• Arvind Singh Jamwal

The research paper focuses on the Jammu and Kashmir's north-west frontier region. This paper explains how even after promising no intervention in the internal matters of the state,the British Government of India kept on interfering in the internal matters of the state for their personal interests.The paper tries to explain the diplomacy played by the British for their own personal interests led to the loss of one of the most commercial and strategic location of Jammu and Kashmir i,e Gilgit, to pakistan. This paper throws light on the policy of British Government of India against Maharaja Hari Singh which compelled him to lease the Gilgit Agency to British in 1935 and the conspiracy of pakistan along with British Officers of Gilgit scouts against Gilgit which led to its loss in November 1947.

Jammu, Gilgit, Diplomacy, British, Pakistan

" The British Diplomacy and the loss of Gilgit", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.555-558, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904078.pdf

" The British Diplomacy and the loss of Gilgit", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp555-558, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904078.pdf