Nurpur

Nurpur was a hill kingdom at the northern end of the Bari Doab, between the Ravi and Beas rivers. Originally called Dhameri, it was founded in the eleventh century. Its fort recalls the reign of Raja Basu Dev, under whom the kingdom reached a peak of power at the turn of the seventeenth century.

In 1620 Raja Jagat Singh renamed Dhameri Nurpur in honour of the Mughal emperor Jahangir and his empress Nur Jahan. The kingdom paid tribute to the Mughals, but resisted when its obligations increased, leading to the war of Taragarh in 1640–1642. As Mughal authority weakened, Nurpur regained its independence. Its rajas later faced competition from neighbouring hill rulers, the Gurkhas and the Sikhs; Ranjit Singh annexed the kingdom in 1815.