NABHA

The Phulkian Dynasty

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1871 – 1911 Colonel H.H. Farzand-i-Arjumand, Aqidat-Paiwand-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Barar Bans Sarmur, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Shri Sir Hira Singh Malvendra Bahadur, Maharaja of Nabha, GCSI (29.7.1879), GCIE (1.1.1903). b. at Badrukhan, Jind, 18th December 1843, second and younger son of Sardar Sukha Singh, of Badrukhan, by his wife, Sardarni Mai Raj Kaur Sahiba, daughter of Sardar Basawa Singh Bodawali – see India (Jind), educ. privately. Succeeded his childless elder brother as Sardar and Rais-i-Azam of the Badrukhan estates, before 25th March 1857. Selected by the other rulers of the Phulkian dynasty, the Maharaja of Patiala and the Raja of Jind, as successor to the throne of Nabha, following the death of his distant kinsman, Raja Bhagwan Singh, 9th June 1871. Installed on the gadi at the Fort, Nabha, 10th August 1871. Raised to a personal salute of 13-guns 1st January 1877, and a personal salute of 15-guns 21st May 1898. Hon Col 14th King George’s Own Ferozepore Sikhs, 13/5/1904. Granted the hereditary titles of Raja-i-Rajagan, 26th May 1894 and Maharaja 12th December 1911. Attended the Coronation Durbars at Delhi in 1903 and 1911. Prest All-India Sikh Conference 1904. Patron Lahore Khalsa Diwan (Sikh Council 1886-1911), Khalsa Coll, Amritsar 1892-1911, and Nabha Boy Scouts Bde 1907-1911. Vice-Patron Countess Dufferin’s Fund 1888-1911. Fellow Punjab Univ. Mbr General Cttee Calcutta International Exhibition 1883-1884, Akal College Management Cttee, etc. A great and popular ruler who transformed his capital and state. He built great monuments and public buildings, constructed roads, railways, hospitals, schools and palaces, modernised the administration and agriculture. Patronised education by granting student scholarships and funding writers, promoted female emancipation and widow marriage, and forbade child marriage. Rcvd: Prince of Wales’s (1876), KIH gold medal (1877), and Delhi Durbar (1903 & 1911) gold medals. m. (first) 1858, H.H. Karamgarhia Maharani Sahib, daughter of Sardar Lahna Singh Sekhon, of Karamgarh, under Patiala. m. (second) Aonliwalia Rani Sahib. m. (third) H.H. Maharani Sri Jasmer Kaur Sahiba [Longwalia Maharani Sahib] (d. at Nabha, 29th October 1921), daughter of Sardar Anukh Singh Longwalia. m. (fourth) H.H. Maharani Sri Parameshwar Kaur Sahiba [Ralewalia Maharani Sahib]. He d. at the State Palace, Fort, Nabha, 24th December 1911, having had issue, one son and one daughter:
  • 1) Tikka Sahib Sri Ripudaman Singh Sahib Bahadur, who succeeded as H.H. Farzand-i-Arjumand, Aqidat-Paiwand-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Barar Bans Sarmur, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Shri Ripudaman Singh Malvendra Bahadur, Maharaja of Nabha (s/o Jasmer Kaur) – see below.
  • 1) Rajkumari Bibiji Ripudaman Kaur Sahiba [H.H. Sidh Sri Nabhawala Maharani Ripudaman Devi Sahiba, of Dholpur]. b. at Pakka Bagh, Nabha, 18th January 1883 (d/o Parameshwar Kaur), educ. privately. m. at Hira Mahal, Nabha, 20th June 1905, Captain H.H. Rais ud-Daula, Sipahdar ul-Mulk, Saramad Rajha-i-Hind, Maharajadhiraja Sri Sawai Maharaj Rana Sir Ram Singh Lokendra Bahadur, Diler Jung, Jai Deo, Maharaj Rana of Dholpur, KCIE (b. 26th May 1883; d.s.p. at Dholpur, 29th March 1911), elder son of Major H.H. Rais ud-Daula, Sipahdar ul-Mulk, Saramad-i-Rajhai-i-Hind, Maharajadhiraja Sri Sawai Maharaj Rana Nihal Singh, Lokendra Bahadur, Diler Jung, Jai Deo, Maharaj Rana of Dholpur, CB, by his first wife, H.H. Sri Pandriganeshpuri Maharani Habans Kaur Sahiba, second daughter of H.H. Shahzada Shahdeo Singh Bahadur [Prince Shiv Dev Singh], of Pandri Ganeshpur, in the Rae Bareli district of Oudh, of the house of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Punjab. She d.s.p. at Dehradun, February 1935 – see India (Dholpur).
