Nathu Shah

Colonel Nathu Shah (died 1848) was a military commander in the Sikh Empire and later the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. He conquered Astore and Gilgit on the behalf of maharaja Sher Singh in 1842–43, and acted as the governor of Gilgit until his death in a battle against the Mir of Hunza in 1848.

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