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Kashmir Rechords is an independent digital archive chronicling the history, culture and socio-political journey of Jammu & Kashmir, with a focus on original research, rare records and forgotten legacies.

Jinnah’s ‘Castles in the Air’: Two Houseboat offers from Kashmir in 1947

Kashmir Rechords Exclusive Perhaps Muhammad Ali Jinnah was trying to build castles in the air—or, more literally, acquire one of Kashmir’s famous floating residences. In June 1947, barely two months before the end of British rule in India, Jinnah was receiving correspondence concerning the possible purchase of houseboats in Srinagar. One offer came from Brenda Blencowe, the owner of a furnished houseboat named Mayflower. Another came...
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When Baramulla bore the brunt of tribal raid!

Here is a powerful, SEO-optimized excerpt tailored for your WordPress post settings: Discover the harrowing history of the October 1947 tribal raid on Baramulla. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, archival records, and global dispatches, this piece revisits thirteen days of devastation, the targeting of St. Joseph's Convent, and the eventual liberation by Indian troops.
Jammu & Kashmir-Research

A Kashmiri Pandit who brought Somnath Temple gates back from Ghazni

Kashmir Rechords Exclusive In October 1833, a young Kashmiri traveller entered Ghazni. Operating as a brilliant Persian scholar and covert intelligence operative for the British,...
Jammu & Kashmir-Life Style

1990 Exile and Agitation: Have We Forgotten?

(Kashmir Rechords' Archival Report) The story of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus is usually told through the night of departure—the fear, the abandoned homes and the...
Kashmiri Pandits- Post Migration

Dr. Kaul: Kashmir’s Forgotten Medical Pioneer in Lahore

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) More than a century ago, when modern medical education was still in its formative years in India, a young Kashmiri Pandit travelled...
Articles

When Jinnah Ordered Silver from Kashmir

By: Dr Rajesh Bhat History often survives not only in official proclamations, political speeches and government files, but also in invoices, private letters and everyday...
Articles

R.C. Kak on Trial: The Forgotten Kashmir case that drew Patel, Nehru, Sheikh Into same file

(By: Dr Rajesh Bhat*) In the turbulent months after Independence, while Jammu & Kashmir was being transformed by war, accession and political upheaval, another drama...
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The Manuscripts that survived Gilgit’s cold, Kashmir’s war

Kashmir Rechords Exclusive In the summer of 1931, two cattle-grazers near Naupur village, a few kilometres from Gilgit, stumbled upon something that had remained hidden...
Home-POK & Pakistan

The Myths Kashmiri Pandits once lived by—And History shattered them

A thought-provoking visual representing the Kashmiri Pandit exodus and the collapse of long-held assumptions about their place in Kashmir. The image evokes displacement, loss, changing social realities and the difficult reassessment of beliefs that followed the upheaval of the 1990s.
Kashmiri Pandits- Post Migration

From Pamposh to IFFJK: Kashmir’s extraordinary journey with Cinema

From Pamposh and Shyama Zutshi to Shammi Kapoor’s romantic Kashmir, the Valley has shared a remarkable century-long relationship with Indian cinema. Then the cameras and cinema halls disappeared amid turmoil. Now, with Bollywood returning, theatres reopening and the International Film Festival of Jammu & Kashmir bringing world cinema to the Valley, Kashmir’s cinematic journey has entered a new chapter.
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When Jammu & Kashmir had its own Postal Stamps

(Kashmir Rechords Archival Exclusive) Most of us know that the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir had its own currency. But how many know that...
Jammu & Kashmir-Research

Sheikh Abdullah and Kashmiri Pandits: When Merit Lost to Community Arithmetic

( Kashmir Rechords Archives) There are moments in history when a political leader says something in the heat of a legislative debate that reveals more...
Jammu & Kashmir-Politics

1982. 1984. 1986. 1987. Before Anantnag’s 1990 Exodus

The story of Kashmir's turmoil did not begin with the 1987 elections......
Jammu & Kashmir-Politics