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1911 – 1928 H.H. Farzand-i-Arjumand, Aqidat-Paiwand-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Barar Bans Sarmur, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sri Ripudaman Singh Malvendra Bahadur, Maharaja of Nabha. b. at the Palace of the Aonliwalia Rani Sahib, Nabha, 4th March 1883, only son of Colonel H.H. Farzand-i-Arjumand, Aqidat-Paiwand-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Barar Bans Sarmur, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Shri Sir Hira Singh Malvendra Bahadur, Maharaja of Nabha, GCSI, GCIE, by his wife, H.H. Maharani Sri Jasmer Kaur Sahiba, educ. privately. Proclaimed as Heir Apparent with the title of Tikka Sahib Bahadur, at his birth, 4th March 1883. Mbr Imperial Legislative Council 1906-1908, Presdt Indian National Social Conference (Lahore) 1909. Attended the Coronation of the King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary at Westminster Abbey in London in 1911. Succeeded on the death of his father, 24th December 1911. Ascended the gadi at Nabha, 24th January 1912. Formally invested with a robe of honour and full ruling powers 20th December 1912. Granted a local salute of 15-guns 1st January 1921. He took great interest in legal affairs, reformed the courts and codified the laws, enacting many pieces of legislation within the state that had been promulgated in British India, several of which he had helped draft or sponsor. He also created a legislature and appointed an executive council to run the government. On the grounds of failing health since 1921 and “the emergent necessity for securing complete freedom from all cares and worries”, he invested the Dewan with full powers of administration 21st May 1923. He subsequently agreed to relinquish the administration of the state to the GOI 5th July 1923, to formally abdicate on his son reaching majority, and conceded to reside permanently outside the state, following a very negative report on a far reaching investigation into over 200 disputes with Patiala, including cases of the abduction and imprisonment of women, assassination, and robbery. Settled at Dehra Dun, leaving the state to be governed by an Administrator appointed by the GOI, 8th July 1923. He went on pilgrimage to Sri Abichal Nagar Hazur Sahib, in Nanded, where he retook the Khalsa pahul initiation rites and assumed the name of Gurcharan Singh 6th February 1927. Formally deposed outright by the GOI for violating the undertakings he had given four years earlier, 2nd February 1928. Thereafter styled Sardar Gurcharan Singh, Ex-Maharaja of Nabha. Exiled to the Madras Presidency 18th February 1928, and ordered not to leave the limits of the Kodaikanal municipality without government authority. Settled there from 22nd February 1928. Patron Benares Hindu Univ, and Lady Chelmsford’s All-India League for Maternity & Child Welfare 1919-1928. Fellow Royal Geographical Soc (FRGS) 1911. Mbr Royal Asiatic Soc (MRAS) of GB & Ire, Royal Societies Club (London) 1911, etc. Proprietor “The Telegraph” newspaper 1927. Rcvd: Delhi Durbar silver (1903), Coron (1911), and Delhi Durbar gold (1911) medals. m. (first) at