PRESENT RULER: Raja TRIRAJ PRATAP SINGH, present Raja Saheb of Tilokpur and 31st Head of the Princely House of Bhadu

born 1994.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Bhadu was given to Raja Suchet Singh and in 1835 it was under the control of the Dogras of Jammu. The state was later given to Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu by a treaty in 1846. Rulers and estate holders were....

• Raja TOKH PAL, 1st Raja of Bhadu, he was the younger son of Raja Trailokya Deva of Basohli, he was originally assigned the jagir of Hatetar, but rebelled against his brother and was defeated; with the aid of troops provided by the Nawab of Lahore, he captured Basohli. Peace was made between the two brothers, with one third of Basohli given to Raja Tokh Pal about 1045/1050; married and had issue.

  • Raja Bikram Pal (qv)

• Raja BIKRAM PAL, 2nd Raja of Bhadu, married and had issue.

  • Mian Daulat Pal, took up the religious life, resigning in favour of his brother upon the death of their father.

  • Raja Nardhan Pal (qv)

• Raja NARDHAN PAL, 3rd Raja of Bhadu, married and had issue.

  • Raja Gwar Pal (qv)

• Raja GWAR PAL, 4th Raja of Bhadu, married and had issue.

  • Raja Dharam Pal (qv)

• Raja DHARAM PAL, 5th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja UTTAM PAL, 6th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja DAKHAN PAL, 7th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja ANIRUDH PAL, 8th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja NIKODAR PAL, 9th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja (name unknown) PAL, 10th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja KARIDHAN PAL, 11th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja ANANT PAL, 12th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja JERNAN PAL, 13th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja ABHIMAN PAL, 14th Raja of Bhadu fl.1600

• Raja MAN PAL, 15th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja CHATAR PAL, 16th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja UDAYA PAL, 17th Raja of Bhadu fl.1723

• Raja PURAN PAL, 18th Raja of Bhadu fl.1736

• Raja HAST PAL, 19th Raja of Bhadu

• Raja PRITHVI PAL, 20th Raja of Bhadu, married and had issue. fl.1756

  • Raja Jai Singh (qv)

• Raja JAI SINGH, 21st and last independent Raja of Bhadu -/1809, which was given to Raja Suchet Singh, it came under complete control of the Sikhs in 1835 and by the treaty of 1846, the state was given to Maharaja Ghulab Singh of Jammu, and the family was finally and formally dispossessed, married and had issue.

  • Raja Autar Singh (qv)

  • Mian Bir Singh, he chose to remain in Kashmir and was in receipt of a yearly pension of Rs 500 for the maintenance of his family.

TILOKPUR JAGIR - Punjab (Kangra Dist.)

• Raja AUTAR SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur 1809/1840, born 1782, his family lived at Tilokpur near Kotla in the Kangra Valley on a yearly pension of Rs3,000; married and had issue. He died 1840.

  • Raja Umed Singh (qv)

  • Mian Narayan Singh, born 1806, died 1877.

• Raja UMED SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur 1840/1876, born 1804, on the grant of the hill territories by the British Government to the Maharaja Ghulab Singh of Kashmir and Jammu, he was dispossessed of his territories, but received a pension from the British Government from the territories ceded by the Maharaja to meet this and similar claims, thereafter he settled in Nurpur, Kangra district; married and had issue. He died 1876.

  • Raja Brijraj Singh (qv)

  • Raja Bhopal Singh (qv)

  • Mian Kesri Singh, born 1839, married and had issue. He died 1909.

    • Kanwar Mahtab Singh, born 1884/1885, married and had issue.

      • Kanwar Gajendra Singh, born 1910.

    • Kanwar Sant Singh, born 1887.

  • Mian Sundar Singh, born 1841, died 1870.

  • Mian Fateh Singh, born 1843, married and had issue. He died 1881.

    • Kanwar Jaswant Singh, born 1866, married and had issue. He died 1896/1898.

      • Kanwar Ludhar Singh, born 1896.

    • Kanwar Shiv Saran Singh, born 1873, married and had issue. He died 1935.

      • Kanwar Hari Singh, married and had issue. He died 1926.

        • Kanwar Man Mohan Singh, born 1924.

      • Kanwar Pritam Singh, born 1934.

• Raja BRIJRAJ SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur 1876/1892, born 1831/1832, he served as the twelfth Viceregal Darbari of the Kangra district; he elected to reside in British territory on the cession of Bhadu to Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu, receiving perpetual cash pensions of 5000Rs from Government in lieu of lands ceded for this especial purpose by the Maharaja; married and had issue. He died 1892.

  • Raja Kishan Singh (qv)

  • [?Kanwarani Rattan Dei, married Kanwar Kartar Singh of Chamba, born 1882.]

  • [?Rani Sansar Dei, married (as his third wife), HH Raja Saheb Shri Shyam Singh of Chamba.]

• Raja KISHAN SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur 1892/1895, born 1854 or 1872, died 1895.

• Raja BHOPAL SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur 1895/1900, born 1834, married 1862, [?a daughter of Raja Gopal Singh of Chamba], and had issue. He died 1900.

  • Raja Atal Singh [aka Attar Singh] (qv)

  • Mian Sardar Singh [aka Sardul Singh], born 1881, married and had issue. He died 1911.

    • Kanwar Kirpal Singh, born 1903, died 1917.

  • Mian Chuna Singh [aka Kanwal Singh], born 1887, died 1918.

  • Rani Padmawati Kumari, married Raja Jagat Dev Singh of Poonch, and had issue.

• Raja ATAL SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur 1900/1922, born 1864, married 1887, (a daughter of Raja Gopal Singh, Raja of Chamba), and had issue. He died 1922.

  • Raja Tiru Singh (qv)

  • Kanwar Hira Singh, born 1889, died 1915.

  • Raja Moti Singh Bhadwalia, born 1901, the sixth Provincial Darbari of Kangra District; he was granted five squares of land in Montgomery district; married and had issue.

    • Tikka Jaidev Singh, born 1924.

    • Kanwar Jasjit Singh, born 1925.

    • Thakur Sukhdev Singh, born 1929.

  • Kanwar Ganga Singh, born 1910.

  • Kanwar Ratan Singh, born 1914.

  • Kanwar Suja Singh, born 1918.

• Raja TIRU SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur 1922/-, born 1887, married and had issue.

  • Raja Jasjit Singh (qv)

  • Kanwar Ranjit Singh of Tilokpur, married, Kanwarani Champa Kumari, and has issue.

    • Kanwarani Nirmal Kumari, born 1956, married Kanwar Devindra Singh of Sirmur, and has issue.

• Raja JASJIT DEV SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur, born 1925, married Rani Tara Devi, born 1929/1930, daughter of Rai Bhagwant Singh of Kullu, and had issue.

  • Raja Raghuraj Singh (qv)

• Raja RAGHURAJ SINGH, Raja of Tilokpur, married Rajkumari Deeplata Kumari (Rani Deeplata Kumari of Tilokpur), daughter of Rana Ran Bahadur Singh Jandaive of Balsan, and his second wife, Rani Vidya Kumari, and had issue.

  • Kunwarani Kamakshi Singh, married 8th February 2015, Kunwar Sahib Param Vijay Singh Pokaran, son of Rajshri Thakur Nagendra Singhji, present Thakur Saheb of Pokhran, and his wife, Thakurani Yashwant Kumari, daughter of Thakur Shri Sunder Singhji of Sodawas.

  • Raja Triraj Pratap Singh (qv)

• Raja TRIRAJ PRATAP SINGH, 10th Raja of Tilokpur (see above)