PRESENT RULER: Rana TRIBHUWAN SINGH, Rana of Kotkhai since 3rd August 2006 (The Durbar, Kothhai, Tehsil Kotkhai, District Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India)

born 25th November 1989 at Kotkhai, educated at Parwanoo, District Solan; installed on the gaddi on 17th August 2006.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: This family is a junior branch of the Kumharsain ruling line. Incorporated into British India in January 1828. Rulers were....

• Rana RANJIT SINGH 1812/1821, married and had issue. He died 1821.

  • Rana BHAGWAN SINGH (qv)

  • Mian Jaswant Singh, married and had issue.

    • Mian Ram Saran Singh, succeeded his uncle as Rana RAM SARAN SINGH (qv)

    • Mian Gulab Singh

• Rana BHAGWAN SINGH 1821/1859, he abdicated in 1827, and transferred his state to the British in January of the following year, he was granted a pension and was allowed to retain his royal privileges; married 1stly, Rani Chandra Kuar, [?daughter of Thakur Rasal Chand of Khaneti], died after 1831, married 2ndly, a Rani from Delath, and had issue, as well as further issue.

  • Kunwar Ranzor Singh

  • Kunwar Sheo Saran Singh, died before 1831.

• Rana RAM SARAN SINGH 1859/1891, married 1stly, a daughter of Thakur Shamsher Chand of Theog, married 2ndly, a daughter of Rana PRITAM SINGH of Kumharsain, married 3rdly, another daughter of Rana PRITAM SINGH of Kumharsain, and had issue.

  • Rana JAI SINGH (qv)

  • Kumari Gopi Kumari

  • Kunwar Shamsher Singh

• Rana JAI SINGH 1891/1948, married 1stly, Rani Kamla Devi, daughter of Thakur LAL CHAND of Khaneti, married 2ndly, Rani Lakshmi Kumari, daughter of Mian Gulab Singh of Jubbal, and had issue.

  • Rajkumari Kalawati Kumari, married Kanwar Randip Singh of Sirmur, and had issue.

  • Rana RAGHUNATH SINGH (qv)

  • Rani Parvati Kumari (by Rani Kamla Devi), married (as his first wife), 1st July 1925, Rana RAN BAHADUR SINGH Jandaive of Balsan, and had issue.

  • Rajkumar Randhir Singh, married Rajkumar-Rani Lakshmi Kumari, daughter of Mian Gulab Singh of Jubbal, and has issue.

    • Kanwar Someshwar Singh, married Kanwarani Leela Kumari, daughter of Mian Durga Singh of Theog, and has issue.

  • Rajkumari Saraswati Devi, married Rai RAGHUBIR SINGH of Sangri.

  • Rajkumar Yoginder Singh, married Rajkumar-Rani Premlata Kumari, daughter of Thakur Narayan Singh of Patodi, and had issue.

    • Kanwar Praduman Singh, married Kanwarani Kiran Bala Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Tilak Singh of Khaneti.

  • Rani Vidyawati Kumari (by Rani Lakshmi Kumari), married (as his second wife), Rana RAN BAHADUR SINGH Jandaive of Balsan, and had issue.

  • Rajkumar Devinder Singh, married Rajkumar-Rani Sushila Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Gopal Singh of Bhajji, and had issue.

  • Rajkumari Savitri Kumari, married Maj. Thakur Kartar Singh Mankotia, and has issue.

• Rana RAGHUNATH SINGH 1948/1979, succeded to the throne in 1948, educated at Kotkhai, Kotgarh, Simla and at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, Delhi; married 1stly, 1930, Raj Kumari Sita Devi, born 1912, died 1939 at Kotkhai, daughter of Rana SHIV SINGH of Mangal State, married 2ndly, 1957, Kumari Basantika Devi, daughter of Colonel Hira Singh Pathania of Reh (see Nurpur), and had issue, six children. He died 1979.

  • Tikka Narendra Singh (later Rana NARENDRA SINGH, qv)

  • Rajkumar Bhopal Singh, born 4th January 1935 at Kotkhai, educated at Kotkhai High School, retired in 1993 as a Deputy Superintendant of H.P. Police, married 28th June 1965, Kumari Sushila Kumari, daughter of Rana JAI SINGH of Dhadi State, and had issue, five children.

