Baragaon is a village in

Kumarsain Kumarsain (; ), also known as Kumharsain, is a sub-division, a tehsil and a village in Shimla District in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Formerly under the British Raj, it was the capital of princely state of Kumharsain, which was one of ...

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Shimla district Shimla is a district in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. Its headquarters is the state capital of Shimla. Neighbouring districts are Mandi and Kullu in the north, Kinnaur in the east, Uttarakhand in the southeast, Solan to the ...

in the

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Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peak ...

. Formerly under the

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, it was the capital of Sangri

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, which was one of the several states of the

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History

Sangri originally was part of

Bushahr Bushahr, also spelt as 'Bashahr' and 'Bussahir' or 'Bushair' was a Rajput princely state in India during the British Raj. It was located in the hilly western Himalaya promontory bordering Tibet in the northern part of colonial Punjab region. T ...

, but was seized by Raja Man Singh of

Kullu Kullu is a municipal council town that serves as the administrative headquarters of the Kullu district of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is located on the banks of the Beas River in the Kullu Valley about north of the airport at Bh ...

in about 1703. It was taken back by

in 1719 but in 1803 it was seized by the

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of Nepal and restored in 1815 to Raja Bikram Singh of

after

left. After Kullu was annexed by British in 1846 after

First Anglo-Sikh War The First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in 1845 and 1846 in and around the Ferozepur district of Punjab. It resulted in defeat and partial subjugation of the Sikh empire and cession ...

, Sangri became

under Shimla Hill states. Sangri signed merger treaty with the Indian Union on 15 April 1948

Accessibility

Baragaon is 91 KM from Shimla city and lies 8 km beside

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from Kingal village on Kingal - Basantpur road. Nearest Airport and Railway station are at Shimla city and there are regular Bus services from Shimla to Baragaon.

Government

It is

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under Narkanda Block. In

Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Shimla, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 68 Members of Legislative Assembly, which include 68 members directly elected from single-seat constituency. Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissol ...

it is represented under

Theog Assembly constituency Theog Assembly constituency, also known as Theog-Kumarsain constituency (after 2008 delimitation of assembly constituencies, Kumarsain Assembly constituency was merged with Theog Assembly constituency), is one of the 68 constituencies in the ...

. In

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it is represented under Shimla loksabha seat. On 16 August 2022, Himachal CM declared Baragaon to be new Sub Tehsil under Kumarsain. On 21 December 2022, Himachal CM denotified all sub tehsil including Baragaon created by previous government.

Education

* Government Senior Secondary school (Established in 1922 by rulers of Sangri and upgraded later. Renamed after Kargil War Martyr Shaheed Satish Kumar from Baragaon)

References

Villages in Shimla district {{HimachalPradesh-geo-stub