Gulab Singh

(1792–1857) was the founder 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. Gulab Singh secretly had allied himself with the British in the Anglo-Sikh wars by giving intelligence on the Sikh Army. Under the Treaty of Lahore (1846) the defeated Lahore court was made to transfer Jammu to the British. The treaty of Amritsar, concluded one week later, formalized the sale of all these lands by the British to Gulab Singh for 7,5 mln. Rps. On this occasion Gulab Singh was granted the title of Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir.