PRESENT RULER: Raja HIMMAT SHER SINGH Sahib Bahadur, 9th Raja Sahib of Kalsia since 19th January 1961.

born 1st August 1955; married and has issue.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: After the defeat of Zain Khan, the last Muhammadan Governor of Sirhind, by the joint forces of the several misldars, Sardar Gurbaksh Singh, a Sandhu jat of Kalsia (a village in Kasur Tahsil of Lahore District, now in Pakistan) of the Karora Singhia Misl, occupied a large number of villages of the Parganas of Chhachhrauli in Ambala District, Dera Bassi in Patiala District and Chirak in Faridkot District in 1763. Rulers were...

1. Sardar GURBAKSH SINGH 1763/1785, a member of the Karora-Singhia misl and commander of troops, he was granted the estate of Chhachrauli by Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab; it was named Kalsia after his birth village and Chhachrauli became its capital; he captured Bambeli parganah in Hoshiarpur district and amassed considerable wealth; married and had issue. He died 1783.

   • Sardar JODH SINGH (qv)

2. Sardar JODH SINGH 1785/1818, born 1751, a man of great ability, he greatly extended the area of the estate, he captured Dehra Bassi from Sardar Khajan Singh and also acquired the territories of Lohal and Achrak. Maharaja Ranjit Singh presented him with territories of Badala, Kameri and Chhabbal in recognition of his service; married and had issue. He died 1818 of his wounds received in battle at Multan.

   • Sardar SOBHA SINGH (qv)

   • Sardar Hari Singh, married Sardarni Karm Kaur, daughter of Maharaja Sahib Singh of Patiala, and had issue. He died 1816.

     • Sardar Dewa Singh, married and had issue. He died 1837.

       • Sardar Umrao Singh, died 1844.

   • Sardar Karam Singh

3. Sardar SOBHA SINGH 1818/1858, after the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, the Sardar was granted a number of privileges denied to other chiefs in the Punjab; he married and had issue, two sons. He died 1858.

   • Sardar LAHNA SINGH (qv)

   • Sardar Man Singh, married and had issue, two sons. He died 1890.

4. Sardar LAHNA SINGH 1858/1869, he fully supported the British in Delhi in crushing the revolt of 1857, as a result, that in 1858, when he assumed power, the Kalsia was intact as a British protectorate. He died 1869.

5. Sardar BISHEN SINGH 1869/1883, born 1854, married April 1865, the daughter of Raja RAGHUBIR SINGH of Jind, and had issue. He died 1883.

   • Sardar JAGJIT SINGH (qv)

   • Sardar RANJIT SINGH Sahib Bahadur (qv)

6. Sardar JAGJIT SINGH 1883/1886, born 1880, died a minor 1886.

7. Sardar RANJIT SINGH Sahib Bahadur 1886/1908, born 1881, succeeded 28th August 1886 ^(#1), he built several public utility buildings, including a charity hospital and schools; married and had issue. He died 1908.

   • Raja RAVI SHER SINGH (qv)

8. Raja RAVI SHER SINGH Sahib Bahadur 1908/1947, born 30th October 1902 and succeeded 25th July 1908, Investiture held 6th April 1922, Raja [cr.1916], educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore; Member of the Chamber of Princes; a man of exemplary qualities and a popular ruler amongst his subjects, he constructed a number of buildings including the Raja Ravi Sher Kalsia Hospital in 1910; he also composed a number of poems; married 16th February 1925, Rani Bibi Amrit Kaur, daughter of HH Maharaja RIPUDAMAN SINGH Malvinder Bahadur of Nabha, and his first wife, HH Maharani Bibi Jagdhish Kaur, and had issue. He died 4th January 1947.

   • Rajkumar Janak Sher Singh, born 1931.

   • Raja KARAN SHER SINGH Sahib Bahadur (qv)

9. Raja KARAN SHER SINGH Sahib Bahadur 1947/1961, born 1933, married and had issue. He died 1961.

10. Raja HIMMAT SHER SINGH Sahib Bahadur (see above)