Gulab Singh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gulab Singh

First maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1792

Place of Birth: Jammu Division, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Date of Death: 30-Jun-1857

Profession: monarch

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Maharaja Gulab Singh Jamwal (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 Sikh Empire 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.