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| Dogras spread across Jammu province | | Malicious Propaganda | | Neha
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 16: During the just-concluded controversial and Kashmir-centric roundtable conference in Jammu, some biased and out-and out anti-India delegates from Kashmir asserted that the Dogras are confined to just two and a half districts of Jammu province. They conveniently forgot to inform the equally biased delegates from Delhi, including Sadia Dehlvi and controversial and vindictive interlocutors, that Kashmiris are confined only to the Valley proper in Kashmir and that the mountainous areas of Kashmir house non-Kashmiris, including Pathowari-speaking Muslims and Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims, whom Syed Ali Shah Geelani had contemptuously dismissed as non-Muslims not-so-long-ago.
The delegates from Kashmir suppressed the truth by not telling all other delegates that the Pathowari-speaking Muslims, all Sunnis, and Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims, again all Sunnis, belong to a different racial stock. Remember, these two communities belong to different cultures and different philosophies. Their way of life is different. Their concept of life and on life is different. Their heroes and foes are different. Their diet and dresses are different. They do not share the political, social and cultural perceptions of the Kashmiris. The fact of the matter is that there is nothing common between them and the Kashmiri Muslims, except religion, and religion cannot be uniting force. Had this been the case, Muslim Bangladesh would not have emerged out of the Muslim Pakistan. The delegates from Kashmir deliberately suppressed the truth to mislead all others.
The delegates from Kashmir said the Dogras are confined to just two and a half districts in Jammu province. Obviously, they meant Kathua district, Jammu district and parts of Udhampur district. Were they right? They were not right. They were absolutely wrong. The fact is that Dogras are spread across the Jammu province. In fact, all the people who inhabit the Jammu province are Dogras.
It is important to note that the Kashmiri delegates term the Hindus of Jammu province as Dogras and all others as non-Dogras. This is a distortion of sorts. The Dogras inhabit Kathua, Samba, Jammu, Rajouri, Udhampur, Reasi, Ramban, Kishtwar and Doda districts. There are, however, a few places in the erstwhile Doda district and Poonch and Rajouri districts which house some Kashmiri Muslims, but their presence in these areas, except Banihal tehsil, is not of much consequence.
It is not desirable to discuss things in communal terms, but it would not be inappropriate to point out here that over 70 per cent people of Jammu province are Hindus and Sikhs and less than 30 per cent Muslims, including Pathowari-speaking Muslims and Hindus and Gujjar and Bakerwal Muslims. The most striking aspect of the whole situation is that all of them, barring a few disgruntled elements here and there and some self-seekers and vested interests, are nationalist to the core. That's the reason the likes of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz, Yasin Malik and Shabbir Shah have failed to establish their foothold in any of the Jammu's ten districts, not even in the erstwhile Doda district.
The Kashmiri "think-tanks" would do well to recognize these facts. They would also do well to take note of former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah's Asia Hotel (Jammu) statement that "say whatever you want to say, but the fact remains that Jammu province, like Kashmir, is heterogeneous." Abdullah had made this statement to counter the statement of Prof Hari Om that "Jammu is politically, culturally and ethnically more homogeneous and Kashmir is not." |
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