Sikh ruler of Jammu who seized Ladakh during the period of 1834-1841. Chinese referred to Sikhs as Sen-pa (which Camman believes was a term also used by Nepalese and Tibetans, hence Sen pa). Schuyler Cammann, New Light on Huc and Gabet: Their Expulsion from Lhasa in 1846, Far Eastern Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 4 (August 1942), pp. 348-363.
Robert A. Huttenback, Gulab Singh and the Creation of the Dogra State of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 20, no. 4 (August 1961), pp. 477-488.
K.M. Pannikar, Gulab Singh, 1792-1858: Founder of Kashmir (London 1930).
Bawa Satinder Singh, The Jammu Fox: A Biography of Maharaja Gulab Singh of Kashmir, 1792-1857, Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale 1974).