During this rebellion, some Indian troops, particularly in Bengal, mutinied, but the "loyal", Dogras, Gurkhas, Garhwalis, Devars, Sikhs, Jats and Pakhtuns (Pathans) did not join the mutiny and fought on the side of the British Army.
According to the Pakistani newspaper Daily Times, the people of Gilgit Baltistan were liberated from the Dogra regime with the aid of the Pakistani army on 1 November 1947.
Attending the ceremony was a contingent of troops from India to represent the units that fought in France, including Sikhs, Dogras, and Garhwalis.
Sir Walter Roper Lawrence was the first man who reported about the miseries faced by the people of Kashmir under the autocratic rule of Dogras.
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For much of its early history, Dhanni was an uninhabited part of the Jammu state of the Dogra Rajputs, and Khokhar Rajputs, held as a hunting ground for the Rajas of Jammu.
Kailash Mehra Sadhu, also known as Malika-e-Ghazal, was born in Dogra, Nainital.
Raja Dogra was the first who ruled this area from Jammu.
It was founded by his grandson, Raja Yassir H. Sarfraz, and was named after a Rajput prince, Raja Mair, the first settler in this area and ancestor of the Mair-Minhas tribe, an offshoot of the Jamwal Dogra Rajputs.
Dogra has also served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Central Asian Studies Programme of the Centre for South, Central & South East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan was born into an eminent political Rajput family of Kashmir, he is the son of Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi, a name synonymous with one of the first major uprisings against the repressive Dogra regime in 1931.
The Rajas of Yasin were great warriors and fought against the Sikhs and the Dogras of Kashmir, but this house eventually lost power and the ownership of Yasin changed hands several times between the Mehtar of Chitral, and the Maharaja of Kashmir.