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Nature of dogra state

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Dogra dynasty was a dynasty of Hindu Rajputs who ruled Jammu & Kashmir from 1846 to 1947. They traced their ancestry to the Ikshvaku (Solar) Dynasty of Northern India (the same clan in which Lord Rama was born; he, therefore, is the 'kuldevta' (family deity) of the Dogras).
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he worst feature of the Dogra rule was its communal

outlook. It discriminated the Muslims on the basis of their

religion and also interfered in their religious affairs. The Dogra

State was actually a Hindu State and its rulers tried their best to

broaden its Hindu nature, with the result Kashmiri Pandits as a

co-religionists’ class found it easy to get associated with it and

the Muslims were marginalised.1 Regarding the nature of the

Dogra Government, P. N. Bazaz, declared in 1941: “Speaking

generally and from the bourgeois point of view, the Dogra rule

has been a Hindu Raj. Muslims have not been treated fairly, by

which I mean as fairly as the Hindus. Firstly, because, contrary to

all professions of treating all classes equally, it must be candidly

admitted that Muslims were dealt with harshly in certain respects

only because they were Muslims.”2 It is reported that Gulab

Singh in 1850, made a plan to reconvert the Muslims, but, the

Banaras priests did not accept it, as according to them it would

dilute the purity of Hinduism.3 In fact, in 1846, he made it clear

that he would not allow Muslims to practise all their religious

practices and that as a Hindu; he would have to give priority to

the religion of Hindus.4 The British for the good of ‘ensuring the

sway of Pax–Britannica,’ tolerated it.

5 Colonel Torrens, who

visited Kashmir (1859-60) during the reign of Ranbir Singh,

records that the Dogra rule was the Hindu ‘rule’ which was run

by ‘Hindu’ faqueers, detested by people, they prey upon, but

supported and encouraged by the Government. In order to prove

it a Hindu State it invaded Muslim places and erected temples.6

A large number of Muslim shrines and mosques were confiscated

and declared State property, like Pather Masjid, Khanqah Sokhta,

Khanqah Bulbulshah, Khanqah Darashikoh, Idgah and so on in

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