PRESENT RULER: HH Maharaja Shri Dr. KARAN SINGH (1961/-) (3 Nyaya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021, India)

born 9th March 1931 in Cannes, M.A., Ph.D., Author and Environmentalist, Regent, Sadar-i-Riyasat and Governor of Jammu and Kashmir; educated at Doon School, University of Jammu & Kashmir and University of Delhi, Member of the Fourth Lok Sabha 1967; Union Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation 1967/73; Member of the Fifth Lok Sabha 1971; Union Minister for Health and Family Planning 1973/77; Member of the Sixth Lok Sabha 1977; Union Minister of Education and Culture 1979/80; Member of the Seventh Lok Sabha 1980; Ambassador of India to the United States of America (with Cabinet Status) 1990; Chairman, Auroville Foundation (with Cabinet Status) 1991/96; Elected to Rajya Sabha November 1996 (resigned 12 August 1999); Member of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs 1996/-; Co-Chairman, Indo-French Forum (with Cabinet Status) 1997/99; Member, Committee on External Affairs 1998/99; Elected to Rajya Sabha January 2000; Founder, International Centre for Science, Culture and Consciousness; President, People's Commission on Environment and Development (India); Chairman of the Virat Hindu Samaj and Temple of Understanding, a global Interfaith organisation; was Chairman of the Central Sanskrit Board and Indian Board of Wildlife; was head of Project Tiger; Vice-Chairman, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund; was Member of the U.N.E.S.C.O. International Commission on Education for the twenty-first century, the International Steering Committee of the Global Forum of Parliamentarians and Spiritual Leaders of Human Survival and the Club of Rome and Club of Budapest; Trustee of the India International Centre and Green Cross International; was Chancellor of Jammu & Kashmir University and Banaras Hindu University; associated with many cultural and academic institutions and has received several honorary degrees and other awards, including doctorates from the Banaras Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University and Soka University, Tokyo; took the M.A. degree of Delhi University in Political Science with a first class first in 1957, creating a University record which is still unbroken; Clubs: Member of Willingdon Sports Club, Bombay; Member of the Royal Western India Turf Club, Bombay; Member of the Delhi Gymkhana Club and the India Habitat Centre; Favourite Pastimes and Recreation includes: reading books, Indian classical and folk music, married 5th March 1950 in Bombay, HH Maharani Yasho Rajya Lakshmi Devi, born 9th January 1937 in Kathmandu, died 24th May 2009, daughter of General Maharajkumar Sarada Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, she was President of the Delhi Society for the Welfare of Mentally Retarded children, President Ladies Club Jammu and Chairperson of Maharaja Ghulab Singh Charitable Trust and a Trustee of Hari-Tara Charitable Trust; and has issue.

• Maharajkumari Dr. Jyotsna Devi, born 24th February 1957 in Bombay, educated at Lady Sri Ram College (M.A.), and at Delhi University, Department of Philosophy (Ph.D.), married Dhirendra Singh Chauhan from Mainpuri, and has issue.

  • Kunwar Visvat Singh

  • Kumari Viveka Devi

• Yuvraj Vikramaditya Singh, born 4th August 1964 in Bombay, Managing Director of Taragarh Palace Hotel, in the Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, married 1987, Yuvrani Chitrangada Scindia, born 14th February 1967, daughter of HH Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO III SCINDIA of Gwalior, and his wife, HH Maharani Madhavi Devi, and has issue.

  • Kumari Mriganka Devi

  • Mian Martanday Singh

• Maharajkumar Ajatshatru Singh, M.L.A. (Jammu and Kashmir); born 6th February 1966 in Delhi, married Smt. Ritu Devi [Ria Kapur], daughter of General Shiv Nath, and has issue.

  • Kumari Adishree Devi

  • Mian Ranjay Singh