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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.
The family of Raja Gulab Singh is referred to as Jamwal (or Jamuwal). According to some accounts, Raja Kapur Dev, who ruled the area of Jammu around 1560 AD had two ...
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 ...
Belonged to a different family from Lava's dynasty (I.95) ... and was a member of the dynasty founded by Godhara. ... Raja Gulab Singh 1822 – 1846
Singh was born at Ramgarh, Jammu and Kashmir in August 1830. He was the third son of Maharaja Gulab Singh. [2] [3] His mother Rakwal Maharani was the first wife of Gulab Singh. [3] Ranbir Singh was adopted by Raja Suchet Singh, his childless uncle, [4] and inherited all his jagirs upon his death in 1844. [5]
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.
Zorawar Singh (1784–12 December 1841) was a military general of the Dogra Rajput ruler, Gulab Singh, who served as the Raja of Jammu under the Sikh Empire. [3] [4] He served as the governor (wazir-e-wazarat) of Kishtwar and extended the territories of the kingdom by conquering Ladakh and Baltistan. [5]
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.