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17 unusual facts about Jammu


Bashohli

A style of painting characterized by vigorous use of primary colours and a peculiar facial formula prevailed in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in the foothills of the Western Himalayas in the Jammu and Punjab States.

Chakwal

For much of its early history, Dhanni was an uninhabited part of the Jammu state of the Dogra Rajputs, and Khokhar Rajputs, held as a hunting ground for the Rajas of Jammu.

Chengannur

By rail, Chengannur is well connected to major cities in India like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bikaner, Mangalore, Bhopal, Guwahati, Nagpur, Jammu and other major cities of the country.

Dera Khalsa

Presently the entire population of this village is Muslim, having strong religious beliefs and 95% of existing families are migrated from Jammu in 1947.

Duggar

Jammu, an administrative region of India, also known as Duggar

Gujrat city

Muslims refugees from East Punjab, Haryana, Jammu started arriving and crossed the border into Pakistan; many were given land in Gujrat District to settle.

Gwalior Junction railway station

Gwalior Junction is linked with many industrial and important cities of India by direct trains like New Delhi, Bhopal, Lucknow, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jammu, Agra, Bhubaneshwar, Ahmedabad, etc.

Jnana Prabodhini

It is also doing some works in parts of Jammu and Kashmir and the north eastern states of India.The organisation has started a school in Nigdi, Solapur and Sadashiv Peth, Pune.

Kathua

A gateway to the northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir, Kathua lies just 88 kilometres south of the state's winter capital of Jammu.

Kollam Junction railway station

Trains from here connect the city of Kollam to major cities of India, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Madurai, Vizag, Jammu, Howrah, Guwahati, Madgaon, Hubli, Ahmedabad, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune, Kota, Bhubaneshwar, Gorakhpur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Vijayawada, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore and Mangalore.

Kotla Arab Ali Khan

Raja Dogra was the first who ruled this area from Jammu.

Madhopur, Punjab

It was a part of the Nurpur Princely state ruled by the Pathania Rajputs prior to 1849 A.D. Now it is known as "Gateway of Punjab" a meeting point of the three northern states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

Madhopur lies on the Pathankot - Jammu national highway, NH-1A - the only road link that Jammu and Kashmir has with the rest of the country.

Mirpur District

Mirpur District is located in southwestern Kashmir, and west of the Jammu province.

Patnitop

Patnitop or Patni Top is a hilltop tourist location in Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir state of India on National Highway 1A 112 km from Jammu on the way from Udhampur to Srinagar.

Ramnagar, Udhampur

Ramnagar sits on the Mansa Devi Nallah, a tributary of the River Tawi that flows through Jammu.

Talab Tillo

Talab Tillo is a suburban area of Jammu City in the State of Jammu and Kashmir and is situated in Jammu Province.


Advenella kashmirensis

Advenella kashmirensis is a chemolithotrophic mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, bacterium from the genus of Advenella which was isolated from the soil of a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir in India.

AJK Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Mirpur

The Azad Jammu & Kashmir Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Mirpur (AJKBISE) was established in 1973 through an ordinance promulgated by the Azad Government of the State of Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

Ajmer Jammu Express

The Ajmer Jammu express train is a daily train departing from Ajmer Junction in Rajasthan to Jammu Tawi Station in the Jammu province in north India.

All Parties Hurriyat Conference

At the time of formation All Parties Hurriyat Conference members included Yaseen Malik's Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Sheikh Yaqoob Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League (JKPL), Shabbir Shah's People's Democratic Front, Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari of Ittihadul Muslimeen, Shakeel Bakshi's Islamic Students League, Muslim Conference led Abdul Ghani Bhat.

Amethi

It has many direct trains connecting with major cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Dehradun, Haridwar, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kolkata, Puri, Bhopal, Mumbai, Bangalore, Jammu and many more.

B. P. Sharma

Sharma also contributed towards publication of the book “The Stamps of Jammu and Kashmir”, which was authored by Frits Staal, a professor at University of California, Berkeley, and published by the New York Collectors Club in 1983.

Chaudhry Chaku Khan

Chaudhry Chaku Khan the founder of Chakwal and the chief of the Minhas Rajput tribe from Jammu, who founded Chakwal in 1525 C.E during the era of the Mughal Emperor, Zaheerudun Babur.

