MAHARAJA GULAB SINGH Gulab Singh Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir Reign 1846-1857 Predecessor Jit Singh As Raja of Jammu Successor Ranbir Singh Issue Ranbir Singh Dynasty Jamwal Father Kishore Singh Born 18 October 1792 Jammu Died 30 June 1857 (aged 64) Religion Hinduism 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 in the First Anglo-Sikh War . The Treaty of Amritsar, 1846 , formalised the sale by the British to Gulab Singh for 7,500,000 rupees of all the lands in Kashmir that were ceded to them by the Sikhs by the Treaty of Lahore Contents Early career The Hill fort of Maharaja Gulab Singh, 1846 drawing . Gulab Singh was born on 18 October 1792 in a Hindu Jamwal Dogra Rajput family. His father, Kishore ...