PREDECESSORS AND SHORT
HISTORY: Predecessor state founded in 13th
century by Raja Ajay Dev, Prime Minister of Malwa, a
descendant of Raja Bhoj Dev, Parmar King of Malwa
1010/1053. The Princely state of Baghal was founded about
1643. The state ranked 20th in the Panjab Darbar (1890).
In 1893, the Raja was allowed to maintain a military force
of 150 infantry and 1 gun. Rulers were...
- Raja KISHAN SINGH,
Raja of Baghal 1840/1877, born 1817, he was granted
the title of Raja and a valuable khillat for
his services during the Indian Mutiny, Raja
(personal)[cr.1860], (hereditary)[cr.1875], married
Ranis from Jaswan, Guler, Kangra and Suket, and had
issue. He died 23rd July 1877 (#1).
- Raja Moti Singh (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja
Raghunath Singh of Jaswan.
- Rajkumari (name unknown), married into
Chamba.
- Raja MOTI SINGH,
Raja of Baghal [23.7.1877] - [12.10.1877], he died sp on 12th
October 1877.
- Raja DHIAN SINGH,
Raja of Baghal 1877/1904, born 1842, installed on the
gadi on 26th
July 1878, married Ranis from Jammu and Kashmir,
Suket, Madhan and Keonthal, and had issue, four sons.
He died 1904.
- Raja Bikram Singh (qv)
- Kanwar Bachitar Singh, born 1895.
- Kanwar Mohan Singh, born 1896.
- Kumari Pratibha Devi, married 1st February 1918
(as his second wife), Rana Vidyadhar Singh of Kumharsain.
- Kanwar Surat Singh, born 1904 in Arki, educated in
Lahore; married twice and had issue, three
daughters.
- Kumari Susheela Devi, born in Arki, married
Thakur Rohan Singh Chandel of Faroukhabad, U.P.,
died 1999, and has issue.
- Kumari Nalini Chandel, married Pradeep
Singh Kanwar, and has issue, two sons.
- Kumari Manju Chandel, unmarried.
- Kanwar Anil Chandel, married Kanwarani
Sadhana Chandel, died 2005, and has issue, one
daughter.
- Kumari Hem Lata Devi, married Shri B. K. Singh
Chandel. She died sp in 2004
- Kumari Nirmal Devi, educated at Chandigarh
University (B.Ed.), born 12th September 1936,
married 1967 in Shimla, Thakur Shri Manohar Singh,
and has issue. She died 2002.
- Kumari (name unknown), married the Raja of
Salangri (Mankot?).
- Raja BIKRAM SINGH,
Raja of Baghal 1904/1922, born 10th March 1893,
succeeded to the gaddi on 23rd April 1904,
granted ruling powers on 23rd April 1908, educated at
Aitchison College, Lahore; married 1stly, a Princess
of Manswal, married 2ndly, a Princess of Manswal,
married 3rdly, the fourth daughter of HH Rana Padam
Chand of Jubbal,
married 4thly, Rajkumari Shyama Devi, fifth daughter
of HH Rana Padam Chand of Jubbal.
He died 3rd October 1922.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (by 1st wife),
died young of tuberculosis in Jubbal.
- Raja Surinder Singh (by a Jubbal Princess) (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (by 2nd wife),
died young in Jubbal.
 Raja SURINDER SINGH,
Raja of Baghal 1922/1945, born 14th March 1909 in Arki
(#2) and succeeded 3rd
October 1922 (or 14th October (#2)),
installed with ruling powers on 14th January 1932,
married Rajkumari Laxmi Devi [Rani Laxmi Devi of
Baghal], daughter of Rai Hira Singh of Sangri, and had issue,
six children. He died 21st December 1945 at Haridwar,
Uttaranchal.
- Raja Rajendra Singh (qv)
- Rajkumar Devendra Singh, born 23rd September 1930,
unmarried.
- Rajkumar Mahendra Singh, born 28th December 1931,
unmarried.
- Rajkumari Lalita Devi [Rani Lalita Devi of
Kutlehar], born 29th March 1933, married (as his 1st
wife), 13th April 1955, Raja Saheb Shri Mahendra
Palji Bahadur of Kutlehar,
and has issue, two sons and two daughters.
- Rajkumar Virendra Singh, born 1st September 1934,
married 31st October 1962, Kumari Vijaya Devi,
daughter of Kanwar Karan Singh Mankotia from
District Una, H.P. (see Mankot),
and has issue, five children.
- Kanwar Ravi Singh, born 23rd November 1963.
- Kanwar Rakesh Singh, born 25th October 1965.
- Kanwar Rajesh Singh, born 18th August 1967.
- Kumari Anupama Devi, born 17th August 1968.
- Kumari Archana Devi, born 23rd March 1971.
- Rajkumari (name unknown), died as an
infant.
 Raja RAJENDRA
SINGH, Raja of Baghal 1945/2010, born 29th
February 1928, educated at Col. Brown's School in
Dehra Dun and Government College, Lahore; he
overhauled the administration and introduced radical
constitutional reforms, M.L.A., Commandant General of
Home Guards, Director of Civil Defence, Himachal
Pradesh, married 2nd November 1948, Rani Tara Devi,
born on 31st October 1929, died 22nd February 2005 at
the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Simla, daughter of Raja
Hemendra Sen of Keonthal,
and had issue, three children. He died 7th June 2010
of a heart attack.
- Tikka Pramod Singh, born 26th August 1949,
educated at St. Edward's High School, Simla and
later at the Government College, Simla, married 28th
April 1979, Rajkumari Poornima Devi [Tikka Rani
Poornima Devi of Baghal], daughter of Raja Shiv
Mohan Bux Singh of Khajurgaon
in U.P., and his wife, Rani Ravija Devi, and had
issue. He died 18th June 2005 at Simla in an
automobile accident.
- Kanwar Harvashvardhan Singh, he succeeded as
Raja Harvashvardhan Singh (qv)
- Tikka Ajay Dev Singh, born 17th July 1987.
- Rajkumar Nagendra Singh, born 15th June 1954,
married 21st October 1986 in Simla, Kumari Vijaya
Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Purshottam Singh of Amet in Udaipur
(Rajasthan), and his wife, Kanwarani Lakshmi Kumari
of Pisangan, and has issue, one son.
- Kanwar Rahul Dev Singh, born 25th September
1987.
- Kumari Sunita Devi [Rani Sunita Kumari of
Srimathura], born 16th October 1956, educated at
Simla, married 30th October 1979, Kumar Narendra
Singh [later Rao Narendra Singh] of Sirmathura,
Dholpur Dist. in Rajasthan, born 30th June 1947, son
of Rao Raghubir Singh of Srimathura, and his wife,
Rani Rattan Kumari, daughter of Thakur Gopal Singh
of Badnore, and has
issue, two children.
- Rajkumari Radhika Kumari, born
14th April 1982.
- Rajkumar Jai Singh, born 6th
June 1985.
- Raja HARVASHVARDHAN
SINGH, Raja of Baghal (see above)
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