History

This section offers detailed reportage and the analysis of key historical developments of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. It includes the economy, the politics, health and the trends in society in historical context and profiles the characters who dominated these developments. This section is usually featuring experts in the field of history.

13 July 1931: A Chapter of Kashmir

History Kashmir Life - 4:20 pm July 13, 2014

by G M Lone A chapter of Kashmir history starts from 1846 when Sikh rule ended and the British sold Kashmir to Dogra Maharaja Gulab...

Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935

History Kashmir Life - 9:19 pm February 28, 2021

Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world...

Exiled By Hijack

History Kashmir Life - 12:14 am October 24, 2018

In between the two high-profile hijackings of 1971 and 1999 involving Kashmir, there was one least reported and much less talked about. Shams Irfan...

JKLF’s Israel Blitzkrieg!

History Kashmir Life - 12:00 am August 4, 2014

The dramatic abduction and release of an Israeli tourist in early nineties by the ‘powerful’ Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on ‘humanitarian grounds’...

Kitchlew at a function held for the slain civilians of Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Cashmere in Jallianwala Bagh

History Masood Hussain - 10:59 am April 24, 2019

As tens of thousands of Kashmiris were pushed out of the valley by hunger, poverty, exploitation and fortune-hunting during despotic Pathan, Sikh and Dogra...