Note 89 — HISTORY OF THE DARD WARS WITH KASHMIR

Extract from Drew’s “Northern Barriers of India,” 1877: “Until about 1850 they used to make occasional expeditions for plunder, coming round the flanks of the mountain into this Astor Valley. It was these raids that determined Maharaja Gulâb Singh to send a punitive expedition against Chilás. This he did in 1851 or 1852. The Dogrâs at last took the chief stronghold of the Chilásis, a fort two or three miles from the Indus River, and reduced those people to some degree of obedience: and there has been no raid since.”