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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Raja Sansi (ORIGINS *), was founded in about 1570, and is the seat of this family. An ancestor of Budh Singh, was Bhara Mall, who lived in Gujranwala district and had been initiated into the Sikh faith by the Seventh Guru, Guru Har Rai 1644/1661. This misl's territory in 1759 was Kunjah, Ladhe Wala, Waraich, Ramnagar, Eminabad, Sodhra, Qila Didar Singh, Rohtas, parts of Pothohar and their capital, Gujranwala. Estate holders were.....

• Sardar Budha Singh, Jagirdar of Raja Sansi -/1718, born in 1670 as Desu, initially he was a cattle thief and he took pahul from Guru Gobind Singh in 1692 in order to reform himself, he owned 25 acres of land, three ploughs and a well and became founder of the village of Sukerchak in the Manjha tract of the Punjab about 70 kms from Lahore; he took part in battles under Guru Gobind Singh and under Banda Singh Bahadur; married and had issue, two sons. He died of apoplexy in 1718.

  • Sardar Chanda Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Naudh Singh, he was the founder and 1st Misldhar of the Sukerchakia misl 1748/1763, married and had issue, four sons (see misl Sukerchakia and Lahore). He was killed in an attack on Bhatto village in 1763 or 1752.

• Sardar Chanda Singh, Jagirdar of Raja Sansi, he and his brother rebuilt the village of Sukerchak in around 1730, which had been found by the Gill Jats some time before; later he moved to Sandhanwala in Sialkot district, and after his father died, he moved on to Sansi, about 12 kilometers from Amritsar, married and had issue, the Sandhanwalia Sardars of Raja Sansi.

  • Sardar Gulab Singh

  • Sardar Didar Singh (qv)

• Sardar Didar Singh, Jagirdar of Raja Sansi -/1784, married and had issue. He died 1784.

  • Sardar Amir Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Ratan Singh, married and had issue.

    • Sardar Khazan Singh, married and had issue.

      • Sardar Jagat Singh, married and had issue.

        • Sardar Dhian Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Arjan Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Ajaipal Singh

            • Sardar Darshan Singh

            • Sardar Sevinder Pal Singh

          • Sardar Avtar Singh

          • Sardar Kartar Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Jagjit Singh

            • Sardar Bhupinder Singh, married and had issue.

              • Sardar Nilinder Singh

            • Sardar Devinder Singh, married and had issue.

              • Sardar Gobind Singh

          • Sardar Niranjan Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Roop Singh

        • Sardar Bhagwan Singh

        • Sardar Ram Singh

      • Sardar Bhagat Singh, married and had issue.

        • Sardar Buta Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Ujagar Singh

      • Sardar Gopal Singh, married and had issue.

        • Sardar Balwant Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Apar Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Kanwal Nain Singh

            • Sardar Harnarain Singh

    • Sardar Nadhan Singh, married and had issue.

      • Sardar Dasondha Singh

  • Sardar Gurmukh Singh, married and had issue.

    • Sardar Fateh Singh, married and had issue.

      • Sardar Kishen Singh, married and had issue.

        • Sardar Bur Singh

        • Sardar Jawand Singh

        • Sardar Jiwan Singh

    • Sardar Kahan Singh, married and had issue.

      • Sardar Basant Singh, married and had issue.

        • Sardar Harnam Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Balwant Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Angad Singh, married and had issue.

              • Sardar Harjit Singh

              • Sardar Manprit Bir Singh

            • Sardar Iqbal Singh, married and had issue.

              • Sardar Mohinder Singh

              • Sardar Himmat Singh

              • Sardar Harinder Singh

            • Sardar Sukhwant Singh

          • Sardar Saran Singh

        • Sardar Gurcharan Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Bakhsish Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Hardip Singh

            • Sardar Amrik Singh

          • Sardar Kartar Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Rajinder Singh

            • Sardar Harbans Singh

            • Sardar Balbir Singh

          • Sardar Pritam Singh

    • Sardar Sham Singh, married and had issue.

      • Sardar Lal Singh

    • Sardar Sher Singh, married and had issue.

      • Sardar Nihal Singh

      • Sardar Mastan Singh

      • Sardar Bhag Singh

      • Sardar Pratap Singh

    • Sardar Baghel Singh, married and had issue.

      • Sardar Sarmukh Singh

      • Sardar Khushal Singh

  • Sardar Gurbaksh Singh

• Sardar Amir Singh, Jagirdar of Raja Sansi 1784/1827, he succeeded to his family's estates, and added to them before his disgrace in 1803, he accompanied Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the Kasur campaign of 1807, and in the expedition against the Muhammadan tribes between the Chenab and the Indus in 1810, he received the territory of Jammu in 1809, and Shakargarh in 1821, married and had issue, five sons. He died 1827.

  • Sardar Attar Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Lehna Singh [Lahina Singh], he enjoyed the title of Ujjal-didar, Nirmal-buddh, Sardar-i-ba-waqar (resplendent presence, pure of intellect, the Sardar with prestige marked), married 1stly, a daughter of Sardar Sudh Singh Chinnah, married 2ndly, a daughter of a Hill Chief, and had issue. He died 16th September 1843.

