PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Predecessor
state of Nahan founded in 1095 by Soba Rawal, assuming the name and
title
of Raja Subans Prakash. New capital founded in 1621 and state renamed
Sirmur.
Rulers were......
- Raja KARAM PRAKASH I 1616/1630, founded the new capital in
1621.
- Raja MANDHATA PRAKASH 1630/1654
- Raja SOBHAG PRAKASH 1654/1664
- Raja BUDH PRAKASH 1664/1684
- Raja MAT PRAKASH 1684/1704, died 1704.
- Raja HARI PRAKASH 1704/1712
- Raja BIJAY PRAKASH 1712/1736, married and had issue. He
died 1736.
- Raja PRATAP PRAKASH (qv)
- Kanwar Sunder Singh
- Kanwar Natha Singh
- Kanwar Ishri Singh
- Raja PRATAP PRAKASH 1736/1754, married and had issue. He
died 1754.
- Raja KIRAT PRAKASH 1754/1770, married and had issue. He
died 1770.
- Raja JAGAT PRAKASH (qv)
- Raja DHARAM PRAKASH (qv)
- Raja KARAM PRAKASH II (qv)
- Raja RATAN PRAKASH (qv)
- Raj Kumari (name
unknown), married Raja UDAR SINGH of Bashahr
State, and had issue.
- Raj Kumari (name
unknown), married Raja RANJIT SEN of Suket,
and had issue.
- Raja JAGAT PRAKASH 1770/1789, died sp 1789.
- Raja DHARAM PRAKASH 1789/1793, died sp 1793.
- Raja KARAM PRAKASH II 1793/1803 and 1804/1815, married and
had issue. He
died 1820 (1826).
- Raja RATAN PRAKASH 1803/1804, installed by the Gurkhas,
married and had
issue. He died in 1804, hanged by the British.
- Kanwar Zalam Singh, married and had issue.
- Lachmi Singh, married and had issue, 1 son.
- Badri Singh, married and had issue, 2 sons and 1
daughter. He died in 1945.
- Narendra Singh, born 1922, married 1946, Kumari
Surendra Kumari, daughter of Rai Sahib Sumitra Chand of Bangarh Bhabour
in District Hoshiarpur, Punjab, and has issue, 4 children.
- Kumari Sunita Kumari, born 20th August 1947,
married 22nd November 1971, Colonel Shyam Singh, son of Baldev Singh of
Chhamb-Jaurian, and has issue, 3 children.
- Kumari Samitra Kumari, born 17th August
1972.
- Kumari Ritika Kumari, born 2nd January
1975.
- Vinkesh Singh
- Kumari Aditi Kumari, married 7th June 1971, P.C.
Kanwar, son of Thakur Dharam Singh from Chandigarh, and has issue, 4
children.
- Shalini Kanwar, born 18th October 1973.
- Kumari Monika Kanwar, born 1975.
- (name
unknown) Singh (twin), born 26th January 1986.
- (name
unknown) Singh (twin), born 26th January 1986.
- Kumari Sarochi Kumari, married 1979, Badri Shah
of Khairigarh-Singhai, and has issue, 2 children.
- Siddarth Vikram Shah, born 7th April
1981.
- Kumari Shriya Kumari, born 1985.
- Nirbhaya Singh, born 3rd June 1956, married
21st November 1983, Kumari Mandal Kumari, daughter of Thakur Govind
Singh of Tehri Garhwal, Uttaranchal.
- Vikrant Singh, born 31st August 1985.
- Kumari Deepali Kumari, born 9th
November 1986.
- Joginder Singh, born 1925, married 1951, Kumari Rama
Kumari, daughter of Virender Singh of Kullu, and has issue, 3 children.
- Kumari Shashi Kumari, born 1952, married 1978, Mr.Raj
of New Delhi, and has issue, a son and two daughters.
- Kumari Mamta Kumari, born 1956, married 1980, Mian
Kuldeep Sen from Mandi State, and has issue, a son.
- Dhananjay Singh, born 1958.
