Raja Muhammad Akbar Khan
Encyclopedia
Raja Akbar Khan belonged to the Mirpur district
Mirpur District
Mirpur District is a district in the disputed and divided state of [Jammu and Kashmir]. The district is named after the main city, Mirpur. The District of Mirpur has a population of 371,000 and covers an area of . The district is mainly mountainous with some plains...

 of Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India. It is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and internationally with the People's Republic of China to the north and east and the...

 and was a famous activist of the freedom movement of Kashmir. He was responsible for educating the people of Mirpur on how to get rid of suppressing powers. He joined All Jammu and the Kashmir Muslim Conference, and later became a nationalist. He was imprisoned in Jammu after arranging a big disturbance against Toheen of Quran in Jammu.

Zaildar
Zaildar
Zaildar was a native officer in charge of a Zail in the colonial rural administration of Punjab in British India. Each Zail was an administrative unit, extending between 2 to 40 villages....

 Raja Sajjawal Khan
Raja Sajjawal Khan
Zaildar Raja Sajjawal Khan of Mehmunpur was the son of Raja Diwan Khan. He was first Muslim Zaildar in his area. He had great political stature in all over Jammu Kashmir and northern Punjab. He was well known in elites of pre-partition erra with whom he had cordial relations...

 was an active leader of All Jammu and the Kashmir Muslim Conference. He was born in Mehmunpur Rajgan
Mehmunpur
Mehmunpur Rajgan is a village near Jatlan, Mirpur District, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.The village is situated between Jhelum River and the Upper Jhelum Canal,15 km from Mirpur city.-Demography:...

, Khari Sharif
Khari Sharif
Khari Sharif is an agricultural area in Mirpur District of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. Broadly speaking, Alaqa-e-Khari refers to the fertile plains of Khari which exist between the hills of mirpur and the river Jhelum.Khari has some 80 small and large villages and one of the villages itself is known as...

 and was a good friend of Raja Akbar Khan and Maharaja. He became the first Muslim Zaildar
Zaildar
Zaildar was a native officer in charge of a Zail in the colonial rural administration of Punjab in British India. Each Zail was an administrative unit, extending between 2 to 40 villages....

 of the lower Khari Sharif
Khari Sharif
Khari Sharif is an agricultural area in Mirpur District of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. Broadly speaking, Alaqa-e-Khari refers to the fertile plains of Khari which exist between the hills of mirpur and the river Jhelum.Khari has some 80 small and large villages and one of the villages itself is known as...

 area after defeating Hindu
Hindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...

 Zaildar Badri Nath
Zaildar
Zaildar was a native officer in charge of a Zail in the colonial rural administration of Punjab in British India. Each Zail was an administrative unit, extending between 2 to 40 villages....

 of the village of Jangian Kotla. He helped people who came from Jammu
Jammu
Jammu , also known as Duggar, is one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India.Jammu city is the largest city in Jammu and the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir...

 and Rajori after the partition of India
Partition of India
The Partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India on 14 and 15...

.
Raja Karam Dad Khan was born in Garruhtta in the teshil of Sehnsa. He joined the British army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 in his youth and became a lieutenant. When he saw Dogras oppressing the innocent Kashmiri Muslims, he left the army and came to protect his homeland. He befriended Colonel Mehmood Khan, Raja Sakhi Daler Khan and Raja Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan is an Indian actor known for his work in Bollywood films. He is the son of the late former Nawab of Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and actress Sharmila Tagore. He has two sisters: Saba Ali Khan and actress Soha Ali Khan....

. They inspired the people and headed to the dogras, and freed the Lachmi Pattan and named it Azad Pattan. Then, they attacked the famous fort of Tharochi and conquered it. He died in 1960 and is buried at Keri Garruhtta in the Tehsil Of Sehnsa. He had two sons, Raja Muhammad Saleem Khan and Raja Muhammad Nawas Mungral. The whole story is in the famous book of Tareekh Mungral, written by Anjum Sultan Shahbaz.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15883601/All-Jammu-Kashmir-Muslim-Conference-Past-and-Present
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK