Dogra

Dogra, or Duggar, was a hill country between the Chenab and Ravi rivers, containing several small states including Jammu. The name came from Durgara, recorded in an eleventh-century Chamba inscription.

In 1423 the warlord Jasrat killed Raja Bhim Dev and made Jammu his vassal. Its hill rajas later retained considerable autonomy under the Mughals. Dhruv Dev and Ranjit Dev, the latter reigning from 1728 to 1780, made Jammu the leading Dogra state, but Sikh misls later subdued it and Ranjit Singh annexed it in 1808.