- Kumari Meenakshi Kumari [Rani Meenakshi Kumari of
Khairigarh-Singhai], born 22nd October 1927, married 1943, Raja LUV
SHAH of Khairigarh-Singhai in Uttar
Pradesh, and has issue, 3 daughters.
- HH Maharani Bhibhu Kumari Devi, born June
1945, married February 1968 (as his second wife), HH Maharaja
Kirit Dev Burman of Tripura State, and
has issue, three children, 2 daughters and a
son.
- Thakur Rani Bhibha Kumari, born March 1947,
married February 1979, Thakur Ranvir Singh, a Rajput gentleman settled
in Kotah State, Rajasthan, and has issue, two children, a son and a
daughter.
- Kanwar Rani
Vibhuti Singh, born February 1951, married December 1976, Kanwar Uday
Singh of Jubbal State, and has
issue, two children, a daughter and a
son.
- Kanwar Ranjit Singh
- Kanwar Sarjit Singh
- Raja FATEH PRAKASH 1815/1850, born 1809, married several
wives, and had
issue, 8 children, as well as further issue by informal liaisons. He
died
1850.
- Tikka (name unknown)
Singh, died 1825.
- Raja RAGHBIR PRAKASH (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown)
- Rajkumar Surjan Singh Sahib, born 1829, he was an
associate of the State Council during his nephew's minority. He sent
troops from Sirmur to protect the British civilians during the Mutiny
of 1857 and was granted a "Khillat"
or Robe of Honour by the British for services rendered to the Crown,
married and had issue, as well as further issue by informal liaisons.
He died
1891.
- Kanwar Ranzore Singh Sahib, born 1865, Rais of Sirmur,
largest Jagirdar
in Sirmur, Honourary Magistrate, second class and Honourary Munsiff,
third class, married and had issue, as well as further issue by
informal liaisons.
- Kumari Amrawati Kumari, born 1893, died 1909.
- Kunwar Jagat Bahadur Singh, born 1915, educated at
Nahan and
was the owner of a stud farm, a keen polo player, married 4th May 1944,
Raj Kumari Leela Kumari, daughter of Raja GIRIJA PRATAP SINGH of Makrai
Estate, and had issue, 4 children, 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died 4th
December 1979.
- Kunwar Ajay Bahadur Singh,
born 7th
October 1947 at Nahan, educated at St. Edward's School, Simla and at
S.D.B. College, Simla. He did training with the 1st Sikh Regiment in
1968. He was elected M.L.A. from Nahan constituency in 1985 from the
Indian National Congress (I.N.C.) and served one term in the H.P.
Vidhan Sabha, married 1stly, 25th April 1971, Raj Kumari Usha Kumari,
daughter of Raja Jagdish Pratap Shah of Deora, married 2ndly, Raj
Kumari Padmesh Kaur, daughter of Raja Bhalinder Singh of Patiala State, born 2nd September
1953, died 30th May
2003 in Simla.
- Kunwar Abhay Singh, born 3rd December 1949,
educated at
St. Edward's School, Simla; part owner of the Durga Mines in Sirmur,
married 15th February 1976, Kumari Kunjana Devi, daughter of Kulwant
Singh from Sangrur, Haryana, born on 23rd April 1956, and has issue, 4
children.
- Sangram Singh, born 30th January 1977,
educated at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, District Solan; married 25th
February 2008 at Nahan in Sirmur, Raj Kumari Vijaya Kumari, daughter of
Maharaj Ganesh Singh of Jhabua, and his
wife, Rani Arunima Singh.
- Kumari Meghna Kumari, born 31st March 1978,
educated at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, District Solan.
- Kumari Madhvi Kumari, born 9th September 1982,
educated at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, District Solan.
- Kumari Mandakini Kumari, born 16th December
1983, educated at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, District Solan.
- Kumari Bhuvaneshwari Kumari, born 7th July 1952,
married 21st November 1972, Raj Kumar Giri Raj Sinh, elder son of
Maharaj Shivraj Sinh of Gondal State.
- Kumari Sangeeta Kumari, born 13th January 1954,
married Maharaj Narhari Singh, son of HH Maharawal Chandravir Singh of Banswara State, born 6th May 1947, and
has issue, a daughter.
