Before the foundation of Jammu and Kashmir state by Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1846-47, the modern Jammu region was divided into twenty-two...
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Dalit Perspectives on Religion and Inter-Community Relations Dalits account for almost a fourth of the population of Jammu province, but in...
N runs a small store in a town in the Jammu district. He has been an acquaintance of mine for several years now. Each time I travel from Jammu to...
Recent decades have witnessed the emergence and growing presence of the virulently anti-Sufi Ahl-i Hadith movement in the Jammu region, although the...
Z is a Shi‘a Muslim and works in a government department in Jammu. He tells me about the small Shi‘a community in the town, which comprises of some...
Every Thursday evening crowds mill around the dargah of Baba Jeewan Shah in the heart of Jammu. From their dress, most visitors seem to be Hindus...
T is an Islamic scholar belonging to the Barelvi maslak and is the imam of a mosque near Jammu. I first met him in his simple, sparsely furnished...
The Jammu province accounts for around 45 per cent of the total population of Jammu and Kashmir. The province consists of six districts: Doda...
Traveling together, it is said, reveals you to each other in truer form. For over a decade Shujaat and I took many journeys together and each...
Cryptocurrency trading platforms in India lament some regulatory gaps that make the market uncertain, to this day. Despite the typically volatile...
