Mandi is the second most populous town in Himachal Pradesh after Shimla.

 History  of Mandi.

Not a great deal is recognized concerning the near the beginning the past previous to the configuration of Suket in 765 AD. The district had been beneath the control of Ranas or Thakurs. The merely place that has an near the beginning talk about in text is Rewalsar and it is mentioned in the Skanda Purana as a holy place of pilgrimage. Karnpur, a little rural community is supposed to have been founded by Karan, a brave man of the Mahabharta. A temple at Gumma points to the area anywhere the Pandavas protected themselves when the effort to be on fire them downfailed. further than this not a great deal of the previous state’s survival can be establish in traditional text. According to the Tibetan custom, Padam Sambhav (750-800 AD), the huge Buddhist Patriarch, who was summoned by king Tisong-De-Tsen of Tibet for preaching Buddhism, hailed from Zahor, which represent the country surrounding concerning Rewalsar. On the foundation of this it is finished that Mandi must have been a huge place of Buddhist knowledge concerning this occasion.

 The current region Of Mandi was shaped with the amalgamation of two generous states Mandi and Suket on 15th April 1948, when the State of Himachal Pradesh came into survival. Ever since the configuration of the region, it has not witnessd any changes in it’s authority. The chiefs of Mandi and Suket are supposed to be from a ordinary forebear of the Chandravanshi line of Rajputs of Sena family of Bengal and they maintain their fall from the Pandavas of the Mahabharata. The intimates of the line supposed to have ruled for 1,700 years in Indarprastha(Delhi), awaiting one Khemraj was ambitious out by his Wazir, Bisarp, who then took over the throne. Khemraj, having lost his knogdom, fled eastward and established in Bengal, where 13 of his successor are supposed to have lined for 350 years. From there they had to run away to Ropar in Punjab, but here also the king, Rup Sen, was killed and one of his sons, Bir Sen, fled to the hills and reached Suket. The State of Suket is said to have been founded by Bir Sen, an forebear of the Sena family of Bengal.

The seperation of Mandi from suket took place concerning the year 1200 AD. Upto that time, it was the single state of Suket. The then reigning chief Sahu Sen had a argue with his younger brother Bahu Sen, who absent Suket to look for his fortunes somewhere else. Bahu Sen following send-off Suket established at Manglan in Kullu, anywhere his descendents live for 11 generations. Then then leader, Kranchan Sen was killed combating against the Kullu Raja and his Rani, who was pregnant at that time. fled unaccompanied to her father who was the leader of Seokot, who had no son. Here she gave delivery to a baby boy who was named Ban, the tree beneath which he was born. Ban had barely crossed the age of 15 when he beaten the leader of Kilti who second-hand to steal travellers.On the bereavement of the leader of Seokot, Ban succeeded to the chiefship of Seokot. He, after some time killed the Rana of Sakor and took posesssion of his lands. he then changed his house to Bhiu, on the bank of Beas and a few miles from the there Mandi city. Mandi emerged as a seperate condition in the begining of the sixteenth century. downward the row of offspring of Ban came Ajbar Sen, nineteenth in fall from Bahu Sen, who founded Mandi city in 1527 AD, the capital of the previous condition of Mandi and the head office of the at the present Mandi District.

Ajbar Sen was the primary huge leader of Mandi. He was almost certainly the primary to take for granted the title of Raja. He consolidate the territory that he had present at birth and additional to them new ones that he wrested from the hands of his neighbours. He built a fort here and decorated it with four towers. He also built the temple of Bhut Nath and his Rani constructed that of Trilok Nath. downward the row of offspring was Raja Sidh Sen, who succeeded Raja Gur Sen in 1978 AD. Mandi had by no means been so influential previous to his time in power and following that by no means was. He captured huge areas from the next-door areas. it was through his time in power that Guru Govind Singh, the tenth guru of the sikhs visited Mandi in the close of the 17th century. He had been locked up by Raja singh, the leader of Kullu, from whom he had required help next to Mughal troops and his group consider that Guruji runaway by by amazing powers. Raja Sidh Sen, who is also careful to be a posessor of huge amazing powers, entertained his with huge welcome. He built the huge tank previous to the fort.

He also built the temples of "Sidh Ganesha" and "Trilokinath". The whole the past of together the states of Mandi and Suket is beleaguered with wars with in the middle of themselves and other next-door states. These two states had forever been rivals and usually enemy, but there was no huge consequence of their fighting. The lush vale of Balh was the ordinary earth of wish and argument. On 21st February 1846 the chiefs of Mandi and Suket visited Mr. Erskine, Suprintendent of the Hill States for the British Government, due their loyalty to the Britishers and securing their defense. on 9th march, 1846 a agreement was finished flanked by the British Government and the Sikh Durbar whereby the entire of the Doab area flanked by the Beas and the Sutlej was ceeded to the British Government, and this built-in the ststes of Mandi and Suket also. On 1st November 1921, both the state of Mandi and Suket were transfer from the following manage of Punjab Government to that of Government of India till 15th August 1947, India’s Independence Day.