Nabha, 15th June 1901 (Brahminical rite), H.H. Maharani Sri Jagdish Kaur Sahiba [Senior Maharani Sahiba of Nabha] (b. 15th June 1884; d. at “Woodville”, Mussourie, 4th August 1927), appointed as Regent by her husband 21st May 1923 (rendered void 5th July 1923), daughter of Sardar Gurdial Singh Mann, sometime Divisional Judge, Ferozepore, Punjab. m. (second) at Nabha, 10th October 1918 (Brahminical rite), H.H. Maharani Sri Sarojni Devi Sahiba [H.H. Rajmata Sarojni Devi Sahiba of Nabha] (b. at Hyderabad, Deccan, 6th February 1898), née Sarojan Kaur, Mbr Mysore Horticultural Soc, rcvd: Silver Jubilee (1935) and Coron (1937) medals, daughter of Major Sardar Prem Singh Grewal, of Raipur, an officer in Hyderabad state service. m. (1) (by Anand rite) at Mussourie, before 18th June 1913. Maharani Nihal Kaur (b. at Gowani, Patiala, 1897), previously styled Sardarni Nihal Kaur, widow of Sardar Arjan Singh, of Raipur, Ludhiana district, Punjab, daughter of Jowahar Singh, of Gowani, Patiala. m. (2) (by Anand rite) at Dehra Dun, 1928 (sep. 1939), Sardarni Gurucharan Kaur [Maharani Gurucharan Kaur of Nabha*] (b. 14th August 1904; d. at Delhi, 16th December 1983), educ. Queen Mary’s and Govt Ladies’ Colls, Lahore (BSc, MA), daughter of an MD. m. (a) Rani Rajendra Kaur (b. at Nabha, 1903), educ. Ferozepore Sch for Girls’, Ferozepore, Punjab, who won a suit for Rs 42,200 against Sardar Gurcharan Singh for maintenance at the Dehra Dun Sub-Court ca 31st July 1940, previously named Musammat Ishar Kaur, widow of Indar Singh, and daughter of Akshar Anand. m. (b) Shrimati Ranjit Kaur. He d. from heart failure brought on by a persistent liver condition, at “Corrie”, Kodaikanal, Madras Presidency, 12th December 1942, having had issue, three sons and three daughters:
  • 1) Tikka Sahib Sri Pratap Singh Sahib Bahadur, who succeeded as H.H. Farzand-i-Arjumand, Aqidat-Paiwand-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Barar Bans Sarmur, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Shri Sir Pratap Singh Malvendra Bahadur, Maharaja of Nabha (s/o Sarojini Devi) – see below.
  • 2) Maharajkumar Sri Kharagh Singh Sahib. b. 1924 (s/o Sarojini Devi), educ. in England. Returned to India 1945. m. an Englsih lady. He d. at Delhi, before 9th March 1977, having had issue, one son.
  • 3) Maharajkumar Sri Gurbaksh Singh Sahib [Guru Baksh S. Nabha]. b. 1928 (s/o Sarojini Devi), educ. in England. Returned to India 1945. m. at Palm Beach, Nepean Sea Road, Bombay, 1950, Rani Chandra Prabha Kumari Sahiba (b. at Vijay Palace, Nandod, Rajpipla, 11th November 1932; d. at Kuwait, 27th September 2012), fourth daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel H.H. Maharana Shri Sir Vijayasinhji Chhatrasinhji Sahib, Maharaja of Rajpipla, GBE, KCSI, by his second wife, H.H. Maharani Shri Padmini Kunverba Sahiba, younger daughter of Rao Raja Khuman Singh Ju Deo Sahib Bahadur, of Panna. He d. November 1963, having had issue, one son and two daughters:
    • a) Rajkumar Vivek Singh[Viveck Singh]. b. 1956, educ. St Xavier’s Sch, Delhi. Employed with Kuwait Airways Corp (KAC) in Kuwait, now settled in Canada. m. Sylvia, a Goan. He has issue, a son and daughter.
