Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Jammu and Kashmir/Archive 35

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Cities and Towns
I have run through once over this Category and added all articles under this project. Also added Geography section and maps wherever found. Will hit more categories related to Jammu and Kashmir soon. --GDibyendu (talk) 16:44, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Good work, GDibyendu! --  Tinu  Cherian  - 04:49, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Scope of project?
Is the intent to focus on the post 1947 Jammu and Kashmir or to include the Princely state period too? I have been shifting back and forth between the periods and among the articles and find alot of both overlap and confusion, particularly with respect to the military conflict articles. If the idea is to cover the princely state period, too, then that leads to the need to cover a bigger geographic area and suggests the need for a joint Indo/Pak project for this area - an impossibility? At any rate, let me know your thoughts about the scope so I can determine when to bring things to this project's attention.Vontrotta (talk) 11:52, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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Please add this news
Please add this news http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091202/ap_on_re_as/as_kashmir_nameless_graves 2600 dead bodies found in forests and mountains of Kashmir in which more than 1 dozen were militants whereas other thousands bodies are innocent civilians civilians.All were killed by indian security forces in Kashmir. Add it on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Kashmir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Kashmir_conflict —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.152.22.79 (talk) 02:40, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

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Unreferenced living people articles bot
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Jammu and Kashmir articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Baba Dhansar
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis (talk) 16:03, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Files_for_deletion/2011_April_8
All opinions welcome. walk victor falktalk 10:05, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Panchayat Cricket Ground
Please add reliable references and prove the notability. Xx236 (talk) 09:04, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

repeated addition of wrong data in the article page of kathua district and kathua city
This to the members of WIKIprojects Jammu and Kashmir that someone is adding wrong information to the following article kathua district and Kathua(city). Someone is reverting the editing i did to correct the wrong info even when i have provided proper citations and evidence for it. the population, literacy rates, population density and some other information. please look into it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnadiDoD (talk • contribs) 07:09, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Need help with infobox for Barel, India
I used the coordinates from the reference, but it drops the pin not in Jammu and Kashmir. I claim no expertise in this geographic area, but I wanted to help the article by adding an infobox. Request an expert in the area correct the coordinates and the details in the infobox. Thanks.Trilotat (talk) 00:23, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Dear Trilotat i tried to check your article but it shows its in Uttar Pradesh not in Jammu and Kashmir.Jeromeenriquez (talk) 12:44, 7 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Jeromeenriquez, thanks for checking.Trilotat (talk) 21:16, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

"Wuddar/Karewa" article needs to be created...
An article on the geological features ubiquitous in the Valley of Kashmir, the 'Wuddars' or 'Karewas', is sorely needed. The term Karewa is already used in a number of other articles already(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulwama, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ompora , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzahom_archaeological_site etc.) and can be used for many more(Srinagar airport complex is situated on the Damodar karewa/wuddar, Kashmiri saffron is grown mainly on eroded wuddars/karewas which have free draining clay-calcerous soils, etc.) A few starting points: http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/100/06/0805.pdf http://www.ikashmir.net/geography/doc/geography.pdf https://archive.org/details/valleyofkashmir00lawruoft Page 45-50 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:367D:D00:79DA:28CF:5436:9BFA (talk) 07:06, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Outline of Jammu and Kashmir
Outlines have been created and developed for the following states:


 * Outline of Andhra Pradesh
 * Outline of Arunachal Pradesh
 * Outline of Assam
 * Outline of Bihar
 * Outline of Chhattisgarh
 * Outline of Haryana
 * Outline of Karnataka
 * Outline of Kerala
 * Outline of Maharashtra
 * Outline of Odisha
 * Outline of Rajasthan
 * Outline of Sikkim
 * Outline of Tamil Nadu
 * Outline of Telangana
 * Outline of Uttar Pradesh
 * Outline of West Bengal

As of yet, there is no outline on this state. The Transhumanist 00:46, 27 July 2016 (UTC)


 * The outline is here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Jammu_and_Kashmir
 * DiplomatTesterMan (talk) 19:13, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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Treaties on Kashmir
Various scholars have written on the Instrument of Accession (Jammu and Kashmir), The Treaty of Lahore (9 March 1846) and the Treaty of Amritsar (16 March 1846). But very little of that text is on wikipedia.

