayatri Singh Atwal, born
10th
December 1994 at New
Delhi.
- Viraj Sikand, born 11th September
1976
in New Delhi.
- HH Maharani Ila Devi (by 2nd marriage), born 16th April
1923 at Jubbal,
married 5th May 1940 at Woodville Palace, Yuvaraj Harish Chandra Singh
[later HH Maharaja Rana HARISCH CHANDRA SINGH] of Jhalawar,
and has issue. She died 3rd February 2007 in the Sawai Man Singh
Medical College Hospital, Rajasthan.
- HH Raja Rana DIGVIJAY CHAND [Prince Digbee] 1946/1966, born
1913,
educated at the Aitchison's Chiefs College in Lahore, now in Pakistan,
Honourary A.D.C. to the President of India, Dr.Rajendra Prasad, from
1957 to 1960, held the Honarary rank of Major in the Brigade of Guards,
married
31st January 1932, Rani Hemant Kanwar, sister of the Raja of Narsingarh,
born 13th September 1913, died 11th March 1964, and had issue. He died
30th December 1966.
- Maharani Devender Kumari, born 13th July 1933 in Simla,
married 21st
April
1948 at Woodville Palace, Maharaja MADANESHWAR SINGH Deo of Surguja,
and has issue.
- Rajkumari Rattan Kumari, born 16th August 1934 in Jubbal,
married 28th
May 1954, HH Raja VIRBHADRA SINGH of Bashahr,
(currently the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh for a record fifth
term),
and had issue, 4 daughters. She died 27th September 1983 in Simla.
- Tikka Dig Pal Chand, born 1935, died 10th October 1936.
- HH Raja Rana YOGENDER CHAND (qv)
- HH Raja Rana YOGENDER CHAND (see above)
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born
20th July
1937 in Jubbal, educated at the Doon School, Dehra Doon, Uttaranchal,
and
passed out in 1954. He graduated in 1958 from Hindu College, Delhi
University.
He contested the H.P. Vidhan Sabha elections from 1985 to 2003
continuously,
winning three elections and losing two. He was Spokesperson for the
Himachal
Pradesh Congress Party (H.P.C.C.) from 1998 till 2000. He is presently
Vice-President of the H.P.C.C., Convenor-Indian National Trust for
Art & Cultural Heritage, (HP); Chairman of Bhagat
Chandra
Educational Society, Jubbal. Chairman of Hainault Educational Society,
Shimla; President of Dr. Y.S. Parmar Institute of Mathematical Science,
Shimla. President of State Amateur Boxing Association since 1971;
General President, S.D. Pratinidhi Sabha, Educational Society,
1967/1977;
Member of the World Life Fund. Member of the State Bank of India, Local
Board, Delhi (two terms) from 1971, and Member of Policy Holder's
Council,
LIC, 1967 to 1977. Elected to State Legislative Assembly in 1985 on
Indian
National Congress ticket and in November in 1993 as an Independent
candidate.
Returned to the House in 1998 as a Congress Candidate. He contested the
Vidhan Sabha election again from Chopal in February
2003 on a Congress ticket, but lost to an independent candidate. He
retired from active politics in December 2007 and resigned from the
Congress party at the same time. Interests and
pastimes
include, agriculture / horticulture, education and tourism, music,
photography,
reading and sports, married 5th May 1960, HH Rani Sudha Kumari,
daughter
of Raja HITENDER SEN of Keonthal, and
has had issue, one son and four daughters.