Kangra well known as ‘Valley of Gods’, I like to call it “Gods own Adobe”. With the Dhauladhar mountain range on its background there is nothing more majestic that could have served as a backdrop. The region is home to the world famous Kangra tea. Which the British implanted in the region for the world’s oldest serving Royal Dynasty of the Katoch’s.
The heritage of of Kangra goes back to centuries. Kangra became a district of British India in 1846, when it was ceded to British India at the conclusion of the First Anglo-Sikh War. The British district included the present-day districts of Kangra, Hamirpur, Kullu, and Lahul and Spiti. Kangra district was part of the British province of Punjab.
The administrative headquarters of the district were initially in Kangra, later moved to Dharamshala in 1855. Kangra region reins changed hands from Raja Ghamand Chand who was appointed the governor of Jullundur Doab under the Afghans in the 1700’s to Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Sikh Empire in later 1700’s before the British took over the region in the 1800’s.
