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byKashmir Rechords
Dec 30,23
Jammu & Kashmir- Heritage, Jammu & Kashmir-Research, Kashmir

Englishman’s 1847 travel to Kashmir (Part 3)

( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo*) Kashmir Rechords in its previous blogs dated 9th and 12th December 2023 had mentioned an Englishman’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir in 1847 recorded in the form of daily entries called ‘Roznamcha’ by one Pandit Kanhaya Lal Aashiq Dehalvi and later published under the title…

byKashmir Rechords
Dec 20,23
Jammu & Kashmir-Research, Kashmir, POK, Pok & Pakistan, Religion, Socio-cultural, Spritualism

Sharda Peetha—victim of willful apathy

At the moment when this blog is being written, Sharda temple along with the area annexed over large swathes of breathtakingly beautiful and spiritual place stands ruined beyond recognition, but between sixth and twelfth century period it was the crowning glory of India in terms of being a prominent centre…

byKashmir Rechords
Dec 12,23
Jammu & Kashmir-Research, Kashmir, Research, Socio-cultural

Englishman’s 1847 travel to Kashmir via Jammu, Rajouri

Leaving Jammu for Rajouri The Part II of the travelogue in the form of daily entries in a diary called ‘Roznamcha’ also contains immensely useful information and details about the onward journey to Kashmir undertaken by one Englishman Mr. Winter Bedim and Pandit Kanhaya Lal Aashiq Dehalvi and it goes…

byKashmir Rechords
Dec 09,23
Historical, Jammu & Kashmir-Research, Kashmir, Research, Socio-cultural

Englishman’s 1847 travel to Kashmir via Jammu

( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)* We are highly indebted to Rafi Ahmad Masoodi Sahab, Educationist, Writer, Historian and a distinguished Academician, originally from Sopore, Kashmir who has made available to us the copy of a historical travelogue from Lahore to Srinagar via Jammu region. The name of the book is…

byKashmir Rechords
Dec 04,23
Historical, Jammu & Kashmir-Research, Kashmir, Research, Undivided India (Princely States)

Maharaja Hari Singh’s First and Last Radio Speech

On December 1, 2023, Radio in Jammu and Kashmir completed its 76 years of existence. It was on December 1, 1947 at 6.30 pm that Radio in the erstwhile Princely State of J&K started functioning from Jammu. Maharaja Hari Singh, who had acceded to Indian Dominion the same year on…