SUKET (Princely State)

(11 gun salute)

 
AREA: 1,015 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 60,000R  ACCESSION: 15th April 1948
STATE: Himachal Pradesh DYNASTY: Sen (Chandrabansi) RELIGION: Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER: HH Raja HARI SEN, 52nd Raja of Suket (1985/-) (Delhi, India)
born 15th August 1955 in Suket, married 20th April 1987, Rani Dr. Radhika Kumari (née Radhika Chopra), well known sociologist teaching at Delhi University, daughter of Pran Chopra, a  famous Indian journalist.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded about 765AD. Rulers were.....
  1. Raja ARJUN SEN 1540/1560

  2. Raja UDAI SEN (son) 1560/1590

  3. Raja DIP SEN c1590/c1620

  4. Raja SHYAM SEN c1620/c1650, married (a) a Princess of Guler, (b) a Princess of Bashahr, and had issue.
    • Raja RAM SEN (by 1st wife) (qv)
    • Duthain Prithi Singh (by 1st wife), Heir-Presumptive.
    • Daughter (by 1st wife), married Raja KALYAN CHAND of Bilaspur.
    • Mian Hari Singh (by 2nd wife), married and had issue.
      • Mian Gopal Singh, married and had issue.
        • Raja GARUR SEN (qv)
        • Mian Rudra Singh
      • Mian Pir Singh

  5. Raja RAM SEN c1650/1993, recognized as Tikka (Heir-Apparent).

  6. Raja JIT SEN (son) 1663/1721, died sp 1721.

  7. Raja GARUR SEN 1721/1748, born 1693, married (amongst others) a daughter of the Rana of Himli and had issue. He died 1748.
    • Raja BHIKAM SEN (qv)
    • Mian Bahadur Singh

  8. Raja BHIKAM SEN 1748/1762, married and had issue. He died 1762.
    • Raja RANJIT SEN (qv)
    • Mian Kishan Singh, married and had issue. He died after 1775.
      • Mian Bishan Singh, married and had issue.
        • Mian Narendar Singh, married and had issue.
          • Daughter, married Maharaja SHER SINGH of Lahore.
      • Daughter, married Raja SANSAR CHAND II of Kangra.

  9. Raja RANJIT SEN 1762/1791, married (a), a daughter of Raja KIRAT PRAKASH of Sirmur, (b) Rani from Guler and had issue. He died 1791.
    • Raja BIKRAM SEN II (by Sirmur Rani)
    • Mian Amar Singh (by Guler Rani), died young.
    • Mian Dhian Singh (by Guler Rani), died young.

  10. Raja BIKRAM SEN II 1791/1838, married and had issue. He died 1838.
    • Raja UGAR SEN II (qv)
    • Mian Jagat Singh, exiled to Kullu in 1843, married and had issue.
      • Mian Prakram Singh, married and had issue.
        • Mian Mahendra Singh, married and had issue.
          • Kumari Sarla Devi, married Shri Vijay Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, and had issue.
          • Kunwar Hemender Singh, married and had issue.
            • Kumari Karuna Kumari [HH Rani Karuna Kumari of Bilaspur], married HH Raja KIRTI CHAND of Bilaspur, and has issue, a son and daughter.
          • Kunwar Virendra Singh, married and had issue.
            • Kumari Padmawati, married Kunwar Bharat Singh of Koti.
            • Kumari Sidhawati, married Kunwar Ravi Singh of Mandi.
    • Daughter, married the Raja of Nurpur.

  11. Raja UGAR SEN II 1838/1876, married (a) Rani Kutlehari, (b) Rani Jamwali from Jammu, (c) Rani  from Patiala, and had issue, he also left 3 natural sons. He died 1876.
    • Mian Shiv Singh (by Kutlehari Rani)
    • Mian Ram Singh (by Kutlehari Rani)
    • Rani Sarda Devi (by Kutlehar Rani), married 1853, Raja SRI SINGH of Chamba.
    • Raja RUDRA SEN (by Jamwali Rani) (qv)
    • Mian Narain Singh (by Patiala Rani)
    • Mian Jowala Singh (by a concubine), married the natural daughter of Raja BALBIR SEN of Mandi, and had issue.
      • Mian Fateh Singh

  12. Raja RUDRA SEN 1876/1878 (deposed), born 1828, married (a) 1843 a Katoch Rani, (b) 1853 a Garhwal Rani, (c) 1853 a Bilaspur Rani, (d) daughter of Jai Singh of Arki, and had issue. He died 1887 at Hoshiarpur.
    • Raja ARIMARDAN SEN (by Bilaspuri Rani) (qv)
    • Daughter, born 1865, married Raja SURENDRA BIKRAM PRAKASH of Sirmur.
    • HH Raja DASHT NIKANDAN SEN (qv)

