Sirmur

Sirmur State Sirmoor State Nahan State सिर्मूर रियासत
Princely State of British India
1095–1948 →
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Sirmur State in a 1911 map of Punjab
History
•	Established	1095
•	Independence of India	1948
Area
•	1901 Census of India	4,039 km2(1,559 sq mi)
Population
•	1901 Census of India	135,626
	Density	33.6 /km2  (87 /sq mi)
Today part of		Himachal Pradesh, India
Gazetteer of the Sirmur State. New Delhi: Indus Publishing. 1996. ISBN . OCLC 41357468.

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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. Sirmur was ruled by the chiefs of Rajput lineage, who used the title "Raja", later "Maharaja", granted by the British. The Rajputs of Sirmur were fierce warriors who maintained their independence before becoming a protectorate of British India. The state ranked predominant amongst the Punjab hill States. It had an area of 1198 square miles and a revenue of 300,000 rupees in 1891.

Nahan, the predecessor state of Sirmur, was founded by Soba Rawal, who assumed the name Raja Subans Prakash. The new capital was founded in 1621 by Raja Karam Prakash, and the state was renamed to Sirmur.

Sirmur was surrounded by the hill states of Balsan, Rajgarh and Jubbal in the North, Dehradun district in the East, Ambala district in the South West, and the states of Patiala and Keonthal in the North-West.

The early history of Sirmür is almost a blank. Tradition says that its ancient capital was Sirmür, in the Kiarda Dun, whose king was of Suraj Bansi or Solar race. Once, the legend runs, a woman boasted to the rãjä of her acrobatic skill, and he challenged her to cross and re-cross the Giri river on a rope, promising her half his kingdom if she succeeded. The woman crossed in safety; but as she was returning, a courtier, to save the kingdom from dismemberment, cut the rope, and the woman perished in the stream. For this act of treachery a flood swept away Sirmur, and the Raja perished with all his kin, leaving the realm without a ruler.

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