1822, Raja Gulab Singh of the Dogra dynasty was anointed Raja of Jammu by the Sikh emperor Ranjit Singh and in 1834 sent his general Zorawar Singh Kahluria to conquer the territory between Jammu and Tibet. Marching from Kishtwar, Zorawar Singh reached Purig and defeated the Bhotia leader Mangal at Sankoo in August. Kartse, the then capital of Purig, fell into Zorawar Singh's hands, and he built a fort there before advancing towards Leh. Tshed-Pal, the Gyalpo of Leh, was defeated and reinstalled as a subsidiary of the Dogras. Meanwhile, the chief of Sod rebelled and Zorawar Singh returned to reassert his authority. Zanskar subsequently offered submission. The Purigis rebelled repeatedly, instigated by Sikh governor Mihan Singh of Kashmir. They also received support from Ahmed Shah of Baltistan. Zorawar Singh returned in 1839 to quell the rebellion and conquered Baltistan as well. After the conquest, the region of the present Kargil district was organised ino three ilaqas," based at Kargil, Dras and Zanskar respectively. They were headed by civil officers called Thanadars. Later, Suru was made into a separate ilaqa. Following the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Treaty of Amritsar (1846), Gulab Singh was made an independent Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, as it eventually came to be called, was organised into two large provinces, Jammu and Kashmir. Ladakh and Skardu were set up as districts of the Jammu province, called wazarats. The three Purig ilaqas were included in the Skardu wazarat. Zanskar continued to be attached to Kishtwar. In 1901, a major reorganisation of the frontier districts took place. A new Kargil tehsil was created with the three Purig ilaqas (Drass, Kargil and Suru) and, in addition, the Zanskar ilaqa from the Kishtwar district and the Kharmang ilaqa from the erstwhile Skardu district. Kargil, Leh and Skardu now made up a Ladakh wazarat, which was one of the two wazarats of the Frontier districts province. Initially, the administration of the wazarat used to spend four months each at Leh, Kargil and Skardu. But shifting the entire staff so often proved onerous, so the shifting was eventually limited to Leh and Skardu. Post-1947 During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, pitched battles were fought around Kargil, and the entire area including Drass and Zoji La Pass initially coming under the control of Gilgit Scouts. By November 1948, the Indian troops reclaimed all of Kargil