Bhumi Chand, founder of the Katoch of Kangra and ancestor of the Chibs, was said to be born of a goddess’s sweat. How Tarikh-e-Chibhal (c. 1926) explains it.
The Chib shajra in Tarikh-e-Chibhal (c. 1926): all 481 numbered rulers from Bhum Chand of Kangra to Raja Sultan Khan of Bhimber, and where each line settled.
When did the Chibs come to Bhimber? The oldest Chib history says c. 1240, later historians c. 1400. How Timur and Ibrahim Lodi help date Raja Chib Chand.
How the Verha Brahmins became Chib Rajput purohits: Raja Chib Chand’s vow to the court priests of the Thakials, as told in the oldest Chib history (c. 1926).
The Thakial Rajputs ruled Bhimber before the Chibs. What the oldest Chib history (c. 1926) says of Raja Sri Pat, a royal marriage and how Thakial rule ended.
Pani Koti, the ruined city near Bisa in Kharian, is linked by tradition to King Porus and Alexander. What the old chronicles say about its founders and ruins.
Chibhal, land of the Chib Rajputs: its boundaries, its capital Bhimber, and how it was divided into Chibhal Rajana and Chibhal Rikki with Khari Kariali.
Chib gots, mandis and titles explained A to Z, from Ghanial and Jaskal to Rajana, Raika, Rai and Khan Sahib, with their Urdu forms and sources.
Chib origin in five accounts: an Iranian prince, the Katoch rajas of Kangra, a Tanwar theory, the jewel story of Tarikh-e-Chibhal and British-era records.
Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan, a Karachi advocate from Barhang near Bhimber, wrote the 1997 history of Baba Shadi Shaheed and the Chibs: his life and works.