Leh
Capital of Ladakh, conquered by Zorawar Singh from 1834. The treaty ending the war with Tibet was signed here in 1842.
Leh, at 3,500 metres in the upper Indus valley, was the capital of the Buddhist kingdom of Ladakh, with its nine-storey palace above the town.
From 1834 Zorawar Singh, general of Gulab Singh, conquered Ladakh in several campaigns. After Zorawar's death in Tibet in 1841, the Tibetans besieged Leh, and the Dogra relief force defeated them at Chushul in 1842. The treaty ending the war was signed at Leh.
Gurdwara Pathar Sahib near Leh marks a legend of Guru Nanak's visit.
People
Dogra raja of Jammu under Lahore, whose general Zorawar Singh conquered Ladakh and Baltistan. In 1846 he stayed out of the war and bought Kashmir from the British for 7.5 million rupees.
Dogra general who led armies across the high Himalaya: Ladakh from 1834, Baltistan in 1840 and western Tibet in 1841, where he was killed at To-yo in the snows.