PRESENT RULER: Raja HARVASHVARDHAN SINGH, Raja Saheb of Baghal since 7th June 2010.

born 11th April 1980, married 2nd December 2007 in New Delhi, Rajkumari Ksheerja Kumari [Rani Ksheerja Kumari of Baghal], niece of HH Maharaja Lokendra Rajendra Singh Ju Dev Bahadur of Datia, and has issue, one daughter.

• Rajkumari (not named yet), born 10th June 2010.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Predecessor state founded in 13th century by Raja Ajay Dev, Prime Minister of Malwa, a descendant of Raja Bhoj Dev, Parmar King of Malwa 1010/1053. The Princely state of Baghal was founded about 1643. Recent rulers include...

• Rana SABHA CHAND, 1st Rana of Baghal 1643/1670, made Arki the capital of Baghal in about 1650, married and had issue.

  • Rana Prithvi Chand (qv)

• Rana PRITHVI CHAND, Rana of Baghal 1670/1727, married and had issue. He died 1727.

  • Rana Mehar Chand (qv)

• Rana MEHAR CHAND, Rana of Baghal 1727/1743, married and had issue. He died 1743.

  • Rana Bhoop Singh (qv)

  • Kumari (name unknown), married Raja Devi Chand of Bilaspur.

• Rana BHOOP SINGH, Rana of Baghal 1743/1778, married and had issue. He died 1778.

  • Rana Jagat Singh (qv)

  • Kumari (name unknown), married the Raja of Guler.

• Rana JAGAT SINGH, Rana of Baghal 1778/1828, in exile at Nalagarh for 7 years, during the occupation by the Gurkhas, attacked Arki with the help of the British General Ochterlony and Rana of Nalagarh and recaptured Arki in 1814, confirmed in his state by a sanad of 3rd September 1815, he married and had issue. He died August 1828.

  • Rana Shiv Saran Singh (qv)

  • Mian Raghunath Singh

GURKHA OCCUPATION 1805/1815

• Rana SHIV SARAN SINGH, Rana of Baghal 1828/1840, born 27th May 1793, married and had issue, three sons. He died 16th January 1840.

  • Raja Kishan Singh (qv)

  • Mian Jai Singh, granted a valuable khillat for his services during the Indian Mutiny, married and had issue, six sons. He died 1873.

    • Raja Dhian Singh (qv)

    • Mian Kapur Singh, died 1860.

    • Mian Man Singh, born 1854, Wazir of Baghal 1897/1904, Regent of Baghal 1904/1908, married and had issue.

      • Mian Durga Singh, born 1880.

    • Mian Hira Singh, born 1856.

    • Mian Narendra Singh, born 1858.

    • Mian Udham Singh, born 1860, married and had issue.

      • Mian Basant Singh, born 1882, married and had issue

        • Kanwar Chattar Singh, married and had issue

          • Kanwar Mohinder Singh, married Kanwarani Lalit Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Inder Vikram Singh of Keonthal, and his wife, Kanwarani Indumati Kumari, and had issue.

            • Kanwar Ajay Singh, married Kanwarani Seema Kumari, daughter of Thakur Mahendra Singh of Reh (see Nurpur), and his wife, Thakurani Usha Kumari, and has issue.

              • Anirudh Singh, born 1988.

      • Kumari (name unknown), married Raja Dasht Nikandan Sen of Suket.

      • Mian Partab Singh, born 1885, married and had issue.

        • Kumari (name unknown), married Rana Vidyadhar Singh of Kumharsain. She died sp 1936.

    • Rajkumari Subhadra Devi, married Kanwar Surjan Singh of Sirmur.

    • Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja Rudra Sen of Suket.

    • Rajkumari (name unknown), married HH Raja Amar Chand Sahib Bahadur of Bilaspur.

    • Rajkumari (name unknown), married HH Raja Amar Chand Sahib Bahadur of Bilaspur.

    • Rajkumari (name unknown), married into Jaswan.

  • Mian Bijai Singh, married and had issue, two sons. He died 1849.

    • Mian Ram Singh, married and had issue, two sons. He died 1872.

      • Mian Sher Singh, born 1865.

      • Mian Ranjor Singh, born 1867.

    • Mian Pardhan Singh

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja Kharak Chand of Bilaspur.

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja Ranbir Chand of Lambagraon.

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja Rudra Sen of Suket.

• Raja KISHAN SINGH, Raja of Baghal 1840/1877, born 1817, he was granted the title of Raja and a valuable khillat for his services during the Indian Mutiny, Raja (personal)[cr.1860], (hereditary)[cr.1875], married Ranis from Jaswan, Guler, Kangra and Suket, and had issue. He died 23rd July 1877 ^(#1).

  • Raja Moti Singh (qv)

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja Raghunath Singh of Jaswan.

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), married into Chamba.

• Raja MOTI SINGH, Raja of Baghal [23.7.1877] - [12.10.1877], he died sp 12th October 1877.

• Raja DHIAN SINGH, Raja of Baghal 1877/1904, born 1842, installed 26th July 1878, married Ranis from Jammu and Kashmir, Suket, Madhan and Keonthal, and had issue, four sons. He died 1904.

  • Raja Bikram Singh (qv)

  • Kanwar Bachitar Singh, born 1895.

  • Kanwar Mohan Singh, born 1896.

  • Kumari (name unknown), married 1st February 1918, Rana Vidyadhar Singh of Kumharsain, and had issue.

