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 commercial transactions. Occasionally, such documents illuminate a lesser-known dimension of well-known personalities and reveal connections that conventional political narratives rarely mention.
A set of archival documents from 1945, (facsimile copies of which are available with Kashmir Rechords), brings to light one...
(By: Dr Rajesh Bhat*)
In the turbulent months after Independence, while Jammu & Kashmir was being transformed by war, accession and political upheaval, another drama was unfolding in Srinagar: the prosecution of Rai Bahadur Pandit Ram Chandra Kak, who had served as Prime Minister of Jammu & Kashmir from June 1945 until August 1947.
A 160-page file of the Ministry of States, Kashmir Branch, preserved in...
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
A pre-partition era chequebook of Jammu and Kashmir Bank, Muzaffarabad, (Kashmir) Branch was recently making the rounds on social...
( 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)...
( By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)*
Continuing the tradition of according glory to Persian, the court language of the Mughals in the Indian subcontinent, Kashmiri Pandits...
( Kashmir Rechords Exclusive)
On March 19, 1990, Bal Krishan Ganjoo, an Engineer working with Indian Telecommunication Department, was shot dead by terrorists on the...
(By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)*
The historical materials pertaining to Hindu religious thought in Kashmir consistently pique the interest of scholars and academics. It is...