A brief History of Jammu and Kashmir

On the 26th of October 1947, the heavenly state of Jammu and Kashmir also known as the Switzerland of India was born after many ifs and buts by the signing of the Karachi-Delhi treaty.

These ifs and buts were due to the differences in the religious beliefs of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Before the India — Pakistan partition, the king or the ruler was a Hindu but the majority was of Muslims and hence when the partition began on the basis of religious beliefs of these two countries; a secular nation and the Islamist nation was formed and Kashmir was a centre of attraction to both of these as it acted as a border between them and also a political agenda of the government to win its citizen's heart.

This issue brought up a large amount of internal and external tensions among the two Nations which led to some wars and countless activities of terrorism among them which forced the Indian government to put forward “Article 370” and “35-A” in its own state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1957.

This law was made for the betterment of the standard of living of Kashmiris, but eventually, the conditions worsened, which has led Amnesty International and United Nations to interfere or involve themselves in this issue.

Human rights was always an issue in Jammu and Kashmir starting from “The Exodus of Muslims” in 1947 to “The Genocide of Hindus” in 1997. Kashmir has been through a series of rights being violated that every human on this planet deserves to have and hence the rising Sun of hope has never been seen there.

To date Kashmir has only 3G towers in most of the place, local people’s standard of living is still 3 to 4 decades older than any other Indian. Some common things in Kashmir are highly uncommon in the rest of India such as Mass killing, In-force disappearance, Torture, Rape and Sexual abuse to political repression and suppression of freedom of speech. With lakhs of people losing their lives from the birth of Kashmir human rights are under a great threat in this province.

The government with the local people is still trying to regain peace in the state and slowly bring the “Jannat” back to Life.

Kashmir can be seen as a beautiful bride, with whom two brothers are in love, and no one wants to leave her until the other dies; where the feeling of the bride doesn’t matter but hurting each other’s sentiments does.

I wish the reader of this article had gained a brief knowledge about the happenings in Jammu and Kashmir. Links have been attached to the words, where I find the user would be interested to know more.