  • Kanwar Surat Singh, born 1904 in Arki, educated in Lahore; married twice and had issue, three daughters.

    • Kumari Susheela Devi, born in Arki, married Thakur Rohan Singh Chandel of Faroukhabad, U.P., died 1999, and has issue.

      • Kumari Nalini Chandel, married Pradeep Singh Kanwar, and has issue, two sons.

        • Amit Kanwar

        • Tarun Kanwar

      • Kumari Manju Chandel, unmarried.

      • Kanwar Anil Chandel, married Kanwarani Sadhana Chandel, died 2005, and has issue, one daughter.

        • Ginny Chandel

    • Kumari Hem Lata Devi, married Shri B. K. Singh Chandel. She died sp in 2004

    • Kumari Nirmal Devi, educated at Chandigarh University (B.Ed.), born 12th September 1936, married 1967 in Shimla, Thakur Shri Manohar Singh, and has issue. She died 2002.

      • Kanwar Anup Singh, married Kanwarani Sarita Kanwar, and has issue, one daughter.

        • Kumari Mini Kanwar

      • Kumari Meena Kanwar, married Nitin Bhagat, and has issue, one son.

        • Anubhav Bhagat

      • Kumari Rachna Kanwar, married Tarun Khanna, and has issue, one son.

        • Kabir Khanna

  • Kumari (name unknown), married the Raja of Salangri.

• Raja BIKRAM SINGH, Raja of Baghal 1904/1922, born 10th March 1893, succeeded to the gaddi on 23rd April 1904, granted ruling powers on 23rd April 1908, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; married 1stly, a Princess of Manswal, married 2ndly, a Princess of Manswal, married 3rdly, the fourth daughter of HH Rana Padam Chand of Jubbal, married 4thly, Rajkumari Shyama Devi, fifth daughter of HH Rana Padam Chand of Jubbal. He died 3rd October 1922.

  • Rajkumari (name unknown) (by 1st wife), died young of tuberculosis in Jubbal.

  • Raja Surinder Singh (by a Jubbal Princess) (qv)

  • Rajkumari (name unknown) (by 2nd wife), died young in Jubbal.

• Raja SURINDER SINGH, Raja of Baghal 1922/1945, born 14th March 1909 in Arki, succeeded 3rd October 1922, installed with ruling powers on 14th January 1932, married Rajkumari Laxmi Devi [Rani Laxmi Devi of Baghal], daughter of Rai Hira Singh of Sangri, and had issue, six children. He died 21st December 1945 at Haridwar, Uttaranchal.

  • Raja Rajendra Singh (qv)

  • Rajkumar Devendra Singh, born 23rd September 1930, unmarried.

  • Rajkumar Mahendra Singh, born 28th December 1931, unmarried.

  • Rajkumari Lalita Devi [Rani Lalita Devi of Kutlehar], born 29th March 1933, married (as his 1st wife), 13th April 1955, Raja Saheb Shri Mahendra Palji Bahadur of Kutlehar, and has issue, two sons and two daughters.

  • Rajkumar Virendra Singh, born 1st September 1934, married 31st October 1962, Kumari Vijaya Devi, daughter of Kanwar Karan Singh Mankotia from District Una, H.P., and has issue, five children.

    • Kanwar Ravi Singh, born 23rd November 1963.

    • Kanwar Rakesh Singh, born 25th October 1965.

    • Kanwar Rajesh Singh, born 18th August 1967.

    • Kumari Anupama Devi, born 17th August 1968.

    • Kumari Archana Devi, born 23rd March 1971.

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), died as an infant.

• Raja RAJENDRA SINGH, Raja of Baghal 1945/2010, born 29th February 1928, educated at Col. Brown's School in Dehra Dun and Government College, Lahore; he overhauled the administration and introduced radical constitutional reforms, M.L.A., Commandant General of Home Guards, Director of Civil Defence, Himachal Pradesh, married 2nd November 1948, Rani Tara Devi, born on 31st October 1929, died 22nd February 2005 at the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Simla, daughter of Raja Hemendra Sen of Keonthal, and had issue, three children. He died 7th June 2010 of a heart attack.

  • Tikka Pramod Singh, born 26th August 1949, educated at St. Edward's High School, Simla and later at the Government College, Simla, married 28th April 1979, Rajkumari Poornima Devi [Tikka Rani Poornima Devi of Baghal] of Khajurgaon in U.P., and had issue. He died 18th June 2005 at Simla in an automobile accident.

    • Kanwar Harvashvardhan Singh, succeeded as Raja Harvashvardhan Singh (qv)

    • Tikka Ajay Dev Singh, born 17th July 1987.

  • Rajkumar Nagendra Singh, born 15th June 1954, married 21st October 1986 in Simla, Kumari Vijaya Kumari of Amet in Udaipur (Rajasthan), and has issue, one son.

    • Kanwar Rahul Dev Singh, born 25th September 1987.

  • Kumari Sunita Devi [Rani Sunita Kumari of Srimathura], born 16th October 1956, educated at Simla, married 30th October 1979, Kumar Narendra Singh [later Rao Narendra Singh] of Sirmathura, Dholpur Dist. in Rajasthan, born 30th June 1947, son of Rao Raghubir Singh of Srimathura, and his wife, Rani Rattan Kumari, daughter of Thakur Gopal Singh of Badnore, and has issue, two children.

    • Rajkumari Radhika Kumari, born 14th April 1982.

    • Rajkumar Jai Singh, born 6th June 1985.

• Raja HARVASHVARDHAN SINGH (see above)