Kullu

Kullu was a Hindu hill kingdom in the Beas valley of the Punjab Hills. Its rajas ruled from Naggar, and tradition credited Visudh Pal with founding the state.

Naggar Castle, the rajas’ seat, was built in the late fifteenth century. In the seventeenth century Raja Jagat Singh moved the capital to Sultanpur. In 1650 he installed an image of Rama in the new Raghunath temple, which became the kingdom's chief shrine. Jagat Singh ruled from 1637 to 1672, and Kullu remained independent in 1837.