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.
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.
Around 1400 the three sons of Raja Megh Chand of Kangra founded three royal houses: Kangra, Guler and Bhimber. How Hari Chand fell into a well and founded Guler, and why the Chibs count the Katoch houses of Kangra and Guler as their kin.
