Raja Gulab Singh, under the suzerainty of Ranjit Singh sent his General Zorawan Singh to invade Ladakh in 1834.
King Tshespal Namgyal was dethroned and exiled.
Maharaja Gulab Singh, after crushing a rebellion in Ladakh, ceded the region into Dogra empire.
⭕He received complete right of the land after signing the Treaty of Amritsar in 1846. Dogra rulers appointed Governor (Wazir) to look after the administration in Ladakh. .
⭕Ladakh was divided into three Tehsils-Leh, Skardu and Kargil. Leh was made as Summer Capital and Skardu as Winter Capital of Ladakh for six months, alternatively. . After the establishment of Praja Sabha in 1934, Ladakh was given two seats in the Assembly.
⭕ Ladakh remained a part of Dogra empire in 1947 when India gained its independence. . However in 1948, Pakistani forces and Pashtun tribesmen raided Skardu, Kargil. Zanskar and marched upto Leh.
⭕Reinforcement troops of Indian Army and Gurkha Battalion gave a crushing defeat to those forces. They freed the areas of Leh, Kargil and Zanskar.
⭕Kargil was a place of fighting again in 1965, 1971 and 1999.
⭕During the time of ceasefire in 1948, Skardu which lies in Gilgit-Baltistan region was under the control of Pakistan. Since then, it remained as a region of Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
⭕In 1959, China invaded Tibet. Tibetan religious leader Dalai Lama sought refugee in India.
⭕In 1962, China occupied the North Eastern region of Ladakh i.e. Aksai Chin.
⚫ China closed the Ladakh-Tibet border, ending the 700 years-old Ladakh-Tibet relationship .
⭕From 1947 till 2019, Ladakh remained a part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In August 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, bifurcated the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, i.e., Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh.
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