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Gulab Singh
Gulab Singh
(1792–1857) was the founder of royal
Dogra dynasty
and first
Maharaja
of the
princely state
of
Jammu and Kashmir
, the second largest princely state in
British India
, which was created after the defeat of the
Sikhs
in the
First Anglo-Sikh War
. The
Treaty of Amritsar (1846)
, formalised the sale by the British to Gulab Singh for 7,500,000 Nanakshahee Rupees of all the lands in Kashmir that were ceded to them by the Sikhs by the
Treaty of Lahore
.
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