Mirpur district, India
The Mirpur District is a de-jure district of the Jammu division of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. The region is de facto administered as the Mirpur Division under Pakistani administration.[1]
History
The area of the Mirpur District was a part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir during the British Raj and after the partition of India. After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, it became under the administration of what is now Azad Kashmir. The Mirpur Division was the location of the Mirpur Massacre in November 1947.[2][3]
During the British Raj, the Mirpur District was one of five districts of the Jammu Province in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.[4][5] According to the 1941 census, it had a population of 386,655, roughly 80% of whom were Muslim and 16% of whom were Hindu.[6] It consisted of three tehsils: the Bhimber Tehsil, the Kotli Tehsil, and the Mirpur Tehsil.[7] The Bhimber Tehsil and the Kotli Tehsil were subsequently elevated to district status. The three districts presently constitute the Mirpur Division of Azad Kashmir. Small portions of the former Mirpur District were included in the Rajouri District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
References
- ^ Correspondent, Special (November 2, 2019). "New Indian map shows UTs of J&K, Ladakh" – via www.thehindu.com.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "November 25, 1947 Mirpur massacre: An ill-fated day that reminds us of injustice and infringement, brutality and bloodshed".
- ^ "Kashmir History and Politics".
- ^ Karim 2013, pp. 29–32.
- ^ Behera 2007, p. 15.
- ^ Snedden 2001, p. 118.
- ^ Snedden 2001, p. 112.