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Sirmaur State Sirmoor State Nahan State
Princely State ofBritish India
1095–1948
Coat of arms
Urdu map of Sirmur State
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.

Sirmur (also spelled asSirmor,Sirmaur,Sirmour, orSirmoor) was aprincely state of India, located in the region that is now theSirmaur district ofHimachal Pradesh. The state was also known asNahan, after its main city,Nahan. The state ranked predominant amongst thePunjab Hill States. It had an area of 4,039 km² and a revenue of 300,000 rupees in 1891.^{[citation needed]}

According to Mian Goverdhan Singh inWooden Temples of Himachal Pradesh, the principality of Sirmaur was founded in the 7th to 8th century by Maharaja ofParmarRajputs, and Rathore noble.^[1]

Nahan, the predecessor state of Sirmur, was founded by Soba Rawal in 1095 AD who assumed the name Raja Subans Prakash.^{[citation needed]}

Near the end of the 12th century in the year 1195, a flood of theGiri River destroyed the old capital of Sirmaur-Tal, which killed Raja Ugar Chand.^[1] A ruler ofJaisalmer, Raja Salivahana, thought this was an opportune time to attack the state as it was in a state of disarray due to the natural disaster and death of its ruler, so he sent his son Sobha to conquer the state.^[1] The attack was successful and a new dynasty headed byBhati Rajputs was established.^[1] Sirmur was invaded by invaderJasrath's army, who also invaded fragments of Punjab and Jammu.^[2]

Eventually in 1621 Karm Parkash foundedNahan, the modern capital.^[3] Budh Parkãsh, the next ruler, recoveredPinjaur forAurangzeb’s foster-brother.^{[citation needed]} Raja Mit Parkãsh gave an asylum to the Sikh Guru,Gobind Singh, permitting him to fortifyPaonta in the Kiarda Dun; and it was at Bhangani in the Dun that the Guru defeated the Rajäs of Kahlur and Garhwäl in 1688.^[3] But in 1710 Kirat Parkãsh, after defeating the Räja ofGarhwal, captured Naraingarh, Morni, Pinjaur, and other territories from the Sikhs, and concluded an alliance withAmar Singh,Raja of Patiala, whom he aided in suppressing his rebellious Wazir; and he also fought in alliance with the Raja of Kahlür whenGhuläm Kãdir Khan, Rohilla, invaded that State.^[4]

The rulers of Sirmur bore the title "Maharaja" from 1911 onward^{[citation needed]}

Name	Portrait	Ruled from	Ruled until	Citation
Subhansh Prakash		1095	1099
Mahe Prakash		1099	1117
Udit Prakash		1117	1127
Kaul Prakash		1127	1153
Sumer Prakash		1153	1188
Suraj Prakash		1188	1254
Bhagat Prakash I		1254	1336
Jagat Prakash		1336	1388
Bir Prakash		1388	1398
Naket Prakash		1398	1398
Ratna Prakash		1398	1413
Garv Prakash		1413	1432
Brahm Prakash		1432	1446
Hams Prakash		1446	1471
Bhagat Prakash II		1471	1538
Dharam Prakash		1538	1570
Deep Prakash		1570	1585
Budh Prakash		1605	1615
Bhagat Prakash III		1615	1620
Karam Prakash I		1621	1630
Mandhata Prakash		1630	1654
Sobhag Prakash		1654	1664
Budh Prakash		1664	1684	[1][5]
Mat Prakash		1684	1704	[1][5]
Hari Prakash		1704	1712	[5]
Bijay Prakash		1712	1736
Pratap Prakash		1736	1754
Kirat Prakash		1754	1770
Jagat Prakash		1770	1789
Dharam Prakash		1789	1793
Karam Prakash II (died 1820)		1793	1803
Ratan Prakash (installed byGurkhas, hanged by theBritish in 1804)		1803	1804
Karma Prakash II (died 1820)		1804	1815
Fateh Prakash		1815	1850
Raghbir Prakash		1850	1856
Shamsher Prakash		1856	1898
Surendra Bikram Prakash		1898	1911
Amar Prakash		1911	1933
Rajendra Prakash		1933	1947
Lakshraj Prakash		2013		[6][7]

Religious groups in Sirmur State (British Punjab province era)

Religious group	1901[8]		1911[9][10]		1921[11]		1931[12]		1941[13]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Hinduism[a]	128,478	94.69%	130,276	94.05%	132,431	94.29%	139,031	93.58%	146,199	93.7%
Islam	6,414	4.73%	6,016	4.34%	6,449	4.59%	7,020	4.73%	7,374	4.73%
Sikhism	688	0.51%	2,142	1.55%	1,449	1.03%	2,413	1.62%	2,334	1.5%
Jainism	61	0.04%	49	0.04%	65	0.05%	52	0.04%	81	0.05%
Christianity	46	0.03%	37	0.03%	44	0.03%	52	0.04%	38	0.02%
Buddhism	0	0%	0	0%	10	0.01%	0	0%	0	0%
Zoroastrianism	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Judaism	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Others	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Total population	135,687	100%	138,520	100%	140,448	100%	148,568	100%	156,026	100%
Note:British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historicPunjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.

Not many paintings depicting the historical rajas of Sirmur State have survived due to the Gurkha occupation of the state between 1803 and 1814, which led to the loss and destruction of much artwork, including any portraits of earlier rulers produced in Sirmur itself.^[14][15]

• Singh, Kanwar Ranjhor (1912).Tarikh-i-Riyasat Sirmaur [History of Sirmaur State] (in Persian).

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