[2] At a rank of Colonel, he led Zorawar Singh's Jangi Fauj, later reorganised and renamed as the Fateh Shibji force[a] from 1834 to 1841.

[4] Major General G. D. Bakshi wrote in 2002 that Basti Ram was a "tactician par excellence" and that he "should be a role model for Indian battalion commanders".

[5] Basti Ram was one of the main officers of Zorawar's force and played a crucial role at multiple locations of the conquest of Ladakh which started in 1834.

[8] During the conquest of Baltistan, which started during the end of 1840, he found a way to cross a river that had caused Zorawar's army to halt for over a month in the cold and snow.

[12] After Zorawar Singh's forces captured Western Tibet, Basti Ram was appointed the governor of Taklakot (Burang).

[17] Basti Ram provided one of the earliest written accounts of the Dogra conquest of Ladakh and beyond, twelve years after the events.

[21] Lieutenant Colonel Henry Torrens, who passed through Ladakh in 1862, noted that Basti Ram had retired to his home in Kishtawar on account of old age, and a successor had not yet been appointed by the Maharaja".

In October 1947, Duni Chand was killed by Pashtun tribal militias,[27] and Krishna Mehta was taken prisoner and eventually repatriated by Pakistan.