    • a) Rajkumari Krishna Kumari [Yuvrani Shrimant Krishna Kumari Sahiba, of Panna]. b. 30th May 1951, educ. Welham Girls’ Sch, Dehra Dun. Employed with Air India. m. as his second wife, H.H. Mahendra Maharaja Shrimant Manvendra Singh Ju Deo Bahadur, Maharaja of Panna (b. at Mussoorie, 28th June 1939; d. 8th October 2009), elder son of Major H.H. Mahendra Maharaja Shrimant Narendra Singh Ju Deo Bahadur, Maharaja of Panna, by his wife, H.H. Mahendra Maharani Shrimant Durga Rajya Lakshmi Kumari Devi, second daughter of Commanding-General H.E. Supradipta-Manyabara-Nepal-Tara Om-Ram-Patta Jyotirmaya-Subikhyat-Tri-Shakti-Patta Suprasidha-Prabala-Gorkha-Dakshina-Bahu Sri Sri Sri Maharajkumar Sir Singha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, KBE, of Nepal. She was k. (shot dead by the son of her father’s driver, who had appropriated his farm) at Morena, Chambal, MP, 1994 – see India (Panna). Copyright© Christopher Buyers
    • b) Rajkumari Tuhina Kumari. b. 1954, educ. Welham Girls’ Sch, Dehra Dun. Flight Supervisor with Kuwait Airways Corp (KAC). m. Khalil al-Sharif. She has issue, one son.
  • 1) Maharajkumari Bibiji Amar Kaur Sahiba [Rani Amrit Kaur Sahiba, of Kalsia]. b. at the White House, Pakka Bagh, Nabha, 8th October 1907 (d/o Jagdish Kaur), educ. privately. m. at Delhi, 16th February 1925, Raja Ravi Sher Singh Sahib Bahadur, Raja of Kalsia (b. at Fort Chhachrauli, Kalsia, 30th October 1902; d. from cancer at Westminster Hospital, London, 4th February 1947), son of Raja Ranjit Singh Sahib Bahadur, Rais of Kalsia, by his wife, Rani Ranbir Kaur Sahiba, daughter of Maharajkumar Sri Balbir Singh Sahib, Tikka Sahib Bahadur, of Jind. She had issue, issue, five sons and three daughters – see India Non-salute (Kalsia).
  • 2) Maharajkumari Bibiji Kamla Devi Sahiba (d/o Sarojini Devi).
  • 3) Maharajkumari Bibiji Vimla Devi Sahiba. b. 2nd June 1926 (d/o Sarojini Devi). She d. at Delhi, 4th August 2016.
Sardar Gurcharan Singh, Ex-Maharaja of Nabha, had further issue:
  • 4) A s/o Maharani Nihal Kaur. b. dead, at Pakka Bagh, Nabha, before 8th June 1914, not without suspicion of being caused by drugs administered to his mother by the Maharaja.
  • 5) A second s/o Maharani Nihal Kaur. b. at Pakka Bagh, Nabha, 1919. Forcibly separated from his mother 15th November 1921 and sent to be raised by his maternal grandparents at Gowani, Patiala.
  • 6) Maharajkumar Sri* Jasmer Singh [Dr Jasmer Singh] [Dr M.K.J. Singh of Nabha]. b. at “Corrie”, Kodaikanal, Madras Presidency, 16th March 1931 (s/o Gurucharan Kaur), educ. Bishop Cotton Sch, Simla, Univ de Paris, Sorbonne (PhD 1967), Paris, France. Joined ICS 1955, attached Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), Probationer Northern Railway 1955-1957, Under Sec Ministry of Defence 1969, Deputy Planning Officer Dept of Defence Production 1970-1971, scientific translator. Author of “L’Augmentation du capital dans la société anonyme en droit comparé: droits indien, français, anglais, allemand” (1967), “Systems of Finite Arithmetic Progressions and Integer Partitions” (2000), “Systems of Finite Arithmetic Progressions and Integer Partitions” (2000), etc. Dir Nilvind Publishers Pvt Ltd since 2007. Mbr American Mathematical Soc, The Boat House Club (Nainital), etc. m. at New Delhi, 24th September 1971, Marie-Thérèse Paule Singh (b. at Algiers, Algeria, 22nd January 1939), educ. Univ de Paris, Sorbonne, Paris, France, social psychologist, sometime activist in La Commune de la Sorbonne during the riots of May 1968, rcvd: Knt of the Order of the Academic Palms of France (2005), daughter of Paul Marie Gratacap, of Algiers, Algeria, by his wife, Aline, daughter of Jacques Leon Paul Reveil Chalon, of Rimont, Ariège, France.
