Chambâ

The town of Chambâ

The city is in the valley of Delighted at an altitude from approximately 760 Mr. It preserves beginnings of its history six old temples dedicated to Shiva and Vishnou which has escaped with the fury iconoclast of Moghols.

History of the principality

The principality of Chambâ is one of the rare areas of India which keeps a notable hard copy of its history. The genealogical list of sovereigns Mûshana is thus consigned since the 6th century in the Vamshâvali . The first capital of the Mûshana was in Brâhmaputra, today Brahmaur.

The Moslems never made the conquest of the principality of Chambâ. Some occasional combat, however, with nearby Moslem states caused degradations seldom serious and never irrevocable.

Even the emperors moghols faced the problems involved in the distances and the difficulties from communication in their attempts at conquest. Akbar will try to extend a control limited on the hill states of which Chambâ by attaching its states to the fertile grounds with the imperial territory of Dhauladhar.

The râja Prithvi Singh was a favorite of Shâh Jahân and he visited the imperial court several times. He introduced the lifestyle of the court moghole in Chambâ, adopted his architecture and a miniature school of developed in the principality during the XVIe and 17th century in the style called Pahârî .

Aurangzeb, as for him, ordered with the râja Chhatar Singh to destroy the temples of the city, but as a sign of challenge, this last made them crown pinnacle. He was then convened in Delhi to undergo imperial anger, but Aurangzeb had itself to leave its capital for the Dekkan whose situation occupied it until the end of its life.

The principality becomes a British protectorate in 1846.

Chambâ integrated the state of the Himachal Pradesh. The inhabitants of the valley speak the Chambâ-lâhulî , a dialect tibéto-Burmese.

Leaders: Râja

670 -? : Meru Verman
…
920 - 940: Sahila Verman
940 -? : Yugakar Verman
? -? : Vidagdha Verman
? -? : Dodaka Verman
? -? : Vichitar Verman
? -? : Dhairya Verman
? -? : Salavahana Verman
? -? : Verman
summoned? -? : Asata Verman
1105 - 1118: Jasata Verman
1118 - 1120: Dhala Verman
1120 -? : Udaya Verman
…
1475 - 1512: Anand Verman
1512 - 1559: Ganesa Verman
1559 - 1586: Pratapsingh Verman
1586 - 1589: Vir Vahnu Verman
1589 - 1641: Balbhadra Verman
1641 - 1664: Prithvi Singh
1664 - 1690: Chhatar Singh
1690 - 1720: Udai Singh
1720 - 1735: Ugar Singh
1735 - 1748: Dalel Singh
1748 - 1764: Umed Singh
1764 - 1794: Raj Singh
1794 - 1808: Jit Singh
1808 - 1844: Charhat Singh
1844 - 1870: Shri Singh
1870 - 1873: Gopal Singh
1873 - 1904: Sham Singh
1904 - 1919: Bhuri Singh
1919 - 1935: RAM Singh
1935 - 1947: Tikka Lakshman Singh

See too

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List of the leaders

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