Kumaon

Kumaon was a Himalayan Hindu state ruled by the Chand dynasty from Champawat. In 1337 the Chand raja held only the surrounding hills.

The dynasty reunited Kumaon in the mid-fifteenth century and moved its capital to Almora in 1563. Rudra Chand's visit to Akbar in 1587 brought tributary relations with the Mughals. In 1790 the Gorkhas expelled the last raja; the British took Almora in 1815, and the 1816 Treaty of Sugauli assigned Kumaon to British India.