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The 1931 Kashmir agitation was a widespread agitation throughout the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in British India, that occurred on 13 July, 1931 against the Maharaja's government. The Maharaja was forced to appoint the Glancy Commission to investigate the people's concerns.
According to the order an "outsider" could gain state subject status "after the age of 18 on purchasing immovable property under permission of an ijazatnama and on obtaining a rayatnama after ten years continuous residence in the Jammu and Kashmir State". [3] [4] 1931 (): The movement against the Maharaja Hari Singh began and was brutally ...
Kashmir Martyrs' Day (Urdu: یومِ شہداءِ کشمیر Transliteration. Youm-e-Shuhada-e-Kashmir [1]) or Kashmir Day, [a] was a former official state holiday observed in Kashmir in remembrance of 21 Muslim protesters killed on 13 July 1931 by Dogra forces of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in British India.
The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was created in 1846, through the Treaty of Amritsar, between the British Empire, who had taken the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and Gilgit Baltistan from the earlier Sikh rule, and Gulab Singh, a Dogra from Jammu who subsequently initiated the Dogra dynasty which ruled Jammu and Kashmir as a princely state of British India for the next century.
Khan, Ghulam Hassan (1980), Freedom movement in Kashmir, 1931–1940, Light & Life Publishers; Khan, Mohammad Saleem (2015), "Kashmir administration under Pratap singh 1885 to 1925", University, University of Kashmir/Shodhganga, hdl:10603/33261
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Kashmir, a region in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. India, Pakistan and China all claim partial or complete ownership.
All India Kashmir Committee was set up by Muslim leaders of British India, mainly British Punjab, to fight for the rights of Muslims in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. a number of other leaders were invited by Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad to form the committee in order to gain political support and Spread their ideology which was opposed by majority of Muslims.
The Khaksar movement was established by Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi in 1931, with the aim of freeing India from the rule of the British Empire. [ 1 ] The Khaksars opposed the partition of India and favoured a united country.