Transcriptions from the Punjab Government Record Office Museum of the Treaty of Amritsar and the related final receipt of the purchase of Kashmir (dated March 30, 1850). The documents evidence the British colonial sale of Kashmir (and its people and resources) to the warlord Ghulab Singh for Rupees 75,00,000. These documents are the purported basis of the Dogra’s claim to the territory of Kashmir.
March 1846
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