Maharaja gulab Singh originally worked for the Sikh Empire. But then betrayed the Sikh empire by siding with the East India Company in the Anglo-Sikh War. His name is mentioned in the treaty of Lahore too. He collected Taxes for the East India Company and the money was then given by him to the East India Company.

The Treaty of Lahore (9 March 1846) and the Treaty of Amritsar (16 March 1846) lapsed under Article 7 of the |Indian Independence Act 1947. The Act was passed by the British Parliament on July 18, 1947 to assent to the creation of the independent states of India and Pakistan. The aforementioned Article 7 provides that, with the lapse of His Majesty’s suzerainty over the Indian states, all treaties, agreements, obligations, grants, usages and sufferance’s will lapse.

The 7 year old Maharaja Duleep Singh Bahadur (Sikh) was under the control of the East India company when he sign The Treaty of Lahore on 9 March 1846 which gave Jammu and Kashmir and its people to the East India Company.

Under the British legal system and international law a treaty signed by the 7 year old Maharaja Duleep Singh Bahadur and under duress is not valid. (The International Court of Justice has stated that there "can be little doubt, as is implied in the Charter of the United Nations and recognized in Article 52 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, that under contemporary international law an agreement concluded under the threat or use of force is void.)

We may need to add a section on the impact on the removal of Article 370 of the Indian constitution on The Instrument of Accession too. None of this text is on there.

Various scholars have written on these treaties, for example Alistair Lamb disputed the validity of the Instrument of Accession in his paper |'The Myth of Indian Claim to JAMMU & KASHMIR –– A REAPPRAISAL'

Where he writes ''"While the  date,  and  perhaps  even  the  fact,  of  the accession to India of the State of Jammu  &  Kashmir in  late  October  1947  can  be  questioned,  there  is  no  dispute  at  that time   any   such   accession   was   presented   to   the   world at large   as   conditional   and provisional. It  was  not  communicated  to  Pakistan  at  the outset  of  the  overt  Indian  intervention  in  the  State  of Jammu  &  Kashmir,  nor  was  it presented  in  facsimile  to  the  United  Nations  in  early  1948  as  part  of  the  initial  Indian reference  to  the  Security  Council.  The  1948  White  Paper  in  which  the  Government  of India set out its formal case in respect to the State of Jammu & Kashmir, does not contain the  Instrument  of  Accession  as  claimed  to  have  been  signed  by  the  Maharajah: instead, it reproduces  an  unsigned  form  of  Accession  such  as,  it  is  implied,  the  Maharajah  might have  signed. To  date   no   satisfactory   original   of   this   Instrument   as   signed   by  the Maharajah has  been  produced: though  a  highly  suspect  version,  complete  with  the false date  26 October 1947,  has  been  circulated  by  the  Indian  side  since  the  1960s. On the present evidence  it  is  by  no means clear  that  the  Maharaja  ever  did  sign an Instrument of Accession.''

Indian troops actually began overtly to intervene in the State’s affairs on the morning of 27 October 1947

''It is  now  absolutely  clear  that  the  two  documents  (a) the Instrument of Accession, and  (c)  the  letter  to  Lord  Mountbatten,  could  not  possibly  have  been  signed  by the Maharajah  of Jammu  &  Kashmir on 26 October 1947. The earliest possible time and date for their signature would have to be the afternoon of 27 October 1947. During 26 October 1947 the  Maharajah  of Jammu  &  Kashmir was  travelling  by  road  from  Srinagar  to Jammu. (The Kashmir State Army divisions and the Kashmiri people had already turned on him and he was on the run and had no authority in the state). His new Prime  Minister,  M.C.  Mahajan,  who  was  negotiating  with  the Government of India,  and  the  senior  Indian  official  concerned  in  State  matters,  V.P.  Menon, were still in New  Delhi  where  they  remained  overnight,  and  where  their  presence  was  noted  by many observers. There was  no  communication  of  any  sort  between  New Delhi and the travelling Maharajah. Menon and  Mahajan  set  out  by  air  from  New  Delhi  to  Jammu  at about  10.00 a.m.  on  27  October; and  the  Maharajah  learned  from  them  for  the  first time the result of his Prime Minister’s negotiations in New Delhi in the early afternoon of that day. The key  point,  of  course,  as has already been noted above, is that it is now obvious that  these  documents  could  only  have  been  signed  after  the  overt  Indian  intervention  in the  State  of Jammu  &  Kashmir on 27 October 1947. When the  Indian  troops  arrived  at  Srinagar  air  field,  that State   was   still   independent. Any  agreements   favourable   to   India   signed   after   such intervention  cannot  escape  the  charge  of  having  been  produced  under  duress. (The International Court of Justice has stated that there "can be little doubt, as is implied in the Charter of the United Nations and recognized in Article 52 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, that under contemporary international law an agreement concluded under the threat or use of force is void.)"''

