PREDECESSORS AND SHORT
HISTORY: Billawar
was
the capital till 1630. State annexed in 1816. Rulers
were...
- Raja VAJRALADHARA c1110/1125
- Raja SURYA DEV ca1125/ca1150, first to use the
suffix 'Dev'
- Raja BHUJ DEV ca1150/ca1175, married and had issue,
four
sons.
- Raja Bharurak Dev, feeble-minded eldest son, he
was
bypassed in
the
succession,
married and had issue.
- Raja Bir Dev, married and had issue.
- Raja Kirpal Dev, married and had issue.
- Raja Ahl Dev, married and had issue.
- Raja Manak Dev, conquered some villages
near the
town of Ramkot, built
a fort there, which he named after himself
and made it his capital,
becoming
the founder of Mankot around 1300.
- Raja Autar Dev (qv)
- Raja Karan Dev
- Raja AUTAR DEV ca1175/ca1195
- Raja JAS DEV, founded the town of Jasrota around
1200,
later made the
capital of
Jasrota
State.
- Raja NARSINGH DEV 1272/1314
- Raja KAPUR DEV,
during his reign the state was split
between the twin
sons
of the Raja, married and had issue.
- Raja Samahal Dev (qv)
- Raja Jai Dev, Raja of Bahu 1560/1585, received
Bahu as
his share of the
patrimony,
his
descendants becoming known as Bahuwals, married and
had issue.
- Raja Parasram Dev, Raja of Bahu 1585/1610,
married and
had
issue.
- Raja Krishen Dev, Raja of Bahu 1610/1635,
married and
had
issue.
- Raja Azmat Dev, Raja of Bahu 1635/1660
- Raja Kirpal Dev, last Raja of Bahu 1660/-,
it was
reabsorbed
into the parent state of Jammu, by Raja Hari
Dev.
- Raja SAMAHAL DEV,
Raja of Jammu 1560/1594, married and had issue (known
as
Jamwals).
- Raja SANGRAM DEV,
Raja of Jammu 1594/1626, married and had issue. He
died 1626. Ancestor
of
the Dalpatpur
Royal Family.
- Raja BHUPAT DEV,
Raja of Jammu 1626/ca1650
- Raja HARI DEV,
Raja
of Jammu 1650/ca1675,
during his reign
Bahu was reunited to Jammu, married (amongst others),
a daughter of
Raja Suraj Sen of Mandi.
Ancestor of the Aknur/Akhnoor Royal Family.
- Raja GAJAI DEV,
Raja of Jammu 1675/1703, married and had issue.
- Raja DHRUV DEV,
Raja of Jammu 1703/1725, married and had issue.
- Raja Balwant Singh (qv)
- Raja Ranjit Dev (qv)
- Mian Surat Singh Dev, married and had issue.
- Mian Dhalla Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Dhaddan Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Mota Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Bibhut Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Bhupa Singh
- Mian Zorawar Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Kishor Singh (see below)
- Mian Ghansar Dev, married and had issue.
- Mian Katar Dev, married and had issue.
- Mian Hamir Dev, married and had issue.
- Mian Mahtab Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Labh Singh, married and had issue.
- Kumari (name unknown), married Raja Umed
Singh of Chamba,
and had issue.
- Raja BALWANT SINGH,
Raja of Jammu 1725/1763, married and had
issue. He died
1763.
- Mian Shyam Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Lahna Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Nihal Singh
- Mian Bir Singh
- Raja RANJIT DEV,
Raja of Jammu 1763/1780 or 1750/1781, married and had
issue. He died
1780 (or 4th April 1782).
- Raja Brijraj Dev (qv)
- Raja Dalel Singh (qv)
- Kumari (name unknown), married 1759, Raja
Amrit
Pal of Basohli.
- Raja DALEL SINGH,
Raja of Jammu 1780/1782 or 1780/1781, married and had
issue.
