Sen

The Sen house supplied the rajas of the Punjab Hill state of Suket, with its capital at Pangna. Tradition traces the line to Bira Sen, said to descend from the Sena dynasty of Bengal, and every ruler took the surname Sen.

Suket's early centuries were spent in hill warfare, above all against neighbouring Kullu; Raja Bikram Sen forced Kullu to pay tribute, and Raja Madan Sen's reign was remembered as a golden age, when smaller neighbouring principalities submitted.

Under Raja Udai Sen, Suket acknowledged Mughal overlordship and paid tribute rather than accepting direct rule. The diplomacy of Raja Bikram Sen II carried the state through the Gurkha invasion of 1803 to 1815 and the following years of Sikh dominance with its ruling house intact.