The state was founded in 1828, when Nawab Khan, the ruler of
Amb, granted the area of Phulra as a small principality to his son,
Maddad Khan Tanoli. There is some uncertainty as to whether Phulra ranked as a full princely state of India before 1919; it might until then have had the status of a feudatory landed estate, but it was given British imperial state recognition as Phulra was recognised as a princely state in 1828 and 1921, in the official
Imperial Gazetteer of Indian Empire. Phulrah had been under suzerainty of the
Raja of Kashmir until 1889, when it accepted a British
protectorate, entering into a
subsidiary alliance with British India. In 1947, soon after the British had departed from the
Indian subcontinent, the last ruler of Phulra signed an
Instrument of Accession to the new
Dominion of Pakistan, and Phulra was a
princely state of Pakistan from then until September 1950, when it was incorporated into the
North West Frontier Province following the death of its last ruler. == Dynasty ==