During the colonial Raj period, two groups of princely states in direct relations with the Province of British Punjab became part of the British Indian Empire later than most of the former Mughal Empire, in the context of two wars and an uprising.
For its princely rulers the informal term Hill Rajas has been coined. It does not apply to other native hill country princes such as the Rawat of Rajgarh.
After the independence and split-up of British India, the Hill States acceded to the new Dominion of India and were later divided between India's constituent states of Punjab (proper), Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
Three quarters of the roughly 4,800 square miles (12,000 km2), on both sides of the Sutlej river, was the territory of the Raja (earlier Rana) of Bashahr. The direct tributaries of Bashahr were:
Thakur of Khaneti
Thakur of Delath
Initially both Khaneti and Delath were feudatories of Kumharsain.
The other princely states, all far smaller, included a few with petty dependencies of their own, and were further south, on the left bank of the Sutlej:
the Rana (also styled as Rana Saheb) of Kumharsain. Tributaries of Kumharsain before 1815 were:
Thakur (originally titled Rana up to the occupation by the Gurkhas; Thakurs from 1815 to 1929) of Tharoch = Tiroch
NB - For various of the entities above, the authentic title of the chieftain is missing. While some of the lowest-ranking may have had none, for the princes that can merely be due to insufficient sources available.
The princely states of the Simla Hills all ultimately became part of the modern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
^"Part I: Kangra (1883-1884)", Gazetteer of the Kangra District, 1883-84; reprinted Indus Publ. Co., New Delhi, 1994, p. 33. ISBN8173870241
^Crill, Rosemary; Jariwala, Kapil (2010). The Indian Portrait, 1560-1860. ISBN9788189995379.
Sources and external links
Indian Princely States website
Punjab State Gazetteer [then Punjab was much larger], vol. VIII, Gazetteer of the Simla Hill States 1910
and various links therefrom (click on map or names) to official sites of the state's districts
March 08, 2023
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