Additionally Maharaja was on the run. The prevailing international practice on the recognition of state governments is based on the following three factors: first, the government’s actual control of the territory; second, the government’s enjoyment of the support and obedience of the majority of the population; third, the government’s ability to stake the claim that it has a reasonable expectation of staying in power. The situation on the ground demonstrates that the Maharaja was not in control of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and was fleeing for his life and almost all of Kashmir was under the control of the Kashmiri people and the Kashmiri Army that had rebelled against him. His own troops had turned on him. With regard to the Maharaja’s control over the local population, it is clear that he enjoyed no such control or support. The people of Kashmir had been sold by the East India Company and he charged them high taxes thetefore the Kashmir Muslims, Hindus Pandits and Buddhists hated him. Furthermore, the state’s armed forces were in total disarray after most of the men turned against him and he was running for his life. Finally, it is highly doubtful that the Maharaja could claim that his government had a reasonable chance of staying in power without Indian military intervention. This assumption is substantiated by the Maharaja’s letters.

Many of these treaties apply to Jammu and Kashmir. The | Kashmir conflict is already on Wikipedia. It is internationally recognized as a disputed territory under various United United Nations resolutions that are already listed on Wikipedia |United Nations Security Council Resolution 47, |United Nations Security Council Resolution 39,|UN mediation of the Kashmir dispute, |United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan. There is a lot of documentation on Jammu and Kashmir in the UN | archives already. If you look at the page | Kashmir conflict, it already contains sections on the "Indian view", "Pakistani view", "Chinese view", "Kashmiri views". May be we could do something like that with these treaty pages. The Treaty of Lahore was signed in 9 March 1846 and the Treaty of Amritsar 16 March 1846. They predate the creation of both modern day India and Pakistan. The Treaty of Lahore was signed between the Sikh Empire and the British government. It is an international treaty and comes under international law. Johnleeds1 (talk) 11:36, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

@User:Johnleeds1 few points which highlight various flaws and policy violations in the the text you have put up for discussion-
 * your very arguement that the Treaty of Amritsar which was signed in '1846' stands void according to the Vienna Convention signed more than 100 years after in 1969 is factually inaccurate. India is not even party to the convention.
 * The content you have presented is completely based on a single source(mostly unreferenced) the very title of which sounds 'biased'. Please go through WP:RS first
 * The paragraph where you mention that 'Maharaja was on run' completely ignored the fact that the valley was attacked by pakistan backed pakhtoon tribals in order to destabilise the valley and they were not Kashmiri armies as you very cunningly portrayed.
 * Your supposed 'allegation' that Kashmiris were sold by the East India Company is a mere opinion of yours and in violation of WP:NPOV WP:FRINGE WP:WEIGHT without any proper reference
 * Wikipedia is an "Encyclopedia"WP:ENC it's not a blog where you can freely express your opinions. Please go through WP:GUIDELINE and then re access your content. I hope you will take all this in WP:GF AnM2002 (talk) 14:54, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Received request to merge the Dêmqog, Ngari Prefecture article into the Demchok article on 25 June 2020. Reason: Controversial Discuss it >>>Here<<<. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 14:53, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Request for Information on a Simple English Wikpedia deletion request.
Hello everyone, I am form Sipmle English Wikipedia, and we currently have a Request for Deletion, for a redirect from 'Occupied Ladakh' to 'Ladakh'. I know that the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir has recently been re-organised and that there terms like 'Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir', 'Indian-occupiied Jammu and Kashmir', and simliar. I do however not know how common (and epsecially: how unbiased) the term is. I would therefore welcome input on the RfD. Note: The RfD runs until the 17th of May. Eptalon (talk) 18:32, 13 May 2020 (UTC) The term like ' indian occupied kashmiri' is commonly used in kashmir by kashmiri's to depict about the illegal occupation by india on kashmir, but it should on the wiki it should be mentioned as Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and UT of Ladakh to avoid controversy. Hums4r (talk) 00:25, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Kashmiri or Indian in the lead, RfC discussion.
Hello There's an discussion going on regarding whether to address any BLP as a kashmiri or indian in the lead. You are invited to drop your comments at RfC Indian Or Kashmiri. To talk to me visit my talk pageJammumylove (talk) 18:51, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Article's on Iram Habib And Ayesha Aziz.
Anyone willing to join in to create article's on Iram Habib- First kashmiri female commercial pilot. [Iram Habib Google News Search.] And Ayesha Aziz- Youngest Indian Female Commercial Pilot( She is a kashmiri as well) - [Ayesha Aziz Google News Search] LMK. --  Jammumylove  Talk to me or CHECK MY RECENT WORK 22:15, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Looking for editors interested in Kashmir
Hello! I have decided to form a WikiProject with the scope of anything related to Kashmir, including J&K, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir, Aksai Chin, etc. Are there any editors interested in this broader topic? Thanks. --Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 11:00, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes we can connect, i am interested in the same.
 * , yes I'm! – Kammill  ⟨talk⟩ 18:13, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Move proposal per policy
Hello. Requesting comments at Talk:Bhat. The article title should be changed per policy — WP:COMMONNAME/WP:UCRN. Thanks, Мастер Шторм (talk) 14:33, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Naming Kashmiri Villages
Hello Wikipedians, I recently came across some village related articles like Akura, Jammu and Kashmir, Nowgam, Anantnag, Rohu, Jammu and Kashmir and many more. What I noticed was the article are not named similarly. Some of them have district at there end and some of them are followed by State/Union territory name. Let us discuss about it, so that all articles have a consistent name. Iflaq (talk) 11:41, 24 March 2021 (UTC) :, have you got any alternative other than these names. Do you want to name these villages as "villagename, Jammu and Kashmir"? –Hulged ⟨talk⟩ 13:38, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, villagename, Jammu and Kashmir sounds like a fine idea, except when more narrow disambiguation is necessary. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 15:46, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

