PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Predecessor
state of Garhwal, was
founded in 823AD
and lasted till 1804, when the Gurkhas invaded
the
area, remaining in control until 1815. Rulers were...
- Raja SUDARSHAN SHAH (Photo),
1st Raja of
Tehri-Garhwal 1815/1859, born 1784,
he built the
Puranadarbar Palace in 1815, the first after the
Gurkha invasion;
married (amongst others), (a), a daughter of Raja
Karam Prakash II,
Raja of Sirmur,
married (b), a daughter
of Raja
Sansar Chand II of Kangra,
married (c),
another daughter of Raja
Sansar Chand II of Kangra,
and had
issue.
He died 7th June 1859.
- Rajkumar Surjan Shah, died young.
- Raja Bhawani Shah (qv)
- Raja BHAWANI SHAH (Photo), 2nd
Raja of
Tehri-Garhwal
1859/1871, married
(amongst others), the
daughter of Mian
Udai Singh
of
Mandi, and had issue. He died December 1871.
 Raja PRATAP SHAH,
3rd
Raja of Tehri-Garhwal
1871/1887, born 1850, founder of the
township of
Pratap Nagar, married (amongst others) Rani Guleriya,
a daughter of
Raja Jai Singh of Guler,
she was Regent of Tehri-Garhwal 1886/1892, and had
issue. He died
February 1887.
- HH Swasti Sir Raja Kirti Shah (qv)
- Rajkumar Surendra Shah, married and had issue.
- Kunwar Dev Indra Shah, died 1908 in a hunting
accident.
- Rajkumar Vichatra Shah (Photo),
he was granted the
Puranadarbar
Palace and a jagir consisting of the lands of
Uttarkash, Dhanolti,
Chamba and Gansali in 1893, he married and had
issue.
- Capt. Rao Shoor Beer Singhji (Photo), served as
Magistrate
within the state, and, after the merger in 1949,
he served as an I.A.S.
Officer in the United Provinces; he married and
had issue.
- Rao Samar Beer Singhji (Photo),
I.P.S., D.G. of
Police,
Rajasthan, served in the Royal Garhwal Rifles
with the rank of Captain,
married Rani Preeti Kumari, and had issue. He
died 1999.
- Rao Kirti Pratap Singhji (Photo)
- Thakur Bhawani Pratap Singhji B.A. (Photo), born 13th
June
1977, educated at Rajasthan Universirty
(B.A.); with his brother, he is
a hotelier in Uttarakhand and co-owner of the
Puranadarbar Palace;
married 6th February 2006 in Udaipur,
Thakurani Neha Singh of Thikana
Thana in Mewar, and has issue.
- Kanwar Nilay Pratap Singh Panwar
- Kumari (name unknown), married Raja Baldev
Singh
of Guler, and had
issue.
 HH
Swasti Sir Raja
KIRTI SHAH, 4th Raja of Tehri-Garhwal 1887/1913,
born 19th January
1874,
married
(amongst others), HH Rani Nepaliya, daughter of Cdg.
Gen. Maharajkumar
Padma Jung Bahadur Rana (see Lambjung
and Kaski),
and had issue. He died 25th April 1913.
- Lt.Col. HH Sir Maharaja Narendra Shah Sahib
Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharani Rukmini Devi, married 1907, HH
Sawai
Maharaja Punya Pratap Singhji of Ajaigarh,
son
of
HH Sawai Maharaja Bhopal Singhji, and his wife, HH
Maharani
Beni
Kunwar, and had issue.
- HH Maharani Shri Tej Kunwar, married 1916, HH
Maharajadhiraj Shri
Himmat Singhji Saheb of Idar,
son of
Lt.Col. HH
Maharaja Sir Daulat Singhji Sahib of Idar, and had
issue.
- Raj Kumari Sashi Prabha Kumari [Rani Sashi Prabha
Kumari
of Baghat] (by HH Rani Nepaliya), born 1905, married
28th
November 1917,
Raja Durga Singh of Baghat.
She died spm
April 1947.
 Lt.-Col.
