One of the oldest surviving Himalayan kingdoms, ruled from Brahmaur and then, from about 930, from Chamba on the upper Ravi; its unbroken series of copper-plate grants and temple inscriptions makes it the best-documented of the Punjab hill states.
Tributary to the Sikhs from 1809 and to the British after 1846; acceded to the Indian Union on 15 April 1948 and was merged into Himachal Pradesh.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Chamba State — the shape you scrub through changes in 550 · 618 · 843.
The epigraphic foundation for Chamba's chronology, including the Sahila-Varman period and the transfer of the capital.
Contains the fullest continuous narrative of the Chamba dynasty from the sixth century to the twentieth.