- Kumari Shashi Prabhawati Kumari [Thakurani Shashi
Prabha Devi], born 1916, married
Thakur Rattan Singh
of Dundlod,
and had issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters.
- Kumari Hemant Kumari, born 1918, Raj Kumar Lakshman
Singh, the second son of HH Raja DILEEP SINGH of Sailana,
born 20th February 1921, and had issue, 5 daughters and a son.
- Kumari Manwati Kumari, born 1920, married the Raja
of Khajurhat, and had issue, 5 sons and a daughter.
- Kumari (name
unknown), born 1923, died of appendicitis in 1926.
- Kumari Shukla Kumari, born 3rd June 1924 in Nahan,
married 20th January
1940, Maharajkumar Narpat Singh , second son of HH Maharawal PRITHVI
SINGHJI of Banswara, and his wife HH
Maharani Daulat Kunwar, born 15th
May 1921, and had issue, a son and two daughters.
- (name unknown)
Singh, born 1925, died aged three months.
- Raj Kumar Bir Singh, born 1832, married and had issue,
1 daughter. He died in 1882.
- Raj Kumari (name
unknown), married Raja PRATAP CHAND of Kangra-Lambagraon,
District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
- Raj Kumar Bharat Singh, married and had issue, 2
sons.
- Kanwar (name unknown) Singh, died young.
- Kanwar Sher Singh, married and had issue, a son and
a daughter.
- Rajendra Singh
- Kumari Shashi Bala Kumari, married, and had issue,
2 sons.
- Raja RAGHBIR PRAKASH 1850/1856, born 1827, married and
had issue. He
died
1856.
- HH Raja SHAMSHER PRAKASH (qv)
- Kanwar Surat Singh, married two wives and had issue.
- Kanwar Randeep Singh (by a Kangra Rani), born 1897,
educated at Aitchison's Chiefs College, Lahore and at the Police
School, Phillaur; married Kanwarani Kalawati Kumari, born 1913, died
1963, daughter of Rana JAI SINGH of Kotkhai,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Nar Bir Singh, born 1923, married Kanwarani
Urmila Devi of Dada-Siba, and had issue.
- Kanwar Kuldeep Singh, born 1951.
- Kumari Taruna Devi, born 16th March 1953, married
31st October 1981 (div. 1983), Maharaja
TRIBHUVANESHWAR
SARAN SINGH Deo of Surguja.
- Kanwar Sarbh Bhupendra Singh, born March 1925 in
Nahan, educated in the Nahan local school and at Foreman Christian
College, Lahore (B.A.); married Kanwarani Sneh Latta of Isengarh, born
1920, and had issue.
- Kuwarani Ragini Kumari, born 1954, married 1983,
Kunwar Arun Pratap Singh, son of Kunwar Bharat Singh of Gangwal, and his wife, Kunwarani Mandavi
Devi, and has issue.
- Kanwar Jagdish Singh, born 1927, married Kanwarani
Kalawati Devi, and had issue.
- Kunwarani Sangeeta Kumari, married 22nd June 1986,
Kunwar Lokesh Bhushan Singh, born 3rd May 1954, son of Rajkumar
Shiv Raj Singh Ju Deo of Alipura, and his
wife, Rajkumar Rani Savitri
Devi.
- Kanwar Romesh Singh, born 1929, married June 1952,
Kunwarani Siddheshwari Kumari, daughter of Raja Padam Dev Singh of Poonch, and his wife, Rani Manek Kunwar,
and had issue.
- Kanwar Vikram Singh, born 1954.
- Kumari Nirja Kumari, born 1956.
- Kanwar Devi Singh
- HH Raja SHAMSHER PRAKASH 1856/1898, born 1846, married
1stly, a daughter
of the Raja of Keonthal, and had issue, as well as further issue, by
secondary wives. He died October 1898.
- Tikka Surendra Bikram Prakash (later HH Raja SURENDRA
BIKRAM PRAKASH) (qv)
- Lt.Col. Rajkumar Bir Bikram Singh, born 1870,
Major (Hon.),
Lt.Col.
