Greater jammu

Jammu was once the capital of the University of Jammu (1969) and the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu (1999), as well as several Hindu temples, notably the Raghunath temple complex. The surrounding area produces wheat, rice, corn (maize), and barley. Pop. (2001) city, 369,959; urban agglom., 612,163; (2011) city, 502,197; urban agglom., 657,314. This article was most recently revised and updated by

Members of the J&K Delimitation Commission at a news conference in Jammu | File Photo Linking Anantnag with Rajouri and Poonch makes a curious sense: It expands Kashmir into Rajouri and Poonch creating a seamless Muslim belt. And conversely, it extends Jammu into Kashmir IN October last year, when former senior National Conference leader Devendra Singh Rana suddenly joined the BJP, he made a cryptic remark about the Dickson Plan. “I pitched for the Jammu Declaration, which will be a voice of Jammu by Jammu for inclusive Jammu and Kashmir. It will defeat the votaries of the Dixon Plan who want to divide the Jammu region on the basis of religion,” Rana said, citing this as a rationale for his decision to switch political parties The Dickson Plan rings familiar to Kashmiris and anyone interested in Kashmir. The plan proposed by Sir Owen Dixon, a United Nations’ representative, in 1953 recommended a solution to Kashmir along religious lines. It proposed assigning Ladakh to India, the northern areas and the Pakistan-Administered Kashmir (PaK) to Pakistan, splitting the Jammu division between the two countries, and recommended a plebiscite in the Kashmir Valley. The plan, although seen as pragmatic, turned out to be stillborn. It was discussed between India and Pakistan but never made any headway. In recent decades, the plan with some variation was resurrected by the US-based Kashmir Study Group headed by Farooq Kathwari but other than generating some media interest in India and...

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