Mandi State was a princely state in British India, with the town of Mandi as its capital. The state of Mandi (the name means "market" in Hindi), which included two towns and 3,625 villages, was part of the States of the Punjab Hills. It was located in the Himalayan range, bordering to the west, north, and east on the British Punjabi district of Kangra; to the south, on Suket; and to the southwest, on Bilaspur. As of 1941, population of Mandi State was 232,598 and area of the state was 1,139 square kilometres (440 sq mi).[1]
List of rulers
The rulers bore the title of Raja.[2][3]
| Name | Portrait | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reign start | Reign end | ||
| Raja Ajbar Sen | 1527 | 1534 | |
| Raja Chhatar Sen | 1534 | 1554 | |
| Raja Sahib Sen | 1554 | 1575 | |
| Raja Narain Sen | 1575 | 1595 | |
| Raja Keshab Sen |  |
1595 | 1616 |
| Raja Hari Sen | _-_2018.96_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg) |
1616 | 1637 |
| Raja Suraj Sen |  |
1637 | 1664 |
| Raja Shyam Sen | 1664 | 1679 | |
| Raja Gaur Sen |  |
1679 | 1684 |
| Raja Sidhi Sen | _LACMA_AC1999.127.10.jpg) |
1684 | 1727 |
| Raja Shamsher Sen |  |
1727 | 1781 |
| Raja Surma Sen |  |
1781 | 1788 |
| Raja Ishwari Sen |  |
1788 | 1826 |
Demographics
| Religious group |
1901[4] | 1911[5][6] | 1921[7] | 1931[8] | 1941[9] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |
Hinduism  [a] |
170,304 | 97.85% | 178,115 | 98.35% | 181,358 | 98.01% | 199,935 | 96.37% | 227,463 | 97.79% |
Islam  |
3,187 | 1.83% | 2,799 | 1.55% | 3,462 | 1.87% | 6,351 | 3.06% | 4,328 | 1.86% |
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510 | 0.29% | 164 | 0.09% | 76 | 0.04% | 138 | 0.07% | 208 | 0.09% |
Sikhism  |
41 | 0.02% | 26 | 0.01% | 142 | 0.08% | 899 | 0.43% | 583 | 0.25% |
Christianity  |
3 | 0% | 4 | 0% | 10 | 0.01% | 141 | 0.07% | 11 | 0% |
Jainism  |
0 | 0% | 2 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
Judaism  |
0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
Zoroastrianism  |
0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| Others | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
| Total population | 174,045 | 100% | 181,110 | 100% | 185,048 | 100% | 207,465 | 100% | 232,593 | 100% |
| Note: British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases. | ||||||||||
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1931-1941: Including Ad-Dharmis
References
- ↑ Mandi Princely State (11 gun salute)
- ↑ "Indian Princely States K-Z". www.worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ↑ "Indian states before 1947 K-W". www.rulers.org. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ↑ "Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province". 1901. p. 34. JSTOR saoa.crl.25363739. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ↑ "Census of India 1911. Vol. 14, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables". 1911. p. 27. JSTOR saoa.crl.25393788. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ↑ Kaul, Harikishan (1911). "Census Of India 1911 Punjab Vol XIV Part II". p. 27. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ↑ "Census of India 1921. Vol. 15, Punjab and Delhi. Pt. 2, Tables". 1921. p. 29. JSTOR saoa.crl.25430165. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ↑ "Census of India 1931. Vol. 17, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables". 1931. p. 277. JSTOR saoa.crl.25793242. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ↑ India Census Commissioner (1941). "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab". p. 42. JSTOR saoa.crl.28215541. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
External links
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