PRESENT RULER:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The ancestor of the family, is traditionally stated to have been Raja Hamir Sen, a younger brother of Raja Vira Sen, founder of Suket in 765AD. Rulers were....

1. Raja KAHN SEN, 1st Raja of Kashtwar, scion of the Royal Family of Bengal or Suket, founder of Kashtwar sometime after 900AD, married and had issue.

   • Raja Gandharab Sen (qv)

   • Kunwar Madan Sen

   • Kunwar Deva Sen

2. Raja GANDHARAB SEN, 2nd Raja of Kashtwar, he ruled for 14 years.

3. Raja MAHA SEN, Raja of Kashtwar

4. Raja RAM SEN, Raja of Kashtwar

5. Raja KAM SEN, Raja of Kashtwar

6. Raja MADAN SEN, Raja of Kashtwar

7. Raja BRAHM SEN, Raja of Kashtwar

8. Raja UDHAT DEV, Raja of Kashtwar fl.1088

9. Raja MATA DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

10. Raja GANGA DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

11. Raja SANG DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

12. Raja RAKH DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

13. Raja INDUR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

14. Raja AUTAR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

15. Raja BHAG DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

16. Raja RAI DEV, Raja of Kashtwar, two petty local rulers succeeded in driving him out of his capital for one year.

17. Raja GUR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

18. Raja UGAR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar, added Sartali/Shatali to his state.

19. Raja MULDAR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar

20. Raja LACHMAN DEV, Raja of Kashtwar, conquered Dachin in the Maru-Wardwan Valley.

21. Raja SANGRAM SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar fl.1420, conquered Nagsun, adding to his state.

22. Raja SANGAR SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar

23. Raja MAGAN SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar

24. Raja DEVA SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar

25. Raja FIROZ SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar

26. Raja NARAIN SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar

27. Raja SALHAN SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar (son), conquered Surur and Bonjwah, adding them to his domains, founded the village of Salhana above Kandani.

28. Raja RAI SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar -/ca1550, he was attacked by the Sultan of Kashmir in 1547.

29. Raja VIJAI SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar ca1550/1570, conquered Saraj, built the fort and village of Vijai, married and had issue. He was killed in a revolt by a local ruler in 1570.

    • Raja Bahadur Singh (qv)

    • Rani Shankar Devi, married 1572, Sultan Yakub Shah Chak of Kashmir, died about 1589 in Kashtwar, buried at Sirkot.

30. Raja BAHADUR SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1570/1588, the state was invaded by the Raja of Kashmir in 1572, married and had issue.

    • Raja Pratap Singh [aka Bhup Singh] (qv)

31. Raja PRATAP SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar ca1588/ca1610, the state was attacked by the Mughals about 1606 and he was driven out of his kingdom.

INTERREGNUM 1610/1618

32. Raja GUR SINGH [aka Gunwar Singh], Raja of Kashtwar 1618/1629, married and had issue. He died 1629.

    • Raja Jagat Singh (qv)

    • Raja Bhagwan Singh (qv)

33. Raja JAGAT SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1629/1642, he invaded Bhadrawah, but in his absence his state was captured by the Raja of Basohli, he was defeated and killed while trying to retake it. He died sp in 1642.

34. Raja BHAGWAN SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1642/1660, with the help of 1,000 soldiers provided by the Mughal Emperor, he succeeded in driving out the Basohli invaders.

35. Raja MAHA SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar [Mahajan Singh] 1660/1674 (abdicated), earned a reputation as a poet, he married and had issue.

    • Raja Jaya Singh (qv)

    • Mian Ram Singh, he converted to Islam taking the name Dindar Khan, Wazir of Kashtwar 1674/-

    • Mian Sirdar Singh.

36. Raja JAYA SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1674/1681, converted to Islam taking the name of Bakhtiyar Khan, married and had issue. He died 1681.

    • Raja Kirat Singh (qv)

    • Mian Muhammed Khan, received a khillat and a jagir of 8 villages in Kashmir from the Mughal Emperor.

    • Kumari Bhup Devi, married 3rd July 1717, Padshah Farrukhsiyar, Emperor of Delhi.

37. Raja KIRAT SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar [Sa'adat Yar Khan] 1681/1728, converted to Islam by force in 1687, assasinated at Gulab Bagh in 1728, married and had issue.

    • Raja Amluk Singh [aka Sa'adatmand Khan] (qv)

38. Raja AMLUK SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1728/1771, married and had issue. He died 1771.

    • Raja Mihr Singh (qv)

    • Raja Sujan Singh (qv)

    • Mian Dalel Singh, married and had descendants in Chamba.

    • Mian Guman Singh, tried to seize power in 1789, married and had issue.

      • Mian Ajit Singh, married and had issue.

        • Mian Fateh Singh, married and had issue.

          • Mian Anwar Singh, he was ranted a jagir in Himgari pargana in Chamba, whose present head (1930) is Mian Autar Singh of Himgari-Chamba.

          • Mian Dalip Singh

39. Raja MIHR SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1771/1786, married Rani Vilasamaji and had issue, one daughter, who was substituted for a boy born at the same time. He died 1786.

Mian Kundan Singh of Bhadrawah, he was appointed Raja of Kashtwar in 1786 for a short time, by the Raja of Chamba who had invaded and occupied Kashtwar, he was displaced and died in Chamba, where his descendants still live.

40. Raja SUJAN SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1786/1787 for 10 months, married and had issue. He died 1787.

    • Raja Inayatullah Singh (qv)

41. Raja PRITHI SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1787/1788, putative son of Raja Mihr Singh. He died sp in 1788.

42. Raja INAYATULLAH SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1788/1789, married and had issue.

    • Raja Muhammed Tegh Singh [aka Saifullah Khan](qv)

Raja LAL DEV of Jammu, held power for a period of two years 1788/1789 in opposition to the rightful ruler, a member of the Jammu Royal Family.

Raja GULAB SINGH, held power for 40 days in 1789, a cousin of the following.

43. Raja MUHAMMED TEGH SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1789/1823, displaced for a time by a relative, who was eventually poisoned, gave shelter to the Afghan ruler, Shah Shuja to 1816, from Maharaja Ranjit Singh, for which the state was annexed in 1820, he was imprisoned in Jammu and was later poisoned by his own servant without ever recovering his state, he married and had issue. He died 1823.

    • Mian Jaimal Singh, died sp in 1871.

    • Mian Zorawar Singh, he was baptized as a christian at Ludhiana where he wandered for many years as a faqir. He died sp in 1870/1873.

    • Mian Dilawar Singh, born 1824, his family lived at Tilokpur near Kotla in the Kangra Valley; married and had issue. He died 1890.

      • Mian Sardar Singh, born 1867/1868, died 1891.

      • Kumari Hussain Bibi, born 1881.

      • Mian Amir Singh, born 1883.