Dhami
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- for the village in Nepal see Dhami, NepalDhami, NepalDhami, Nepal is a village development committee in Mustang District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 850 people living in 158 individual households.-External links:*...
Dhami, also known as Halog, was a Princely State
Princely state
A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...
in India and a part of one of the Punjab Hill States
Punjab Hill States
The Punjab Hill States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in 1936, and was composed of a number of princely states in the present-day Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand...
. In 1941 it had an area of 28 square miles (72.5 km²) and a population of 5,114 people. In 1948 Dhami was made a part of Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
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Dhami has important place in Indian history because of Dhami Goli Kand of July 16, 1939.