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Kashmir Martyrs' Day
| Kashmir Martyrs' Day یومِ شہداءِ کشمیر Youm-e-Shuhada-e-Kashmir | |
|---|---|
| Status | Officially inactive in India since 2019; Pakistan still observes it |
| Genre | Remembrance |
| Date(s) | 13 July |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Inaugurated | 13 July 1931 |
| Founder | All India Kashmir Committee |
| Most recent | December 2019 |
| Part of the 1931 Kashmir agitation | |
Kashmir Martyrs' Day (Urdu: یومِ شہداءِ کشمیر Transliteration. Youm-e-Shuhada-e-Kashmir[1]) or Kashmir Day,[a] was a former official state holiday observed in Kashmir in remembrance of 21 Muslim protesters killed on 13 July 1931 by Dogra forces of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in British India.[3][4]
On that day, Kashmiri Muslims were protesting outside the Srinagar Central Jail, where Abdul Qadeer, who had called on Kashmiris to rise against the rule of the Hari singh, was being held. As the crowd grew restless, the Dogra army opened fire, killing 22.[5][6] The crowds buried the bodies of those killed by the state forces in the graveyard attached to the Shrine of Khwaja Bahawuddin Naqshbandi (Ziyarat Naqshband Sahab) in Srinagar, which has since come to be known as Mazar-e-Shuhada or the Martyrs' Graveyard.[3]
The day was removed as an official holiday of Jammu and Kashmir by the Government of India in December 2019.[7] However, the Government of Pakistan still marks the day.[1]
- ^ a b "Kashmir Martyrs Day: PM Imran pays tribute to Kashmiris for 'valiantly fighting' Hindutva regime". DAWN. Additional reporting by Naveed Siddiqui. 13 July 2020. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Zutshi, Chitralekha (9 July 2014). Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Geographies, and the Historical Imagination. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-908936-9. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ a b Kumar, Radha (2018). Paradise at War: A Political History of Kashmir. New Delhi: Aleph. pp. 25–27. ISBN 9789388292122.
- ^ WANI, PROF GULL MOHAMMAD (12 July 2021). "Martyr's Day: History From Below". Greater Kashmir. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ "Martyrs' Day observed in Kashmir, leaders pay tribute". The Hindu. 14 July 2006. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
- ^ Chakravarty, Ipsita (14 July 2015). "Who owns the memories of July 13, 1931? In J&K, it is a divisive question". Scroll.in. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
On that day in 1931, a crowd of protesters had gathered around the Central Jail in Srinagar to witness the execution of Abdul Qadeer, who had exhorted Kashmiris to rise against the rule of the Dogra maharajas. As the crowd grew restive, Dogra armies opened fire, killing 22.
- ^ "NC founder's anniversary off J&K holiday list". The Times of India. 29 December 2019. Archived from the original on 4 April 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
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