Family Life
His personal lifestyle was considered to be extravagant, even by Rana standards and he led the most flamboyant and lavish lifestyle out of all the Rana Maharajahs.
Dev Shamsher had 12 sons and 3 daughters. His principal wife was Badamaharani Karma Kumari, Maharani Krishna Kumari (daughter of the King Surendra, in fact, Dev Shamsher was the only amongst the 17 Shamsher brothers to marry a princess from the royal family of Nepal) and Rani Ganesh Kumari.
Sons of Dev Shamsher,
- General Maharajkumar Jang Shamsher
- Maharajkumar Bhuwan Shamsher
- Maharajkumar Narendra Shamsher
- Maharajkumar Bahadur Shamsher
- Maharajkumar Jagat Shamsher
- Maharajkumar Mussorie Shamsher
- Lieutenant-General Kunwar Laba Shamsher (his real name was Babar Shamsher but later was forced to change his name to Laba Shamsher because the name was similar to a son of Chandra Shamsher also called Babar Shamsher)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Kunwar Totra Shamsher
- Lieutenant-Colonel Kunwar Prakash Shamsher
- Lieutenant-Colonel Kunwar Hem Shamsher
- Kunwar Lokendra Shamsher
- Kunwar Krishna Shamsher
Daughters of Dev Shamsher,
- Maharajkumari Mandalasa Rajya Lakshmi Devi (H.H. Maharani Shri Mandalasa Deviji Sahiba, Maharani of Sirmur)
- Maharajkumari Bhuvaneshwari Rajya Lakshmi Devi (Rani Bhuvaneshwari Rajya Lakshmi Devi Sahiba, of Khairigarh Raj)
- Maharajkumari Indra Rajya Lakshmi (Rani Narpat Singh, Maharaja of Idar)
- Gupta Devi - Rani of Lieutenant-Colonel H.H. Shri Maharaja Sir Amar Prakash Bahadur, Maharaja of Sirmur
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