For the district in Himachal Pradesh, see Sirmaur district.
Sirmaur State Sirmoor State Nahan State
Princely State of British India
1095–1948
Coat of arms
Sirmur State in a 1911 map of Punjab
Capital
Nahan
Area
• 1901 Census of India
4,039 km2 (1,559 sq mi)
Population
• 1901 Census of India
135,626
History
• Established
1095
• Independence of India
1948
Succeeded by
India
Today part of
Himachal Pradesh, India
Gazetteer of the Sirmur State. New Delhi: Indus Publishing. 1996. ISBN 978-81-7387-056-9. OCLC 41357468.
Portrait of Maharaja Kirat Prakash of Sirmur. Late 18th century.The Fort of Nahan, the capital of princely-state of SirmurStamp of Sirmour in 1800s
Sirmur (also spelled as Sirmor, Sirmaur, Sirmour, or Sirmoor) was an independent kingdom in India, founded in 1616, located in the region that is now the Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh. The state was also known as Nahan, after its main city, Nahan. The state ranked predominant amongst the Punjab hill States. It had an area of 4,039 km2 and a revenue of 300,000 rupees in 1891.[citation needed]
Sirmur (also spelled as Sirmor, Sirmaur, Sirmour, or Sirmoor) was an independent kingdom in India, founded in 1616, located in the region that is now the...
1857. In late 1964, Maharaja Rajendra Prakash of Sirmur, the last recognized former ruler of SirmurState, died without either leaving male issue or adopting...
from the original founder of the Dynasty, served as the Maharaja of SirmurState from 1933 until 1964. He was born on 11 January 1913 to Amar Prakash...
Publishing. pp. 48–49. ISBN 9788173870941. State), Sirmur (Princely (1939). "SirmurState Gazetteer ... 1934". Dhami state Brentnall, Mark (2004). The Princely...
or ghee and optional salt and is made in to a paste. State), Sirmur (Princely (1939). SirmurState Gazetteer ... 1934. Superintendent, Government Printing...
the Maharaja of SirmurState from 1911 until 1933. Amar Prakash was born on 26 January 1888 to Surendra Bikram Prakash, Raja of Sirmur. He was educated...
to Paonta (now Poanta sahib) in Sirmurstate, at the invitation of Raja Mat Prakash (a.k.a. Medni Prakash) of Sirmur. The reasons for the shift are not...
1911, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. 1934, Gazetteer of the SirmurState. Chandigarh to Morni Hills...
1775, the Maharaja of Patiala Amar Singh bought it from the King of SirmurState Jagat Prakash. English author-painter C.M. Villiers-Stuart, who resided...
In the 1750s, it eventually fell to the status of a fief under the SirmurState, but became independent again in 1804. It is currently occupied by the...
Indian National Congress and the first Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh state. Upon the formation of the constituent assembly of India in 1946, he represented...
offshoot of Bhati Rajputs of Jaisalmer State. The Taoni (Bhatis) also ruled over Punjab Hill states such as in SirmurState until 1948. In areas surrounding...
the state was swept away and the royal family lost its ancestral possessions the SirmurState forever to a prince of Jaisalmer. The princely state of Jubbal...
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Kotkhai, the south by the SirmurState along the Chor Ridge, the east by the district of Dehra Dun and the north by Bushahr State. It had its capital at...
deity in Vaishnavism, while Garh means fort. Raja Lakshmi Narain of SirmurState, during the time of the disintegration of the Mughal empire, built a...
panthers had dwindled due to excessive hunting. Consequently, by 1913 SirmurState had banned the hunting. The ancient Kalesar Mahadev temple takes its...
incorporated into the Chakrata tehsil; it had been part of the Punjab state of Sirmur until the British conquered it and Dehradun after the 1814 war with...
function as absolute monarchies where the king has complete authority over the state, others are constitutional monarchies where a monarch exercises authority...
Mat Prakash, also known as Medini Prakash, was a king of SirmurState in present-day Himachal Pradesh, India. He ruled from 1684 until his death in 1704...
headquarters of the Sirmaur District It was the capital of the former Sirmur princely state.Nahan is also known as the Town of ponds. Nahan is located at 30°33′N...
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the Constitution of India. Bhawani Singh married Princess Padmini Devi of Sirmur in 1966. Their only child, a daughter, Diya Kumari, is an Indian politician...
Sirmaur may refer to the following places in India: SirmurState, a former princely state Sirmaur district, a district in Himachal Pradesh Sirmaur, Rewa...
Bikram Singh, C.I.E., Commandant of the Imperial Service Sappers of the SirmurState, Punjab. Walter Maude, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Temporary Member of...
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