Bushahr

Not to be confused with Bushehr.

Bushahr, also spelt as 'Bashahr' and 'Bussahir' or 'Bushair' was a Rajput princely state in India during the British Raj. It was located in the hilly western Himalaya promontory bordering Tibet.

Bushahr State
Princely State of British India
1412 A.D.–1948
Bushahr in a map of Punjab, 1911
Capital	Rampur Bushahr (Last)
Area
• 1941	8,907 km2 (3,439 sq mi)
Population
• 1941	115,000
History
• Established	25 November
• Independence of India	1948
Succeeded by India

History

Map of the Bushahr state, 1911

Bushahr and Tehri Garhwal shown in yellow in an 1863 map of Eastern Punjab

In 1898, Bushahr state was taken over by the British administration, although the Râja remained nominally in charge.^[1] After British occupation, the Bushahr state was by far the largest of the 28 Simla Hills States.^{[citation needed]} There was a tax revolt by Bushahr's peasants in 1906.^[1]

Padam Palace

Rulers

Rulers bore the title of Rana and then Raja.^[2][3]

Ranas

• • • • : Kehri Singh
• 1780 - 1799: Ram Singh
• 1799 - 1803 : Ugar Singh
• 1803 - 1815 : Nepalese occupation

Rajas

• 1816 - 1850 : Mahendra Singh
• 1850 - 1887 : Shamsher Singh
• 1887 - 1898 : Raghunath Singh
• 1898 - 1914 : Shamsher Singh (return to power)
• 1914 - 1947 : Padam Singh
• 1947 - 2021 : Virbhadra Singh^[4][5]
• 2021 - till date : Vikramaditya Singh^[6][7]

See also

• Simla Hills States
• Political integration of India