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.

Career Nathu Shah was a Punjabi Sayyid from Gujranwala in Punjab and held the rank of colonel in the Khalsa Army. In 1842, the ruler of Yasin Gaur Rahman killed Shah Sikander, the raja of Gilgit and occupied Gilgit. His brother Karim Khan went to Kashmir, then a province of Sikh Empire, to obtain help against him. The governor of Kashmir Muhyuddin dispatched a troop numbering 1,000 under Nathu Shah to Gilgit.

In 1846, the British sold Kashmir including Astore and Gilgit to Gulab Singh of Jammu in the treaty of Amritsar. Karim Khan who was accompanying him was also killed.