Thakur Major Singh Chib of Deva Vatala wrote the first history of the Chib Rajputs, Tarikh-e-Chibhal (c. 1926): his family, his method and his last words.
Deva Vatala in 1926: the Hindu Chib bands of Vatala, Bawa Tabali’s shrine, the Pir Songa fair and the men who served the Maharajas of Jammu.
Chib officers in 1926, village by village: two lists in Tarikh-e-Chibhal name 91 risaldars, subedars and generals, from Bisa and Deva to Kas Guman.
How the Hindu Chibs of Vatala faced Ranjit Singh’s army and the fort of Shatab Garh, and why Vatala and Deva were burned, in the oldest Chib history.
Raja Buddhe Khan, Chib zaildar of Samahni, led the 1931 Tahaffuz-e-Qur’an protests against Dogra rule, was tried and acquitted, and fought again in 1947.
Raja Suhbat Ali Khan, a Chib police sub-inspector from Ghawaliyan, was shot beside the Tawi in Jammu in October 1947. His life, death and family.
The Rajgan of Kasgumah, a Chib jagir family of Bhimber, from Raja Azimullah Khan’s 1810 grant to Maj. Gen. Farman Ali Khan and minister Raja Zulqarnain Khan.
Major Raja Muzaffar Khan of Kotera Khanka: polo star and ADC to Maharaja Hari Singh, later a zaildar, who raised the Darhal Battalion (AK 16) in 1947.
Chib Rajputs in politics, from the 1931 Samahni rising and the Muslim Conference to ministers and MLAs of Azad Kashmir, drawn from a 1997 Chib 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.