During British colonial rule in India, Jammu and Kashmir was controlled by Dogra Rajputs who supported a Hindu administrative elite even as Jammu and Kashmir had a Muslim-majority population. Against the backdrop of the aforementioned reality, this paper attempts to trace the rise of Muslim political identity in Jammu and Kashmir in the first half of the twentieth century. It examines their internal disagreements and interactions with political groups in British India and tries to answer the question as to whether the opposition towards the monopolization of political power by Hindu elite translated to opposition and exclusion of Hindus in general.
Mr. Arka Chakraborty holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Presidency University Kolkata. He is interested in education and its impact on the population, cultural nuances between communities, and the various contours of interfaith relations. His paper titled “A Brief Comparative Study of the Imperial Crises of China and Japan from the Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries” has been published by the Altralang Journal (31.07.2020).
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