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Title: HISTORICAL STUDY OF KASHMIRI PANDITS IN THE POLITICS OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR (1846-1947)
Authors: Zahoor Ahmad Dar, Dr. Sangita Pathak
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1Zahoor Ahmad Dar, 2Dr. Sangita Pathak 1. Research Scholar, Department of History, Rabindranath Tagore University Bhopal. 2. Dean Humanities and Languages, Rabindaranath Tagore University Bhopal
MLA 8 DAR, ZAHOOR AHMAD, and Dr. Sangita Pathak. "HISTORICAL STUDY OF KASHMIRI PANDITS IN THE POLITICS OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR (1846-1947)." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 4, no. 7, July 2019, pp. 5040-5047, ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=385. Accessed July 2019. APA DAR, Z., & Pathak, D. (2019, July). HISTORICAL STUDY OF KASHMIRI PANDITS IN THE POLITICS OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR (1846-1947). Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 4(7), 5040-5047. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=385 Chicago DAR, ZAHOOR AHMAD, and Dr. Sangita Pathak. "HISTORICAL STUDY OF KASHMIRI PANDITS IN THE POLITICS OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR (1846-1947)." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 4, no. 7 (July 2019), 5040-5047. Accessed July, 2019. ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=385.
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Abstract: The initial period of Dogra regime under Gulab Singh (1846-56) and Ranbir Singh (1853-85) was eager to cultivate the loyalty of the Hindu clerical caste of Kashmir Pandit, and few prominent Kashmir Muslim Sayyid and Pir families to ensure Kashmir's smooth transition to a Dogra kingdom, in much the same way as British did in India. Gulab Singh was acquainted that the Kashmiri Pandits were highly advanced in education and wielding monopoly of Persian language; they succeeded in getting important jobs in the Lahore court as well as in other States. In the field of art, philosophy and literature, they had produced a galaxy of authors, savants and saints. The socio-economic condition of the Kashmir's was highly deplorable when Gulab Singh took over the control of Kashmir. The province of Kashmir signified many problems of administrative reconstruction and consolidation. Gulab Singh was utmost busy in settling the affairs of the State due to anarchy prevailed by the Sikh rulers .During the Gulab Singh regime, Kashmiri Pandits watched the ruler's projects of economic rebuilding and political consolidation of the State like resumed all the land grants, re imposed state control on the industries of the State, wrested away the monopolies in trade and commerce, introduced rationing system in food and reorganized shawl department.

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