- Mian Bhagwant Singh, died 1782.
- Raja Jit Singh (qv)
- Raja BRIJRAJ DEV,
Raja of Jammu 1782/1787, married (amongst others), a
daughter of Raja
Raj Singh of Chamba,
and had issue. He
died
1787.
- Raja SAMPURAN DEV,
Raja of Jammu 1787/1797, born 1786, died 1797.
- Raja JIT SINGH,
Raja of Jammu 1797/1816, married and had issue. He
died
1816.
- Mian Devi Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Nar Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Chatar Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Tara Singh, died 1880.
- Raja Raghubir Dev, Raja of Akhrota, married and
had
issue. He
died 1868.
- Raja Indar Dev, Raja of Akhrota, married and had
issue.
He
died 1895.
- Raja Sant Singh, Raja of Akhrota, born 1882.
(?Head
of the
Senior line of the
Rajas of Jammu 1895/-)
- Raja KISHOR SINGH,
Jagirdar of Andarwah 1820/1822, married
and had issue.
He died 1822.
- Maharaja Ghulab Singh (qv)
- Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Kalan Bahadur Dhian Singh, born
22nd
August 1796,
employed
in 1812 by Maharaja Ranjit Singh, as a trooper on a
monthly
salary
of sixty rupees, in 1818 he became deorhidar
or chamberlain to
the
royal household, he took part in the battle of
Naushera in March 1823,
he was granted a large number of jagirs in the hilly
country of Jammu,
including that of Poonch
in 1827, and
created
Raja in 1822, and Raja-i-Rajgan Raja Kalan Bahadur
on 20th June 1827,
and
further created Naib-us-Salatnat-i-'Azamat,
Khairkhwah-i-Samimi-i-Daulat-i-Sirkar-i-Kubra,
Wazir-i-'Azam, Dastur-i-Mu'azzam, Mukhtar-i-Mulk,
he
was made a Wazir, the principal minister or
counsellor of the Sikh
State
1828/1843,
married two princesses of Siba State, and had issue.
He was shot to
death by Sardar Ajit Singh Sandhanwalia on 15th
September
1843.
- Raja Hira Singh, born 1816 at Ramgarh, about 25
km from
Jammu, Prime
Minister
of the Sikh kingdom of Lahore from 17th September
1843 to 21st December
1844; Maharaja Ranjit Singh conferred upon him the
title of Raja in
1828
of Poonch, and of Jasrota in 1834, as well as
proclaiming him Farzandi-Khas,
i.e.
the favoured son, he fell out of favour with the
Sikh army, and with
4,000 men, he abandoned Lahore, but a Sikh force
caught up to him and
killed him, married the grand-daughter of Mian
Fateh Chand
of Kangra-Rajgir,
and died sp on 21st December 1844.
- Raja Jawahir Singh, 3rd Raja of Poonch.
- Raja Moti Singh, 4th Raja of Poonch.
- Raja Suchet Singh, born 18th January 1801, in
1822, he
was created Raja
of Bandralta and Samba, as well as Raja of Ramnagar,
he was also made the commander of the Charyari
Sowars, Ranjit Singh's
crack
cavalry brigade. He took part in the Peshawar
campaigns of 1834/1835
and
1837 and was charged with the administration of Tonk
and Bannu area in
1836. In recognition of his services in the Peshawar
campaigns, Jasrota
was farmed out to him in July 1835, Atalgarh and
Kothi were given him
as
jagirs in December 1836, and Nadaun worth 70,000
rupees in May 1838. He
held
jagirs worth 306,865 rupees annually, married, his
ranis committed sati.
He
died sp on 27th March 1844 in Lahore.
- Maharaja GHULAB
SINGH,
Raja
of Jammu 1822/1846, Raja [cr.1820] and
received Jammu soon
after, conquered Kashmir in 1846, becoming the first
Maharaja of Jammu
& Kashmir.
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