19 Old Pictures Of Kashmir That Will Show You How The Times Have Changed

[anant_s]

1. The bridge at Baramullah in 1900.

2. Dal Lake in the winter of 1976, during the month of January.

3. Old ladies separating rice from husk using a traditional Kanz and Muhul.

4. Friday prayers at Hazratbal in the 1950s.

5. A man riding a Shikara in the olden days.

6. A foreign tourist plays in the snow in the scenic mountains of Kashmir.

7. The once-upon-a-time city of Srinagar.

8. Nehru visiting the Women's Militia in 1947-48 with their leader, Begum Zainab. Sankharachrya Hill is visible in the background.

 

[anant_s]

9. Kashmir at war in November 1947.

10. Nageen or Nagin Lake, Srinagar in the 1950s.

11. A double-storey houseboat on the Jhelum river in the early 20th century.

12. Sher Garhi, the Maharja's Palace and an entourage of the then British Viceroy of India passing it by.

13. A view of Sonmarg in the winter of 1910

14. Children making the famous Kashmiri carpets.

15. The rice paddy fields of Kashmir in 1928.

16. Tulmul Temple of Kashmir in 1834.

 

[anant_s]

17. A shepherdess at the foot of the Zabarwan Range.

18. A Srinagar market scene in 1929.

19. Floating gardens on Dal Lake.

19 Old Pictures Of Kashmir That Will Show You How The Times Have Changed

 

[third eye]

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Can't help it sir, other may enjoy a bygone era.

 

[Levina]

Nothing has changed the charchinar of Dal lake, it still looks the same

 

[anant_s]

Nothing has changed the charchinar of Dal lake, it still looks the same

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Timeless beauty, isn't it!
The place was a permanent fixture in most Shammi Kapoor movies

 

[Levina]

Timeless beauty, isn't it!
The place was a permanent fixture in most Shammi Kapoor movies
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I was specifically talking about ChaarChinar (island with 4 trees), last time I visited this place it was bustling with tourist crowds (i still have the pics). The place looks a lot more peaceful now.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

@anant_s thanks for sharing
nice description of the Kashmir time line.

 

[anant_s]

ChaarChinar

I see, ChaarChinaar, Four Chinar Trees, thats how the location must have got its name.

 

[Levina]

I see, ChaarChinaar, Four Chinar Trees, thats how the location must have got its name.

Unfortunately only 3 trees 're left on the once "chaar"-chinar island.

 

[Armstrong]

@levina apa - I can't believe this is my ancestral homeland !

Mountainous regions are so cold and otherwise life is tough there. On the other hand I'm the kind of person who even sleeps with a blanket during the summers and with 3-4 warm quilts (kambal - dunno whether you'd know what it is) in the winters including a quilt covering my mattress. Plus an easy going, happy go-lucky person like myself couldn't possibly survive in a tough environment like that !

What was Mother Nature thinking ?

 

[waz]

Beautiful picture.

Please do not turn this into a political thread.

 

[third eye]

The story of the spot goes back to Mughal times when Sadiq Khan, the governor sent in by Shah Jahan, built a garden and palace at this picture perfect spot on the side of Dal. He called it Ishrat Mahal or the Pleasure House. It was 1693 and in time the place around it came to be known as Sadiqabad or Bagh-i-Sadiq. When Shah Jahan visited the place in around 1634, he converted the pleasure palace into a mosque. Around the same time, in around 1635, a holy relic was brought to India by one Sayeed Abdullah, a keeper at Kaaba, who settled somewhere at Bijapur in the state which in now known as Karnataka.. Syed Hamid, son of Sayeed Abdullah, having fallen on hard times after Aurangzeb's conquest of Bijapur, sold it to a Kashmiri trader named Khwaja Nur-ud-Din Eshai.

On knowing about the sale of such an artifact, Aurangzeb imprisoned the Kashmiri trader at Lahore on charges of perpetrating hoax, but later had the said relic sent to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer. Aurangzeb later had a change of heart (some say it was 'divine intervention') and allowed for the relic to be sent to Kashmir. But by this time Nur-ud-Din Eshai was already dead in prison, so the relic was brought to Kashmir in around 1699 by his daughter Inayat Begum whose progenies came to known as Nishaandehs - keeper of the sign. Initially, the relic was kept at Naqshband Sahib Shrine at Srinagar.

But soon, keeping in mind the growing number of people thronging to take a look at the relic, a new place for keeping the relic was proposed - the shrine at Bagh-i-Sadiq. And so moi-e-muqaddas was placed at the shrine that came to be referred as Madina-i-Sani and Dargah-i-Sharif.

The mosque was set to distinct Kashmiri architecture - wood, slanting roof and iris on the roof. The present look of the shrine came in around as late at 1968 when Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah as head of Muslim Auqaf Trust had the old structure dismantled and started work in a new structure. This new structure was completed in around 1979.

 

[Samandri]

Sher Garhi Palace, built in 1772 by the Afghan governor, Jawan Sher Khan