The Chib shajra (شجرہ نسب خاندان چب راجپوت) in Thakur Major Singh’s Tarikh-e-Chibhal (c. 1926), the oldest written history of the Chib Rajputs of Bhimber, is a roll of rulers numbered from 1 to 481 in a single line of descent. It runs from Raja Bhum Chand, legendary founder of the Katoch royal house of Kangra, through Raja Chib Chand (No. 458) to Raja Sultan Khan (No. 481), the last Chib Raja of Bhimber in today’s Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The two later Chib histories, of 1997 and c. 2023, follow its main line from Megh Chand of Kangra to Sultan Khan, with differences set out below.
At a glance
- Source
- Thakur Major Singh Chib, Tarikh-e-Chibhal (Urdu lithograph, c. 1926), pp. 10–20
- Heading
- Shajra-e-nasab khandan Chib Rajput, “Genealogical tree of the Chib Rajput family”
- No. 1
- Raja Bhum Chand (Bhumi Chand), founder of the Katoch of Kangra
- No. 458
- Raja Chib Chand, “founder of the Chib qaum”
- No. 481
- Raja Sultan Khan, last Raja of Bhimber
- Numbering
- 1 to 481; No. 291 is not printed, and brothers share Nos. 234 and 439
- Branches named
- Jaswal, Guler, Kangra, Bhauria (reading uncertain), Deva Vatala, Barhang, Khari Kariali, Samahni
- Legibility
- About 300 of the 480 names are uncertain readings in the old lithograph
- Later versions
- The 1997 history keeps the order from Megh Chand to Sultan Khan; Chibhal Nama (c. 2023) repeats Nos. 455–465 in its lists of princes, but its dated table of rulers differs in four names
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Sources
- Thakur Major Singh Chib, Tarikh-e-Rajgan-e-Bhimber wa Qaum-e-Chibhal (Tarikh-e-Chibhal; Urdu, c. 1926), pp. 4–5, 7–10, 11–21, 26, 30, 35, 42, 70.
- Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan, Raja Shadab Khan alias Hazrat Baba Shadi Shaheed (Urdu, Barhang/Karachi, 1997), pp. 21–23, 29, 31, 116–123, 151, 331, 388–394.
- Captain (Retd) Muhammad Nadeem Khan, Chibhal Nama (Urdu, Dua Publications, no date [c. 2023]), pp. 48–53, 67–71, 79–83, 98–102, 130–135, 240–242.
- Thakur Kahan Singh Balauria, Tawarikh-e-Rajputan-e-Punjab, as quoted in Iftikhar Ali Khan (1997), pp. 21–22.
- Maulvi Zain-ul-Abidin Kohi Samahnavi, unpublished manuscript history of Chibhal, as quoted in Iftikhar Ali Khan (1997), pp. 116–123.
- J. Hutchison and J. Ph. Vogel, History of the Panjab Hill States, vol. I (Lahore, 1933), “Kangra State”, as cited in our articles on Trigarta and Kangra Fort.
This article draws on all three Chib histories: Major Singh’s Tarikh-e-Chibhal (c. 1926, the original), the 1997 history and Chibhal Nama (c. 2023). Readings marked “uncertain” could not be read with certainty in the old lithograph.
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