    • Sardar Pratap Singh, he adopted his nephew, married and had issue. He died 1856.

      • (A) Sardar Gurbachan Singh, see below.

    • Sardar Thakur Singh, born 1837, appointed by the British as extra-assistant commissioner for Amritsar district, also nominated a member of the Golden Temple managing committee, founder and first President of the Sri Guru Singh Sabha in 1873, appointed Prime Minister to Maharaja Dulip Singh's emigré government, he was a distinguished scholar of Persian and Punjabi, well versed in Indian as well as in Muslim lore, he married the daughter of Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabhgarh, and his wife, Rani Kanwal Kaur, and had issue. He died 18th August 1887 in Pondicherry^(#4), his cremated remains were returned to his ancestral seat of Rajasansi.

      • Sardar Gurbachan Singh, born 1855, adopted by Sardar Pratap Singh, his uncle; he was nominated to the Statutory Civil Service and was in 1886 working as an assistant commissioner in the Punjab, Prime Minister to Maharaja Dulip Singh's emigré government following his father's death; in 1899 he entered the service of the Raja of Nahan, becoming a district judge in 1911, married Sardarni Asil Kaur, died 17th August 1932, and had issue. He died spm after 1911 in Nahan.

        • Bibiji Baldev Kaur, married and had issue.

          • Rajwant Singh

          • Dhanraj Singh, married and had issue.

            • Prithraj Singh

            • Bawishraj Singh

        • Bibiji Karam Kaur

      • Sardar Bakhshish Singh (qv)

      • Sardar Narinder Singh, born 1863 or 1868, adopted by Kunwar Dharam Singh of Dadri, he was allowed to return to British India in 1890, married a daughter of Raja Umrao Singh of Kuchesar, and had issue, four sons and three daughters.

        • Sardar Dalpat Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Tajinder Singh

        • Sardar Kirpal Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Sukhraj Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Gurshinder Singh

            • Sardar Amrit Pal Singh

          • Sardar Gurcharan Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Avtar Singh

            • Sardar Rajpal Singh

          • Sardar Pukhraj Singh

        • Sardar Rajendra Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Bhupinder Singh

        • Sardar Bachitar Singh, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Surinder Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Jaipriy Singh

            • Sardar Kanwar Prit Singh

          • Sardar Ravinder Singh

          • Sardar Joginder Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Harkrishan Singh

            • Sardar Atamjit Singh

          • Sardar Rupinder Singh, married and had issue.

            • Sardar Satinder Pal Singh

        • Bibiji Jasbir Kaur, born about 1912, (mother-in-law of Lieut-Col Jagga Singh Kahlon (retd)).

      • Sardar Gurdit Singh, as his older brothers were all adopted out, he became the only legal heir to his father, he applied for forgiveness of the government for himself and his brothers which was granted in 1890, and returned to British India, living at Manariwala, following the resumption of the jagir, he and his brothers were granted an annual income of Rs1,200, married and had issue.

        • Sardar Sarup Singh, died before 1947.

        • Sardar Pritam Singh, born 1897, after Independence, he received in compensation, a politicial sufferer's grant of Rs6,000 from the Punjab government, married and had issue. He died 1978.

          • Sardar Beant Singh Sandhanwalia, born 1926, married and has issue.

            • Sardar Sukhdev Singh Sandhanwalia

            • Sardar Jaswinder Singh Sandhanwalia

      • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married Sardar Bhagwan Singh Bahadur Jalawalia of Alawalpur, born 1866, died 1897, and had issue.

        • Sardar Gurcharan Singh Jalawalia of Alawalpur, born 1895, and had issue.

  • Sardar Basawa Singh, married a daughter of Raja Sansar Chand II of Kangra, and had issue, as well as further issue.

    • Sardar Ajit Singh, on 15th September 1843, as Maharaja Sher Singh was inspecting troops in the Baradari of Shah Bilaval, Ajit Singh shot him dead with an English rifle which he cunningly pretended to present to the Maharaja for inspection. As the Maharaja fell, Ajit Singh drew his sword and severed his head. The senior Sandhanwalia Lahina Singh murdered the Maharaja's minor son, Tikka Partap Singh in a garden close by. Later, inside the Lahore Fort, while apportioning the office of prime minister among themselves, Ajit Singh killed Dhian Singh on the spot. Hira Singh, son of Dhian Singh, and his uncle, Suchet Singh, aroused a section of the army, and besieged the Fort on 16th September 1843, and in the resultant action both Ajit Singh and Lahina Singh were slain. Their heads were cut off and bodies quartered and hung on the different gates of the city, married Bibiji Kakoh Kaur, daughter of Sardar Fateh Singh Mann of Manawala. He died 16th September 1843.

    • Sardar Ranjodh Singh (by a secondary union), married and had issue, one son. He died June 1864.

