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The general who conquered Ladakh

6.58pm, Saturday, April 11, 2026.

General Zorawar Singh Kahluria was one of the greatest military commanders in 19th-century India. Born in 1786 in the small hill kingdom of Kahlur in present-day Himachal Pradesh, he came from a Rajput family of the Kahluria clan — a lineage with deep roots in the warrior traditions of northern India....

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