The core Chib history sources are the 33 works in the bibliography (کتب حوالہ, kutub-e-hawala) of Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan’s 1997 Urdu history of the Chib Rajputs of Bhimber, in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, together with the manuscripts, family papers and oral testimony that book also draws on. This guide lists every entry as printed, groups it by type and says in a line what each contributes.
At a glance
- Bibliography
- Pages 431–432 of the 1997 book; 33 numbered entries
- Chib histories
- Thakur Major Singh’s Tarikh-e-Chibhal (c. 1926), two unpublished manuscripts and the author’s Khandan-e-Chib Rajput
- British records
- Gujrat Settlement (1868); Griffin, Chiefs of the Punjab; Rose, Glossary (1911)
- Languages
- Mostly Urdu, with Persian chronicles and English works
- Cited but not listed
- Mian Onkar Singh Chib’s Tarikh-e-Chibhal (Delhi, 1984), Ibrat Nama, Bernier, Cunningham and others
- Other evidence
- Family trees (pp. 388–430), inscriptions, official orders, photographs and eyewitness testimony
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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. 1–6, 55–56, 96–103.
- Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan, Raja Shadab Khan alias Hazrat Baba Shadi Shaheed (Urdu, Barhang/Karachi, 1997), pp. 14, 17–44, 65–67, 75, 116–123, 137, 140, 143, 150–165, 178, 186–189, 198, 214–215, 224, 237, 258–265, 289–291, 316, 325–331, 353–387, 388–432.
- H. A. Rose, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, vol. II (1911), pp. 169–170.
- Sir Lepel Griffin, The Chiefs of the Punjab (Urdu translation Tazkira-e-Ruasa-e-Punjab).
- Thakur Major Singh, Tarikh-e-Chibhal (1983 Bikrami, c. 1926), as quoted in the 1997 book.
This article is part of our series based on the 1997 Chib history; see the book, chapter by chapter. Spellings of names follow the book.
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