For centuries the fort of Kangra was the seat of the Chibs’ ancestors, the Katoch rajas. Mahmud of Ghazni plundered it, Firoz Shah Tughlaq besieged it and Jahangir finally took it: the story of the ancestral stronghold of the Katoch rajas.
For three centuries the Mughal emperors passed through Bhimber on their way to Kashmir. The Chib capital stood at the foot of the hills, where the imperial road began its climb, and the ruins of the imperial sarai still stand above the town.
Perched above a lake in the Samahni valley, Baghsar Fort watched over the Mughal road to Kashmir. It came under the Chib rajas of Bhimber, and it holds the burial place of Emperor Jahangir’s entrails.
High above the Jhelum at Mangla stands an ancient fort long called a gateway to Kashmir. According to the histories of the hill states, it was the capital of Khari-Khariali, the state founded by Kharak Chand, brother of Raja Chib Chand.
On a high ridge above Karjai village near Khuiratta in Kotli District stand the ruins of Karjai Fort, also known as Devigarh, one of the hill forts of the old Chibhal country.
At Jandi Chontra near Bhimber lies the shrine of Baba Shadi Shaheed, ancestor of the Muslim Chibs. For generations Chib families have brought their sons here for the ceremony of the first haircut.