(Hon.) 1910 Imperial Army, ADC to H.I.M. King George the Fifth, C.S.I.
[cr.1914], C.I.E., married and had issue, as well as issue by secondary
wives. He died 1949. (#2)
- Kanwar Run Vijay Singh, born 1891, married Kumari
Kalindi Kumari from Thandol in District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, died
1972, and had issue, 2 daughters. He died 1950.
- Kumari Maya Kumari, born 1917, married 1946, General
K.S. Katoch, son of General Janak Singh Katoch of District Kangra,
Himachal Pradesh, and had issue, 3 children.
- Navendra Singh Katoch
(Mickey Katoch), born 3rd
October 1949, married 1972, Kumari Prabha Kumari of Labuwa Estate in
Uttar Pradesh, and has issue, a son and a daughter.
- Kumari Brinda Kumari,
married a gentleman living in
Kuwait, and has issue, a son.
- Kumari Ambita Kumari,
married 1977, Hardeep Singh
of Bhavnagar, Gujerat, son of General Ghanshyam Singh, and has issue, a
son and a daughter.
- Kumari Swaroop Mati Kumari, born 1918, married 1947,
Thakur Amar Singh, a Jagirdar of Bijwar in Alwar State, born 1915, died
sp 1952.
- Kanwar Ajit Singh (by a secondary wife), born 1892,
Sub-Inspector of the Sirmur
State Police in 1917 and later Inspector of Police in 1923,
Superintendant of Police of the Sirmur State Police from 1925 to 1947,
later a Steward of the Royal Household, married and had issue, 1 son
and 3 daughters. He died 8th February 1954.
- HH Raja SURENDRA BIKRAM PRAKASH 1898/1911, born 14th
November 1867, and succeeded to the throne in 1898, created K.C.S.I. on
9th November 1901, married a
daughter of the Raja RUDAR SEN of Suket, and
had issue, 4 children, as
well as a son by a secondary wife. He died 25th July 1911 at
Mussoorie.
- Tikka Amar Prakash (later Lt.-Col.
HH Maharaja Sir AMAR PRAKASH Bahadur) (qv)
- Rajkumari (name
unknown), died 1955.
- Rajkumari (name unknown),
married into the Chamba Royal Family.
- Rajkumari (name
unknown), married into Mewar in Uttar Pradesh.
- Rao Raja Rom Harshan Singh (by a secondary wife), born
16th February 1906 at Nahan; a Major in the Sirmur State forces, later
he was Secretary and Comptroller of the Royal Household until 1948,
created Rao Raja by HH Maharaja Rajendra Prakash, later Manager of the
Sirmur Cold Storage in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, married 28th November
1938, Kumari Pushpa Kumari, daughter of General Shri Samar Jung Bahadur
Rana of Nepal, and had issue, 3 children. He died 30th December 1980 at
Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal.
- Kumari Rajani Kumari, born 28th February 1940 at
Nahan.
- Kumari Niranjani Kumari, born 22nd November 1942 at
Nahan.
- Rao Raja Mrigendra Singh, born 10th March 1944 at
Nahan, part
owner of the Durga Mines in Sirmur, married 12th October 1975, Kumari
Subhadra Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Mohan Lal Singh of Ghund State in
District Simla, born 12th May 1954 at Kotkhai, District Simla, and has
issue, 3 children.
- Kumari Nidhi Kumari, born 25th October 1976.
- Kanwar Hemang Singh, born 18th September 1979.
- Kumari Aparna Kumari, born 23rd July 1984.
 Lt.-Col.
HH Maharaja Sir AMAR PRAKASH Bahadur 1911/1933, born 26th January 1888,
Hon. Lieut.-Col. in the Indian Army, K.C.S.I. [cr.1915], K.C.I.E.
[cr.1921],
Maharaja [cr.1918], married 4th March 1910, HH Maharani Madalasa Rajya
Lakshmi Devi, born 1890, died February 1973, daughter of HH Maharaja
Dev
Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and had issue,
as well as further issue by secondary wives. He died 13th August
1933.
- Maharaj Kumari Mahima Kumari, died young.
