Mirpur District
ضلع میرپور | |
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District of Azad Kashmir administered by Pakistan
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Coordinates (Mirpur, Azad Kashmir): 33°9′0″N 73°44′0″E / 33.15000°N 73.73333°E | |
Administering country | Pakistan |
Territory | Azad Kashmir |
Division | Mirpur Division |
Headquarters | Mirpur |
Government | |
• Type | District Administration |
• Deputy Commissioner | N/A |
• District Police Officer | N/A |
• District Health Officer | N/A |
Area | |
• Total | 1,010 km2 (390 sq mi) |
Population (2017) | |
• Total | 456,200 |
• Density | 452/km2 (1,170/sq mi) |
Languages | |
• Official | Urdu [2] |
• Spoken | |
Number of Tehsils | 2 |
Mirpur District ( Urdu: ضلع میرپور) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It is one of the 10 districts of Pakistan's territory of Azad Kashmir. [3] The Mirpur District is bounded on the north by the Kotli District, on the east by the Bhimber District, on the south by the Gujrat District of Punjab, Pakistan, on the south-west by the Jhelum District of Punjab, Pakistan, and on the west by its Rawalpindi District. The district is named after its main city, Mirpur. The Mirpur District has a population of 456,200 [4] and covers an area of 1,010 km2 (390 sq mi). The district is mainly mountainous with some plains. The Mirpur District has a humid subtropical climate [5] which closely resembles that of the Gujrat District and the Jhelum District, the adjoining districts of Pakistan's Punjab Province.
During the British Raj, the Mirpur District was one of the five districts of the Jammu Province in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. [6] [7] According to the 1941 census, the it had a population of 386,655, roughly 80% of whom were Muslim and 16% of whom were Hindu. [8] It consisted of three tehsils: the Bhimber Tehsil, the Kotli Tehsil, and the Mirpur Tehsil. [9] The Bhimber Tehsil and the Kotli Tehsil were subsequently promoted to district status. The three districts presently constitute the Mirpur Division of Azad Kashmir. Small portions of the former Mirpur District were included in the Rajouri District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
The original Mirpur District, along with the Poonch District and the Rajouri District, had close geographic, ethnic, and cultural ties with the West Punjab area, more so than with the city of Jammu and the rest of the Jammu Province. Due to those reasons, scholar Christopher Snedden stated that the people of Mirpur area had a strong desire to join Pakistan during the partition. [10]
In November 1947, the Mirpur District was the site of the Mirpur Massacre, where many Hindus, Sikhs, and refugees from the partition, were killed by armed Pakistani tribesmen and soldiers. [11]
The main language, native to an estimated 85% of the district's population, [12] is known under a number of sometimes ambiguous names. Its speakers call it with various names: Pahari, Mirpur Pahari, Mirpuri, and Pothwari, [13] while some label it as Punjabi. [14] Sociolinguists have regarded it as one of the three major dialects of the Pahari-Pothwari language complex, [15] which is intermediate between Lahnda and Punjabi. [16] Mirpur Pahari is mutually intelligible with the other two major dialects – Pothwari of the Potohar Plateau in the Punjab Province and the Pahari spoken to the north in Azad Kashmir and around Murree – and shares with them between 77% and 84% of its basic vocabulary, [17] although the difference with the northernmost varieties (in Muzaffarabad) is sufficient to impede understanding. [18] Mirpuri speakers have a strong sense of Kashmiri identity that takes precedence over linguistic identification with closely related groups outside of Azad Kashmir, such as the Punjabis of the Pothohar. [19] [20]
The Gujari language is spoken by an estimated 10% of the population. [12] The local dialect is closely related to the Gujari varieties spoken in the rest of Azad Kashmir and in the Hazara region. [21] Other languages spoken include Urdu and English.
The district is administratively subdivided into two tehsils: [22]
Notable villages in the district include:
Dadyal Tehsil
Mirpur Tehsil
The situation between the two nations was complicated by the 1957–1959 uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule. Refugees poured across the Indian border, and the Indian public was outraged. Any compromise with China on the border issue became impossible. Similarly, China was offended that India had given political asylum to the Dalai Lama when he fled across the border in March 1959. In late 1959, there were shots fired between border patrols operating along both the ill-defined McMahon Line and in the Aksai Chin.
Territorial Dispute: The situation along the Sino-Indian frontier continued to worsen. In late July (1959), an Indian reconnaissance patrol was blocked, "apprehended," and eventually expelled after three weeks in custody at the hands of a larger Chinese force near Khurnak Fort in Aksai Chin. ... Circumstances worsened further in October 1959, when a major class at Kongka Pass in eastern Ladakh led to nine dead and ten captured Indian border personnel, making it by far the most serious Sino-Indian class since India's independence.
