Gulab Singh
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1792 – 1857
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Who was Gulab Singh?
Gulab Singh was the founder and first Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, the second largest princely state in British India. After the defeat of the Sikhs in the First Anglo-Sikh War, Gulab Singh, who served as Prime Minister of the Sikhs, received from the British all the lands in Kashmir that were ceded to them by the Sikhs by the Treaty of Lahore to Gulab Singh for 7,500,000 rupees. This money was stolen from the Lahore Durbar of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
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- Born
- Oct 18, 1792
Jammu - Children
- Religion
- Sikhism
- Lived in
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Died
- Jun 30, 1857
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on July 23, 2013
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