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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…

byKashmir Rechords
Nov 27,23
Historical, Jammu & Kashmir-Research, Kashmir, Undivided India (Princely States)

When snakes, stones snowed in Kashmir!

By Dr. Rajesh Bhat Ever heard of snakes or stones snowing? No! then go through this snowy story. No fairy tale but buried in the archives is a part of the recent history of Kashmir, supported by documentary evidence. The two phenomenal incidents when snakes and stones came dangling…

byKashmir Rechords
Nov 08,23
Jammu & Kashmir-Research, Kashmir, Research, Undivided India (Princely States)

A Kashmiri Pandit diplomat, a spy and a Historian of yesteryears buried in Delhi !

(www.kashmir-rechords.com Exclusive) Pandit Mohan Lal Kashmiri alias Mirza Quli Kashmiri alias Agha Hassan Jan Kashmiri—– sounds interesting! But that is how this polyonymous from Zutshi clan had lavishly lived and typified himself in first half of 19th century as a traveller, a spy, a writer, a diplomat, a polymath, a…