PRESENT RULER: Rana ARUN CHAND (The Palace, Kuthar, Via Subathu, District Solan, H.P., India)

born 8th January 1949 in Junga as Rajkumar Arun Sen of Keonthal, declared heir to the throne of Kuthar in September 1986, married Rani Sahiba Nirmala Devi, daughter of Mian Chattar Singh of Village Kalontha in Northern Jubbal, born 11th August 1951, and has surviving issue.

• Tikka Siddharth Chand, born 1975, educated at the Lawrence School, Sanawar, District Solan, died in an automobile accident on 11th December 1987.

• Rajkumari (name unknown) Sahiba, died at the age of four months.

• Rajkumari Arunima Kumari [HH Rani Arunima Kumari of Sitamau], born 26th March 1980 at The Lady Reading Hospital in Simla, married February 2002 at New Delhi, Yuvraj Puranjay Sinh, now HH Raja PURANJAY SINH, Raja Saheb of Sitamau.

• Tikka Akansh Chand, born 20th September 1989 at The Lady Reading Hospital in Simla, presently studying at Pine Grove School, Kasauli, District Solan.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded before 1700 by Rana Surat Chand who came from Kashmir. The state officially lapsed in 1956, as the adoption of RK Arun Sen of Keonthal was not recognized. Rulers were...

• Rana SAMAR CHAND 1776/1791, succeeded to the throne in 1776, married and had issue, one son. He died 1791.

  • Tikka Gopal Chand (later Rana GOPAL CHAND) (qv)

• Rana GOPAL CHAND 1791/1803 and 1815/1824, succeeded to the throne in 1791, married and had issue, three sons. He died 1824.

  • Tikka Bhup Chand (later Rana BHUP CHAND) (qv)

  • Rajkumar Rattan Singh, married and had issue, four sons.

    • Mian Kharak Singh, died 1870.

    • Mian Hari Singh

    • Mian Nain Singh, married and had issue, one son.

      • Mian Jiwan Singh, born 1888.

    • Mian Bir Singh

  • Rajkumar Bahadar Singh, married and had issue, two sons.

    • Mian Hira Singh

    • Mian Bishan Singh, married and had issue, two sons.

      • Mian Basant Singh, born 1879, married and had issue, one son.

        • Mian Durga Singh

      • Mian Gobardhan Singh

GURKHA OCCUPATION 1803/1815

• Rana BHUP CHAND 1824/1858, married and had issue, two sons. He died 1858.

  • Tikka Jai Chand (later Rana JAI CHAND) (qv)

  • Rajkumar Ishri Singh, born 1844, died 1888.

• Rana JAI CHAND 1858/1895, born 1845 (1840), succeeded 27th December 1858 ^(#1)., married and had issue, one son. He died 1895.

  • Tikka Jagjit Chand (later Rana JAGJIT CHAND) (qv)

• Rana JAGJIT CHAND 1896/1930 (abdicated), born 1886, succeeded to the throne in 1895, educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore; married and had issue, two sons. He died 19th November 1930.

  • Tikka Krishen Chand (later Rana KRISHEN CHAND) (qv)

  • Rakumar Baldev Singh, born 1906.

• Rana KRISHEN CHAND 1930/1956 , born 23rd August 1905, succeeded to the throne on his father's abdication in early 1930, educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore, married Raj Kumari Krishna Devi of Doodrej, died in 1986, daughter of the Rana Sahib of Doodrej in Gujarat, and had issue, seven children. He died 1956.

  • Rajkumari Shanta Devi [Rani Shanta Devi of Keonthal], born 26th May 1928 in Kuthar, married April 1944 (as his first wife), Raja HITENDRA SEN of Keonthal, and had issue, four children. She died 16th July 1960 in Simla.

    • Rajkumar Arun Sen, born 8th January 1949 in Junga, declared heir to the throne of Kuthar in September 1986, succeded his maternal grandfather as Rana Arun Chand of Kuthar (qv).

  • Rajkumari Indu Devi, born 1929, married Tikka Prakash Chand, son of Raja Kidar Chand of Chenani in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, born in 1920, and has issue, two sons and three daughters.

  • Rajkumari Brinda Devi, married Mandaleshwar Shriman Lal BRAJENDRA NARAYAN SINGH DEO of Jarasingha in Orissa, and had issue, one son.

  • Rajkumari Sita Devi, married Sukhdev Singh, son of Colonel Baldev Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, and has issue, two sons and three daughters.

  • Rajkumari Amba Devi, married to Kanwar Ram Pratap Singh of Rajgarh State in Madhya Pradesh, and has issue, four children.

    • Abhay Singh (New York City, U.S.A.)

    • Kumari Prithi Kumari

    • Viki Singh

    • Kumari Ira Kumari

  • Rajkumari (name unknown), died young.

  • Tikka Pratap Chand, born 12th January 1936, died unmarried in 1955.

• Rana ARUN CHAND (see above)