Bushahr State
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Was a polity in the Indian subcontinent, located in the Punjab region.
Establishment
January 1413: Bushahr, also spelt as 'Bashahr' and 'Bussahir' or 'Bushair' was a princely state in India during the British Raj. It was located in the hilly western Himalaya promontory bordering Tibet in the northern part of colonial Punjab region.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 1451: Since the 15th century, Kumharsain was a feudatory of Bushahr State.
January 1551: The Baise and Chaubisi Rajya (Nepali petty kingdom) existed since the early XVI Century.
January 1804: The erstwhile Bushahr state was occupied by a Gorkha king from central Nepal from 1803 to 1815.
February 1815: At the end of the Anglo-Nepalese War, the parties signed the Treaty of Sugauli, following which the Gurkhas were expelled from Kamru, the capital of Bushahr.
April 1815: The Treaty of Sugauli was signed between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Nepal. The British annexed Pauri Garhwal and made Tehri Garhwal a princely state under their control in 1815.
January 1816: Kumharsain State was ranked 6th in Order of precedence in the Shimla Hill States and 11th amongst the Punjab Hill States.
Disestablishment
January 1899: In 1898, Bushahr state was taken over by the British administration.
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
Unification of Nepal and pre-unification kingdoms. Historum. 31 July 2019. https://historum.com/t/unification-of-nepal-and-pre-unification-kingdoms.179881/
