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If anyone has knowledge or has heard recollections of that period, I’d be most interested. Grandfather rose to become Chief Judge of the princely state, and then in 1924, Home Minister of Kashmir, until his retirement in 1929. He was Punjabi but his wife was from Kashmir.
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I know that as a young lawyer my grandfather went to Srinagar in 1903 my cousin says he wanted to escape the British Raj.
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I am slowly piecing together the past from my home far away in California, using the enforced leisure that the COVID virus affords. I should add that my grandfather was given restitution after Partition, so we have no claim.) I now have a photograph of my grandfather’s erstwhile home at 4 Exchange Road, Srinagar however, a search on Google Earth is the closest I’ve actually gotten. (If anyone knows more about when the building was knocked down and who lived there after 1947, I’d love to know. Now spread around the world in the US, UK and Pakistan, we will likely never see this idyllic place so connected to our family.īefore he died my father drew me a handwritten map of the family home in Srinagar, with Dal Lake as reference, in case I was able to visit. As children, my cousins and I heard stories of Kashmir from our fathers, of going riding in the foothills of the Himalayas, sending the servants ahead to prepare the picnic, of houseboats and the magical Dal Lake.