- Tikka Rajendra Prakash (later Lt. HH Maharaja RAJENDRA
PRAKASH Bahadur) (qv)
- Maharaj Kumari Premlata Kumari, born 26th August 1917,
married (as his third wife), HH Raja NATWAR SINGH of Chhota-Udaipur
State. She died sp 1986.
- Kumari Priya Kumari (by a secondary wife), born 1910,
married Rao Raja Hanut Singh of Jodhpur,son of HH Maharaja Sir Pratap
Singh of Idar and Jodhpur, (3 time Regent
of Jodhpur State), by a secondary wife, and had issue, 3 sons.
- Rao Raja Birendra Singh (by a secondary wife), born
15th June 1920, born 15th June 1920, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer,
Rajasthan, A.D.C. to his half-brother, HH Maharaja Rajendra Prakash of
Sirmur. After 1947, he was Comptroller of the Sirmur and Anfield Tea
Estates in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal. He was Hon. Major in the Sirmur
State Armed Force and fought in the Middle East during the Second World
War of 1939-1945, married in early 1949, Kumari Prabha Devi Shah,
daughter of Shahibju Birendra Bikram Shah of Nepal, born 1933, died
30th
April 1964, and had issue, 3 sons. He died 18th January 1981 in
Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal.
- Rajkumar (name unknown)
Singh, stillborn on 1st November
1949.
- Rajkumar Alark Singh, born 1st April 1951, educated at
Mayo College, Ajmer, Rajasthan and at St. Stephen's College, Delhi
University, Delhi; married 14th June 1974, Kumari Bijoya Sawain Singh,
eldest daughter of Lisiman Sawain Singh of Shillong and the daughter of
Mr. B. K. Dey of West Bengal, born 15th November 1949, educated at the
Loreto Convent in Shillong, and did her M.A. in English at Delhi
University, Delhi; and has issue, 2 sons.
- Kunwar Salim Singh, born 30th November 1980, educated
at the
Montessori School at Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal.
- Kunwar Saasha Singh [Chaitanya Pratap Singh], born
4th January 1982, educated at the
Montessori School at Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, Welham Boys School (12th)
Dehra Dun, and at St. Stephen's
College, Delhi University, Delhi (History Hons.).
- Rajkumar Mandhatta Singh, born in 1953, educated at
Mayo
College in Ajmer, Rajasthan and at St. Stephen's College, Delhi
University, Delhi; married and had issue, 2 children. He was killed in
an automobile accident.
- Kumari Yukta Kumari (by a secondary wife), born late
1920, married to Thakur Vijay Bahadur Singh of Shivpur, and has issue,
a son and a daughter.
 Lt. HH Maharaja
RAJENDRA PRAKASH Bahadur 1933/1964, born
10th January
1913,
member of the Standing Committee of the Princes' Chamber, married
1stly,
15th April 1936, a Princess of Nagod, married 2ndly, 12th December
1941,
HH Maharani Indira Devi, daughter of HH Thakore Sahib Shri Sir
BAHADURSINHJI MANSINHJI of Palitana,
and his wife, HH Thakorani Bai Shri Sita Ba Kunverba
Sahiba, and
had issue. He died 13th November 1964.
- Maharajkumari Nalini Devi (by the Nagod Princess), born
2nd December 1938,
married 30th November 1953 (#3), Rajkumar
Gajendra Singh [Vidurji], born 17th December 1928, died 28th November
1979, second son of Rao Bahadur Raja RAGHURAJ SINGH Ju Deo of Alipura, and his wife, Rani Vijay Kumari,
and had issue, three sons and two daughters.
- Kanwar Udai Singh [HH Maharaja UDAI PRAKASH
Bahadur], adopted in 1965, by the Senior Maharani of the
late Maharaja. This adoption was not recognized by the Indian
Government and the privy purse was not continued to the new ruler. (#1)
- HH Maharani Saheba Padmini Devi (by Maharani Indira),
born
December
1943, married 10th March 1967, HH Sri Sawai
Maharaja BHAWANI
SINGH Bahadur, 11th Maharaja of Jaipur
and 39th Head of the Kachhawa Rajputs, born
22nd October
1931 in Jaipur, and has issue, one daughter.
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