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Name: suket kingdom

Type: Cluster

Start: 766 AD

End: 1948 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Suket Kingdom
  • Suket State
  • Establishment


  • January 766: The Suket Kingdom was founded about 765 by Bira Sen (Vir Sen).
  • Chronology


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    1. Mongol invasions and conquests


    Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

    1.1.Invasions of India

    The Mongol Empire launched several invasions into the Indian subcontinent from 1221 to 1327.

  • November 1299: In late 1299, Chagatai Khan Duwa sent his son Qutlugh Khwaja to conquer Delhi.
  • December 1299: The Mongols retreated from India afteri being defeated at Kili. Their leader Qutlugh Khwaja was seriously wounded, and died during the return journey.

  • 2. Conquests of Ranjit Singh


    Expansion during the rule of Ranjit Singh in the Sikh Empire.

  • January 1810: Sikh invasion of the Kangra region.

  • 3. Partition of India


    Was the partition of British India in two independent entities: India (with a Hindu majority) and Pakistan (with a Muslim majority). This included the several princely states that were dependent on the British Colony.

  • April 1948: Its last ruler of the Suket State signed the accession to the Indian Union on 15 April 1948.

  • 4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 824: Garhwal Kingdom was an independent kingdom in the current north-western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India, founded in 823 AD by Kanakpal, the progenitor of the Panwar dynasty that ruled over the kingdom.

  • January 1205: After 1204 once the Islamic invaders defeated the Sena dynasty in Gaur (Bengal), the royal family members fled to the hills and raja Bir Sen established the state of Suket.

  • January 1291: Due to family feud Suket and Mandi were turned into two separate states.

  • January 1551: The Baise and Chaubisi Rajya (Nepali petty kingdom) existed since the early XVI Century.

  • January 1551: During the reign of Raja Udai Sen, Suket came under the influence of the Sur Empire who were content with merely exacting tribute.

  • January 1751: Independence of the Suket State from Mughal Empire.

  • January 1771: The Garhwali forces, led by King Pradyuman Shah, defeated the Rohillas, a Pashtun tribe, in 1770. This victory allowed the Garhwal Kingdom to regain control of the Dun region, a strategic territory in present-day Uttarakhand, India.

  • January 1802: The formal start of the Sikh Empire began with the unification of the Misls (states) by 1801, creating a unified political state.

  • January 1807: Nepalese invasion of Bilaspur.

  • January 1846: In 1845, when war broke out between the Sikhs and the British, the Rajas of Suket and Mandi took the side of the British, signing a Treaty of Alliance in Bilaspur in 1846. In the same year a sanad was granted to Raja Ugar Sen II confirming him and his heirs in the possession of the Suket territories.

  • Disestablishment


  • April 1948: Its last ruler of the Suket State signed the accession to the Indian Union on 15 April 1948.
  • Selected Sources


  • European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, p. 78. retrieved 26 March 2024 on http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_50-51.pdf
  • Hugh, C. (1911): Ranjit Singh, Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. 22 (11th ed.), Cambridge (UK), p. 892
  • Unification of Nepal and pre-unification kingdoms. Historum. 31 July 2019. https://historum.com/t/unification-of-nepal-and-pre-unification-kingdoms.179881/
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