Raja Chib Chand, the Katoch prince of Kangra who married into Bhimber’s ruling house and founded the Chib dynasty, as told by the three Chib histories.
The Bhimber royal family after the fall of the Chib state: Raja Faiz Talab Khan, the 1847 pension, the chiefs at Jhelum and the Chib chief today.
A guide to the shrines of Bhimber: Pir Shah Shutar Bukhari, Mitthi Ret, Rani Thakial’s well, the Sukka Talab, Goja Pir’s samadhis and the fair of Pir Monga.
Raja Sultan Khan’s Sikh wars, from the Chib chronicle: a rival raja crowned at Naushera, Sikh defeats at Pir Badesar, Pothi and Chhachho Pir, and captivity.
How the Chib mandis began: Raja Madan Khan’s sons, Shah Daula’s award at Baghsar, and the estates of Malot, Ghawaliyan, Bandala, Rajal and Khui Ratta.
The Chib Rajputs in 1947: the battle for Bhimber, killings in Jammu, refugee columns and a Chibhal divided by the ceasefire line, from a 1997 clan history.
Bhimber state history: how the Chib rajas came under Jammu in the 1700s, and how the murder of Mehta Bahadur Singh put a Jammu wazir in Bhimber.
Explore the Bhimber monuments: Akbar’s Mughal sarai and Elephant Gate, a 70-step baoli, a royal hammam and the ruined palaces of the Chib rajas of Bhimber.
The Rajas of Bhimber, from Raja Chib Chand to Raja Sultan Khan: every Chib ruler of Bhimber in order, with dates, capitals, branches and a timeline.
Long before Bhimber, the ancestors of the Chibs ruled Trigarta, the land of three rivers. Its king Susharma appears in the Mahabharata as an ally of the Kauravas, and the Katoch rajas of Kangra kept his memory alive in one of the longest royal genealogies in the world.