Abstract: When Punjab was annexed in 1846 AD, Kashmir was handed over to the Gulab Singh through the famous treaty of Amritsar. It is believed that main motive of British to hand over Kashmir to Gulab Singh was to lessen the force of the Sikhs and Afghans because North-West Frontier and Afghanistan problem was yet unsettled. Though, they were successful in checking the Punjab and Afghan threat but during the seventies of nineteenth century, Czarist Russia had her covetous eyes on the Kashmir Valley whose conquest would give her an opportunity to directly confront the British regime in India. The British administrators on the other hand wanted to check the expansion policy of the Russians and began to secure scientific borders wherever Russian peril was possible and this made British intervention in Kashmir inevitable. The present paper attempts to highlight the clash and complexities of the relationship between the British colonial power and Dogra maharajas of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. The main focus of this paper is to highlight the British imperialist quest for a scientific frontier and in this process how policy towards Kashmir was backed by both political as well as commercial interests.