PREDECESSORS and SHORT
HISTORY: The ancestor of the family, is
traditionally stated to have been Raja Hamir Sen, a
younger brother of Raja Vira Sen, founder of Suket in
765AD. Rulers were....
- Raja KAHN SEN, 1st Raja of Kashtwar, scion of the
Royal Family of Bengal or Suket, founder of Kashtwar
sometime after 900AD, married and had issue.
- Raja Gandharab Sen (qv)
- Kunwar Madan Sen
- Kunwar Deva Sen
- Raja GANDHARAB SEN, 2nd Raja of Kashtwar, he ruled
for 14 years.
- Raja MAHA SEN, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja RAM SEN, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja KAM SEN, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja MADAN SEN, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja BRAHM SEN, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja UDHAT DEV, Raja of Kashtwar fl.1088
- Raja MATA DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja GANGA DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja SANG DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja RAKH DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja INDUR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja AUTAR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja BHAG DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja RAI DEV, Raja of Kashtwar, two petty local
rulers succeeded in driving him out of his capital for
one year.
- Raja GUR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja UGAR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar, added
Sartali/Shatali to his state.
- Raja MULDAR DEV, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja LACHMAN DEV, Raja of Kashtwar, conquered Dachin
in the Maru-Wardwan Valley.
- Raja SANGRAM SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar fl.1420,
conquered Nagsun, adding to his state.
- Raja SANGAR SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja MAGAN SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja DEVA SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja FIROZ SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja NARAIN SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar
- Raja SALHAN SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar (son), conquered
Surur and Bonjwah, adding them to his domains, founded
the village of Salhana above Kandani.
- Raja RAI SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar -/ca1550, he was
attacked by the Sultan of Kashmir in 1547.
- Raja VIJAI SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar ca1550/1570, conquered Saraj, built
the fort and village of Vijai, married and had issue.
He was killed in a revolt by a local ruler in 1570.
- Raja Bahadur Singh (qv)
- Rani Shankar Devi, married 1572, Sultan Yakub Shah
Chak of Kashmir, died about 1589 in Kashtwar, buried
at Sirkot.
- Raja BAHADUR SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar 1570/1588, the state was invaded by
the Raja of Kashmir in 1572, married and had issue.
- Raja Pratap Singh [aka Bhup Singh] (qv)
- Raja PRATAP SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar ca1588/ca1610, the state was attacked
by the Mughals about 1606 and he was driven out of his
kingdom.
INTERREGNUM 1610/1618
- Raja GUR SINGH
[aka Gunwar Singh], Raja of Kashtwar 1618/1629,
married and had issue. He died 1629.
- Raja Jagat Singh (qv)
- Raja Bhagwan Singh (qv)
- Raja JAGAT SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar 1629/1642, he invaded Bhadrawah, but
in his absence his state was captured by the Raja of
Basohli, he was defeated and killed while trying to
retake it. He died sp in 1642.
- Raja BHAGWAN SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar 1642/1660, with the help of 1,000
soldiers provided by the Mughal Emperor, he succeeded
in driving out the Basohli invaders.
- Raja MAHA SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar [Mahajan Singh] 1660/1674
(abdicated), earned a reputation as a poet, he married
and had issue.
- Raja Jaya Singh (qv)
- Mian Ram Singh, he converted to Islam taking the
name Dindar Khan, Wazir of Kashtwar 1674/-
- Mian Sirdar Singh.
- Raja JAYA SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar 1674/1681, converted to Islam taking
the name of Bakhtiyar Khan, married and had issue. He
died 1681.
- Raja Kirat Singh (qv)
- Mian Muhammed Khan, received a khillat and
a jagir of 8 villages in Kashmir from the Mughal
Emperor.
- Kumari Bhup Devi, married 3rd July 1717, Padshah
Farrukhsiyar, Emperor of Delhi.
- Raja KIRAT SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar [Sa'adat Yar Khan] 1681/1728,
converted to Islam by force in 1687, assasinated at
Gulab Bagh in 1728, married and had issue.
- Raja Amluk Singh [aka Sa'adatmand Khan] (qv)
- Raja AMLUK SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar 1728/1771, married and had issue. He
died 1771.
- Raja Mihr Singh (qv)
- Raja Sujan Singh (qv)
- Mian Dalel Singh, married and had descendants in
Chamba.
- Mian Guman Singh, tried to seize power in 1789,
married and had issue.
- Mian Ajit Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Fateh Singh, married and had issue.
- Mian Anwar Singh, he was ranted a jagir in
Himgari pargana in Chamba, whose present head
(1930) is Mian Autar Singh of Himgari-Chamba.
- Mian Dalip Singh
- Raja MIHR SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar 1771/1786, married Rani Vilasamaji
and had issue, one daughter, who was substituted for a
boy born at the same time. He died 1786.
Mian Kundan Singh
of Bhadrawah, he
was appointed Raja of Kashtwar in 1786 for a short
time, by the Raja of Chamba who had invaded and
occupied Kashtwar, he was displaced and died in
Chamba, where his descendants still live.
- Raja SUJAN SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar 1786/1787 for 10 months, married and
had issue. He died 1787.
- Raja Inayatullah Singh (qv)
- Raja PRITHI SINGH,
Raja of Kashtwar 1787/1788, putative son of Raja Mihr
Singh. He died sp in 1788.
- Raja INAYATULLAH
SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1788/1789, married
and had issue.
- Raja Muhammed Tegh Singh [aka Saifullah Khan](qv)
Raja LAL DEV of
Jammu, held power for a period of two years 1788/1789
in opposition to the rightful ruler, a member of the
Jammu Royal Family.
Raja GULAB SINGH,
held power for 40 days in 1789, a cousin of the
following.
- Raja MUHAMMED TEGH
SINGH, Raja of Kashtwar 1789/1823, displaced
for a time by a relative, who was eventually poisoned,
gave shelter to the Afghan ruler, Shah Shuja to 1816,
from Maharaja Ranjit Singh, for which the state was
annexed in 1820, he was imprisoned in Jammu and was
later poisoned by his own servant without ever
recovering his state, he married and had issue. He
died 1823.
- Mian Jaimal Singh, died sp in 1871.
- Mian Zorawar Singh, he was baptized as a christian
at Ludhiana where he wandered for many years as a faqir.
He died sp in 1870/1873.
- Mian Dilawar Singh, born 1824, his family lived at
Tilokpur near Kotla in the Kangra Valley; married
and had issue. He died 1890.
- Mian Sardar Singh, born 1867/1868, died 1891.
- Kumari Hussain Bibi, born 1881.
- Mian Amir Singh, born 1883.
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