More often than not, Tsering’s social and historical vignettes dealt with the period before Dogra rule began in the 1830s. It would seem that contemporary Ladakh has blanked out from its collective memory the period of Dogra domination in the region. Its colonisation began in 1834, when Gulab Singh of Jammu, a commander of the Sikh empire, dispatched Zorawar Singh Khaluria to invade Ladakh. As a reward, the Company signed the Treaty of Amritsar with Gulab Singh in 1846. This period of Dogra rule unconsciously manifests itself as never-ending anxiety about people from the “mainland” taking over Ladakh’s land, jobs and resources.