Poonch

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Authorship

Naved Masood, based on information contained in K.D Maini’s Poonch - The Battlefield of Kashmir

Area

The area of Poonch Jagir (rather inaccurately called Principality by the Poonchis, which became a misnomer after Hari Singh's 'administrative measures in 1947) was 2618 sq Km at the time of commencement of hostilities in 1947. (Mr Maini gives the area in square miles which Masood converted into square kilometres)

Following the cease fire of 1948 the following territorial dimensions of Poonch have emerged:

Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir - 1019 sq km

Poonch in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (the so-called Azad Jammu and Kashmir)- 1609 sq km

In POK the areas are carved into the following Districts:

District Area (sq km) Poulation (1998)

Poonch Rawalkote 855 4,12000

Sudhnutti 569 2,14000

Bagh 1368 3,95000

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Total 2792 1021000

It is thus clear that these Districts now comprise some areas that did not originally form part of the Poonch Jagir.Prima facie the extent of such areas will be 1188 sq kms (2792 minus 1609).

Surprisingly, Mr Maini does not give the present area of Poonch in square miles or kilometres but only as "1.14 lakh hectares". This works out to 1140 sq km implying that either areas not forming a part of the Poonch jagir now form part of the present Poonch District in J&K or there are serious anomalies in the data used/ relied on by Mr Maini.