The seventieth anniversary of Kashmir's accession to India - and of the invasion of the then princely state by armed tribesmen from Pakistan - saw a range of reflective pieces about the events of the late autumn of 1947, sometimes drawing on the memories of eye-witnesses and participants. This blog includes links to some of those pieces.
The BBC's Ilyas Khan put together a particularly effective piece from Pakistan on the tribal army that entered Kashmir in late October 1947 - providing compelling evidence of the looting and abduction of women by the armed tribesmen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41662588
Kashmir Watch posted a piece on the National Conference militia raised by Sheikh Abdullah http://kashmirwatch.com/sma-formed-kashmirs-national-fouj/ while History Workshop Online hosted an article about the women's wing of that militia: http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/kashmirs-womens-militia-at-the-end-of-empire/
The BBC's Aamir Peerzada went to Mahura, the site of the power station attacked by the invading force which led to the loss of power to most of the Valley: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-india-41799628/the-man-who-witnessed-the-tribal-invasion-of-kashmir
Scroll's Ipsita Charavarty looked at the reputation today of Maqbool Sherwani https://scroll.in/article/854826/the-contested-legacies-of-maqbool-sherwani-the-kashmiri-who-stalled-invaders-in-1947 and also revisited the Catholic mission in Baramulla which the raiders ransacked killing six people https://scroll.in/article/854235/they-sprang-from-the-earth-its-been-70-years-since-tribal-forces-poured-into-kashmir
Andrew Whitehead travelled to St Joseph's convent and mission hospital in Baramulla in the company of Doug and James Dykes, whose parents were killed there seventy years earlier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-41996612
The BBC's Ilyas Khan put together a particularly effective piece from Pakistan on the tribal army that entered Kashmir in late October 1947 - providing compelling evidence of the looting and abduction of women by the armed tribesmen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41662588
Kashmir Watch posted a piece on the National Conference militia raised by Sheikh Abdullah http://kashmirwatch.com/sma-formed-kashmirs-national-fouj/ while History Workshop Online hosted an article about the women's wing of that militia: http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/kashmirs-womens-militia-at-the-end-of-empire/
The BBC's Aamir Peerzada went to Mahura, the site of the power station attacked by the invading force which led to the loss of power to most of the Valley: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-india-41799628/the-man-who-witnessed-the-tribal-invasion-of-kashmir
Scroll's Ipsita Charavarty looked at the reputation today of Maqbool Sherwani https://scroll.in/article/854826/the-contested-legacies-of-maqbool-sherwani-the-kashmiri-who-stalled-invaders-in-1947 and also revisited the Catholic mission in Baramulla which the raiders ransacked killing six people https://scroll.in/article/854235/they-sprang-from-the-earth-its-been-70-years-since-tribal-forces-poured-into-kashmir
Andrew Whitehead travelled to St Joseph's convent and mission hospital in Baramulla in the company of Doug and James Dykes, whose parents were killed there seventy years earlier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-41996612
The graves in the grounds of St Joseph's, Baramulla, of five of those killed there on 27 October 1947 - the sixth, a nun, is buried in a separate plot
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