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Sirmaur district is the southernmost district of Himachal Pradesh, northern India.It is largely mountainous and rural, with 90% of its population living in villages. Some of its towns include the capital Nahan, Paonta Sahib, Lana palar, Tuheri, Bhawan, Sirmaur, Shamra, UchaTikker and Suketi, the latter known for Shivalik Fossil Park.
Sirmur (also spelled as Sirmor, Sirmaur, Sirmour, or Sirmoor) was an independent kingdom in India, founded in 1616, located in the region that is now the Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh. The state was also known as Nahan , after its main city, Nahan .
Nahan is a town in Himachal Pradesh in India and is the headquarters of the Sirmaur District. It was the capital of the former Sirmur princely state . Nahan is also known as the "town of ponds".
In 1685 he invited Guru Gobind Singh to live in his realm. [4] [1] The reason for him doing so has been attributing either to him being highly reverent of the Guru, whose life was endangered in Anandpur due to hostile rajas seeking to eliminate him or as a realpolitik move to ally himself to the Guru to prevent any possible attacks on his state by rival kingdoms. [1]
Sirmour Assembly constituency (or Sirmaur) is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. [1] This constituency came into existence in 1951, as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.
Gurdwara Paonta Sahib is a noted gurdwara in Paonta Sahib, district of Sirmaur, ... History. This Gurdwara was built in memory of Guru Gobind Singh, ...
Shivalik Fossil Park, also known as the Suketi Fossil Park, [1] is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument [2] [3] [4] fossil park in the Sirmaur district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It has a collection of prehistoric vertebrate fossils and skeletons recovered from the upper and middle Siwaliks geological formations of sandstones ...
Jaunsar-Bawar was a part of Sirmaur Kingdom at one point of time, which is now Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh. It is the border area of Garhwal region in Uttarakhand. In 1829, Jaunsar-Bawar was incorporated in Chakrata tehsil, prior to which it had been a part of Punjab state of Sirmaur , until the British conquered it along with Dehradun ...