Tag: Kashmir

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.

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, he was barely in his twenties when he ventured into one of the most turbulent regions of nineteenth-century Asia—observing rulers, armies, and political intrigues with a confidence unusual for an Indian of his time. Barely in his twenties, he was already...
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Lok Sabha Polls in Jammu and Kashmir at a Glance

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)  Like in other parts of the Country, it is the election time in Jammu and Kashmir also. Kashmir Rechords is  trying...

1947 Banking in Jammu, Kashmir

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) A pre-partition era chequebook of Jammu and Kashmir Bank, Muzaffarabad, (Kashmir) Branch was recently making the rounds on social...

Pity! Have We Forgotten Prof Mushir-ul- Haq, H L Khera?

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) On April 6, 1990, Kashmir University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Mushir-ul-Haq, his Personal Secretary, Abdul Gani Zargar and Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT)...

When Kashmiris Once Publically Renounced Politics!

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Whatever may be the reason, Kashmiri politicians are presently showing other shades and hues of their true colour. In...

The Unheard  Sati Namah  by Pt. Birbal Kachru

( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)* Continuing the tradition of according glory to Persian, the court language of the Mughals in the Indian subcontinent, Kashmiri Pandits...

When Another `Indian Agent’ Was Killed in Kashmir!

Kashmir Rechords Exclusive Thirty-four years ago, on March 25, 1990, another `` Indian Agent’’ was  killed! This time, the `Agent’...

Denial of Justice, Recognition to a Martyr!

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) His family was denied pension for five years after terrorists shot him dead while on duty!  Over three and a...

  When Politicians  Failed to Highlight B K Ganjoo’s Killing!

( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) On March 19, 1990, Bal Krishan Ganjoo,  an Engineer working with Indian Telecommunication Department, was shot dead by terrorists on the...

Dr R L Bhat’s `Core of Kashmir Shaivism’

              (By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)* The historical materials pertaining to Hindu religious thought in Kashmir consistently pique the interest of scholars and academics. It is...

When RSS Saved J&K in 1947!

(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Jammu and Kashmir have a...

1990: When Bangladeshis were priority, not Kashmiri Pandits!

(By: K R Ishan) At a time when migration from Kashmir...

Bel Tai Madal—Men Behind It

The genre of Leela poetry in Kashmiri literature is said to have evolved from ``Vachun’’ and we notice a boost in this experimentation  since...