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==Administration== | ==Administration== |
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This article is about the administration of the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu. For the history, see Kashmir § History.
Former princely state
Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||||||
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1846–1952 | |||||||||||||
Flag Emblem | |||||||||||||
Map of Kashmir showing the borders of the princely state in dark red. | |||||||||||||
Status | Princely State | ||||||||||||
Capital | |||||||||||||
Common languages | Kashmiri, Dogri, Ladakhi, Balti, Shina, Pahari-Pothwari, Gujari, Kundal Shahi, Bhaderwahi, Burushaski, Brokskat, Domaaki, Khowar, Bateri, Purgi, Zangskari, Tibetan, Punjabi, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Sanskrit | ||||||||||||
Religion | Hinduism (state), Islam (majority), Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism | ||||||||||||
Maharaja | |||||||||||||
• 16 March 1846 – 30 June 1857 | Gulab Singh (first) | ||||||||||||
• 23 September 1925 – 17 November 1952 | Hari Singh (last) | ||||||||||||
Dewan | |||||||||||||
• 15 October 1947 – 5 March 1948 | Mehr Chand Mahajan (first) | ||||||||||||
• 5 March 1948 – 17 November 1952 | Sheikh Abdullah (last) | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
• Princely state of the Company rule in India and later British India | 1846 | ||||||||||||
• Independence from British India | 15 Aug 1947 | ||||||||||||
• First Kashmir War (cession of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan) | 22 Oct 1947 | ||||||||||||
• Accession to the Indian Union | 26–27 Oct 1947 | ||||||||||||
• Constitutional state of India | 17 November 1952 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1952 | ||||||||||||
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Today part of | India (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh) Pakistan (Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan) China (Trans-Karakoram Tract (ceded by Pakistan in 1963), Aksai Chin) |
Jammu and Kashmir, also known as Kashmir and Jammu, was a princely state in a subsidiary alliance under British East India Company rule from 1846 to 1858 and under the paramountcy (or tutelage) of the British Crown, from 1858 until the Partition of India in 1947, when it became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: China, India, and Pakistan. The princely state was created after the First Anglo-Sikh War, when the East India Company, which had annexed the Kashmir Valley, from the Sikhs as war indemnity, then sold it to the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, for rupees 75 lakhs.
At the time of the partition of India and the political integration of India, Hari Singh, the ruler of the state, delayed making a decision about the future of his state. However, an uprising in the western districts of the State followed by an attack by raiders from the neighbouring Northwest Frontier Province, supported by Pakistan, forced his hand. On 26 October 1947, Hari Singh acceded to India in return for the Indian military being airlifted to Kashmir, to engage the Pakistan-supported forces. The western and northern districts now known as Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan passed to the control of Pakistan after it occupied it, while the remaining territory stayed under Indian control, later becoming the Indian administered state of Jammu and Kashmir. India and Pakistan defined a cease-fire line—the line of control—dividing the administration of the territory with the intercession of the United Nations which was supposed to be temporary but still persists.
Administration
According to the census reports of 1911, 1921 and 1931, the administration was organised as follows:
- Jammu province: Districts of Jammu, Jasrota (Kathua), Udhampur, Reasi and Mirpur.
- Kashmir province: Districts of Kashmir South (Anantnag), Kashmir North (Baramulla) and Muzaffarabad.
- Frontier districts: Wazarats of Ladakh and Gilgit.
- Internal jagirs: Poonch, Bhaderwah and Chenani.
In the 1941 census, further details of the frontier districts were given:
- Ladakh wazarat: Tehsils of Leh, Skardu and Kargil.
- Gilgit wazarat: Tehsils of Gilgit and Astore
- Frontier illaqas: (under the Gilgit Agency) Punial, Ishkoman, Yasin, Kuh-Ghizer, Hunza, Nagar, Chilas.
Prime ministers (Jammu & Kashmir)
# | Name | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Raja Sir Daljit Singh | 1917 | 1921 |
2 | Raja Hari Singh | 1925 | 1927 |
3 | Sir Albion Banerjee | January 1927 | March 1929 |
4 | G. E. C. Wakefield | 1929 | 1931 |
5 | Hari Krishan Kaul | 1931 | 1932 |
6 | Elliot James Dowell Colvin | 1932 | 1936 |
7 | Sir Barjor J. Dalal | 1936 | 1936 |
8 | Sir N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar | 1937 | July 1943 |
9 | Kailash Narain Haksar | July 1943 | February 1944 |
10 | Sir B. N. Rau | February 1944 | 28 June 1945 |
11 | Ram Chandra Kak | 28 June 1945 | 11 August 1947 |
12 | Janak Singh | 11 August 1947 | 15 October 1947 |
13 | Mehr Chand Mahajan | 15 October 1947 | 5 March 1948 |
14 | Sheikh Abdullah | 5 March 1948 | 9 August 1953 |
See also
- List of political parties in Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)
- Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir
- Dogra dynasty
- Jammu and Kashmir Bodyguard Cavalry
References
- "Kashmir and Jammu", Imperial Gazetteer of India, 15, Secretary of State for India in Council: Oxford at the Clarendon Press: 71–, 1908, archived from the original on 21 December 2019, retrieved 27 August 2019
- Sneddon, Christopher (2021), Independent Kashmir: An incomplete aspiration, Manchester University Press, pp. 12–13,
Paramountcy was the 'vague and undefined' feudatory system whereby the British, as the suzerain power, dominated and controlled India's princely rulers. ... These 'loyal collaborators of the Raj' were 'afforded protection in exchange for helpful behavior in a relationship of tutelage, called paramountcy'.
- Ganguly, Sumit; Hagerty, Devin T. (2005), Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, Seattle and New Delhi: University of Washington Press, and Oxford University Press, p. 22, ISBN 0-295-98525-9,
... the problem of the 'princely states'. These states had accepted the tutelage of the British Crown under the terms of the doctrine of 'paramountcy' under which they acknowledged the Crown as the 'paramount' authority in the subcontinent.
- "Kashmir: region, Indian subcontinent". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 13 August 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2016. Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. It is bounded by the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang to the northeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the east (both parts of China), by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south, by Pakistan to the west, and by Afghanistan to the northwest. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, ... The southern and southeastern portions constitute the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian- and Pakistani-administered portions are divided by a "line of control" agreed to in 1972, although neither country recognizes it as an international boundary. In addition, China became active in the eastern area of Kashmir in the 1950s and since 1962 has controlled the northeastern part of Ladakh (the easternmost portion of the region)."
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- Panikkar, Gulab Singh 1930, p. 111–125.
- 1st Edition Cold War in the High Himalayas The USA, China and South Asia in the 1950s By S. Mahmud Ali Copyright 1999( When tribal Pathan militias from Pakistan's North-West Frontiers joined Sudhan Pathan rebels fighting for freedom, Hari Singh fled to Jammu and reportedly signed a letter of accession to India.) Page 19
- "Q&A: Kashmir dispute - BBC News". BBC News. 7 July 2010. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- Schofield, Victoria (2023). Kashmir in conflict : India, Pakistan and the unending war. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-86064-898-4 – via Internet Archive.
- Bose, Sumantra (2003). Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace. Harvard University Press. pp. 32–37. ISBN 0-674-01173-2.
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