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The Hill Fort of Maharaja Gulab Singh, 1846 drawing Gulab Singh was born on 17 October 1792 in a Hindu Dogra Rajput family. His father was Kishore Singh Jamwal. He joined the army of Ranjit Singh in 1809 and was sufficiently successful to earn a jagir worth 12,000 rupees and also 90 horses.
Dogra Rajputs of the Jamwal clan ruled Jammu from the 19th century, when Gulab Singh was made a hereditary Raja of Jammu by Ranjit Singh, while his brother Dhian Singh was the Sikh Empire's prime minister of Punjab, until September 1843.
In 1820, Ranjit Singh then bestowed the territory as a hereditary fiefdom to Gulab Singh's father Kishore Singh, a distant kinsman of Raja Jit Singh. [ 25 ] [ 9 ] Ranjit Singh bestowed the place as a jagir on Kishore Singh, who belonged to the Jamwal Rajput clan that ruled Jammu.
Raja Gulab Singh; Wazir Jawahar Singh; Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh; ... General Gulab Singh Bhagowalia; References This page was last edited on 11 January 2025, at 08:50 ...
Dhian Singh was a brother of Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu, who later founded the Dogra dynasty when he became Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir under the British Raj. Another brother Suchet Singh also served the empire. The three brothers were collectively known as the "Dogra brothers" in the Sikh Empire, based on their ethnicity.
Gulab Singh was eventually granted Kashmir by the British in 1846 after betraying the Sikhs during the First Anglo-Sikh War, receiving Kashmir as a fiefdom for the sum of 7.5 million rupees. Gulab Singh's rule in Kashmir was marked by cruelty, and he faced resistance from various local groups, including the Mangrals of Kotli, the Gakhar of ...
Ranbir Singh GCIE (August 1830 – 12 September 1885) was Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir from 1856 until his death in 1885. Ranbir Singh was the third son of Gulab Singh, the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir state. Ranbir Singh ascended the throne in 1856 after Gulab Singh's abdication due to his poor health.
The Dogra brothers Gulab Singh, Dhyan Singh and Suchet Singh were influential in Ranjit Singh's court. In 1822, Ranjit Singh appointed Gulab Singh as the Raja of Jammu and, in 1827, appointed Dhyan Singh as the Raja of Bhimber, Chibbal and Poonch [21] (covering the Mirpur and Poonch districts as of 1947). [22]