Lahul

Lahul was a Himalayan valley region around the Chandra and Bhaga rivers, with Keylong reached from Kullu over the Rohtang pass. Its hereditary thakur chiefs held strongholds such as Gondhla; in the Middle Ages the valleys lay within Ladakh's orbit.

Chamba and Kullu competed for Lahul's tribute, and in the seventeenth century it passed under Kullu's rajas Biddhi Singh and Man Singh. Ladakh's claims ended around the Tibet-Ladakh-Mughal war of 1679 to 1684. Caravans linked the valley to Punjab and Yarkand until Dogra armies overran it in the early nineteenth century.