Sirmur was an independent kingdom in India

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, founded in 1616. It became a part of Greater Nepal

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, before becoming a princely state

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 in British India, located in the region that is now the Sirmaur district

Sirmaur district

Sirmour is the most south-eastern district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is largely mountainous and rural, with 90% of its population living in villages...

 of Himachal Pradesh

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. The state was also known as Nahan, after its main city, Nahan

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Nahan नाहन is a town in Himachal Pradesh in India and is the headquarters of the Sirmaur District.- Geography :Nahan is located at . It has an average elevation of 920 metre- Demographics :...

. Sirmur was ruled by the chiefs of Rajput

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 lineage, who used the title "Raja

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".

History

Nahan

Nahan

Nahan नाहन is a town in Himachal Pradesh in India and is the headquarters of the Sirmaur District.- Geography :Nahan is located at . It has an average elevation of 920 metre- Demographics :...

, the predecessor state of Sirmur, was founded by Soba Rawal, who assumed the name Raja Subans Prakash. The new capital was founded in 1621 by Raja Karam Prakash, and the state was renamed to Sirmur.

Sirmur was surrounded by the hill states of Balsan and Jubbal in the North, the British district of Dehradun

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 in the East, Ambala district

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 in the South West, and the states of Patiala and Keonthal

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 in the North-West.

The population of Sirmur was 6256 according to the 1901 census.

Rulers

Name	Ruled from	Ruled till
Karam Prakash	1616	1630
Mandhata Prakash	1630	1654
Sobhag Prakash	1654	1664
Budh Prakash	1664	1684
Mat Prakash Mat Prakash Mat Prakash also known as Medini Prakash was the Raja of Sirmur from 1684 until his death in 1704. In 1685 he invited Guru Gobind Singh to live in his realm. Mat Prakash did not join Bhim Chand and the other local rajas in their wars against the Sikhs....  (died 1704)	1684	1704
Hari Prakash	1704	1712
Bijay Prakash (died 1736)	1712	1736
Pratap Prakash (died 1754)	1736	1754
Kirat Prakash (died 1770)	1754	1770
Jagat Prakash (died 1789)	1770	1789
Dharam Prakash (died 1793)	1789	1793
Karam Prakash II (died 1820)	1793	1803
Ratan Prakash (installed by Gurkha Gurkha Gurkha are people from Nepal who take their name from the Gorkha District. Gurkhas are best known for their history in the Indian Army's Gorkha regiments, the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas and the Nepalese Army. Gurkha units are closely associated with the kukri, a forward-curving Nepalese knife... s, hanged by the British in 1804)	1803	1804
Karam Prakash II (died 1820)	1804	1815
Fateh Prakash (1809-1850)	1815	1850
Raghbir Prakash (1827-1856)	1850	1856
Shamsher Prakash (1846-October 1898)	1856	1898
Surendra Bikram Prakash (14 November 1867-1911)	1898	1911
Amar Prakash (26 January 1888-February 1973)	1911	1933
Rajendra Prakash (10 January 1913-13 November 1964)	1933	1964

See also

• List of Indian Princely States
• The Sirmoor Rifles
  2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
  The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army on India's independence in 1947. The 4th Battalion joined the Indian Army as the 5th Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles , where it exists to this day...