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Mirpur District
ضلع میرپور | |
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District of Azad Kashmir administered by Pakistan
[1] | |
| |
Coordinates (Mirpur, Azad Kashmir): 33°9′0″N 73°44′0″E / 33.15000°N 73.73333°E | |
Administering country | Pakistan |
Territory | Azad Kashmir |
Division | Mirpur Division |
Headquarters | Mirpur |
Government | |
• Type | District Administration |
• Deputy Commissioner | N/A |
• District Police Officer | N/A |
• District Health Officer | N/A |
Area | |
• Total | 1,010 km2 (390 sq mi) |
Population (2017) | |
• Total | 456,200 |
• Density | 452/km2 (1,170/sq mi) |
Languages | |
• Official | Urdu [2] |
• Spoken | |
Number of Tehsils | 2 |
Mirpur District ( Urdu: ضلع میرپور) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It is one of the 10 districts of Pakistan's territory of Azad Kashmir. [3] The Mirpur District is bounded on the north by the Kotli District, on the east by the Bhimber District, on the south by the Gujrat District of Punjab, Pakistan, on the south-west by the Jhelum District of Punjab, Pakistan, and on the west by its Rawalpindi District. The district is named after its main city, Mirpur. The Mirpur District has a population of 456,200 [4] and covers an area of 1,010 km2 (390 sq mi). The district is mainly mountainous with some plains. The Mirpur District has a humid subtropical climate [5] which closely resembles that of the Gujrat District and the Jhelum District, the adjoining districts of Pakistan's Punjab Province.
During the British Raj, the Mirpur District was one of the five districts of the Jammu Province in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. [6] [7] According to the 1941 census, the it had a population of 386,655, roughly 80% of whom were Muslim and 16% of whom were Hindu. [8] It consisted of three tehsils: the Bhimber Tehsil, the Kotli Tehsil, and the Mirpur Tehsil. [9] The Bhimber Tehsil and the Kotli Tehsil were subsequently promoted to district status. The three districts presently constitute the Mirpur Division of Azad Kashmir. Small portions of the former Mirpur District were included in the Rajouri District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
The original Mirpur District, along with the Poonch District and the Rajouri District, had close geographic, ethnic, and cultural ties with the West Punjab area, more so than with the city of Jammu and the rest of the Jammu Province. Due to those reasons, scholar Christopher Snedden stated that the people of Mirpur area had a strong desire to join Pakistan during the partition. [10]
In November 1947, the Mirpur District was the site of the Mirpur Massacre, where many Hindus, Sikhs, and refugees from the partition, were killed by armed Pakistani tribesmen and soldiers. [11]
The main language, native to an estimated 85% of the district's population, [12] is known under a number of sometimes ambiguous names. Its speakers call it with various names: Pahari, Mirpur Pahari, Mirpuri, and Pothwari, [13] while some label it as Punjabi. [14] Sociolinguists have regarded it as one of the three major dialects of the Pahari-Pothwari language complex, [15] which is intermediate between Lahnda and Punjabi. [16] Mirpur Pahari is mutually intelligible with the other two major dialects – Pothwari of the Potohar Plateau in the Punjab Province and the Pahari spoken to the north in Azad Kashmir and around Murree – and shares with them between 77% and 84% of its basic vocabulary, [17] although the difference with the northernmost varieties (in Muzaffarabad) is sufficient to impede understanding. [18] Mirpuri speakers have a strong sense of Kashmiri identity that takes precedence over linguistic identification with closely related groups outside of Azad Kashmir, such as the Punjabis of the Pothohar. [19] [20]
The Gujari language is spoken by an estimated 10% of the population. [12] The local dialect is closely related to the Gujari varieties spoken in the rest of Azad Kashmir and in the Hazara region. [21] Other languages spoken include Urdu and English.
The district is administratively subdivided into two tehsils: [22]
Notable villages in the district include:
Dadyal Tehsil
Mirpur Tehsil
The situation between the two nations was complicated by the 1957–1959 uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule. Refugees poured across the Indian border, and the Indian public was outraged. Any compromise with China on the border issue became impossible. Similarly, China was offended that India had given political asylum to the Dalai Lama when he fled across the border in March 1959. In late 1959, there were shots fired between border patrols operating along both the ill-defined McMahon Line and in the Aksai Chin.
Territorial Dispute: The situation along the Sino-Indian frontier continued to worsen. In late July (1959), an Indian reconnaissance patrol was blocked, "apprehended," and eventually expelled after three weeks in custody at the hands of a larger Chinese force near Khurnak Fort in Aksai Chin. ... Circumstances worsened further in October 1959, when a major class at Kongka Pass in eastern Ladakh led to nine dead and ten captured Indian border personnel, making it by far the most serious Sino-Indian class since India's independence.
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