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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.

Playing Spoilsport

Playing Polo in Kashmir was popular among European visitors who mostly comprised British civil and military officers escaping from the heat of plains. But...

Geelani’s Autobiography

Sara Wani reviews the first volume of Syed Ali Geelani's autobiography, Wular Kinaray Syed Ali Geelani’s autobiography Wular Kinaray (On the banks of Wular) is...

A Lack of Will

85 years ago, Maharaja Hari Singh stopped construction of an annexe at Gulmarg to stop the place from becoming congested. Decades later, the Meadow...

Beggars’ Visa

Begging, as a profession, is as old as humanity. During Dogra rule, eight members of a family from north Kashmir sought passports to beg...

Delhi’s Historic ‘Victory’

As DMK pulls out of the UPA-II for allowing a lenient resolution at UNHRC against Colombo over the Tamil massacre, the move was keenly...

A Murder most foul

The events that unfurled after the killing of teenager Tufail Mattoo put the entire Kashmir Valley on boil in 2010. After persistent denials, a...

A Foreigner who Panicked British Residency in Kashmir

It would be naive to absolve the British Residency of the responsibility for the repression and the resultant plight of the masses during its...

“Maharaja Pratap Singh even banned burial of the dead”

Muhammad Siddiq Parray, the Grand Old Man of Sonawar, breathed his last on March 21. A witness to an eventful century of Kashmir’s history...

A Lasting Influence

Iran has made a deep mark on the cultural, demographic and political landscape through a certain amount of interactions which is visible in the...

The Day Kashmir Was Sold

After East India Company sold the entire land and people situated between the Ravi and Indus rivers to Jammu’s Raja Gulab Singh for Rs...

Banking In Trouble

By the end of December 2012, 1590 branches of 42 banks and financial institutions serving J&K had Rs 60245 crore deposits as their cumulative...

New Book, New Revelations

That Poonch rebellion and not the tribal raids were fundamental to the slicing of erstwhile Kashmir state is an established fact. But Christopher Snedden’s...

The Making Of A Treaty

Barring that the water sharing Indus Water Treaty was brokered by World Bank for India and Pakistan, nothing much is in public knowledge. In...

A Costly Operation

Within days after the 2001 Parliament Attack, more than half a million soldiers were mobilized on Indo-Pak border under Operation Parakram. While it cost...

A Jail Story

Knowing that he was going to meet his creator very soon, Afzal had resigned to fate and turned to religion inside Tihar jail. As...