    • Kumari Mridula Kumari, born 21st March 1966, married 28th April 1984, Kanwar Upendra Singh, son of Maharaj Sarv Bhupindra Singh of Sirmur State.

    • Kumari Bageshwari Kumari, born 11th June 1968, educated at Government High School, Simla, married 9th December 1991, Tikka Satinder Singh of Ghund State.

    • Kumari Harsha Kumari, born 29th May 1971, educated at Government High School, Simla, married Shri Vivek Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and has issue, three sons.

    • Kanwar Bhanu Pratap Singh, born 24th March 1978, educated at Hainault Public School, Simla.

    • Kumari Shruti Devi, born 26th June 1979, educated at the D.A.V. College at Kotkhai.

  • Rajkumar Gandharva Singh, born 18th December 1937 at Kotkhai, educated at Kotkhai High School and at Government College, Nahan, District Sirmur, married 1977, Kumari Tara Devi, daughter of Kanwar Guman Singh of Theog, born 10th December 1956, died 1st November 1986 at Kotkhai, and has issue, two children.

    • Kanwar Arjun Pratap Singh, born 7th December 1979 at Kotkhai, educated at Hainault Public School, Simla and D.A.V.College at Kotkhai.

    • Kanwar Abhishek Pratap Singh, born 21st June 1983 at Kotkhai, educated at Kotkhai Public School, Kotkhai.

  • Rajkumari Brinda Devi (by 2nd wife), married 1957, Shri Sagar Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and has issue, three children.

  • Rajkumar Digvijay Singh (by 2nd wife), born 22nd April 1944, educated at Yadavindra Public School, Patiala, Punjab; Area Manager for Nepal Int. Co., married 7th December 1983, Raj Kumari Shaileshwari Kumari, daughter of Rao Bahadur Raja YADVENDRA SINGH Judeo of Alipura, and his wife, Rani Chandraprabha, and has issue, one son.

    • Kanwar Suryaveer Sigh, born 5th October 1983, educated at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, District Solan.

  • Rajkumari Tripura Kumari (by 2nd wife), married Raj Kumar Rudra Pratap Singh Deo of Kharsawan State in Orissa, and has issue, one son.

• Rana NARENDRA SINGH 1979/1990, born 6th October 1933 at Kotkhai, succeeded to the throne in 1979, educated at Kotkhai, later at Nahan Government High School, District Sirmur and graduated from Patiala, Punjab; married 21st July 1961, Raj Kumari Roop Kumari, daughter of Thakur LAKSHMI CHAND of Beja, and had issue, four children. He died 7th October 1990.

  • Tikka Hemendra Singh.(later Rana HEMENDRA SINGH) (qv)

  • Rajkumari Anjana Kumari, born 22nd December 1966 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, educated at Kotkhai and at Nahan; married 1992, Kanwar Man Mohan Singh, son of Kanwar Ajit Singh of Madhan, and has issue, a son.

    • Udai Vir Singh, born 1st August 1994.

  • Rajkumari Bhavna Kumari, born 12th November 1969 at Chandigarh, educated at Kotkhai and graduated from D.A.V. College, Kotkhai; married June 1995, Tikka Ajay Singh, son of Rana VIJAY SINGH of Kunihar, born 9th July 1956 at Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal. They were both killed in an automobile accident on 3rd March 1996.

  • Rajkumari Shalini Kumari, born 28th August 1973 at Kotkhai, educated at the Government Girl's High School, Kotkhai, and gained her B.Ed. from Himachal Pradesh University, Simla.

• Rana HEMENDRA SINGH 1990/2006, born 15th September 1962 at Kasauli, District Solan, H.P., educated at Kotkhai and Kasauli and graduated from Government College, Nahan, District Sirmaur, in 1983, gained his B.Ed. in 1993, served as the Principal of Kotkhai Public School, married 11th October 1987, Rani Ranjana Kumari [Kumari Ranjana Kumari], now the Rajmata of Kotkhai, daughter of Kanwar Homender Singh of Jubbal, and had issue, three children. He died 3rd August 2006 at Kotkhai.

  • Raj Kumari Purnima Kumari, born 29th June 1988 at Kotkhai, educated at Parwanoo, District Solan.

  • Tikka Tribhuwan Singh, succeeded as Rana TRIBHUWAN SINGH (qv)

  • Raj Kumar Vishan Raj Singh, born 9th October 1991 at Kotkhai.

• Rana TRIBHUWAN SINGH (see above)