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AREA: 13 km2
LOCATION: Himachal Pradesh
ACCESSION: 15th April 1948
RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 1,131 (1901)
PRESENT RULER: Thakur VIJAY CHAND, present Thakur Sahib of Beja since 1949 (The Palace, Beja via Kasauli, Solan Dist., Himachal Pradesh, India)
born 1949, married 1stly, 1969, Raj Kumari Chandra Prabha Kumari, born 1953, daughter of Rana Sahib Krishan Chand of Khaneti, and his wife, Rani Devendra Kumari, married 2ndly, 1986, Kumari Pushpa Devi, daughter of Kanwar Guman Singh of Theog, and has issue.
Tikka Dharmesh Chand
Kumari Ritu Kumari
Kanwar Ajay Singh
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The ancestor of the family was Dhul Pal, a member of the ruling Tanwar dynasty of Delhi. His descendant, Thakur Govardhan Chand was the 1st ruler of Beja, around the middle of the fourteenth century. Rulers were ...
Thakur JAI CHAND, Thakur of Beja 1759/1773, married and had issue.
Thakur Man Chand (qv)
Mian Bhup Singh
Mian Sher Singh
Mian Budh Singh
Mian Dhonkal Singh
Thakur MAN CHAND, Thakur of Beja 1773/1817, confirmed in his state by a sanad of 4th September 1815; married and had issue.
Thakur Pratap Chand (qv)
Mian Bahadur Singh
Mian Gyan Singh
Thakur PRATAP CHAND, Thakur of Beja 1817/1841, married and had issue. He died 1841.
Thakur Udai Chand (qv)
Mian Alam Singh, born 1833.
Mian Zalam Singh, born 1835.
Mian Mohan Singh, born 1837.
Mian Kishan Singh, born 1839, married and had issue.
Mian Hira Singh, born 1867.
Mian Amar Singh, born 1870.
Mian Devi Singh, born 1880.
Mian Dhumi Singh
Thakur UDAI CHAND, Thakur of Beja 1841/1905, born 1831, married and had issue. He died 1905.
Thakur Puran Chand (qv)
Mian Parduman Singh
Kumari (name unknown), married 1914, Kanwar Ranzore Singh of Sirmur, and had issue.
Kumari (name unknown), married Rao of Raipur in Ambala.
Thakur PURAN CHAND, Thakur of Beja 1905/1943, born about 1895, married a daughter of Thakur Tegh Singh of Kunihar, and had issue.
Tikka Durga Chand, died young.
Thakur Lakshmi Chand (qv)
Thakur LAKSHMI CHAND, Thakur of Beja 1943/1949, born 1916, married Thakurani Gavinda Dei, daughter of Rana Raghunath Singh of Darkoti, and his wife, Rani Attari Dei, and had issue. He died 1949.
Thakur VIJAY CHAND, Thakur of Beja (see above)