  • 7) Maharajkumar Sri* Shamsher Singh [Shamsher Singh Maharajkumar] (s/o Gurucharan Kaur), educ. Delhi Univ, New Delhi. Joined Indian Police Service (IPS) 26/10/1957, assigned Rajasthan cadre 26/10/1959, Deputy Dir Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), posted to Islamabad, Bangkok and Canada, where he later settled permanently on retirement Oct 1976 at Markham, Ontario.
  • 8) Maharajkumar Sri* Fateh Singh [Dr Fateh S. Nabha]. b. at “Corrie”, Kodaikanal, Madras Presidency, 1935 (s/o Gurucharan Kaur), educ. Bishop Cotton Sch, Simla, Allahabad Univ (BSc), St George’s Coll, Mussourie, and the Technical Univ, Stuttgart, Germany. CEO Fateh Singh & Assoc Mechanical Electrical & Civil Engineers. Hon Professor Technical Univ Stuttgart. Author of “Time and Space is Fiction-Only Distance is a Reality” (2013). Additional Dir India Structured Capital Corp Pvt Ltd since 2011. Mbr Manorite Alumni Assoc. m. at New Delhi, 12th June 1964, Kanwarani Sohinder Kaur [Sohinder S. Nabha], educ. Delhi Univ, New Delhi, Dir India Structured Capital Corporation Pvt Ltd since 2011, daughter of Shri Khazan Singh Chaudhuri. He had issue, two sons:
    • a) Rajkumar Ranjeet J. B. Singh [Ranjeet J.B.S. Nabha]. b. at New Delhi, 4th September 1965, educ. the Doon Sch, Dehra Dun, Univ of California, Santa Barbara (BA Fin & Actcy. 1988), California, and the Tuck Sch of Business, Dartmouth Coll (MBA), Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Employed as investment banker with SG Warburg, Braxton Assocs, Vice-Presdt Mergers & Acquisitions at JP Morgan & Co, CEO Voicemate Inc 1999-2003, MD & CEO for WL Ross & Co LLC in India since 2006. Dir India Structured Capital Corp Pvt Ltd since 2011. m. at New Delhi, 1995, Kunwarani Uditya Malhoutra Nabha](b. 1st February 1969), daughter of Shri Jayant Kumar Malhoutra, MP (Raj Sabha), Leader United Parliamentary Group, and Chair of the JKM Group, by his wife, Shrimati Barota Malhoutra. He has issue, one daughter:
        i) Naia Kumari Nabha. b. 13th July 2003.
    • b) Rajkumar Rajeet Singh [Rajeet S. Nabha]. b. at New Delhi, 20th May 1970, educ. the Doon Sch, Dehra Dun, and Haas Sch of Business, Univ of California, Berkeley (BSc Business Admin), California, USA. Practice Mngr Oracle Corp Worldwide Strategic Services Group, Management Consultant for Bain & Company in San Francisco, MD Arzai Outsourcing Inc.
  • 4) A d/o Maharani Nihal Kaur. b. prematurely, at Pakka Bagh, Nabha, 1915, but expired within a day.
