What is "bashahr"

Bashahr, also spelt as 'Bushahr' and 'Bussahir', was a princely state in India during the British Raj. It was located in the hilly western Himalaya promontory in the northern part of colonial Punjab.

The territory of this former state is now part of Kinnaur and Shimla district of the Indian republic's state of Himachal Pradesh. The erstwhile Bashahr state was traversed by the Sutlej river. It had an area of 8,907 km².