Editing Gilgit (section)

=== 1800s ===
{{cquote|The period of greatest prosperity was probably under the [[yashkun of Hindukush|Shin]] Ras, whose rule seems to have been peaceable and settled. The whole population, from the Ra to the poorest subject lived by agriculture. According to tradition, [[Shri]] Buddutt's rule extended over [[Chitral]], [[Yasin Valley|Yassin]], [[Tangir]], [[Darel]], [[Chilas]], [[Gor, Gilgit|Gor]], [[Astore Valley|Astor]], [[Hunza (princely state)|Hunza]], [[Nagar (princely state)|Nagar]] and [[Haramosh]] all of which were held by tributary princes of the same family.<ref name=b1>John Bidduph (2004) ''Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh'',  Adamant Media Corporation, {{ISBN|1402152728}}, pp. 20–21</ref>}}

The area had been a flourishing tract but prosperity was destroyed by warfare over the next fifty years, and by the great flood of 1841 in which the river [[Indus]] was blocked by a landslip below the Hatu Pir and the valley was turned into a lake.<ref name="IGI">{{cite web|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_244.gif |title=Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 12 – Imperial Gazetteer of India – Digital South Asia Library |page=238 |publisher=Dsal.uchicago.edu |date=18 February 2013 |access-date=22 November 2013}}</ref> After the death of Abas, Sulaiman Shah, Raja of [[Yasin Valley|Yasin]], conquered Gilgit. Then, Azad Khan, Raja of [[Punial]], killed Sulaiman Shah, taking Gilgit; then Tahir Shah, Raja of Buroshall ([[Nagar Valley|Nagar]]), took Gilgit and killed Azad Khan.

Tair Shah's son Shah Sakandar inherited, only to be killed by Gohar Aman, ethnic Kho Raja of Yasin of the Khushwakhte Dynasty when he took Gilgit. Then in 1842, Shah Sakandar's brother, Karim Khan, expelled Yasin rulers with the support of a [[Sikh Confederacy|Sikh]] army from Kashmir. The Sikh general, Nathu Shah, left garrison troops and Karim Khan ruled until Gilgit was ceded to [[Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir]] in 1846 by the [[Treaty of Amritsar, 1846|Treaty of Amritsar]],<ref name="Drew" /> and [[Dogras|Dogra]] troops replaced the [[Sikh]] in Gilgit.

Nathu Shah and Karim Khan both transferred their allegiance to Gulab Singh, continuing local administration. When [[Hunza (princely state)|Hunza]] attacked in 1848, both of them were killed. Gilgit fell to the Hunza and their Yasin and Punial allies but was soon reconquered by Gulab Singh's Dogra troops. With the support of Raja Gohar Aman, Gilgit's inhabitants drove their new rulers out in an uprising in 1852. Raja Gohar Aman then ruled Gilgit until his death in 1860, just before new Dogra forces from [[Ranbir Singh (Maharaja)|Ranbir Singh]], son of Gulab Singh, captured the fort and town.<ref name="Drew" />

In the 1870s Chitral was threatened by Afghans, Maharaja Ranbir Singh was firm in protecting Chitral from Afghans, the Mehtar of Chitral asked for help. In 1876 Chitral accepted the authority of Jammu Clan and in reverse get the protection from the Dogras who have in the past took part in many victories over Afghans during the time of Gulab Singh Dogra.<ref>{{cite book|author=Prakash Nanda|title=Rising India: Friends and Foes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_U55rXIijnsC&pg=PA167|year=2007|publisher=Lancer Publishers|isbn=978-0-9796174-1-6|page=167}}</ref>