  • 5) Maharajkumari Bibiji* Vijaya Kumari [Princess Vijayakumari Nabha]. b. at Observatory Bungalow, Kodaikanal, Madras Presidency, 21st May 1929 (d/o Gurucharan Kaur). Employed with UNO in New York 1962. m. at Manhattan, New York, USA, 1962, William Boutwell.Copyright© Christopher Buyers
  • 6) Maharajkumari Bibiji* Charanjeet Kaur [Princess Jeet Nabha Khemka]. b. at “Corrie”, Kodaikanal, Madras Presidency, 23rd March 1934 (d/o Gurucharan Kaur). MD of Unipatch Rubber Ltd since 1982. Dir Khemka Aviation Pvt Ltd since 1979, Computing Ahead (India) Pvt Ltd since 1984, V S P Stores Pvt Ltd since 1986, India Petrocom Pvt Ltd since 1987, Nilvind Publishers Pvt Ltd since 2007, SUN PSINET Pvt Ltd since 2012, M. P. Flour Mills Pvt Ltd since 2012, etc. Patron V&A Museum (London). m. Nand Lal Khemka (b. at Kahalgaon, Bihar, 13st January 1934), educ. Columbia Univ (MA, MSc, MBA 1956), New York, USA, Chair & MD Indag Rubber Ltd since 1978, Chair SUN Group Enterprises Pvt Ltd since 2002, Chair SUN Interbrew Plc (Cyprus), Dir Khemka Aviation Pvt Ltd since 1966, Unipatch Rubber Ltd since 1982, Computing Ahead (India) Pvt Ltd since 1984, MP Flour Mills Pvt Ltd since 1986, VSP Stores Pvt Ltd since 1986, India Petrocom Pvt Ltd since 1987, SUN Securities (India) Pvt Ltd since 1994, Indrasil Technologies Pvt Ltd since 2000, Sun Psinet Pvt Ltd since 2000, SUN Gold Ltd (London) since 2006, etc, Partner SUN Capital Partners, Hon Consul-Gen for Iceland in New Delhi, and Hon Consul-Gen for Jamaica in India, Patron V&A Museum (London), Chair Indo-Russian Joint Business Council, Deputy Chair India-Kazakhstan Joint Business Council, Trustee International House (New York), The Nand & Jeet Khemka Fndn, The Nabha Fndn, Tara Vati Ram Gopal Mehra Fndn, Indian Trust for Rural Heritage & Development, and International Sch of Gabon Ruban Vert, Mbr Inst of Cost & Works Accountants of India, Overseas Brd of Columbia Univ, Russian PM’s Foreign Investment Advisory Cttee (Moscow), Foreign Business Leaders Council for Russia since 1997, etc, rcvd: Knt of the Order of the Icelandic Falcon (19.8.2002), son of Shri Rameshwar Lal Khemka, of Calcutta, West Bengal, founder of SUN Group of companies, originally from Kahalgaon, Bihar, by his wife, Srimathi Badami Devi Hissaria, from Muzaffarpur, Bihar. She had issue, two sons:
    • a) Shiv Vikram Khemka. b. at New Delhi, 19th August 1962, educ. St Columba’s, King’s Coll of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, Eton, Berkshire, Brown Univ (BA 1985), Providence, Rhode Island, and Wharton Sch of Business (MBA 1990), and the Joseph H. Lauder Inst for Management & International Studies (M. Intnl. Studies 1990), Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Exec Dir SUN Group in Moscow 1999-2002, Vice-Chair SUN Group. Dir SUN Interbrew Plc (Cyprus). Chair Confed of Indian Industry (Russia Cttee.) since 1999, The Global Education & Leadership Fndn (tGELF) since 2008, and Aikido Aikikai Fndn of India. Governor Lauder Inst since 1997. Trustee The Nand & Jeet Khemka Fndn (NJKF) and Nabha Fndn. Mbr Visiting Cttee Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard Univ since 1995, Advisory Brd of the Centre for International Business & Management at Cambridge since 1999, and Sch of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), and Centre for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), Brown Univ International Young Alumni Council since 1999, EMEA Brd of Wharton Business Sch since 2001, and of the Young President’s Org, etc. Author of “Offshore Breeze” (1995). m. 25st January 1996, Urvashi Rajya Lakshmi Rana Khemka (b. at New Delhi), educ. Welham Girls’ High Sch, Dehradun, Rishi Valley (The Krishnamurti Fndn Sch), and Lady Shri Ram Coll, Delhi Univ (BA), New Delhi, Mngr Nepal Gas Industries Pvt Ltd, Trustee The Global Education & Leadership Fndn (tGELF) since 2008, Mbr The Shift Series, elder daughter of H.E. Suprasidha-Prabala-Gorkha-Dakshina-Bahu The Rt. Hon. Pashupati Shamsher Jang Bahadur Bahadur Rana, sometime Nepalese Minister for Water Resources, by his wife, Sri Rani Usha Raje Rana, second daughter of Lieutenant-General H.H. Ali Jah, Umdat ul-Umara, Husam us-Sultanat, Mukhtar ul-Mulk, Azim ul-Iktidar, Rafi-us-Shan Wala Shukoh, Muhtasham-i-Dauran, Maharajadhiraja Maharaja Sir George Jivaji Rao Scindia Bahadur, Srinath Mansur-i-Zaman, Fidvi-i-Hazrat-i-Malikha-i-Muazzam-i-Rafi-ud-Darja-i-Inglistan, Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ. He has issue, three daughters:
      • i) Bhavani Vidya Lakshmi Khemka. b. at Westminster, London, 15th January 1997.
