PRESENT RULER: Rana SURENDRA SINGH, 59th Rana of Kumharsain since 1996.

married Rani Sita Devi, daughter of Kanwar Shyam Singh of Sangri, and his wife, Kanwarani Padam Prabha, and has issue.

• Tikka Kamalendra Singh

• Kunwar Vimalendra Singh

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded by Kirat Singh around 1000AD. Formerly a feudatory of Bashahr, the state was declared independent after the expulsion of the Gurkhas in 1815, but at the same time it lost its own tributary states of Bharauli and Madhan. Rulers were...

• Rana AJMIR SINGH -/1725, 49th Rana of Kumharsain, married and had issue.

  • Rana ANUP SINGH (qv)

• Rana ANUP SINGH 1725/1755, married and had issue.

  • Rana DALIP SINGH (qv)

  • Kumari (name unknown), married Raja RAM SINGH of Bashahr.

  • Mian Ram Singh, Wazir of Kumharsain, married and had issue.

    • Rana PRITAM SINGH (qv)

  • Kumari (name unknown), married the Raja of Bilaspur.

  • Mian Surat Singh

• Rana DALIP SINGH 1755/1789, married and had issue.

  • Rana GOVARDHAN SINGH (qv)

  • Rana KEHAR SINGH (qv)

• Rana GOVARDHAN SINGH 1789/1803, died sp 1803.

GURKHA OCCUPATION 1803/1815

• Rana KEHAR SINGH 1803/1839, took refuge in Kullu during the Gurkha occupation, the state lapsed to the British authorities on his death without surviving issue. He died sp 1839.

INTERREGNUM 1839/1840

• Rana PRITAM SINGH 1840/1858, married and had issue. He died 1858.

  • Rana BHAWANI SINGH (qv)

  • Kumari (name unknown), married Rana RAM SARAN SINGH of Kotkhai, and had issue.

  • Kumari (name unknown), married Raja SHAMSHER SINGH of Bashahr.

• Rana BHAWANI SINGH 1858/1874, married and had issue. He died 1874.

  • Rana HIRA SINGH (qv)

  • Kanwar Indar Singh, born 1872, married Kanwarani Janki Devi of Delath, and had issue.

    • Kanwar Baldev Singh, married Kanwarani Hemawati Kanwar, daughter of Kanwar Mahendra Singh of Suket, and had issue.

      • Rana SURENDRA SINGH (qv)

      • Kumari Ramarani Kumari, married Col. Kanwar Devinder Singh of Reh, and has issue (see Nurpur).

      • Kumari Mahamaya Kumari, married Kanwar Prakritibhushan Singh of Balsan, and has issue.

  • Kumari (name unknown), married HH Raja AMAR CHAND Sahib Bahadur of Bilaspur.

  • Kumari (name unknown), married HH Raja AMAR CHAND Sahib Bahadur of Bilaspur.

• Rana HIRA SINGH 1874/1914, 56th Rana of Kumharsain, born 1851, succeeded 12th November 1874 ^(#1), of unsound mind and the state was controlled by the Council of Regency 1874/1896, married and had issue. He died 24th August 1914.

  • Tikka Bedar Singh, died vpsp.

  • Rana VIDYADHAR SINGH (qv)

• Rana VIDYADHAR SINGH 1914/1945 , born 1895 and succeeded 24th August 1914, educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; married 1stly, a daughter of Rana DURGA SINGH of Bhajji, married 2ndly, Rani Pratibha Devi, daughter of Raja DHAYAN SINGH of Baghal, married 3rdly, a Rani from Basantpur, and had issue. He died 1945.

  • Rana SUMESHWAR SINGH (qv)

  • Rajkumari Shahshi Kumari, married (as his first wife), Shri Jagdish Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and had issue.

• Rana SUMESHAWAR SINGH 1945/1996, born 1930, married Rani Ishwari Rajya Lakshmi Devi, daughter of Gen. Shri Sur Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, and his wife, a daughter of HH Maharaja Dhiraj PRITHVI Bir Bikram of Nepal, and had issue. He died 1996.

  • Rajkumari Pratima Kumari

  • Rajkumari Rajeshwari Kumari

• Rana SURENDRA SINGH (see above)