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When in Jammu a #HeritageWalk along with @Kirpal_Sing_Dev ji is a must do.
Blessed to be part of it in Jammu today.
Blessed to be part of it in Jammu today.
Foreign Department & Army Headquarters of J&K State Forces.
Presently J&K State Forces is JAKRIF in #IndianArmy.
#AmazingJammu
#DograHeritage
#IncredibleIndia
Presently J&K State Forces is JAKRIF in #IndianArmy.
#AmazingJammu
#DograHeritage
#IncredibleIndia
Justice is a fundamental requirement for any successful government. The administration of justice is vital for maintaining law and order and fostering prosperity in a nation. While modern governments have numerous courts and law-making authorities, citizens still complain about
the lack of justice being delivered to them. The first Dogra ruler of modern Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Gulab Singh Dogra, provides an example of the importance of a fair and just administration.
𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭:
Maharaja Gulab Singh Dogra brought together the historically associated areas of Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Baltistan, Aksai Tibet, and united them into one administrative unit. However, the administration faced several challenges due to various
Maharaja Gulab Singh Dogra brought together the historically associated areas of Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Baltistan, Aksai Tibet, and united them into one administrative unit. However, the administration faced several challenges due to various
Numerous people have written on Baba Jitto but biggest drawback in their writing was that they saw him through modern prism and plotting him as a ignition of peasant revolt against feudalism; many others by adding a tinge of socialism made it a kind of class struggle.
In reality, the true story was much different here as Durgāradesa (Duggardesh) is a holy land whose true lords are Devi-Devtas themselves; and historically the legitimate rulers ruled here were just their representatives who ruled from their side somewhat like having the Power of
Attorney. Whenever such a sound was about to come which could tamper the original spirit of Dogra country, the God himself used to send his messenger and showed everyone the right path.
The essence of Himalayas is incomplete without making mention of Khasas; of which Dogra is one of important sub-tribe. It's thing of worth mentioning that the dialect of Dogri being spoken in Riasi in the south-east of the river Chenab is commonly known as "Khasi" which is
akin to Khasali dialects of Dogri spoken in Doda and Udhampur, that bring out Dogra 's Khasa relation.
Khas has always been the powerful race whose imprints is easily accessible as far as to Central Asia, Kashgar, Kashkara, the Hindu-Kush, Kashmir and in the territories bearing
Khas has always been the powerful race whose imprints is easily accessible as far as to Central Asia, Kashgar, Kashkara, the Hindu-Kush, Kashmir and in the territories bearing
similar root name in the hilly areas extending from Durgāra to Nepal. Khasa's frequent mention has been made in various ancient literatures with some variants such as Khasha, Khasa, Khasira & Kasira etc.
The Dogra which is one of the infamous tribe of Khasa stock is seen to
The Dogra which is one of the infamous tribe of Khasa stock is seen to
𝗠𝘂𝗰𝗵-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲!
Morethan two weeks has been passed and much awaited response regarding the confusion of birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh Bahadur is still to bring out. Today morning I got some messages that I should throw light atleast now as people were
Morethan two weeks has been passed and much awaited response regarding the confusion of birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh Bahadur is still to bring out. Today morning I got some messages that I should throw light atleast now as people were
waiting for truth. Following this lead, I am going to talk about my earlier claim that Maharaja Hari Singh Dogra was born on 13th of September rather than the popular belief of 23rd September.
Accepting it as the moral responsibility towards my tribe, I am presenting some of facts regarding the date with some of the authorised attatchments from the archives.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬.
September 23, 2022 , a day which turned special for all the Dogras and celebration took place in name of Maharaja Hari Singh because a declaration was made by Government to declare 23 September as the
September 23, 2022 , a day which turned special for all the Dogras and celebration took place in name of Maharaja Hari Singh because a declaration was made by Government to declare 23 September as the
Holiday of Maharaja Hari Singh 's birthday but rather than Birthday Holiday, I would consider it as the Remembrance Day in name Maharaja Hari Singh because he was not born on this date in reality.