HH Sir
Maharaja NARENDRA SHAH Sahib Bahadur, 5th
Maharaja of Tehri-Garhwal
1913/1946, born 3rd
August 1898 and succeeded 25th April 1913, created
Maharaja in 1913,
C.S.I. [cr.1.1.1922], K.C.S.I. [cr.1.1.1932],
LL.D. (Benares), educated at Mayo College, Ajmer;
abdicated 26th May
1946,
but allowed to retain the use of his title, His
Highness, entitled to a
personal salute of 11 guns, founded the new township
of Narendra Nagar;
married 1stly, February 1916, Rajkumari Kamlendu Mati
Devi
[HH Maharani Kamlendu Mati Devi Sahiba of
Tehri-Garhwal], born 20th
March 1901, died 15th July 1999, daughter of Raja
Bijey Sen of Keonthal,
married 2ndly, February 1916,
HH
Maharani Indu Mati
Devi
Sahiba, born 1902, died in an automobile accident in
1932, daughter of
Raja Bijey Sen of Keonthal,
married
3rdly, Rani Gulbadan, married 4thly, Rani Krishna Devi
Bist, married
5thly, Rani Uma, and had
issue, seven sons and nine daughters.
He died 22nd September 1950.
- Lt.-Col. HH Maharaja Manabendra Shah Sahib Bahadur
(by
Maharani Indu Mati Devi) (qv)
- H.E. Lt.-Col. Maharajkumar Shardul Bikram Shah (by
Maharani Kamlendu Mati Devi) (Photo),
born
29th
May
1921, as a young Captain, he joined the armoured
Corps (Hodsons
Horse
and then the 19th Lancers), and fought the Japanese
in Burma during
World War II; later he was appointed Military
Attache to General Sir
Roy Boucher, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Indian
Army; joined the
Indian Foreign Service in 1947 and served as Indian
Ambassador to
Ireland, Laos, Ghana, Finland, Spain and Turkey,
also served as Chief
of Protocol in New Delhi; married Rani Jaya Rajya
Lakshmi, daughter of
General Shri Tunga Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal,
and
had issue, five sons. He died 2003.
- Rajkumar Sagar Bikram Shah, married December
1966 at
Hyderabad
House in New
Delhi,
Rajkumari Mahima Kumari, daughter of Raja Saheb
Maheshwari Prasad
Singh, Talukdar of Makrai in Uttar Pradesh, and
his wife, Rani Bimla
Kumari, daughter of Maharaja Bahadur Chandra
Mouleshwar Prasad Singh of Gidhaur in Bihar,
and has
issue, one son and one daughter.
 Flt. Lt. Rajkumar
Samar Bikram Shah VrC., VM (IAF)
Ret'd., B.Sc. (Aero.), born 21st April
1945 in Mussoorie; recipient of the Vayu Sena
Medal in 1970; only
member of the Garhwal Royal family to be awarded
the Vir Chakra Medal
in 1971 for having served in two India-Pakistan
wars and for downing an
enemy aircraft during the conflict; served as
Staff Officer to the
Chief of Air Staff 1973; married 19th May 1967 in
New Delhi, Mrs.
Persis Shah, and has issue.
- Kanwar Shaurya Bikram Shah, Senior Constable
of
Police with the South Australian Police Force in
South Australia;
married Kanwarani Vicky Shah (née Vicky
Lester), and has issue.
- Kumari Kavita Bikram Shah, born 30th October
1996.
- Kanwar Navin Bikram Shah, born 23rd April
2000.
- Kanwar Nakul Bikram Shah
- Kumari Shalini Bikram Shah
- Rajkumar Sanat Bikram Shah, born 1948, educated
at
Scindia
School, Gwalior,
M.P.,
graduated in 1969, from St. Stephen's College,
Delhi University,
married
Rajkumarani Meera (Shah), and has issue, three
daughters.
-
Kumari Sneh Shah, married and has issue,
two
children living in Nepal.
-
Kumari Namrata Shah, married and has issue,
two
children living in U.S.A.
-
Kumari Shreya Shah, married and has issue,
two
children living in India.
- Rajkumar Vigyan Bikram Shah, born 8th February
1949 in
New Delhi, educated at St. George's College,
Mussoorie, at Scindia
School, Gwalior and graduated in 1969 from Colegio
San Juan, Barcelona,
Spain; undertook a Hotel Management Course (three
years) from
Barcelona, Spain; married 14th June 1990 in
Rishikesh, Uttarakhand,
Kunwarani Anju Shah, and has
issue, two children.
- Kumari Aakriti Shah, born 16th October 1992.
