This treaty proved troublesome for many Kashmiri traders, who were already facing restrictions imposed by the Dogra Kingdom (a vassalised date of the Maratha Empire). Two side then sat down in treaty of Chushul which restore the pre-war border boundary along Pangong Tso (Lake) Maharajah of Jammu-Kashmir Gulab Singh abdicate to his son Ranbir Singh in 1856.

The Gyalpo surrendered and agreed to pay 50,000 rupees as war-indemnity and 20,000 rupees as an annual tribute. However, tired of the Tibetan intrigue, Raja Gulab Singh of Kashmir finally annexed Ladakh in 1841. The Dogra campaign threatened the Sikh position in Kashmir and Gilgit and so Zorawar Singh turned his attention east to the conquest of Tibet (see Sino-Sikh War). The calm peaceful and serene Tibetan peace garden in the grounds of the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, South London, UK Police officers remove a puppet of Chinese leader Hu Jintao at a rally on the 50th anniversary of the 10 March 1959 Tibetan uprising at the Chinese Embassy to Germany in Berlin, Germany, 10 March 2009. Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War; Treaty of Tingmosgang; Dogra–Tibetan War; Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir; Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948; Military operations in Ladakh (1948) Sino-Indian War; Charding Nullah; Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts; 2010 Ladakh floods; Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019

The astute Dogra General rushed back to Kartse where he sheltered his troops through the winter. Then Dogra forces flooded Tibetan camp with dammed river water. Ladakh in India: ... Ladakh invaded by Dogra and Sikh The reality is Ladakh has always been the vassal states of Lhasa.

In the spring of 1835, he defeated the large Ladakhi army of Gen Banko Kahlon and marched his victorious troops to Leh. In 1834, Gulab Singh sent his ablest general, Zarowar Singh Kahluria, with 4,000 infantrymen to conquer the territory. In May 1841, the 5000 strong Dogra army supplemented by contingents of Kishtwaris, Ladakhis, and Baltis (raising the strength of the army to 7000) advanced eastwards in three divisions.

The Sikh Empire rule extended beyond the Jammu Region and the Kashmir Valley to the Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh and the Emirates of Hunza, Gilgit and Nagar. Tibetan Ladakh . Up until the Dogra invasion of 1834, Ladakh was an independent Himalayan state, much the same way as Bhutan and Sikkim. The Kashmiri traders were given Tibetan wives but they demanded that their wives be converted to Islam. Ladakh was part of the Tibetan empire which broke up after the assassination of King Langdarma in 742 CE. In 1834, Gulab Singh sent his ablest general, Zarowar Singh Kahluria, with 4,000 infantrymen to conquer the territory.

In the confusion that followed, the Ladakhis tried to throw off the Dogra yoke once more, this time with the help of the Tibetans.