1846 in India

Events

• 1st Sikh War, 1845–46.
• March 9 - the Treaty of Lahore was a peace treaty marking the end of the First Anglo-Sikh War. As a result Maharaja Ranjit Singh ceded Kashmir to the British East India Company.
• March 16, Treaty of Amritsar (1846), formalised the arrangements in the Treaty of Lahore between the British East India Company and Gulab Singh Dogra after the First Anglo-Sikh War, forming Jammu and Kashmir.

Law

• Legal Practitioners Act