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A rare book on the period of Sikh-rule over Kashmir. After four centuries of Muslim rule, Kashmir fell to the conquering armies of the Sikhs under Ranjit Singh of Punjab after the Battle of Shopian in 1819. [68] As the Kashmiris had suffered under the Afghans, they initially welcomed the new Sikh rulers. [69]
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948, also known as the first Kashmir war, [25] was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four Indo-Pakistani wars between the two newly independent nations .
The Jammu province of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir (1946) consisted of the Poonch, Mirpur, Riasi, Jammu, Kathua, and Udhampur districts. After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, many Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab.
Howley, James D. (1991), Alive and Kicking: The Kashmir Dispute Forty Years Later, vol. 9, Dickinson Journal of International Law. Penn State International Law Review., pp. 87–120; Lamb, Alastair (1994). Birth of a Tragedy: Kashmir 1947. Roxford Books. ISBN 978-0-907129-07-3. Jha, Prem Shankar (1996). Kashmir, 1947– Rival Versions Of ...
Tribesmen again poured into Kashmir. [116] 31 October 1947 (): Sheikh Abdullah was appointed as the head of the Emergency Administration in Kashmir. [117] 31 October 1947 (): Major William Brown, the commander of the Gilgit Scouts, led a coup against the governor of Gilgit and imprisoned him. A provisional government was declared by the rebels.
Ghulam Nabi Gowhar (born Ghulam Nabi Muqeem; 26 June 1934 – 19 June 2018) was a multilingual Kashmiri author, novelist, poet, columnist and a retired sessions jurist.He wrote about sixty books in Kashmiri, Urdu, and in English languages on various subjects such as politics, literature, history and on Sufism.
This is a list of the monarchs of Kashmir from the establishment of the Gonanda dynasty [3] around 1400 BCE until the cession of parts of Kashmir State by the Dogra dynasty to Indian Union in 1947 and then officially merging into the Republic of India in 1952.
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. [1] [2] The conflict started after the partition of India in 1947 as both India and Pakistan claimed the entirety of the former princely state of Jammu and ...