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During Sikh-rule, the three Dogra brothers Suchet Singh, Gulab Singh, and Dhian Singh played prominent roles in the Sikh court, with all of them being descended from Surat Dev. [9] 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.
Maharaja 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]
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.
Gulab Singh, the first Maharaja of Dogra Rajput dynasty which ruled Jammu & Kashmir. The Dogra dynasty was a dynasty of Hindu Rajputs who ruled Jammu & Kashmir from 1846 to 1947. The Sikh Empire rule extended beyond the Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley to the Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh and the Emirates of Hunza, Gilgit and Nagar.
Shaikh Imam-ud-Din (1819–1859) was the Muslim governor of Kashmir Valley between 25 March and 25 October 1846, prior to the establishment of Dogra dynasty.He rose to power after the treaty of Amritsar was signed, and subsequently refused to comply with its terms according to which Kashmir had been ceded by the British East India Company to Gulab Singh.
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.
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Upon hearing of this struggle, Raja Gulab Singh had sent 4,000 reinforcements, however, upon hearing of the victory at Ladakh, they had halted their march. Raja Gulab Singh himself arrived in Leh shortly after, building a new fort in Leh, replacing the old one. [6]