We'll name villages as "villagename, districtname" only when narrow disambiguation is needed. do you have any objection? –Hulged ⟨talk⟩ 16:47, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't have objection with either of the two naming styles, but   can be a better idea for all pages as we can specify the articles and all titles will be consistent in naming style. If we will use   only in case where narrow disambiguation is need it, the consistency of titles will still not be maintained.  Iflaq  (talk) 17:16, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , I suggest we should name these articles as Village name followed by district eg. Lalchowk, Srinagar and Lalchowk, Anantnag keeping in view that there can be villages with same names in two different districts. A classical example is Lalchowk in Srinagar, Kashmir and Lalchowk in Anantnag, Kashmir. Iflaq  (talk) 17:21, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

What would you name them? –Hulged ⟨talk⟩ 04:06, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * The chances to have two similar name villages in a district is low, than two similar name villages in Jammu and Kashmir. However if there are similar name villages in the district, I suggest we can name them according to the sub districts or tehsils. eg. ,  .  Iflaq  (talk) 06:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I think the idea of "village name, Jammu and Kashmir" except in cases requiring more narrow disambiguation is a very good one. It does a better job of immediately clarifying to a reader where the village is, since Jammu and Kashmir is a large and recognisable region. Where there are multiple places of the same name in different districts, we can treat them as exceptions, and use "village name, district name" (as with Lalchowk). Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 09:33, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * @Kohlrabi Pickle Yeah "Villagename, Jammu and Kashmir" seems better than "Villagename, districtname" idea now. Thankyou for the comment. Iflaq  (talk) 09:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * @Hulged @Kautilya3 @Kohlrabi Pickle Can we use this discussion as a general policy for naming articles in this wikiproject.  Iflaq  (talk) 10:03, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure, I'll defer to someone more experienced to answer. Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 10:22, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, but let me state precisely what we are agreeing. If a place name needs to be disambiguated, it should be disambiguated by the state name ("Jammu and Kashmir" in our case) whenever possible, and by district name when that is not possible. This follows from the recognizability principle at WP:TITLE.

Note that I am not saying that all places in Jammu and Kashmir should have such page titles. That would be a consistency issue that would need consensus at WP:WikiProject India. (In fact, I suspect that you will get a pushback if start adding "Jammu and Kashmir" tag to existing page titles needlessly.) -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Support:  'villagename,Jammu and Kashmir'  would sound more accurate. and would be easy for reader to find and understand. --  Jammumylove  Talk to me or CHECK MY RECENT WORK 19:51, 30 March 2021 (UTC)