Mandi State Explained

Native Name:मण्डी रियासत
Conventional Long Name:Mandi State
Common Name:Mandi
Nation:British India
Subdivision:Princely State
Year Start:1290
Year End:1948
Event End:Acceded to the Indian Union
S1:India
Flag S1:Flag of India.svg
Image Map Caption:Princely States of the Shimla Hills, Mandi in the south (1911)
Stat Area1:2950
Stat Year1:1941
Stat Pop1:232,598
Today:Himachal Pradesh, India

Mandi State was a native state within the Punjab, later the Punjab States Agency,[1] with the town of Mandi as its capital. The state of Mandi (the name means "market" in Hindi), which included two towns and 3,625 villages, was part of the States of the Punjab Hills. It was located in the Himalayan range, bordering to the west, north, and east on the British Punjabi district of Kangra; to the south, on Suket; and to the southwest, on Bilaspur. As of 1941, population of Mandi State was 232,598 and area of the state was 1139sqkm.[2]

History

The predecessor state of Siokot was founded in 1527. Formerly part of the Kingdom of Suket in the Punjab Hills, the dynasty traditionally goes back to 765AD. In about 1100, Vijaya Sen had two sons, Sahu Sen who ruled over Suket and Bahu Sen who ruled over Kullu. Bahu Sen’s descendants emigrated to Kullu until the tenth descendant, Kabakha Sen was killed by the Raja of Kullu and his son had to flee to Siokot, not very far from the present city of Mandi which was founded during Ajbar Sen’s rule. The last Rajput ruler of Mandi signed the accession to the Indian Union thus being incorporated into the State of Himachal Pradesh as Mandi district on 15 April 1948 with an area of 2950sqkm.

Ruling family

The rulers bore the title of Raja.[3] [4]

Name! colspan="2"
Tenure
Reign startReign end
Raja Ajbar Sen15271534
Raja Chhatar Sen15341554
Raja Sahib Sen15541575
Raja Narain Sen15751595
Raja Keshab Sen15951616
Raja Hari Sen16161637
Raja Suraj Sen16371664
Raja Shyam Sen16641679
Raja Gaur Sen16791684
Raja Sidhi Sen16841727
Raja Shamsher Sen17271781
Raja Surma Sen17811788
Raja Ishwari Sen17881826
There description

K.C.S.I [cr.1884]; he was formally installed on 12 October 1866,

Demographics

Religious
group! colspan="2"
1901[5] 1911[6] [7] 1921[8] 1931[9] 1941[10]
170,304178,115181,358199,935227,463
3,1872,7993,4626,3514,328
51016476138208
4126142899583
341014111
02000
00010
00000
Others00000
Total population174,045181,110185,048207,465232,593

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Mandi . 17 . 564.
  2. http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/m/mandi.html Mandi Princely State (11 gun salute)
  3. Web site: Indian Princely States K-Z. www.worldstatesmen.org. 29 August 2019.
  4. Web site: Indian states before 1947 K-W. www.rulers.org. 29 August 2019.
  5. Web site: Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province. ]. saoa.crl.25363739 . 30 March 2024 . 1901 . 34.
  6. Web site: Census of India 1911. Vol. 14, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables. . saoa.crl.25393788 . 30 March 2024 . 1911 . 27.
  7. Web site: Census Of India 1911 Punjab Vol XIV Part II . 30 March 2024 . 1911 . 27 . Kaul, Harikishan.
  8. Web site: Census of India 1921. Vol. 15, Punjab and Delhi. Pt. 2, Tables. . saoa.crl.25430165 . 30 March 2024 . 1921 . 29.
  9. Web site: Census of India 1931. Vol. 17, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables. . saoa.crl.25793242 . 30 March 2024 . 1931 . 277.
  10. Web site: Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab . saoa.crl.28215541 . 30 March 2024 . 1941 . 42.

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