HISTORY OF BHARMOUR:-
Emperor Meru Varman, the father of the prince
Jaystambh in the Chamba state was the first
to settle in Bharmour. He belonged to the
ruling family of Ayodhya. Meru found access to the upper mountainous
region through the Ravi valley. In the middle of 6th century
he wins the many battles from Ranas holding their territory
and founded the town Brahmpura and he made it the capital
of a new state. According to one legend, the name Brahmpura was in use at a still earlier period for the more ancient kingdom of Bharmour which existed in the territories of Garhwal and Kamaun, and that Meru Varman gave the same name of Brahmpura to the state that he founded with present Bharmour as his capital. After Meru, several Rajas ruled in succession until Sahil Varman. After about four hundred years Sahil Varman who conquered the lower Ravi valley and transferred the capital from Brahmpura to the new capital he founded at Chamba.
According to a another local legend, the place Brahmpura was older than Meru's time and as per common belief this is used to be the garden of goddess Brahmani who used to reside Brahmani Devi was having a son who was very fond of his pet chakor (birds). One day the chakor was killed by a peasant and the son was shocked to death by this loose, Grief-stricken Brahmani Devi also sacrificed by burying herself alive. The spirits of these trios dead souls started haunting the people awfully who raised Brahmani Devi to the status of deity and built her a temple. The people believe that the place was called Brahmpura after Brahmani Devi.
HISTORY OF GADDIES:-
In regard to the history of Gaddies as per their own traditions, the Gaddis descended from migrants who fled the plains of India for the relative security of the hills during times of trouble. It is thought that the Chauhans Rajputs Gaddies and Brahman Gaddies emigrated to Bharmour from Rajasthan. Most of the other castes of Gaddis are thought to be descended from people who fled to the hills to escape from the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's persecutions in the 17th century. The history confirms that Gaddi Rajputs migrated from Lahore (Pakistan) to this place in order to avoid religious persecution. One of the most dominant Rajputs 'Lalhal’ migrated from a city named Lalhal near Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan) during the reign of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
Presently the bulk of the population lives in Bharmour of Chamba district, but a scattered population of this tribe is also found in the adjoining districts of Kangra and Mandi of Himachal Pradesh even in Jammu and Kashmir. The community occupies the inaccessible, inhospitable terrain in between the Pir-Panjal and Dhauladhar range, between Ravi and Chenab valley. It is a high altitude area and remains cut off most of the time because of heavy snowfall. The language spoken within the community is Bharmouri Gaddi. Taakri was the script used by the ancestors. The Gaddi man is identified by typical dress which consists of a chola, Dora and white turban (Saffa).
SAMRA NAAG TEMPLE HISTORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Naag temple is the famous temple in Samra village which is a situated at the top of attitude and approximately 14 km from the shivshakti temple chatarddi........the person who comes here fullifilled his all wishes come true........the most common advantage of this temple is that it is a lovely holy place where peace and good atmospheric condition exist......all the people come here from the various villagers when their wishes comes true...........this temple is more year old approximately 100 years ago.....during the makkar sagrandh a festival is held in samra village which is called KABADDI OF NAAG DEVTA..........it is a very
interesting game which may be held by the two team region........SAMRA REGION & RANUH-KOTHI REGION....................
SAMRA REGION generally consists of teams as URIE, MAGLOON etc....where as RANUH-KOTHI REGION conists of teams as BHATARA, JAGAT, THOKLA, MASSORI etc......the team who takes more catches in this game is the winner of kabaddi............at last there is a big noise of dhoal and sound of musical instrument........the winner of team is awarded by a great respect of naag devta................