Keeping all these things aside, I am coming on the topic with respect to which I am writing this article. Under the banner of YRS, the people of Jammu united as the single unit and all the community groups (sabhas) extended their support for the cause what the YRS was asking.
@vivekagnihotri ji ,I am not a #KashmiriPandit Scholar but a #Dogra from Jammu but I am going to expose the lies spread by these communal people by means of a thread🧵exposing secularism of #SheikhAbdullah.
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#SheikhAbdullah was so secular that he raised an organisation called #Muslim Reading Room Group that had organised an inflammatory speech of Abdul Qadir inside Srinagar's Khanqah-i-Moula Shrine on June 21 1931 in which he began extolling #Muslims to shun #Hindu ruler of J&K.
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#SheikhAbdullah was so secular that in 1932 ,he founded a party named Jammu and Kashmir #Muslim Conference in Srinagar that was named after a religion and not region .
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Join me in paying homage to
BRIGADIER RAJINDER SINGH
2 J&K STATE FORCES
MAHA VIR CHAKRA
on his birth anniversary today.
He immortalized fighting paki raiders in 1947 and is the first recipient of any gallantry award in Independent India.
#KnowYourHeroes
#VeerYatra
BRIGADIER RAJINDER SINGH
2 J&K STATE FORCES
MAHA VIR CHAKRA
on his birth anniversary today.
He immortalized fighting paki raiders in 1947 and is the first recipient of any gallantry award in Independent India.
#KnowYourHeroes
#VeerYatra
With just 100 DOGRA troops, BRIGADIER RAJINDER SINGH defended J&K against 6000 pakis at Uri for four days in 1947.
Had he not been deceived by his own troops, who joined hands with the raiders, there would have been no POK today.
#KnowYourHeroes
#DOGRA
#VeerYatra
Had he not been deceived by his own troops, who joined hands with the raiders, there would have been no POK today.
#KnowYourHeroes
#DOGRA
#VeerYatra
BRIGADIER RAJINDER SINGH when immortalized himself, he left behind his wife and five daughters.
#BrigadierRajinderSingh is rightly known as the #saviourofKashmir.
#KnowYourHeroes
#BrigadierRajinderSingh is rightly known as the #saviourofKashmir.
#KnowYourHeroes
Dogras captured Imperial Chinese flag bearing image of flying tiger/dragon named as Mantalai (Mansarovar) flag by #Dogras
#Mantalai Flag remind us of the Victory at Taklakot, and how a #Dogra Army penetrated 1400 Kms deep into Tibetan territory.
30th May Mantalai Day
#180years
#Mantalai Flag remind us of the Victory at Taklakot, and how a #Dogra Army penetrated 1400 Kms deep into Tibetan territory.
30th May Mantalai Day
#180years
When a #Rajput defeated combined armies of China & Tibet
General Zorawar Singh
#GenZorawarSingh #ZorawarSingh #Dogra #JAKRIF #Jammu #Ladakh #Tibet #IndianArmy #180years #MantalaiDay #MantalaiDiwas #30thMay
General Zorawar Singh
#GenZorawarSingh #ZorawarSingh #Dogra #JAKRIF #Jammu #Ladakh #Tibet #IndianArmy #180years #MantalaiDay #MantalaiDiwas #30thMay
Today 30th May is celebrated as the Mantalai Day by the 4 JAKRIF to commemorate the victory of Dogra forces led by General Zorawar Singh
(Chandel Rajput) over combined Chinese & Tibetan troops
#GenZorawarSingh #ZorawarSingh #Dogra #JAKRIF #MantalaiDay #IndianArmy #30thMay #Jammu
(Chandel Rajput) over combined Chinese & Tibetan troops
#GenZorawarSingh #ZorawarSingh #Dogra #JAKRIF #MantalaiDay #IndianArmy #30thMay #Jammu
100 years ago #OnThisDay (3 Sept), a gallant last stand took place at a place called Samawa in Iraq. 30 Dogras of C squadron of 10th Hodson’s Horse were surrounded by overwhelming odds.
