HISTORY OF KANGRA HIMACHAL PRADESH GK
HISTORY-
Guler
- Old name – gwalior
- Harichand founded guler in 1405 AD
- Made capital – haripur
- Sibba princely state-was born from Guler
- Second princely state separated from kangra
Ramchand – 15th ruler
- Helped mughals to capture king jaichand Of kangra
- Contemprory of Akbar
Jagdish chand
- Did not participate in army which sent to suppress the rebellion of king Of kangra
Rupchand –
- Helped mughals to capture Kangra fort
- Jahagir –conferred title Of bahadur
- Contemprory of Jahangir
Man singh
- Title Sher Afghan by Sharjahan
- Capture maukaot and taragarh fort in 1641-42
- Mangarh fort built By man singh
- Died in 1661 in benarus
Raj singh
- Defeated mughals together with chatar Singh –chamba
- Raja Dhirajpal of Basauli and Kirpal Dev of jammu
Prakash Singh
- Before Prakash Singh ,Dalip Singh And Govardhan Singh become kings of guler
- During prakash Singh , Ghamand Chand captured Guler
- Later sansar chand captured guler , Dhyan Singh Wazir helped kotla area in possession guler state
Bhup singh
- Last king
- Desa singh majithia captured guler in 1811
- Captured kotla Fort
- Shamsher singh , son of bhup singh got sikhs Liberated haripur Fort
- After Shamsher Singh , jai singh , ragunath singh and Baldev Singh become king Of guler Dynasty
- British rule was established Over Guler
Nurpur Ancient name – dhameri
- Old capital was pathankot
- During Akbar time , basdev , king of nurpur shifted Nurpur from Capital pathankot
- In ancient time Nurpur and pathankot – audumbar region
- Name of king of princely state oF Nurpur was pathania
- Derived from paithan
Establishment –
- Founded by tomar rajput – jhethpal
- Jaspal – contemprory of alaudin khilji
- Kailash pal – defeated tatar khan
- Bhimpal – contemorory of Sikander Lodhi
- Bahktmal – founded in Akbarnama
- At time bhaktmal , salimshahsoor Shah , son of shershah Suri built maukot fort
- Sikander shah took refuge in maukot fort in 1557 during reign of akbar
- Mughals arrested bhaktmal –sent lahore where bairam khan killed him
- Bhaktmal built fort at shahpur
- Taktmal
- Brother of bhaktmal
- First thought about changing capital from pathankot to dhameri but died before
Basdev
- Chenged dhameri from pathankot
- Rebelled against mughals several times
- All these revolts in support with jahangir –good relations with Jahagir
- In akbarnama – baasdev called king basu
- He rebelled against Akbar in 1585, 1589-90,94-95,1602-03,1603-04
- Akbar for gives baasdev having good relations with jahagir
- King basu took refuge in maukot fort
- Mansab increased from 1500to 3500 after jahagir as king
Surajmal
- Son of basdev ,
- Quarrelled with murtaza khan , later with shahquli and Mohmad taqi to cancel campaign to capture kangra fort
- Surajmal took oppurtunity and occupied kangra region
- Jahagir sent sunderdas , rai vikramjit and jagat singh to supprees rebellion
- Surajmal hide in maofort anf fled to chamba
- Sentenced to death along with madho rao
- Jagat singh
- Jahagir came to dhameri -1622
- Jagat singh named it nurpur in honor of Nurjahan
- Jagat singh killed janardhan – battle of dhalog in 1623
- Made bhalbhadra king
- Captured basauli in 1614-15 by arresting Bhupatpal
- In 1640- jagatsingh and his rajroop revolted against mughals
- At top of prosperity during his reign shahjahan sent Jagat singh to fight against uzbecks of balakh
- Campaign was led by Amir ul – umrah
- Jagat singh stayed away from Confideration of hill states against
- Subedar Riyaz Beg
Rajroop Singh
- Shahjahan made Rajroop singh as chief of army against badakshan
- Rajroop left Dara shikoh –join Aurangzeb
- Aurangzeb sent him to garhwal giving him army to chase Mansab of 3500
- Hazari and suleiman Shikoh , son of Darah Shikoh Madhanta
- Last ruler to Have support and Praise Of mughals
- Made capital shahpur
- Bhupsingh accepted islam and famous as Mutid khan
- Sikhs captured nurpur In 1781 AD Prithvi singh
- Ghamand chand , jassa singh ramghariya captured nurpur reign
- In the year 1785 Princely state shifted to lakhanpur which remained there till 1846
Veer singh
- Last king
- Refuse to take jagir after the kingdom captured by Ranjit singh
- Raja of nurpur and Jaswan did not attend Sialkot Military conference of ranjit singh
- Veer singh revolted against ranjit singh
- Veer singh kept it for 7yrs in govingrah fort
- Rescued by charhat singh –by paying 85000
- British captured nurpur in 1846
- At time of Jaswant singh son of veer singh , wazir singh pathania revolted against british in 1848
- Ram singh pathania captured and sent to singapore
- Jaswant singh showed loyalty to british in 1857
