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[10] [11] On 7 September 1939 Maharaja Hari Singh and his law and Revenue Minister, Justice Sir Lal Gopal Mukherjee, a former judge of the Allahabad high court (1926–1934) who had served the state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1935 to 1940, produced a written constitution for Jammu and Kashmir which was the "pioneer" in the annals of Asia's ...
Modern water works were also established at Jammu and Srinagar. The Church Missionary Society, which had been set up in Kashmir in the time of Maharaja Ranbir Singh, also contributed much to the promotion of public health and education. It opened its own schools and hospitals in the valley and ran them on modern lines.
Yuvraj Karan Singh was born at the Martinez Hotel, [12] Cannes, France, into the Dogra dynasty.He was the only son of Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. [13] His mother, Maharani Tara Devi, who was the fourth wife of his father, was the daughter of a landowning Katoch Rajput family and came from (Vijaypur near Bilaspur) in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh.
Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir. At the time of the Partition of India in 1947, the British abandoned their suzerainty over the princely states, which were left with the options of joining India or Pakistan or remaining independent. Hari Singh, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, indicated his preference to remain independent of the new ...
In a letter sent to Maharaja Hari Singh on the same day, he said, "it is my Government's wish that as soon as law and order have been restored in Jammu and Kashmir and her soil cleared of the invader, the question of the State's accession should be settled by a reference to the people." [5]
In 1947, it was the seat of the Raja who was a vassal of Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir. [ 1 ] : 89 Prior to 1947, communications with Poonch were through the Punjabi town of Jhelum ; towns in the east such as Rajauri , Naushera and Jammu being connected only by fair-weather tracks.
Maharaja Hari Singh made a plea to India for assistance, and help was offered, but it was subject to his signing of an Instrument of Accession to India. The war was initially fought by the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces [ 28 ] [ 29 ] and by militias from the frontier tribal areas adjoining the North-West Frontier Province . [ 30 ]
Accusing Ranjit Singh of treachery, Fateh Khan set off from Kashmir at the head of 15,000 cavalry [37] in April 1813 and invested Attock Fort. [38] At the same time Ranjit Singh rushed Dewan Mokham Chand and Karam Chand Chahal from Burhan with a force of cavalry, artillery, and a battalion of infantry to meet the Afghans.