Chitra Katha

General Zorawar SinghConqueror of Ladakh

From 1834 the Dogra general marched his army over the high passes and brought Ladakh under Jammu, then pressed into western Tibet, where he fell in battle in December 1841.

1784–1841 CE

The full life
1A Kahluria Rajput from the Bilaspur hills.General Zorawar Singh
2Led the Dogra campaigns into Ladakh from 1834.General Zorawar Singh · The Dogra army
3Took Skardu in Baltistan in 1840.General Zorawar Singh · The Dogra army
4Reached Taklakot near Mansarovar in 1841.General Zorawar Singh
5Killed at To-yo in western Tibet on 12 December 1841.General Zorawar Singh

Sources for these facts

  • Treaty of Chushul, 1842
  • Alexander Cunningham, Ladak (1854)
  • C. L. Datta, Ladakh and Western Himalayan Politics 1819–1848 (1973)

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