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They had become stranded during a retreat from a railway station inside a carriage of an armoured train. They continuously engaged the attacking force (about 4000 strong) in the hope that the main camp would hear the firing and send a relief force.
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This was not to be and their officer, Capt Oswald Russell encouraged the men to fight to the last bullet. Attempts were made to burn the carriage. They held off the attackers for several hours and by 4pm, Russell who was by then wounded, told the survivors to try and escape.
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Zorawar Singh Kahluria - The Liberator of Kailash
Original Art By: arsalanactual (Instagram)
#Ladakh #Rajput #Dogra #IndoChinaFaceoff
Original Art By: arsalanactual (Instagram)
#Ladakh #Rajput #Dogra #IndoChinaFaceoff
The year was 1841, a little more than a century before the Kingdom of Jammu & Kashmir acceded to the Indian Union. Under the liege of Maharaja Gulab Singh Jamwal, an ambitious Rajput general by the name of Zorawar Singh Kahluria crusaded to liberate Mount Kailash.
Commandeering a 6000-strong Dogra army, he marched onto Tibet, and Mount Kailash, an object of divine provenance to his people that was occupied by the Tibetans. The campaign was fueled by both pious and militaristic fervor, it was preceded by a successful conquest of Baltistan.
Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deb is King of Puri. Gajapati Maharaj is the "Aadyasevak" of Lord Jagannath. He is the chairman of the Shri Jagannath Temple Managing Committee. His beautiful wife Leelavati Pat Mahadei, is a #Dogra Charak. #Jammu #Odisha connect. #RathYatra
The Gajapati Maharaj travels on the silver palki during Rath Yatra. He performs the sweeping of the Rath, a symbolic ceremony with a gold broom to show that the Raja is the first sevak of Lord Jagannath.
#RathYatra
#RathYatra
The silver palki on which the Gajapati travels.
1. #China’s recent aggression at the border with India at key strategic locations in Union Territory of #Ladakh is nothing new nor is its betrayal of historic treaties with (former) J&K, #Tibet & HK. However, the dragon now faces a new India that attempts to tame it. A thread:
On #WorldHeritageDay I showcase the soul of #Dogra people & the epicentre of their modern history. The images will also reveal how if you want to squash a voice, you erase their history & self-esteem. This site has been a victim of loot, pillage & arson. #MubarakMandi #Jammu
The #MubarakMandi Palace complex holds 300 yrs of Dogra history within itself. With over 20 palaces built over 200 years starting at 1710 it is unlike any other. From here the Dogra rulers reigned over their sprawling kingdom.
For over 200 years, they ruled over an area that stretched from the Pir Panjal mountain range in the north, the plains of Punjab to the South to Ladakh & Tibet in the east.
Paying tribute “Little Napoleon of India” Great General Zorawar Singh on his Birthday. ONE OF THE GREATEST DOGRA COMMANDER AND WARRIOR
#DograWarrior #VeerZorawar
#DograWarrior #VeerZorawar
Zorawar Singh Kahluria (1786-1841) was a #Rajput general of the Sikh Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was subordinate to the Dogra ruler Gulab Singh, who was a vassal of the Sikh emperor Ranjit Singh.
#Dograwarrior #veerzorawar
#Dograwarrior #veerzorawar
His legacy of conquests in the Himalaya Mountains including Ladakh, Tibet, Baltistan and Iskardu as General and Wazir, he has been referred to as the "Napoleon of India",and "Conqueror of Ladakh".
#ValiantDogras #DograWarrior #VeerZorawar
#ValiantDogras #DograWarrior #VeerZorawar
When Sher Singh, son of Ranjit Singh was assassinated on 15th September 1843, then a few hours after Raja Dhian Singh, the Dogra minister, met the same fate. He and Sher Singh was killed by their common enemies, the Sindhianwala Sirdars who destroyed them both.
