HISTORY OF AZAD KASHMIR

The historical backdrop of Azad Kashmir, a piece of the Kashmir district possessed and controlled by Pakistan, is identified with the historical backdrop of over all Kashmir locale amid the Dogra run the show. Azad Kashmir outskirts the Pakistani areas of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa toward the south and west separately, Gilgit– Baltistan toward the north and the Indian directed province of Jammu and Kashmir toward the east.

Substance

1 Early history

2 Creation of Azad Kashmir

3 U.N.intervention

4 Constitutional status

5 Azad Kashmir Day

6 See moreover

6.1 Kashmir Region

6.2 Conflict related

7 References

8 Further perusing

Early history[edit]

Primary article: Jammu and Kashmir (royal state)

The royal territory of Jammu and Kashmir appeared in 1846 after the First Anglo-Sikh War. Before that, Jammu was a tributary of the Sikh domain situated in Lahore. Gulab Singh, in the past a footman in the Maharaja Ranjit Singh's armed force who separated himself in different crusades, was delegated as the Raja of Jammu in 1822. The Valley of Kashmir was likewise a piece of the Sikh domain, led through a different representative. Raja Gulab Singh progressively battled and caught Rajouri (1821), Kishtwar (1821), and through his general Zorawar Singh, Suru valley and Kargil (1835), Ladakh (1834– 1840), and Baltistan (1840). He turned into a well off and persuasive honorable in the Sikh court.[1]

Amid the First Anglo-Sikh war in 1845– 1846, Gulab Singh agreed with the British, prompting a Sikh thrashing. In the resulting Treaty of Lahore, the Sikhs were made to surrender Kashmir and Hazara to the British, in lieu of their repayment, and to perceive Gulab Singh as a free Mahraja. After seven days, in the Treaty of Amritsar, Gulab Singh paid the British the repayment that was expected from the Sikhs, and gained Kashmir in return.[1] Thus Gulab Singh turned into the Maharaja of the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, establishing another Dogra Dynasty. The Treaty of Amritsar keeps on being broadly viewed by the Kashmiris as a "deal deed".

In 1856, Gulab Singh abandoned for his child Ranbir Singh, who turned into the Maharaja. Amid the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Ranbir Singh again went to the guide of the British and was appropriately remunerated. Amid Ranbir Singh's control, Kashmir confronted onerous dictatorship, as perceived by British spectators. In 1860, Ranbir Singh added Gilgit. Hunza and Nagar moved toward becoming tributaries soon afterwards.[2] Ranbir Singh was prevailing by Pratap Singh (1885– 1925) and Hari Singh (1925– 1952), the last being the ruler at the season of Indian autonomy.

The province of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 was to a great degree differing. The Valley of Kashmir, the most crowded locale, was a generally great kingdom, having confronted the Arabs and the Afghan-Turk trespassers, and staying free until the season of Akbar. It was 97% Muslim, with 3% religious minorities, generally the Hindu people group of Kashmiri Pandits. The Jammu division's eastern locale had a Hindu dominant part populace socially adjusted to the Hill conditions of Himachal Pradesh. Its western areas like Poonch, Kotli and Mirpur had a Muslim lion's share socially adjusted toward the West Punjab fields. Ladakh, an expansive precipitous locale, had a for the most part Buddhist populace socially adjusted to Tibet. The northern zones of Gilgit and Baltistan were on the whole Muslim, with Buddhist minorities, socially adjusted to Pakhtun and Central Asian areas.

Poonch was a jagir presented by the Maharaja Ranjit Singh to Gulab Singh's sibling Raja Dhian Singh. Upon the last's demise, the jagir was recovered by Lahore and it was passed to Gulab Singh in the settlements of Lahore and Amritsar. Be that as it may, Dhian Singh's child Jawahar Singh set forward a claim to Poonch, and it was allowed to him subject to the condition that he was to counsel Gulab Singh on `all matters of significance'. He was likewise anticipated that would exhibit Gulab Singh one pony decked in gold trappings each year.[3] After the passing of Raja Jawahar Singh, Hari Singh dispossed his young child of control over Poonch and set out to incorporate it into his State. The move was disagreeable in Poonch. The Mahajara's rule forced an assortment of new assessments and the Dogra troops were sent over to authorize collection.[4]

The Sudhan clans of Poonch and Mirpur were war-like. They included the main Muslim troops in the Maharaja Hari Singh's army.[5] During the second world war, more than 60,000 of them battled in the British Army. After demobiliation, they were compelled to return to cultivating in light of the fact that the Maharaja declined to acknowledge them into his own particular armed force, and they confronted the new tax collection arrangement of the Maharaja. In the Spring of 1947, they mounted a `no-charge' crusade, welcoming serious backlashes from the Maharaja's legislature. In July, the Maharaja requested that all Muslims must surrender their arms to the experts. Be that as it may, as the Partition viciousness spread, similar arms were purportedly appropriated to the non-Muslims. These strains prompted an uprising in Poonch.[4]