- Kanwar Vishal Bikram Shah, born 13th December
1993.
- Rajkumar Narvir Shah, born 1952, married
and
has issue, a son and a daughter.
- Kumari Smriti Shah, born 31st March 1979,
married
and has issue, two children.
- Kunwar Vivekraj Shah, born 27th January 1981,
married 4th December 2011 at Lucknow, Kunwarani
Charu Pratap of Rampur Mathura, U.P.
- Maharajkumar Balendu Shah (by Maharani Kamlendu
Mati
Devi),
born 1923, joined the French
foreign legion in 1946, served in Saigon and later
joined Air
India and was Regional Director in Hong Kong; a
versatile
cricketer, he captained Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji
Trophy in 1954;
married Rani Prabha Rajya Laxmi of Nepal, and had
issue. He died
1998.
 Rajkumar Jai Vikram
Shah, born 1942 at Narendra Nagar Palace,
Tehri-Garhwal in Uttarakhand,
educated at Welham Preparatory School, Dehra Dun,
at The Scindia
School, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at St. Xaviers.
College, University of
Bombay (B.Sc. (Hons.)) and at the University of
Liverpool, U.K.;
employed with Air-India International, Marketing
Division 1967/1971;
then General Manager for GULF AIR, for India and
S.E. Asia 1971/1981;
Regional Manager for ALITALIA for Western India
1981/1992; he was
Congress Candidate for M.L.A. Vidhan Sabha
Elections from Dev Prayag in
1994; he was elected NCP President for Uttarakhand
in the State's first
elections, and was Candidate for Narendra Nagar
Constituency from 2002
to the present time; he is very active in the
promotion of the
well-being of the residents
of the Hill Area of Uttarakhand, as well as in
Environment and Social
welfare; elected to the
Balloting and Disciplinary Committee of the
Willingdon Sports Club,
Mumbai, India, for the year 2010-2011; married
Rajkumari
Shrimant Ujjwala Raje Bikram Shah (née
Gaekwad), daughter of
Major Maharaj Udaysinghrao Shivajirao Gaekwad of Baroda, and his
wife, Ranisaheb Shrimant
Sharda Raje Gaekwad (née Patankar), and has
issue, one
son and two daughters.
- Kanwar Raviraj Vikram Shah, married Kanwarani
Smriti
Kumari of Sailana,
and has issue, one
son.
- Kumari Nayana Kumari Shah
- Kumari Menaka Kumari Shah, apppointed Country
Head-India,for Christies, the UK auctioneering
firm, from 1st of April
2009.
- Rajkumari Kumodini Shah, born 1945, married
Admiral
(retd.) Thakur Manvendhra
Singh of Chomu, and
has issue.
- Rajkumar Abhaya Vikram Shah, married and has
issue.
- Rajkumar Nirbhey Shah, married 19th April 1980
(div.),
Rajkumari
Rajeshwari
Kumari, born March 1959, daughter of Raja Saheb
Shri Mahendra Palji
Bahadur
of Kutlehar, and
his first wife, Rani
Lalita Devi, and had issue.
- Rajkumari Roopangana Shah, born 1982.
- Rajkumar Leeneshwar Vikram Shah, born 9th
February
1984.
- Thakur Kishore Singh (by Rani Gulbadan)
- Thakur Man Singh (by Rani Krishna Devi), born 6th
April
1935, married and has issue.
- Kanwar Madhav Singh
- Kanwar Manoj Singh
- Thakur Yogeshwar Singh (by Rani Uma)
- Thakur Niranjan Singh (by Rani Uma), married
Thakurani
Promila Singh-Panwar, and has issue, three children.
- Kumari Kartika Panwar
- Kunwar Samar Singh-Panwar, married and has
issue, two
children.
- Bhanwar Jaidev Singh-Panwar
- Bhanwar Jatin Singh-Panwar
- Kunwar Rohan Singh-Panwar
- Maharani Girija Kumari (by Maharani Indu Mati
Devi),
born 1920, married Maharaj
Bahadur
Chandra
Chur Singh of Gidhaur,
and had issue.
She
died 2002.
- Shrimati Rani Neelima Kumari (by Maharani Indu
Mati
Devi),
married Raja Dinesh Singh
of Kalakankar.
