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Kangra State (Katoch dynasty)

Senior Rajput kingdom of the Punjab hills, ruled by the Katoch dynasty from the Kangra fort in the Beas basin; long a Mughal tributary, it revived spectacularly under Sansar Chand II (1775-1823) before losing the fort to Ranjit Singh in 1809 and being absorbed into the Lahore kingdom in 1828.

Annexed to the Sikh kingdom of Lahore in 1828 after Raja Anirudh Chand abandoned the state; the Katoch line continued only as the Kangra-Lambagraon jagir, and the territory passed to British India in 1846.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 5 border frames for Kangra State (Katoch dynasty) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1009 · 1206 · 1446 · 1808 · 1819.

Further reading

• History of the Panjab Hill States, Vol. I J. Hutchison and J. Ph. Vogel · 1933

  The standard scholarly history of the hill states; its Kangra chapter carries the Katoch dynasty from Trigarta to the 1828 extinction.

• Gazetteer of the Kangra District, Vol. I: Kangra Proper, 1883-84 Punjab Government · 1884

  Contemporary district gazetteer with the fullest narrative of Sansar Chand, the Gurkha war of 1806-09 and the Sikh takeover.

Sources

• Hutchison & Vogel, History of the Panjab Hill States, Vol. I (1933), historical survey and Kangra chapter
• Gazetteer of the Kangra District Vol. I (1883-84), ch. II History: Katoch dynasties; Raja Sansar Chand; acquisition by Ranjit Singh
• Kangra State — Wikipedia (index only; the article is really about the post-1846 Kangra-Lambagraon jagir)