Golab Singh : (d.1857) led the negotiations of the Treaty of Lahore (1846), by which Kashmir with its dependencies was ceded to the British who handed Kashmir over to him for one million pound sterling & gave him the powerless title of Maharaja.
... so? Did not the founder of the Kashmir house pay a very heavy price for Kashmir! True to a disgraceful understanding with the British Government, of which both parties ought to have been ashamed, Golab Singh—to quote Sir Thomas Holdich,—"deserted his Sikh masters and paid for Kashmir with money looted from the Lahore treasury". So it was only "give and take". But these pathetic and miraculous happenings ...
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