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Baseless allegations against Dogra rule
9/30/2011 12:39:54 AM
Neha
JAMMU, Sept 29: It has become customary with some biased Kashmiri writers to paint the Dogra rule oppressive and anti-Kashmiri and, at the same time, suggest solutions designed to enable Kashmir to establish its stranglehold over Jammu province.
An article by a writer from Kashmir valley titled ""Formations of the Kashmir" which has painted the Dogra rule and the Dogras black and suggested a solution which, if accepted, would seal the fate of the people of Jammu province for all the times to come.
It is, in fact, a note on the atrocities allegedly committed by the Dogras on Kashmiri Muslims. The article, among things, says: "The most intense and enduring political memory that J&K still carries with herself is about a sale deed. Though in strict terms it was not any land being sold to someone, but as a consequence of two interlinked treaties, Treaty of Lahore (1846) and Treaty of Amritsar (1846), the territory of Jammu and Kashmir came under the control of a Dogra Ruler, Maharaja Gulab Singh, for which he had to pay Rs 75 Lakh towards East India Company.
It was actually the indemnity that the Company had asked from the defeated Sikh empire of Lahore. This event stationed itself in the collective memory of Kashmir as them being sold out to a person who was never one amongst them. The complete negation of the people of the state (read Muslims of Kashmir) in this treaty unleashed an authoritarian rule that rendered them powerless subjects.
They were divested of almost everything; of mountains, streams, fields, avenues, orchids. In fact, their lives were taken away from them. The memory of this event, and the experiences that people underwent as a consequence of Amritsar Treaty, shaped up the Kashmir politics. Two distinct streams that contributed to the making of political were; one, Dogras were foreigners on account of them not being from Kashmir, second, they were Hindus".
Underline what the writer terms as "two distinct streams" and see for yourself what the writer has actually suggested: Dogras were foreigners and Hindus. Almost all the Kashmiri Muslim writers have been advocating identical views since decades. Their message is loud and clear and the message is that they hate and despise the Dogras from the core of their heart.
The writer of the article didn't stop there. He went a step further to prove his point by referring to the petition one Khwaja Sad-ud-Din Shawl submitted to Lord Reading, Governor-General of India, in October 1924, containing details on the atrocities allegedly perpetrated by the Dogras on Kashmiri Muslims. However, the writer conveniently forgot to refer in his nasty article the action the Dogra government had then taken on this and several other similar petitions.
That the allegations against the Dogras and the Dogra Maharaja were baseless and imaginary could be seen from the remarks of the then British Resident in the state, J B Wood. Wood had said that the petitions or memorials contained some obvious misstatements and exaggerations and opined that "so far as his information goes, there are no such grievances on the part of the petitioners as would justify him in making a representation to the Darbar" (state government).
However, on October 27, 1924, Hari Singh, Foreign Minister, submitted a memorandum to the State Council (State Cabinet) relating to six petitions submitted by Kashmiri Muslims. On October 30, 1924, the State Council appointed a high-powered sub-committee consisting of the Revenue Minister (convener), Public Works Member and Finance and Police Member with a view to report to the Council on the general situation.
The sub-committee didn't consider it necessary to deal individually with each case of the several representatives, some of which were of an anonymous nature, because the alleged grievances which they related were all set-forth in one memorial No. 5 dealing exhaustively with every variety of complaints and disabilities on the part of the Muslims of Kashmir. Memorial No. 5 had been presented by Maulvi Ahmad Ullah, Mir Waiz Kalan, Maulvi Mirwaiz Hamdani, Maulvi Atiq Ullah, Kh Hassan Shah Naqasbandi, Kh Sad-ud-Din Shawl, Sayyad Hassan Shah Jalali, Maulvi Sharief-ud-Din, Sayyad Said Shah Jalali and Haji Jafar Khan. (To be continued).
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