Chenab River

It becomes the Chenab when it joins the Marau River at Bhandera Kot, 12 km from Kishtwar Town in Jammu and Kashmir.

Chunni Lal

Naib Subedar Chuni Lal, Ashok Chakra, Vir Chakra, Sena Medal (Gallantry) was a soldier of 8th Battalion of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (8 JAK LI) of Indian Army.

Geography of Gilgit–Baltistan

Northeast is Aksai Chin, (China), to the north and northwest is the Skardu District, to the west is the Astore District, and to the south is the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Ghulam Hassan Pinglana

In 1980 he was elected District President of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC).

Hari Singh

Pressure from Nehru and Sardar Patel eventually compelled Hari Singh to appoint his son and heir, Yuvraj (Crown Prince) Karan Singh, as Regent of Jammu and Kashmir in 1949, although he remained titular Maharaja of the state until 1952, when the monarchy was abolished.

Huna Kingdom

Yudhishthira, followed by the Patachcharas, the Hunas, the Pauravakas and the Nishadas, the Pisachas, with the Kundavishas, and the Mandakas, the Ladakas (Ladakh in Jammu-Kashmir), the Tanganas, and the Uddras, the Saravas, the Tumbhumas, the Vatsas, and the Nakulas.

Jammu–Sialkot Line

The writer of Pakistan's first national anthem, Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu, was forced to leave Lahore due to the escalating violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Kashmir Railway

1897: The railway line from Jammu to Sialkot was first built, becoming the first railway in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Khan Muhammad Khan

Sardar Khan Muhammad Khan first entered politics with his election to the seat of Tehsil Bagh and Sudhnati in the first elections of the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly, held in 1934.

Kotli

Like many Azad Kashmiris (Poonch valley - a region found in the Jammu part of Jammu and Kashmir) living in the fringes of the Mangla Dam in Mirpur, emigration fever took hold of the surrounding country from the mid 1950s onwards.

Krishan Dev Sethi

Sethi is not only a well known leader in Jammu, where he resides now but also very popular across the LOC in Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

Mohammad Usman

He led his soldiers from front and in January–February 1948 repulsed a fierce attack on Nowshera and Jhangar, two highly strategic locations in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami

He represents the Kulgam assembly constituency in the Jammu & Kashmir legislative assembly.

Parihar

Populations are found in Rajasthan, Saurashtra - Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.

Parvez Dewan

Dewan was also the resident commissioner of Jammu & Kashmir before he took charge as the chairman and managing director of India Tourism Development Corporation in 2006.

Rashid Minhas

He was born to a family that had settled in Gurdaspur from Jammu and Kashmir and belonged from a Minhas clan predominantly found in Northern Punjab and in Kashmir regions.

Renukoot

Renukoot has a railway station which is connected to major cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Jammu, Ranchi, Patna, Jabalpur, and Bhopal.

Santosh Trophy 2007–08

The 62nd Santosh Trophy 2008 was held from 25 May to 15 June 2008 in Srinagar & Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir.

Separatist movements of Pakistan

The name Balawaristan is used mainly by nationalists of the Gilgit, such as the Balawaristan National Front, who are seeking to define a separate identity for Gilgit, Baltistan and Ladakh regions from that of the Kashmir Valley and Jammu; Not recognised by either the Government of India, Pakistan and China.

Shameem Dev Azad

Shameema Dev Azad is a prominent female singer from Jammu and Kashmir and the wife of Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Chief Minister for Jammu and Kashmir.

Soan

Soan Meeraas, a Kashmiri language newspaper of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir

United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan

Meanwhile, elections were held in Indian administered Jammu & Kashmir, which brought up the popular Muslim leader Sheikh Abdullah, who with his party National Conference, generally supported India.

Vaishnavi

Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University situated near the Shrine of the Mata Vaishno Devi, in Jammu and Kashmir

Veikko

Veikko "Jammu" Siltavuori (born 1926), Finnish murderer and sexual offender

Zanskari

the Zaniskari pony, a breed of pony found around Leh and Laddakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India

the people of Zanskar, a tehsil of Kargil district, Jammu and Kashmir, India