Anantnag district is an administrative district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is one of ten districts which make up the Kashmir Valley. The district headquarters is Anantnag city. As of 2011, it was the third most populous district of Jammu and Kashmir, after Jammu and Srinagar.
Syed Mir Qasim was an Indian politician who served as the 2nd chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1971 to 1975.
Anantnag, also called Islamabad, is the administrative headquarters of Anantnag district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is located at a distance of 53 kilometres from the union territory's capital Srinagar. It is the third largest city in Jammu and Kashmir after Srinagar and Jammu with an urban agglomerate population of 159,838 and a municipal limit population of 109,433.
Mirwaiz is a hereditary institution of head priests that is unique to the Kashmir Valley. The traditional role of mirwaizes is to provide religious education in the shrines and mosques. Over time, the mirwaizes also took up social, cultural and political activities.
Qazigund, also known as Gateway Of Kashmir, is a town and in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Qazigund is located at 33.59°N 75.16°E. It has an average elevation of 1670 m (5478 feet) above mean sea level.
Mahmud Gami (Kashmiri pronunciation:[mahmuːd̪ɡəːmiː] was a nineteenth-century Kashmiri poet from Doru Shahabad, Anantnag, Kashmir. Mahmud Gami is one of the most prominent Kashmiri poets of the medieval period. Through his poetic compositions he is well known to introduce Persian forms of Masnavi and Ghazal, to the Kashmiri language. He is popularly known as the Jami of Kashmir.
Rasul Mir also known as Rasul Mir Shahabadi, was a Kashmiri romantic poet born in Doru Shahabad. He is often referred to as imām-e-ishqiya shairi' for his literary contribution to Kashmiri romanticism. Mir was said to have been alive in around 1855 when Mahmud Gami and Swoch Kral died. He died a few years before Maqbool Shah Kralawari. Though, Muhammad Y. Taing, in his book کلیاتِ رسول میر mentions of a document from Revenue Department, dated 5 April 1889, acknowledging Rasul Mir as a muqdam.
Shabir Ahmad Shah popularly known as Shabir Shah, in Kadipora, Anantnag, Kashmir is the founder and president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP), one of the main separatist political organizations seeking "right of self-determination" to Jammu and Kashmir.
Ayatallah Aqa Syed Ahmed Rizvi or Razavi was a Shiite Islamic jurist, religious reformer, and scholar who lived in Srinagar, Kashmir.
Haji(Hanji) Danter is a village in Anantnag tehsil in Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is adjacent to Anantnag town, just 1.5 kms away from lalchowk Anantnag and nearest village to District Headquarters. The approaches to the village are through Achabal Adda, Khanabal chowk and Naid khunoo Harnaag. The village is surrounded by all the three main tributaries of River Jhelum of Kashmir, The Brengi, The Aarpath, The Saandran. The village used to be main business hub in early times, because of developed water transport. The place has a port in its surroundings called Ghaat-e- Pushwara. The place had the first automatic hydral grinding machine called jindra, where people from far away places used to come to get their rice, wheat and spices ground.
Monghall is a town in Anantnag tehsil in Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of 105 villages in Anantnag Block along with areas like Bagh e Nowgam, 7 Chaks, Upper Poora, Bagaw Mohalla, Peer Mohalla, Muqdampora etc. Dr. Mohd Ishaq Mir is the renowned doctor and Junaid Manzoor Shah is the renowned Student activist of the region.
Chakpath is a place in Doru Shahabad tehsil in Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of 62 villages in Doru Shahabad Block along with villages like Shangrin and Shankerpora.
Hillar Shahabad is a village in Doru Tehsil in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Ghulam Ahmad Mir is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress, who represents Dooru in the Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly. He was the last President of Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee state & 1st president of Union Territory Uniy.
Syed Farooq Ahmad Andrabi is an Indian politician and the former member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. He represented Dooru assembly constituency of Anantnag district in 2014. He was appointed to the state ministry in 2016 and subsequently served minister for Hajj and Auqaf until he resigned from the ministry in December 2017 in an attempt to appointed his nephew Tassaduq Hussain Mufti to the post.
The 1986 Kashmir Riots, also commonly referred to as the 1986 Anantnag Riots, were a series of attacks targeting Kashmiri Hindus in the Kashmir Valley of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in Anantnag district.
Sayyid Meerakh Shah Kashani, properly known as Faqir-i-Milat, was a Sufi poet and 19th - 20th century spiritual leader. He is among the founders of Anjuman Tableeg ul Islam (ATI), first Sunni Muslim organisation in Jammu and Kashmir and Madinat Ul Uloum institute. He was related to the Sufi orders of Qadiriyya, Suhrawardiyya, Naqshbandi, Kubrawiya and Chishti Order.
Mukhtar Ahmed Waza is chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Peoples League and a prominent member and Executive council member of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of Kashmiri separatist groups at the forefront of the political struggle against democratic Indian government in Jammu and Kashmir. He is a strong advocate of the right to self-determination of Kashmiri people and believed that an independent plebiscite under UN supervision could bring long lasting peace in South-Asia.
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