Rajauri

Rajouri or Rajauri is a town and a city chamber in Rajouri region in Jammu and Kashmir. Rajouri is around 155 kilometers 96 mi from kashmir 120 km Jammu city on the Poonch Highway. Rajouri is referred to as the Vale of Lakes as there are numerous lakes around the city. Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University is situated in the town. Well known Sikh General Banda Singh Bahadur additionally had a place with Rajouri. In 1813, Gulab Singh of Jammu caught Rajouri for the Sikh Empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, by crushing Raja Agar Ullah Khan.

After this, Rajouri turned out to be a piece of the Sikh Empre. Be that as it may, parts of it were given as jagirs to Rahim Ullah Khan a relative of Agar Ullah Khan and different parts to Gulab Singh. After the Partition of India and the increase of Jammu and Kashmir to India in October 1947, there took after the First Kashmir War among India and Pakistan. The Pakistani marauders, alongside the revolutionaries and miscreants from the western locale of the state, caught Rajouri on 7 November 1947.

The 30,000 Hindus and Sikhs living in Rajouri were allegedly executed, injured or kidnapped. Rajouri was recovered on 12 April 1948 by the 19 Infantry Brigade of the Indian Army under the charge of Second Lieutenant Rama Raghoba Rane. Rane, regardless of being injured, propelled a striking tank ambush by passing on the tanks over the Tawi stream bed keeping in mind the end goal to maintain a strategic distance from the detours along the primary street.