17Jul 2017

BRITISH INTERVENTION: A BLESSING FOR KASHMIR.

  • Ph.D Scholar, Deptt. Of History, University of Kashmir, India.
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There is a common perception among different scholars and historians that the arrival of British resulted into drain of wealth, de-industrialization, backwardness, poverty and other negative impact wherever they went. But this paper highlights how intervention of British into the affairs of Kashmir not only provided sigh of relief to the poverty stricken people but also resulted into the development of those important sectors which at presently are taken as indicators of development. Both in short-run as well as well as in long-run British intervention not only benefited the state but the common man was blessed by their arrival and it was by dint of their intervention that Kashmir was taken on the path of modernization.

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[Tawseef Mushtaq And Mehraj-Ud-Din Dar. (2017); BRITISH INTERVENTION: A BLESSING FOR KASHMIR. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 552-557] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

TAWSEEF MUSHTAQ
Ph.D Scholar, Deptt. Of History, University of Kashmir, India

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4751      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4751

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