Chamba (state)
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| approx. 550-1948 | |||||
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| Capital | Chamba | ||||
| Form of government | Princely state (11 shot salute) | ||||
| surface | 8099 km² | ||||
| population | 167,000 (1941) | ||||
| founding | about 550 | ||||
| resolution | April 15, 1948 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism. Dynasty: Mushana |
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Chamba was one of the princely states in the foothills of the Himalayas around Shimla in British India, which at that time belonged to Punjab . The principality is said to have been founded in the 6th century by a member of the Surajbansi clan of the Rajputs . The town of Chamba became the capital around the year 900. Chamba was temporarily under the suzerainty of Kashmir , then the Mughals . After the First Sikh War it came under the sovereignty of Jammu , from 1846 to 1947 it was a British protectorate .
In 1941, Chamba had an area of 8099 km² and 167,000 inhabitants and on April 15, 1948, it merged with 30 other small principalities to form the Himachal Pradesh confederation . All principalities were dissolved on November 1, 1956. Chamba had its own state post from 1886–1950 and, based on a postal convention with the British-Indian Post, used their postage stamps with the country's name (on postal stationery also coats of arms ).
See also
literature
- William Barton: The princes of India. With a Chapter on Nepal. Nisbet, London 1934, (Reprinted edition. Cosmo, New Delhi 1983).
- Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India. CD-ROM. Birken, Hamburg 2004.
- Chamba State. In: The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 10: Central Provinces to Coompta. New Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 129-133 .
- Chaman L. Datta: The Raj and the Simla Hill States. Socio-economic Problems, Agrarian Disturbances and Paramountcy. ABS Publications, Jalandhar 1997, ISBN 81-7072-072-9 .
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia (= Association for Asian Studies. Reference Series. 2). 2nd impression, with additional material. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6 .
