Sir,
Striding across today’s news item in ‘DE’, one really feels that our biased historians haven’t done due justice to our ruler till his deposition in ’47, under a well-knit scheme. Relevant to mention here that the late Maharaja Hari Singh was the most emancipated social reformer and a western qualified prince, ahead of his times, amidst the 562 princes of that time. On his inauguration this broad-minded ruler uttered: ” Now on wards, my religion will be justice and humanity”. For the first time he abolished the ages-old disparities between social sects across J&K. From ’48 on wards this self-respecting ruler was forced to live in loneliness and exile atop a hill in Mumbai, overlooking the Arabian Sea, for no fault. Soon after he assumed the reigns of a ruler, he brought J&K on the tourism map of the West. He was the one who built hi-quality hospitals, roads, boulevards in Kashmir. The biased historians, who toed the line of the post-’48 rulers, did no genuine justice to this great and humane ruler of our state.
Worthwhile to mention here that numerous localities, bridges, conference halls and universities have been named after SM Abdullah, Bakshi Gh.Mohd., GM Sadiq and Mir Qasim in both Jammu and Kashmir provinces as well, over the past seven decades. Isn’t it high time that the late popular and deserving Maharaja is restored his honor after decades of indifference. Is conceding a holiday to this great human a big deal when the state calendar is replete with holidays on Tom Dick & Harry round the year. May God help people to shun their myopic vision on such matters of public interest !
Tej Munshi
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