About the Book : A Modern History of Jammu and Kashmir, Volume One : The
Troubled Years of Maharaja Hari Singh (1925-1949)
The modern history of Jammu and Kashmir is often focused mainly on the Kashmir
valley, leaving out the other regions that make up the bulk of the erstwhile
Princely State. A similar limitation marks most discussions of the rule of the
fourth-generation Dogra ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh. After
his inheritance of the throne in 1925, Hari Singh introduced a number of
progressive reforms—among them, programmes for girl education, opening temple
doors for Dalits and abolishing the exploitative begar system of