      • ii) Jayashree Arya Vani Khemka. b. at New York, USA, 30th April 1998.
      • iii) Gayatri Uma Bhagvati Khemka. b. at New York, USA, 12th February 2000.
    • b) Uday Harsh Khemka. b. 11th July 1965, educ. King’s Coll of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, Eton, Berkshire, Caius Coll, Cambridge (BA 1988, MA), and Harvard Univ (MBA), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Employed by Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley before joining the family firm, MD & CEO Vesta Group Ltd, CEO SUN Technology Ltd, Vice-Chair SUN Group of companies, Dir SUN Securities (India) Pvt Ltd since 1994, SUN Investment Co (India) Pvt Ltd since 1998, SUN Group Enterprises Pvt Ltd since 2002, SUN F&C Asset Management, Sun Mobility Pvt Ltd, SGE Advisers (India) Pvt Ltd since 2005, Nabha Development Initiative since 2006, Climate Change Assoc of India since 2009, Indag Rubber Ltd since 2014, Sun Renewables WH Pvt Ltd since 2017, Khemka Fndn, Sun (Europe) Ltd 1997-1998 and since 2009, SUN Energy Resources Ltd (UK) since 2006, SUN London Ltd (UK) since 2006, Sun Advisors (UK) Ltd since 2006, Khemka (UK) Ltd since 2009, Synergos Inst (New York), SUN Interbrew Plc (Cyprus), etc. Chair Youthreach India since 1998, and Nabha Fndn 2002, Dir Nand & Jeet Khemka Fndn, etc. m. at the Leela Palace, Bangalore, 21st November 2007, Dr Nitya Parvatavardhini Mohan Khemka, educ. Bangalore Univ (BSc Maths, MA Econ), and Clare Hall, Cambridge (M.Phil., PhD), Fellow Commoner Clare Hall, Cambridge, employed with the UNDP India Country Office and ILO in Geneva, Affiliated Lecturer in Centre of Development Studies and Visiting Lecturer in Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge Univ, actg CEO Nabha Fndn, Snr Advisor Imagine Nations Group, CIRD Community Fdn (Paraguay), Advisor Bhumi Vardaan Fndn, Trustee AFS Intercultural Programs, Dir AFS Fndn (Switzerland), Mbr Advisory Brd of Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions at Indian Sch of Business, World Bank Group Advisory Council of Global Foundation Leaders, Technical Advisory Group for WHO Adolescent Health & Development. He has issue, twin sons and a daughter:
      • i) Aditya Shankar Khemka. b. 15th May 2012.
      • ii) Jai Rameshwar Khemka. b. 15th May 2012.
      • i) Isha Narayani Saraswati Khemka. b. 10th July 2009.
  • 7) Rajkumari Sri Nand Hem Kaur (d/o Ranjit Kaur?).
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