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A grand public function was organized today at the historic Jeo Pota Ghat in Akhnoor to commemorate the coronation of ...
To mark the 203rd coronation day of Maharaja Gulab Singh, Natrang Tuesday screened the episode of Rajtilak from the highly ...
Wali Mohammed Aseer's 'Focus on Jammu and Kashmir' is a comprehensive work that delves into the region's history, culture, and politics. Spanning 1264 pages, the book offers an encyclopedic view, ...
The avoidance of spiritual godmen/godwomen by military leaders is the unsaid practice.
The journey from Islamabad to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir ... the East India Company sold Kashmir to Maharaja Gulab Singh for 7.5 million rupees—land, people, and ...
The ruler of Jammu, a man called Gulab Singh — Maharaja ... only Muslim-majority state within the Indian union. That’s a major part of it.” He also highlighted the unique predicament of Kashmiris: ...
Nestling at the point where the borders of India and Pakistan meet in the Himalayas, Jammu and Kashmir is the only Muslim-majority state or territory in Hindu-majority India (excepting the tiny ...
New Delhi’s traditional line remains that the Instrument of Accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh in 1947 rendered Jammu and Kashmir an integral part of India.
While the Indian government boasted of having dismantled the "terrorist ecosystem" in Jammu and Kashmir ... the kingdom of Kashmir was unique. The maharaja, Hari Singh [1895-1961], was Hindu ...
The first contemporary reference to Jammu as an important state was ... India Company, and Gulab Singh, the raja of Jammu and the first Dogra king, who had served under Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
It started on 22nd October 1947-78 years ago when Pakistan invaded the Independent State of Jammu & Kashmir that subsequently was ceded to India in 'FULL’ by Maharaja Hari Singh on 26th October 1947 ...
But the fate of Jammu and Kashmir — then a princely state — was left undecided. The region was majority Muslim but its ruler, Maharaja Hari Singh, was Hindu. He was given a choice about ...