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Gulab Singh Jamwal (1792–1857) was the first Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir and the founder of the Dogra dynasty.Originally a commander of the Sikh Empire, he sided with the British in the First Anglo-Sikh War and briefly became prime minister of the Sikh Empire in 1846. [3]
Maharaja Gulab Singh, the founder of princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. On his father's death in 1821 or 1822, Jammu passed to Gulab Singh. [26] [9] Gulab Singh was the son of Kishore Singh, grandson of Zorawar Singh, great-grandson of Surat Dev, and great-great-grandson of Raja Dhruv Dev of Jammu. [16]
The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was created in 1846, through the Treaty of Amritsar, between the British Empire, who had taken the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and Gilgit Baltistan from the earlier Sikh rule, and Gulab Singh, a Dogra from Jammu who subsequently initiated the Dogra dynasty which ruled Jammu and Kashmir as a princely state of British India for the next century.
State of Jammu and Kashmir (c. 1846–1952 CE) Ruler ... Ruler Portrait Reign Maharaja Gulab Singh: 16 March 1846 – 20 February 1856 Maharaja Ranbir Singh:
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.
Following is the detailed treaty of Amritsar: Treaty of Amritsar March 16, 1846 The treaty between the British Government on the one part and Maharajah Gulab Singh of Jammu on the other concluded on the part of the British Government by Frederick Currie, Esq. and Brevet-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the orders of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., one of her Britannic ...
Gulab Singh paid 7.5 million Nanakshahee Rupees to the British in the transaction. [22] Thus the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir came into being, ruled by Gulab Singh and his descendants, known as the Dogra dynasty.
1846: Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) State is created with the signing of the Treaty of Amritsar between the British East India company and Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu. 1857: The War of independence, The Subcontinent fractured into hundreds of states.