City
Information
| Area |
20.36 sq.kms |
|
Altitude |
305 m |
Temperature
Summer
Winter |
Max Min
43.0 C 23.4 C
26.2 C 4.3 C |
| Rainfall |
107 cms
(July to September). |
| Best
Season |
September to
April. |
|
Clothing |
Summer:
light cottons
Winter: woollens |
|
Population |
6,98,674 (as
per Census 2001) |
|
Languages |
Dogri,
Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English |
 A Legend
Jammu, the Duggar land where the past still has a living presence. A
land of grand ancient temples, and beautiful palaces, all nestling
in the foothills of the Himalayas. It is said that, on becoming
King, the Suryavanshi Jambu Lochan went on a hunt and, crossing the
Tawi, found a deer and a tiger drinking water from the same tank.
His ministers explained that this meant that the soil of the place
was so virtuous that no living creature bore enmity against another.
Raja Jambu Lochan, who lived in the later Vedic period, decided to
found his capital , Jambupura, on his soil, on the right bank of the
Tawi, overlooking his brother king Bahu's fort. Today the temple of
Maha Kali, better known as "Bahu" or "Bawey Wali Mata", located in
the Bahu Fort, is considered second only to Mata Vaishno Devi in
terms of mystical power. The present temple was built shortly after
the coronation of Maharaja Gulab Singh, in 1822. The existing fort,
as well as the Manasabdar's palace inside it, was constructed in
1820.
History
Legend has it that Jamboo Loochen founded the city about three
thousand years ago. The Raja was hunting in the area, away from his
capital city of Bahu when he came across a lion and a goat drinking
from the same pond. The Shivadawala Shrine now stands on this spot
in the city. Jammu is known as 'the city of temples' because of its
many shrines, with their soaring golden spires or 'Shikhars'.
There are many other shrines and temples around the city and
environs that date from earlier years but the recorded history of
Jammu begins from the time of the Dogra rulers in the early 19th
century. In 1846 the Dogra ruler of Jammu was created Maharaja of an
ill-defined Himalayan kingdom, 'to the eastward of the river Indus
and westward of the river Ravi', by the treaties of Lahore and
Amritsar at the conclusion of the first Sikh war.
It was the lack of definition of this state - the forerunner of
Jammu and Kashmir - that caused the continuing disputes with Russia
and China over territory. The British created the state as part of a
complex political buffer zone between their Indian Empire and China
and Russia.
For the Maharaja Gulab Singh, the treaty confirmed for him almost 25
years of fighting and negotiation with the small hill tribes along
the northern border of the Sikh Empire, centred on the Punjab. The
region remained under Dogra rule until the partition of India in
1947, when Hari Singh, the then Maharaja of Kashmir, decided that it
would remain as part of India and the state of Jammu & Kashmir was
born
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