PRESENT RULER: See Tehri-Garhwal.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Originally only one of a number of petty states in the area, which established its authority about 1358, it was the predecessor state of Tehri-Garhwal. Rulers were...

37. Raja AJAY PAL 1358/1370, considered to be the founder of the state by bringing the petty chiefdoms under his control.

38. Raja KALYAN PAL 1370/1398

39. Raja SUNDAR PAL 1398/-

40. Raja HANSDEO PAL

41. Raja BIJAI PAL

42. Raja SAHAJ PAL

43. Raja BALBHADRA SHAH 1575/1591, the first Raja to use the name of Shah, which was a title earlier granted by the Lodi King of Delhi.

44. Raja MAN SHAH I 1591/1611

45. Raja SHYAM SHAH 1611/1622, died 1622.

46. Raja MAHIPAT SHAH 1622/1631, changed the capital from Dewalgarh to Srinagar and consolidated his rule over most parts of Garhwal, married Rani Karnavati and had issue. He died July 1631.

    • Raja PRITHVI SHAH (qv)

47. Raja PRITHVI SHAH 1631/1660 , nicknamed Naktirani, married and had issue.

    • Raja MEDNI SHAH (qv)

48. Raja MEDNI SHAH 1660/1684

49. Raja FATEH SHAH 1684/1716, fought against Guru Gobind Singh in the battle of Bhangani fought on 18th September 1688, married and had issue. He died 1716.

    • Raja UPENDRA SHAH (qv)

    • Rajkumar Dalip Shah

    • Rajkumar Madhukar Shah

    • Rajkumar Pahar Shah

    • Daughter, married Rajkumar (later Raja) Ajmer Chand, son of Raja Bhim Chand of Bilaspur.

50. Raja UPENDRA SHAH 1716/1717, died 1717.

51. Raja PRADIP SHAH 1717/1772

52. Raja LALIT SHAH 1772/1780, married and had issue.

    • Raja JAIKARAT SHAH (qv)

    • Raja PARAKRAM SHAH (qv)

    • Raja PRADYUMAN SHAH (qv)

    • Kunwar Pritam Shah, taken in captivity to Nepal by the Gurkhas; married a daughter of Brahma Sahi, Governor of Almora.

53. Raja JAIKARAT SHAH 1780/1785

54. Raja PARAKRAM SHAH 1785/1786

55. Raja PRADYUMAN SHAH 1786/1804, married (amongst others), (a) Rani Mandaraliji [Kumaoni Rani] of Kumaon, married (b), daughter of Mian Ajab Singh of Guler, and had issue, as well as issue by concubines. He died January 1804 (22 Magh 1860) in the battle against the Gurkhas at Khurbura in Dehradun.

    • Raja SUDARSHAN SHAH (by Rani Mandaraliji), recieved only a part of the ancestral lands from the British after they driven out the Nepali forces in 1815, he made his capital at Tehri and was the first Raja of Tehri-Garhwal.

    • Mian Prem Singh

    • Mian Devi Singh