Maharaja Sansar Chandra
" It is an great experience to visit this museum"
Ms Modini rana
Royal Kangra Museum, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh

Kangra group
Dedicated to Maharaja Sansar Chandra

The Erst-while Royal Family of Kangra has dedicated their Museum to honor Maharaja Sansar Chandra their ancestor who’s reign was known as the golden age of Kangra. Maharaja Sansar Chandra inherited the throne of Kangra when he was just 10 years old. By the age of 21 he had defeated the Mughals and had won back his ancestral fort of Kangra. True to the saying “He who hold’s the Fort rules the hills” The young Maharaja ushered in an age of prosperity and the Indian renaissance of paintings.
The period 1786-1805 was the Golden age of Kangra. Maharaja Sansar Chandra established law and order in his vast empire, at its peak it his empire stretched from Lahaul-Spiti to the plains of Hoshiarpur [18000 sq.miles].


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