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{{Short description|Town in Himachal Pradesh, India}}
{{About|a city in Himachal Pradesh||Rampur (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2025}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Rampur Bushahr
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| settlement_type = Town
| image_skyline = {{Photomontage |photo1a=Rampur Bushahr City Satluj River Angle3.jpg |photo2b=View of Shraikoti Temple, Rampur Bushahr, Himachal Pradesh.jpg |photo2a=View of Village Lalsa, Rampur Bushahr, Himachal Pradesh.jpg |photo3a=Devta Sahib Panchveer temple देवता साहब पाँचवीर का मंदिर.jpg |photo3b=Deity Laxmi Narayan Temple at Kinnu, Rampur Bushahr, Shimla (H.P).jpg |photo4b=Padam Palace Rampur Bushahr.jpg
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| image_caption = <div style="background:#CEE0F2;"> '''From top, left to right:<br />'''Rampur Bushahr town on the bank of [[Satluj]] river, View of Lalsa village, Shraikoti Temple on uphill, Devta Sahib Paanchveer Temple, Lakshmi Narayan Temple at Kinnu, Padam Palace</div>
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Himachal Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|31|27|0|N|77|37|59|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
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| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Himachal Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Shimla district|Shimla]]
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| leader_title1 = [[Sub-Divisional Magistrate|SDM]]
| leader_name1 = Nishant Tomar, HAS
| leader_title2 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
| leader_name2 = [[Nand Lal (Himachal Pradesh politician)|Nand Lal]]
| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes = Centre for District Kullu and Kinnaur
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| elevation_m = 1021
| population_total = 5,655
| population_as_of = 2011
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| population_density_km2 = 2719
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| population_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.census2011.co.in/data/town/800133-rampur-himachal-pradesh.html|title=Rampur Population Census 2011|publisher=Census 2011 India|accessdate=15 May 2018}}</ref>
| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi]]<ref name=langoff>{{cite web |url=http://www.nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf |title=Report of the Commissioner for linguistic minorities: 52nd report (July 2014 to June 2015) |pages=33–34 |publisher=Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India |access-date = 16 February 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171228171523/http://www.nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf |archive-date = 28 December 2017}}</ref>
| demographics1_title2 = Additional official
| demographics1_info2 = [[Sanskrit]]<ref name="Sanskrit">{{cite news |title=Bill to make Sanskrit second official language of HP passed |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/bill-to-make-sanskrit-second-official-language-of-hp-passed/730075.html |date=17 February 2019 |access-date=18 February 2019 |work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |author=Pratibha Chauhan |location=Shimla |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218081810/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/bill-to-make-sanskrit-second-official-language-of-hp-passed/730075.html |archive-date=18 February 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| demographics1_title3 = Regional
| demographics1_info3 = [[Mahasui]] (Kochi)<ref>{{cite web| website=Literary Herald |title=Language and dialect of Himachal Pradesh |url=https://tlhjournal.com/uploads/products/35.shradha-shandil-article.pdf?utm_}}</ref>
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 172001
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| registration_plate = [[List of RTO districts in India#HP.E2.80.94Himachal Pradesh|HP-06]], [[List of RTO districts in India#HP.E2.80.94Himachal Pradesh|HP-92]]
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'''Rampur Bushahr''' is a town and a [[Municipal council (India)|municipal council]] in [[Shimla district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Himachal Pradesh]]. It is situated on the bank of [[Sutlej|Satluj]] river. It is about 128 km from [[Shimla]] and is well connected with [[National Highway 5 (India)|NH 5]] which passes through [[Theog]], [[Narkanda]] and [[Kumarsain]].

==History==
[[File:Sutlej Valley from Rampur ca. 1857.jpg|thumb|[[Satluj Valley]] from Rampur ca. 1857]]
[[File:Faag mela rampur bushar Shimla, deities sitting in ground with people.jpg|thumb|Faag Mela Rampur ]]
The principality of [[Bushahr]] (also known as Bashahar, Bushahar, Bashahr) was once among the largest of the twenty-eight [[Simla Hill States|Shimla Hill States]] keen to invest on regional and transcontinental trade and exploit Himalayan resources. Caught in one of the British imperial enterprise, it was subjected to political-cum-economic vicissitudes, acceding to the Indian Union in 1947. On 8 March 1948, along with twenty other princely hill States of [[Punjab]] and Shimla, Bushahr signed an agreement which resulted in its inclusion in the Indian State of Himachal Pradesh.
[[File:Padam Palace (1).jpg|thumb|Padam Palace Rampur Bushahr]]

