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| Remembering Hari Singh | | He must get credit for popularizing education | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 27: 4: The National Conference has been claiming credit for popularizing education in Kashmir. However, history falsifies this claim. It was Hari Singh who did the miracle.
In early 30s, Maharaja Hari Singh made education compulsory. Schools were opened across Kashmir and children were taken forcibly to the schools. Parents found liable of marring the career by denying them education would be arrested and punished. Such schools were called Jabri Schools. Jabri in Kashmir means forcible.
An active member of Muslim Conference, Muhammad Yusuf Khan, who died at the age of 85 in 2010 said, "I belonged to a family of weavers. A master craftsman in our locality taught me the art of weaving. But one day I was taken to the school by my scared parents. The school authorities gave me cloth for kameez-pyjama (shirt and trousers). I was also given one rupee to get it stitched. They also gave me books printed in England and a bundle of stationery items. Back home, my parents were delighted to see the cloth and the money I had brought. The books and stationery did not amuse them much."
Khan later graduated from SP College and served the state government in various capacities. But for Maharaja Hari Singh's Jabri (compulsory) schools Khan and an entire generation would have stayed illiterate. Interestingly Khan fought Hari Singh's rule tooth and nail in early 40s.
Some people criticize Hari Singh for forcing the people to send their children to schools. Earlier Sir Syed of Kashmir, Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah had opened a school. But it attracted a few persons. This must be the reason behind Hari Singh's idea of using force', commented a retired educationist.
Hari Singh wanted his subjects to read, write and compete with their counterparts in rest of the world. Qudrutullah Shuhab writes in his Shuhab Nama: "When I secured first position in an essay competition, Maharaja Hari Singh invited me to his palace over a cup of tea." The idea behind this invitation was to encourage him. Shuhab served government of Pakistan in a senior capacity till his retirement. |
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