🔰 He was the founder of the Dogra dynasty and the first Maharaja of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir.
🔰He joined the Army of Ranjit Singh in 1809 and was granted a Jagir and 90 horses.
🔰Later in 1822, he was declared as Raja of Jammu by Ranjit Singh. He became the richest Raja as he had taken most of the Lahore treasury.
🔰Jammu was the second largest Princely State in British period. After the first Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46AD), the British sold the land of h through the "Treaty of Amritsar' (1846 AD) as he helped the British against the Sikh.
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🔰He consolidated the regions of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
🔰He died on 30th June, 1857.
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