Bats writes in his book, ‘The Gazetteer of Kashmir’, that before the formation of the J&K State in 1846, there was a small village consisting of 15 houses on the right bank of Chenab river known as Nashband (later 'Ramban').

When Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu became the Maharaja of J&K State, he adopted the Jammu-Udhampur-Banihal route to reach Srinagar for the movement of royal caravans.

The Dogras constructed a pucca building near present Ramban and a wooden bridge for the crossing of Chenab River.

The boundary lines of Ramban district have come to be drawn from Patnitop on its south, Assar on its east, Gool on its west and Banihal on its north.

It is said that once Sheikh Abdullah was kept imprisoned in this fort for several days during initial years of accession of Jammu and Kashmir.