      • Sardar Randhir Singh, born 1856 ^(#3), married and had issue.

        • Sardar Balwant Singh, born 1886, married and had issue.

          • Sardar Shashpal Singh, born 1915, he died spm in 1984.

  • Sardar Budh Singh, he entered military service under Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1811, and afterwards was sent ot Bahawalpur to collect tax arrears, he captured in battle the forts of Mojghar and Jamghar in 1821, for which he received the jagirs of Kalar and Nirali; he also commanded a Sikh force in the battle of Tin in 1823 after which he fell from favour, but after a victory at Peshawar he was reinstated, dying shortly afterwards, married 1stly, a daughter of Sardar Hukum Singh Attariwala, married 2ndly, a daughter of Mian Asa Singh of Jasrota, and had issue. He died of cholera in 1827.

    • Sardar Shamsher Singh (qv)

  • Sardar Jaimal Singh, died 1810.

• Sardar Attar Singh, Jagirdar of Raja Sansi 1827/1844, carried the titles Ujjal Didar [of immaculate appearance], Nirmal Buddh [of clear intelligence], Sardar-i-ba-Wagar [the Sardar with prestige], Kasir-ul-Igtadar [eagle of power], Sardar-i-Garoh-i-Namdar [leader of the renowned group], 'All Taba' [of exalted nature], Shuja'-ud-Daula [valour of the State], Sardar Atar Singh Shamsher-i Jang Bahadur [the valiant sword of battle], lived in exile at Thanesar along with the few remnants of the Sandhanwalia family who had escaped destruction in 1843, married Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, a daughter of Sardar Jai Singh Mann, and had issue. He died in May 1844.

  • Sardar Kehar Singh (qv)

  • Bibiji (later Mussamat) Daya Kaur, married Sardar Jwala Singh Chichahwala, died 1847, and had issue.

    • Sardar Kirpal Singh Chichahwala, born 1840, married Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, a daughter of Sardar Badan Singh Chinnah, and had issue, five sons and one daughter. He died 1904.

      • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married Sardar Sir Arur Singh K.C.I.E. of Naushahra Nangal, and had issue.

        • Shrimati Gurbachan Kaur, born 1915, married 1926, Lieut.-Col. Sardar Bahadur Joginder Singh Mann M.B.E., and had issue (see Mogalchak).

• Sardar Kehar Singh, Jagirdar and Head of the Family of Raja Sansi 1844/1864, imprisoned by Maharaja Sher Singh in January 1842 for conspiring against the State, he was exiled to Thanesar in British territory where he died, his jagirs were then resumed; married Sardarni Har Kaur Sahiba, and had issue, one daughter. He died in February 1864 at Thanesar.

  • Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, married 1864, Sardar Sarup Singh of Malwai, and had issue.

• Sardar Shamsher Singh, Head of the Family of Raja Sansi 1864/1871, born 1816, he distinguished himself as a soldier and served on active duty in the Peshawar area, he was appointed a member of the Council of Regency in December 1846, he was placed in charge of the civil and military establishments in Amritsar by the Resident in February 1848, he was appointed a Magistrate within his jagir in February 1862; married Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, a daughter of Sardar Sudh Singh Chinnah, and had adoptive issue. He died sp in 1871.

  • (A) Sardar Bakhsish Singh (see above)

• Sardar Bakhshish Singh, Head of the Family of Raja Sansi 1871/1907, born 1862, he succeeded b y adoption, married 1stly, 1875, Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, a daughter of Sardar Mahtab Singh Majithia, married 2ndly, 1884, Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, a cousin of the Raja of Faridkot, and had issue. He died 1907.

  • Hon. Lt. Sardar Raghbir Singh (qv)

• Hon. Lt. Sardar Raghbir Singh O.B.E., Head of the Family of Raja Sansi 1907/-, born 1889, married and had issue.

  • Major Sardar Bahadur Harinder Singh (qv)

• Major Sardar Bahadur Harinder Singh, Head of the Family of Raja Sansi -/1972, born 1917, married Bibiji (name unknown) Kaur, a daughter of Sardar Mangal Singh Mann of Gujranwala, and had adoptive issue. He died sp in 1972.

• Sardar Gurpal Singh Sandhu, ?Head of the Family of Raja Sansi 1972/-; a Delhi based businessman; married Maharajkumari Jai Inder Kaur Sahiba, daughter of Capt. HH Maharajadhiraj Shri Amarinder Singh of Patiala, by his wife, HH Maharani Parneet Kaur, and has issue.

  • Kanwar Angad Singh Sandhu, married, 2015, Rajkumari Aprajita Kumari, daughter of Raja Virbhadra Singh, Raja of Bashahr and Chief Minister of Punjab, and his second wife, Rani Pratibha Kumari.

  • Kanwar Nirvan Singh Sandhu, engaged to marry, 2016, Rajukmari Mriganka Devi, daughter of Yuvraj Vikramaditya Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, and his wife, Yuvrani Chitrangada Maharaje Scindia.