{"id":28,"date":"2023-11-06T06:09:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T06:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2024-01-29T07:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T07:38:50","slug":"mirpur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/?page_id=28","title":{"rendered":"Mirpur"},"content":{"rendered":"

District Mirpur<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Mirpur District<\/b>\u00a0(Urdu:\u00a0\u0636\u0644\u0639 \u0645\u06cc\u0631\u067e\u0648\u0631<\/span><\/span>) is a district of Pakistan-administered\u00a0Azad Kashmir\u00a0in the\u00a0disputed\u00a0Kashmir\u00a0region.<\/sup>\u00a0It is one of the 10\u00a0districts\u00a0of\u00a0Pakistan’s territory of Azad Kashmir.<\/sup>\u00a0The Mirpur District is bounded on the north by the\u00a0Kotli District, on the east by the\u00a0Bhimber District, on the south by the\u00a0Gujrat District\u00a0of\u00a0Punjab, Pakistan, on the south-west by the\u00a0Jhelum District\u00a0of Punjab, Pakistan, and on the west by its\u00a0Rawalpindi District. The district is named after its main city,\u00a0Mirpur. The Mirpur District has a population of 456,200<\/sup>\u00a0and covers an area of 1,010\u00a0km2<\/sup>\u00a0(390\u00a0sq\u00a0mi). The district is mainly mountainous with some plains. The Mirpur District has a\u00a0humid subtropical climate<\/sup>\u00a0which closely resembles that of the\u00a0Gujrat District\u00a0and the Jhelum District, the adjoining districts of Pakistan’s Punjab Province.<\/h5>\n

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History<\/span><\/h2>\n

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During the\u00a0British Raj, the Mirpur District was one of the five districts of the Jammu Province in the\u00a0princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/sup><\/sup> 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.\u00a0It consisted of three tehsils: the\u00a0Bhimber Tehsil, the\u00a0Kotli Tehsil, and the\u00a0Mirpur Tehsil.<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0Bhimber Tehsil\u00a0and the\u00a0Kotli Tehsil\u00a0were subsequently elevated to district status. The three districts presently constitute the\u00a0Mirpur Division\u00a0of\u00a0Azad Kashmir. Small portions of the former Mirpur District were included in the\u00a0Rajouri District\u00a0of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.<\/h5>\n
The original Mirpur District, along with the\u00a0Poonch District\u00a0and the\u00a0Rajouri District, had close geographic, ethnic, and cultural ties with the\u00a0West Punjab\u00a0area, more so than with the city of\u00a0Jammu\u00a0and the rest of the Jammu Province. Due to those reasons, scholar\u00a0Christopher Snedden\u00a0stated that the people of Mirpur area had a strong desire to join Pakistan during the\u00a0partition.<\/sup><\/h5>\n
In November 1947, the Mirpur District was the site of the\u00a0Mirpur Massacre, where many\u00a0Hindus,\u00a0Sikhs, and refugees from the\u00a0partition, were killed by armed Pakistani tribesmen and soldiers.<\/h5>\n

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Language and ethnicity<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The main language, native to an estimated 85% of the district’s population,<\/sup>is known under a number of sometimes ambiguous names. Its speakers call it variously\u00a0Pahari<\/i>,\u00a0Mirpur Pahari<\/i>,\u00a0Mirpuri<\/i>, and\u00a0Pothwari<\/i>,<\/sup>\u00a0while some label it as Punjabi.<\/sup>Sociolinguists have regarded it as one of the three major dialects of the\u00a0Pahari-Pothwari\u00a0language complex,<\/sup>which is intermediate between\u00a0Lahnda\u00a0and\u00a0Punjabi.<\/sup>Mirpur Pahari is mutually intelligible with the other two major dialects \u2013 Pothwari of the\u00a0Potohar Plateau\u00a0in the\u00a0Punjab\u00a0Province and the Pahari spoken to the north in Azad Kashmir and around\u00a0Murree\u00a0\u2013 and shares with them between 77% and 84% of its basic vocabulary,<\/sup>\u00a0although the difference with the northernmost varieties (in\u00a0Muzaffarabad) is sufficient to impede understanding.<\/sup>\u00a0Mirpuri 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\u00a0Punjabis\u00a0of the Pothohar.<\/sup><\/sup><\/h5>\n
The\u00a0Gujari language\u00a0is spoken by an estimated 10% of the population.<\/sup>The local dialect is closely related to the Gujari varieties spoken in the rest of Azad Kashmir and in the\u00a0Hazara\u00a0region.<\/sup>\u00a0Other languages spoken include Urdu and English.<\/h5>\n

Government<\/span><\/h2>\n
The district is administratively subdivided into two\u00a0tehsils:<\/sup><\/h5>\n
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    Dadyal Tehsil<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n
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    Mirpur Tehsil<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    District Mirpur   Mirpur District\u00a0(Urdu:\u00a0\u0636\u0644\u0639 \u0645\u06cc\u0631\u067e\u0648\u0631) is a district of Pakistan-administered\u00a0Azad Kashmir\u00a0in the\u00a0disputed\u00a0Kashmir\u00a0region.\u00a0It is one of the 10\u00a0districts\u00a0of\u00a0Pakistan’s territory of Azad Kashmir.\u00a0The Mirpur District is bounded on the north by the\u00a0Kotli District, on the east by the\u00a0Bhimber District, on the south by the\u00a0Gujrat District\u00a0of\u00a0Punjab, Pakistan, on the south-west by the\u00a0Jhelum District\u00a0of Punjab, Pakistan, and on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirdigitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}