@Shubham_7778 I fully understand the problems of Jammu, what it has gone through, and what it is going through. My one hope is that we can remove the misunderstandings between KPs and Jammu folk. My study of history of the region has taught me just how vital that unity is.
@Shubham_7778 It is unnecessary to tell a Jammu person his own history, but one incident I will narrate nonetheless. In the early 1930s, the Jihadis went on the rampage, as you doubtless know. Many KPs and many Jammu folk [Hindu and Sikh] lost their lives and property. The Dogras were the+
@Shubham_7778 +were the sword arm. They took on the Jihadis and crushed them in open warfare. Dogra police officers and generals were feared by the Jihadis of the valley. But that fear would not last, nor could the police be kept on alert indefinitely. So, a KP-Pandit Harkishan Kaul-who was+
@Shubham_7778 +then the Dewan played a clever game. He divided the Jihadis and set them at each others' throats. What the Dogras had won on the battlefield was consolidated by the political craft of Pandit Harkishan Kaul. Hindu unity and Jihadi division were both achieved. It stabilised the+
@Shubham_7778 +state. There is a lesson for all of us here. We need to unite. KPs and Dogras have always worked together in the past. That is why the state was stable. We can forget this history at our own peril.
@Shubham_7778 When you get time, read the biography of Sheikh Abdullah. He whines about how the Dogra police officers crushed his Jihadis, while the KP Dewan played his chess game superbly, turning one bunch on the other. We need to learn from this experience.