Dalip Singh, another son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was then installed as Maharaja, with Raja Hira Singh, son of the murdered Dogra Minister, as prime minister.
There was however a party in the kingdom who encouraged Raja Suchet Singh of Samba and Ramnagar who was the brother of Raja Dhian Singh to aspire to the office of minister, and he also had the support of a section of the Khalsa.
#LongPost but #MustRead👇
#Indigenious People of #JammuKashmirLadakh - A perfect visual delight of culture and heritage of each region, so beautifully crafted by 2 young #Dogra Boys🤝- One belongs to #WestJammu in #POJK and another from #Samba Village.
#Indigenious People of #JammuKashmirLadakh - A perfect visual delight of culture and heritage of each region, so beautifully crafted by 2 young #Dogra Boys🤝- One belongs to #WestJammu in #POJK and another from #Samba Village.
VOD takes pride in sharing their artwork so that the world and nation see the ethnic diversity and amazing blend of culture in J&K.
🙏Arsalan Khan: A British-born Pahari who happens to be an artist. A Rajput (Gakhar) from West Jammu (now in POJK)
🙏Arsalan Khan: A British-born Pahari who happens to be an artist. A Rajput (Gakhar) from West Jammu (now in POJK)
🙏Raja Sourav Singh Sarmal: Born in Dogra Ràjput in Simblna village of Samba district of J&K, currently an engineering student and preparing for UPSC. Working with Arsalan on various art on JK as his companion.
#Dogra Maharaja Ranbir Singh introduced Postal & Telecommuncation services in Jammu & Kashmir in 1887. A telegraph service was extended from Sialkot to Jammu and to Kashmir. A state wide network of post & telephone was estd when the services reached Gilgit & Skardu in 1882.
The services were further expanded under Maharaja Hari Singh in the 1930s. By 1944, 126 post offices were functioning in the state. A telephone trunk line was laid between Jammu & Suchetgarh on April 27, 1932 and another between Srinagar and Jammu on Oct 21, 1935.
Poonch & Baramulla were linked by a single line wire & exchange estd in Baramulla in 1940. Wireless stns were set up in Jammu, Nowshera, Rajouri, Mirpur, Kotli, Bhimber between 1930-34. The development of means of communication boosted trade & tourism in the state. #JKHistory
The last Governor of #Gilgit was Brigadier Ghansara Singh Jamwal, r/o Raipur Bantalab, #Jammu
The brave Brigadier had stoically accepted the role of Governor on 1st August 1947 despite the known dangers of this position. #DograHistory #JK
The brave Brigadier had stoically accepted the role of Governor on 1st August 1947 despite the known dangers of this position. #DograHistory #JK
When Pakistani raiders attacked J&K in Oct 1947, Major Brown and #Gilgit Scouts which he commanded, rose in revolt. More than a 1000 men surrounded the Governor’s house and Brigadier Ghansara Singh along with his men, including the driver and attendant put up a brave fight.
Raja Sultan Abdul Hamid DSP of Gilgit Baltistan joined Major Brown in his treachery and lead the Gilgit Police to the Governor’s house. Brig Ghansara Singh surrendered only after Maj Brown gave an ultimatum that all non Muslims in Gilgit Agency would be killed.
On 16th March 1846, after the British annexed Punjab, they handed over the mountainous territory to the North of Punjab to Raja Gulab Singh. #Dogra Cheiftain Raja Gulab Singh paid the war indemnity owed by Lahore Court to the British in return.
#TreatyOfAmritsar #DograHistory
#TreatyOfAmritsar #DograHistory
#MaharajaGulabSingh and his Dogra Generals like General Zorawar Singh, Gen Baj Singh, ADC Mehta Basti Ram extended the Dogra Sovereignty up to the Pamirs and Tibet.
The consolidation of territories which later became the State of Jammu Kashmir began under Dogra Maharaja Gulab Singh, and was held together and governed ably by the Dogra Dynasty up until 1947.
