Chib officers in 1926 are listed village by village at the end of Thakur Major Singh’s Tarikh-e-Chibhal (c. 1926), the oldest written history of the Chib Rajputs (چب راجپوت) of Bhimber and Gujrat. Two tables name 57 officers and sardars from Bisa, Thotha Rai Bahadur, Damala, Deva and a dozen other places, and 34 commissioned officers from Kas Guman, Kalri, Panjeri and Sirla. Together they are the earliest printed roll of Chib soldiers, and both are given here in full.
At a glance
- Source
- Thakur Major Singh Chib, Tarikh-e-Chibhal (c. 1926), Chapter Eight, “War services”, pp. 103–109
- List 1
- 57 officers and sardars, arranged by village (pp. 103–106)
- List 2
- 34 “military commissioned officers of the Chib qaum” in four villages (pp. 107–109)
- Armies named
- The Indian Army of British India and the Kashmir Army, the Maharaja’s State Forces
- Most senior
- Sardar Bahadur Major General Raja Farman Ali Khan of Kas Guman (Kasgumah)
- Largest groups
- Panjeri 17, Bisa 13, Kas Guman 10, Damala 8, Deva 7
- Cross-checks
- The 1997 Chib history repeats the Panjeri block name for name and confirms many Bisa, Kasgumah and Kalri 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. 58, 89–91, 95, 101–109.
- Raja Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan, Raja Shadab Khan alias Hazrat Baba Shadi Shaheed (Urdu, 1997), pp. 161–164, 170–173, 290–293, 310–313.
- L. H. Griffin and C. F. Massy, The Chiefs of the Punjab, as quoted in the 1997 history.
This article is part of our series on the oldest Chib history; see Tarikh-e-Chibhal, chapter by chapter. Spellings of names follow the book; readings marked “uncertain” could not be read with certainty in the old lithograph.
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