Rampur, a small township situated at 1,005 meters on the left bank of the [[Sutlej]], served as Bushahar's winter capital. Being well connected with major trading routes that joined Indian markets with [[Central Asia]] and Tibet, it buzzed with mercantile activity, especially in November during the [[Lavi Fair|Lavi fair]], the largest trading event in the north Himalayas attracting traders from [[Kashmir]], [[Ladakh]], [[Yarkant County]], and the Indian mainland. Concerning the origins of the Rampuri fair, the [[1951 census of India|'''Census of India''' (1961)]] reports:

"''About three hundred years ago during the regime of Raja Kehar Singh of Bushahr, a trade treaty was signed between the Bushahr State and Tibet…Horses from Tibet and swords from Bushahr were exchanged in token of this friendship. It was written in the treaty that their friendly relations would continue till this time…Since then, it is presumed that trade relations increased and eventually [the] Lavi fair was held.''"

Rampur was also located along pilgrimage routes to sacred sites in western Tibet shared by Hindus, Bön and [[Buddhists]] alike, i.e., [[Mount Kailash]] and Lake [[Mansarovar]]. Missionary and pilgrimage activities, intensified by trading possibilities, created the conditions for [[Tibetan Buddhism]] to take a firm stronghold in these borderland regions. 22 km from the village of Namgya in upper [[Kinnaur district|Kinnaur]], laid the [[Shipki La|Shipki La pass]] which linked caravan routes to and from western [[Tibet]]. This treacherous transcontinental passage must have been in use from ancient times, for among the ruined castles reported by Francke at Shipki La village, there were no living memories of the origins of mKar gog, the oldest of them built above the village in cyclopean style. Rampur also has Hydro Power Stations namely, [[Nathpa Jhakri Dam|Nathpa Jhakri Power Station]] (1500 MW) and [[Rampur Hydro Power Station]] (412 MW) by [[SJVN]] Ltd. A second castle, known as Seng ge mkhar, is said to have received its crooked ground plan “through a race round its base executed in opposite directions by a poisonous snake and a scorpion,” and was built, in all probability, during the [[Ladakhis|Ladakhi]] occupation of mNga’ ris by orders of King [[Sengge Namgyal]] (1570–1642) and called after him.<ref>Halkias, Georgios (2009). “Loss of Memory and Continuity of Praxis in Rampur-Bashahr: an Itinerant Study of Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Murals.” In ''Contemporary Visions in Tibetan Studies'', eds. Brandon Dotson et al. Chicago: Serindia Publications, pp. 139–155.[https://www.academia.edu/601755/Loss_of_Memory_and_Continuity_of_Praxis_in_Rampur-Bashahr_an_Itinerant_Study_of_Seventeenth-Century_Tibetan_Murals]</ref>
[[File:Laxmi Narayan Kothi, Village Kinnu, Rampur Bushahr, Shimla (HP).jpg|thumb|Old Temple of Laxmi Narayan Temple, Kinnu ( Old Kothi)]]
==Geography==
Rampur is located at {{coord|31.45|N|77.63|E|}}.<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/11/Rampur.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Rampur]</ref> It has an average elevation of 1021 [[metre]]s (4429 [[foot (length)|feet]]). It is a very beautiful place situated at the bank of the [[Satluj]] river. It borders on the north with [[Nirmand]], on the west with [[Kumarsain]] and Anni, on the east with [[Kinnaur]] and on the south with [[Rohru]]. The city is nearby to popular places like Jhakri, [[Sarahan|Sarahan Bushahr]], [[Bhimakali Temple]], Green valley Bara Bish (12/20) and Shraikoti Temple to name a few. The city is also the home to Asia's Largest underground Hydro Power Project - The Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station built by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd (formerly known as Nathpa Jhakri Power Corporation) at Jhakri with dam sight at Nathpa in [[Kinnaur]] and world's deepest Surge shaft at a Shah (22 km from Rampur).
[[File:Goats on a Mountain Edge.jpg|thumb|Goats in Village Lalsa of Rampur Bushahr ]]

== See also ==

* [[Rampur chaddar]]
* [[Lavi Fair]]
* [[Govt. PG College Rampur Bushahr]]
* [[Bushahr]]

==References==
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==External links==
* Photographs of Rampur-Bushahr [http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/cgi/search/advanced?screen=Public%3A%3AEPrintSearch&_action_search=Search&_fulltext__merge=ALL&_fulltext_=&title_merge=ALL&title=rampur&creators_name_merge=ALL&creators_name=&date=&keywords_merge=ALL&keywords=&subjects_merge=ALL&divisions=war&divisions_merge=ALL&collections_merge=ALL&satisfyall=ALL&order=-date%2Fcreators_name%2Ftitle] in SAS-Space

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