Bayan nasarar da Sikhs a karo na biyu Anglo-Sikh War, lardin Jammu da Kashmir aka canjawa wuri zuwa Gulab Singh, da za a yi mulki a karkashin Birtaniya suzerainty a matsayin mai mulkin jihar. A Ladakhi tawaye a 1842 da aka murƙushe da kuma Ladakh da aka kafa a cikin Dogra jihar Jammu da Kashmir. A Namgyal iyali da aka ba da jagir na Stok, wanda shi nominally rike da wannan rana. Turai tasiri ya fara a Ladakh a cikin 1850s kuma ya karu. Geologists, 'yan wasa, da kuma yawon bude ido ya fara binciko Ladakh. A 1885, da hedkwatar Leh ya zama wani manufa na Moravian Church Tambaya: A lokacin da ya Ladakh mamaye da annex?
Shekaru 1834