PRESENT RULER: Raja PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Dhami since 8th May 1987. (The Palace, Halog, Dhami, District Simla, H.P., India and Hira House, Longwood, Simla, H.P., India)

born 1933, and became Tikka of Dhami on the death of his elder brother, married 1972, Kumari Hemlata Kumari [Rani Hemlata Kumari of Dhami], daughter of Thakur Dayal Singh of District Una, H.P., and has issue, two children, a son and a daughter.

• Rajkumari Hireshwari Kumari, born 12th September 1973 at Shimla, educated at Tara Hall School, Simla and at St. Bede's College, Simla, married 1994, Mr. Atul Sharma, born 1962, and has issue, three children.

  • Miss Trisha Sharma, born 1996.

  • Miss Alisha Sharma, born 1998.

  • Master Sahil Sharma, born 2000.

• Tikka Jagdeep Singh, born 17th December 1974 at Chandigarh, educated at Government Model High School and Government College, Sanjauli. He attained his Post Graduation in Personnel Management from The University of Himachal Pradesh.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Initially tributary to Bilaspur, it became independent in 1815 on the expulsion of the Gurkhas. Rulers were...

• Rana DALEL SINGH 1778/1803, married and had issue.

  • Rana PRITAM SINGH (qv)

• Rana PRITAM SINGH 1803/1813, married and had issue. He died 1813.

  • Rana GOVERDHAN SINGH (qv)

  • Kanwar Bishan Singh, died 1864.

  • Kanwar Gyan Singh, married and had issue. He died 1837.

    • Kanwar Zalim Singh, married and had issue. He died 1886.

      • Kanwar Kapur Singh, born 1859.

• Rana GOVERDHAN SINGH 1813/1868, confirmed in his state by a sanad of 1815, married and had issue. He died 1868 (or 1867).

  • Rana FATEH SINGH (qv)

  • Kanwar Narendra Singh

• Rana FATEH SINGH 1868/1894, born 1853/1855, confirmed in the succession on 26th January 1870 ^(#1), married and had issue. He died 1894.

  • Rana HIRA SINGH (qv)

  • Kanwar Jwala Singh, born 1884.

  • Kumari Amba Devi, married Raja BALDEV SINGH of Poonch.

  • Kumari (name unknown), married Raja BALDEV SINGH of Poonch.

• Rana HIRA SINGH 1894/1920, born 1878, C.I.E. [cr. xx.1.1913], married and had issue. He died 1920.

  • Raja Shri DALIP SINGH Bahadur (qv)

  • Kanwar Ratan Singh, married 1stly, Kanwarani Bhagwati Devi of Jubbal, married 2ndly, Kanwarani Sudha Kumari, daughter of HH Maharaja VIR SINGH Ju Deo of Orchha, and had issue.

    • Kanwar Amar Singh

    • Kumari Sudha Kumari, married Thakur Narender Singh of Ghund, and has issue.

    • Kanwar Dushyant Singh, married Kanwarani Kamlesh Kumari of Orchha, and has issue.

    • Rani Bhavna Kumari, married Shri Gautam Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, and has issue.

      • Shri Virat Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, born 12th September 1981 in Kathmandu, to marry on 19th February 2009 at Jaipur, Kumari Himani Devi, daughter of Col. Rajkumar Manikya Dev Chand Katoch of Lambagraon, and his wife Rajkumar Rani Kiran Kumari.

    • Kumari Roopa Kumari, married Kanwar Jitendra Singh of Ramgarh in Haryana, and has issue.

  • Kanwar Bikram Singh, married Kanwarani Sheela Kumari of Jubbal, and had issue.

    • Kanwar Devinder Singh, married Kanwarani Dipti Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Nar Singh of Jubbal, and has issue.

• Raja Shri DALIP SINGH Bahadur 1920/1987, born 5th November 1908, educated at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and Aitchison Chief's College, Lahore; married Rajkumari Tara Devi [Rani Tara Devi of Dhami], daughter of Rana SURAT SINGH of Tharoch, and had issue, 5 children. He died 8th May 1987 at Snowden Hospital, Simla.

  • Rajkumari Meena Devi, born on 29th May 1926, married (div. 1959), Tikka Yashodan Singh of Mandi.

  • Tikka Shamsher Singh, born 28th November 1928. He died unmarried in 1977.

  • Rajkumar Pratap Singh [Raja PRATAP SINGH] (qv)

  • Rajkumari Indu Kumari, born 1935, married 1978, Mr. Suresh Chand Karol, and has issue, a daughter

    • Miss Vijata Karol, born August 1980.

  • Rajkumari Pawan Kumari, born in 1947, married Mr. Sanjeev Mohinder Singh of Harnoli in Punjab, and has issue.

    • Sukhmani Singh

• Raja Shri PRATAP SINGH (see above)