Hill kingdom astride the Beas, ruled by the Sen dynasty that had split from Suket; Ajbar Sen founded the present town of Mandi in 1527, and the state survived Sikh suzerainty to tender its allegiance to the British in 1846.
Transferred from Sikh to British suzerainty by sanad of 24 October 1846; acceded to the Indian Union in 1948 and merged with Suket to form Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Mandi State — the shape you scrub through changes in 1527 · 1768 · 1808 · 1819.
The state's own gazetteer: dynastic chronology from the Suket separation, the 1527 copper-plate, boundaries and the 1846 sanad.
Chapter IX is the scholarly history of Mandi State and its relation to Suket and Kulu.