  13. Raja ARIMARDAN SEN 1878/1879, born 1863, married a daughter of Raja RAN SINGH of Jaswan. He died sp 1879.

  14. HH Raja DASHT NIKANDAN SEN 1879/1908, born 1865 (1866), succeeded 29th March 1879 (#1), married 1881 to a niece of Raja Dhian Singh of Arki, and had issue. He died 27th May 1908.
    • HH Raja BHIM SEN (qv)
    • Rajkumari Haripriya Devi
    • Rajkumari Sundarpriya Devi
    • HH Raja LAKSHMAN SEN Bahadur (qv)

  15. HH Raja Sir BHIM SEN 1908/1919, born 26th November 1885, K.C.I.E. [cr.1.1.1918], married 1stly, Kumari Padmawati Devi of Sirmur [HH Rani Padmawati Devi of Suket], died May 1959, married 2ndly, Rajkumari Radha Devi [HH Rani Radha Devi of Suket], daughter of Rana RAGHUBIR CHAND of Koti, died June 1939, married 3rdly, Kumari Tuleshwari Devi of Mohanpur [HH Rani Tuleshwari Devi of Suket]. He died spm 13th October 1919.

  16. HH Raja LAKSHMAN SEN Bahadur 1919/1970 , born 14th August 1895, succeeded 13th October 1919, educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore, married and had issue. He died 30th July 1970 at Suket.
    • HH Raja LALIT SEN (qv)
    • Rani Bhavna Kumari, born 1934, married 19th November 1961, Raja DIG VIJAY SINGH of Jagdishpur, and has issue.
    • Raj Kumar Kamal Singh, born 11th February 1938 in Delhi, educated at Bishop Cotton School, Simla, earned his B.A. from Hoshiarpur in Punjab and his M.A.and L.L.B. from Kolkota, West Bengal; married 10th December 1960, Kumari Laxmi Devi, daughter of Kanwar Randip Singh of Sirmur, and has issue, 3 children. (England, U.K.)
      • Kumari Karuna Kumari, born 22nd April 1963 in Assam, educated at Welham Girls' School, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, gained a Diploma in Textile Designing from South Delhi Polytechnic; owns a restaurant in New Delhi called "Memories of China", married (div.), a Rajput gentleman from a Jagir near Dungarpur State in Rajasthan.
      • Kanwar Brij Raj Singh, born 17th February 1964 at Assam, educated at the Mayo College, Ajmer in Rajasthan, earned his B.A. from St.Stephen's College, Delhi University, and his M.B.A. from Dartmouth College, U.S.A.; married an American lady, and has issue, 3 children. (Dubai, U.A.E.)
        • Kumari Gitanjali Singh
        • Uday Raj Singh
        • Kumari Oona Singh.
      • Kumari Geetika Devi, born 7th May 1968 at Assam, educated at Pratt Memorial College in Kolkota, West Bengal and at St. Bede's College, Simla, Himachal Pradesh; married 21st May 1996, Anirudh Chand Katoch, son of Kanwar Vijay Chand Katoch of Bijapur, and has issue, one daughter.
        • Kumari Jahanavi Katoch, born 24th October 2001.
    • Rajkumar Rameshwar Singh, born 15th July 1939, married 22nd August 1968, Rani Sheela Kumari, and had issue.
      • Yuvrani Kalpana Devi, born 9th August 1969, married 4th January 1996 in Delhi, Yuvaraj Ijyaraj Singh of Kotah, and has issue.
      • Kunwar Jai Singh, born 21st September 1971, married 1999, Rajkumari Mriganka Kumari of Jodhpur, and has issue.
        • Kumari Indrani Devi
        • Bhanwar Yashasvi Aryaman Singh
    • Rajkumari Rama Devi, born 4th July 1943 in Suket, married 6th May 1967 in Sitamau, Kunwar Brijraj Sinh of Sitamau.

  17. HH Raja LALIT SEN 1970/1985, born 21st April 1932 in Shimla, married 21st February 1951, HH Rani Krishna Kumari of Dungarpur, and had issue. He died 18th October 1985 in Delhi.
    • HH Raja HARI SEN (qv)
    • Rajkumari Shailaja Devi

  18. HH Raja HARI SEN (see above)

 
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