- Shrimati Rani Shailendra Kumari (by Maharani
Kamlendu
Mati
Devi), married Raja Dhruv Dev
Chand of Kangra-Lambagraon,
and has issue.
- Kumari Masanti Devi (by Rani Gulbadan) [Shrimati
Kanwarani Shanta Devi of Sirmur], married Kanwar
Jitendra
Singh of
Sirmur,
and had issue.
- Kumari Rameshwari Devi (by Rani Gulbadan)
- Kumari Hari Devi (by Rani Gulbadan)
- Shrimati Rani Padma Devi (by Rani Krishna Devi),
born 2nd
August 1933, married Rao Raja Devi Singh of Idar,
and
has
issue.
- Shrimati Rani Sudha Devi (by Rani Krishna Devi),
born
15th June 1936 in Narendra
Nagar, Tehri-Garhwal, married 1947 in Narendra
Nagar, Rao Raja V. B.
Rathore, and has issue, one son and five daughters.
- Kumari Usha Devi (by Rani Uma)
 Lt.
Col.
HH
Maharaja
MANABENDRA SHAH Sahib Bahadur, 6th Maharaja of
Tehri-Garhwal 1946/2007, born 26th
May 1921 in Pratapnagar, Tehri-Garhwal District, Uttar
Pradesh and
succeeded
1946 on his fathers abdication; educated at Government
College, Lahore
(now in Pakistan) and I.C.S. Camp, Dehradun, Uttar
Pradesh; he served
as an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Bengal
Engineer Group
(formerly, the King George Vs Own Bengal Sappers and
Miners Group,
Royal Indian Engineers, and prior to that, the 1st
Prince of
Wales Own Bengal Sappers and Miners); Member of
the
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok
Sabha. Chairman of
the
Committee on Health and Drinking Water for the Hills,
member of the
Committee
on Estimates; and Chairman of its Sub-Committee on
Estimates, member of
the Committee on Finance 1991/93 and 1995/96, member
of the
Consultative
Committee, Ministry of Surface Transport 1991/96,
Member of the
Committee
on Public Undertakings and Committee on External
Affairs and
Consultative
Committee, Ministry of Power 1996/97, Chairman of the
Committee on
Public
Undertakings and member of the General Purposes
Committee and the
Committee
on Transport and Tourism and the Consultative
Committee, Ministry of
Defence
1998/99, member of the Committee of Home Affairs
1999/2004. Ambassador
to Ireland 1980-83, Patron of the Badri-Kedar Shrines,
President of the
Temple Board of Management, Tehri Garhwal. Trustee of
the Maharaja
Narendra
Shah Trust and the Maharaja Kirti Shah Trust.
Interests include
reading,
photography and travelling, member of the following
sports clubs..
Cricket
Club; Gymkhana Club; Golf Club; Army Golf Club;
National Sports Club;
Royal
Western India Turf Club; and Rotary Club. Married 4th
February
1937,
HH Maharani Suraj Kanwar, daughter of HH Sri
Raj-i-Rajan
Maharawal Sir
Prithvi Singhji Bahadur of Banswara,
and
had issue, one son and three daughters. He died 5th
January 2007 in New
Delhi after a long illness, and was accorded a state
funeral at
Narendranagar,
Tehri-Garhwal on the 7th January 2007.
- HH
Maharaja Manujendra Shah Sahib
Bahadur (qv)
- Maharajkumari Anupama Kumari, born 1939, married
1963,
Maharajkumar Jai
Singh of Dungarpur.
- HH Maharani Nirupama Kumari, married HH 108 Sri
Maharaj Adhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Ravi Kula
Bushana-Mahi
Mahindra Yavadarya Kula Kamaldhivakara Chattis
Rajkul Singar Maharana
Shri Mahendra Singhji Bahadur Hindua Suraj
Hindupati of Udaipur,
and has issue.
- HH Maharani Swarupa Kumari, married 4th April 1968
at New
Delhi, HH
Maharaja
Rana Shri Indrajit Singhji of Jhalwar,
and
has
issue.
- HH
Maharaja MANUJENDRA SHAH Sahib
Bahadur, 7th Maharaja of Tehri-Garhwal (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Yuvrani Bhuvaneshwari Devi, married 13th October
1910,
Yuvraj Man Singh
of Pratapgarh.
She died 9th
August
1913.
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