Conceding the long pending demand of the common residents of Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Territory ... of birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh falling on September 23. The announcement ...

Kishore Singh was a distant relative of Raja Jit Singh of Jammu ... However, following an invasion by Pakistan intent on claiming Kashmir, Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession with ...

Historically, Jammu and Kashmir was a princely state whose fate was to be decided by its Maharaja. Despite having a Muslim majority, Raja Hari Singh signed the instrument of accession with India ...

The state of Jammu and Kashmir was thus formed, a Muslim-majority state with a Hindu Dogra ruler. The last ruling Maharaja of the Dogra dynasty was Maharaja Hari Singh, the son of Raja Amar Singh ...

The Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh, was the Hindu head of a majority Muslim state sandwiched between the two countries and could not decide. He signed an interim "standstill" agreement to ...

A cease-fire deal pulled India and Pakistan back from the brink of conflict, but the danger hasn’t gone away. The ongoing ...

Rekha Chowdhary ‘Modern History of Jammu and Kashmir: The Troubled Years of Maharaja Hari Singh (1925-1949)’ is part of a trilogy on the contemporary political history of Jammu and Kashmir.

Maharaja Hari Singh, who acceded his state of Jammu & Kashmir to India on October 26, 1947, died a dejected man in Bombay on April 26, 1961. It was first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru ...

Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the ...