The rulers share a common line of descent with the founders of Ghund and Madhan, who were all together sons of a Chandel Rajput of Jaipur. The state was made subordinate to Keonthal by a sanad of September 1815.
Rulers were :
- Rana Bhup Chand 1847/1866, succeeded to the throne in 1847, married and had three children. He died 1866.
- Tikka Hari Chand, later Rana Hari Chand (qv)
- Raj Kumar Nand Singh, born 1855, married and had one child.
- Kanwar Hira Singh.
Thakur Krishan Chand, succeeded to the throne on 10th August 1962 and was installed in January 1963. (The Palace, Sainj, Tehsil Theog, District Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India).
Born 8th August 1933 at Lady Reading Hospital, Simla; educated in Sainj and the Butler High School, Simla; married 26th February 1952, Kumari Vidya Devi, daughter of Mian Ranjit Singh of Koti State, born 12th September 1933, and has four children.
- Raj Kumari Vindeshwari Kumari, born 1st March 1953 at Sainj, married February 1973 at Chandigarh,
- Kanwar Ari Daman Singh Doad, youngest brother of Rana Gajender Chand of Manswal, born 1947, and has issue, a daughter.
- Kumari Gita Singh, born 1st February 1975.
- Tikka Kirti Chand, born 23rd February 1954 at Sainj; educated at Saint Edward’s School, Simla and the DAV College at Chandigarh; married Kumari Nirupama Kumari, daughter of Kanwar Bhopal Singh of Jubbal, and has two children.
- Raj Kumar Shardul Chand, born 26th March 1997 at Lady Reading Hospital, Simla.
- Raj Kumari Shivani Kumari, born 20th March 1998 at the Government Hospital, Jubbal.
- Kishan Singh
- Kanwar Nitu Singh
