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...
(Records, Census figures speak everything)
If the records are to be relied upon, there has been a massive decline of Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir...
Considering the current situation, it is unlikely that another Santosh may emerge from Kashmir, as the very soul of Kashmir stands brutalised as on date. But since strange are the ways of the Divine, the seed may lie embedded to sprout in the womb of future.
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A renovated old house at village Banga Khatkar Kalan some 40 kilometers from Jallandhar, Punjab has assumed the status of no...