Maharaja Hari Singh Archives

It’s a matter of great satisfaction that CJ Chandrachud has told Kapil Sibal and ilk that the “Constituent Assembly cannot have an indefinite life”

Opinion

Mr. CJ Chandrachud, J&K Constituent Assembly was 100% rigged, 100% National...

Hari Om - August 14, 2023 1

SC hearing on Article 370 abrogation Hearing is on in the Supreme Court (SC) on August 5, 2019, the Narendra Modi government’s epoch-making decision to...

The State of J&K came into being only on March 16, 1846, under the Treaty of Amritsar, signed between the Dogra Raja, Gulab Singh, and the British Indian government

Politics

Kashmir never enjoyed state status post-1846

Hari Om - February 25, 2023 0

Misrepresenting facts It has become customary with certain elements in and outside the Indian establishment, and even outside India, to misrepresent facts as far as...

The ongoing process of disintegration of J&K -- its division into two UTs and creation of Ladakh as a UT out of the erstwhile J&K State -- has to be viewed in this context

Politics

Formation and disintegration of Jammu and Kashmir

Hari Om - January 13, 2023 0

Kashmir became part of Dogra Kingdom, and not vice-versa J&K State came into being at a time when other princely states were crumbling one after...

What Azad and other Kashmiri leaders have been hailing Maharaja Hari Singh's State Subject Definition is nothing but a dubious exercise calculated to create a wedge between J&K Muslims and all other Indians

Opinion

State Subject Laws: Azad speaking white lies to mislead people

Hari Om - October 30, 2022 0

Will Azad and ilk in Kashmir appreciate the truth? Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit Congress last August, set up his own political outfit in Jammu...

Maharaja Hari Singh was not just an integrationist par excellence. He was also an able, effective, and skillful administrator, a great social reformer, and also a democrat in his own right

Politics

Public holiday on birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh must have stung...

Hari Om - September 16, 2022 0

J&K to have a public holiday on Maharaja Hari Singh’s birthday J&K LG Manoj Sinha has done it. Taking cognizance of the growing disaffection among...

15 of the several such instances which call the bluff of the destroyers and put things in perspective

Politics

A list of 15 sins committed by Farooq Abdullah, ilk

Hari Om - March 26, 2021 4

Dogras of Jammu know who their friends and foes are What an irony? Those who left no stone unturned to destroy Jammu, erode its distinct...

Karan Singh took up the issue from time to time during the next 13 years or so. all his efforts failed. In fact, his sincere efforts only annoyed what could be legitimately termed as the biased, arrogant, and unaccommodating Kashmir’s ruling elite

Opinion

Karan Singh demanded autonomy for Jammu, Congress called him a foreign...

Hari Om - June 30, 2020 0

As Head of the semi-autonomous state and son of Jammu, Karan Singh, knew what was happening over and beneath the surface On November 17, 1952,...

Politics

Public holiday declared on Accession day in Jammu and Kashmir

Chandra Maurya - December 28, 2019 0

No public holiday on Sheikh Mohd Abdullah's birth anniversary, Martyrs' day Acknowledging the historic significance of October 26, for the first time in last over...

Politics

Jammu Municipal Corporation passes resolution to observe Maharaja Hari Singh’s birth...

Chandra Maurya - July 21, 2019 2

After JMC, few other Urban local bodies in Jammu region are contemplating passing a similar resolution seeking state holiday on September 23. Governor's administration in...