Socio-Religious Reform Movements of Muslims in J & K from 1900-47

Abstract

Socio-religious reform movements among Muslims hold distinct feature within the Muslim community of the state. First seeing the formation of reform movements among Hindu colleagues and secondly modern education, British impression and Muslim backwardness was the main reason and fact behind the formation of these new organizations, association, communities within the Muslim arena. During the colonial period and at the time of the Dogra reign the socio-economic and socio-political condition of the Muslims in the valley was pathetic and they lead a miserable life and this paper gives a quite idea about the condition of the Muslims in the period from 1900-1947 period on how they emerged from marginalized society to a new developed and reformed one despite many hardships of that time.