History and information about Himachal Pradesh
The impregnable fort of Nagarkot was besieged and the garrison starved into submission by Akbar's son, Jehangir. The siege lasted fourteen months and concluded in November 1620, when the Raja's garrison surrendered along with his vast treasure. Jehangir was greatly pleased at this achievement and visited the fort a year later. He erected a mosque in the fort. During Moghul overlordship, the hill chiefs got liberal and even generous treatment from the imperial court. They were allowed more or less independent governance of their areas as long as they paid due regard and tribute in cash to the Moghul authority. Aurangzebis death heralded the disintegration of the mighty Moghul empire. When bigger areas were at stake, his successors could hardly attend to far-off, insignificant hill states. Thus, hill chieftains took advantage of the situation to resume their independence. Ghamand Chand Katoch was the first to rebel and he occupied his ancestral area, Kangra. Fi...