Undoubtedly all jammu and kashmir Muslim conference awakened the people of kashmir from their deep slumber and dormance.As P.N. Bamzai had remarked with the Muslim masses groaning under several disabilities and passing through, a period of severe econamic depression,with the thousands of Hindu young men educated but unemployed the administration under an inefficient and unsympathetic bureaucracy and with the direct encouragement by the British to the agitators,the stage was set for a rising early in 1931 A.D. The Muslim press in lahore and other cities of the punjab let loose a bitter campaign of hatred and opposition against Maharaja Hari's Singh rule in jammu and kashmir.Tales of the state were published by the press which instigated the Muslim to rise against the Maharaja,who it was alleged to be heavily under the influence of his Hindu officers and his favourites.The Anglo-indian press also wrote in support of the agitators and denunciated the Maharaja and his government .Meanwhile,several Muslim young men,fresh from the universities in india,particularly Aligarh,where they had met Muslim leader and propagators of pan-Islamisim,organized themselves into a group,holding frequent meetings at the Muslim Reading Room in srinagar.
Frustrated at their failure to enter state service direct on responsible and remunerative posts,they concluded that unless they had the backing of the masses,they had no future in the land of their birth.By and by,they organized large meetings and carried on a whispering but ineffective campaign against what they termed a Hindu state.their political activities were thus based on purely communal lines,which later on assumed a painful aspect.they had the tacit support of the British Indian Government as well as the British minister.
The Maharaja, ignorant of the feelings and aspirations of the people,did not take any initiative in winning back their good will and confidence,All these factors lead to the formation of Muslim conference .The most zealous and conspicuous among the young agitators was Sheikh Muhammad A dbullah.After obtaining a Masters degree from Aligarh university,he had returned to kashmir.Although he had received a advanced education.he could secure only the post of a teacher in a government school.Being frustrated the sheikh raised the voice of protest against the Maharaja's policy of denying high jobs in the state service to the Muslim and resigned his job in protest.
Frustrated at their failure to enter state service direct on responsible and remunerative posts,they concluded that unless they had the backing of the masses,they had no future in the land of their birth.By and by,they organized large meetings and carried on a whispering but ineffective campaign against what they termed a Hindu state.their political activities were thus based on purely communal lines,which later on assumed a painful aspect.they had the tacit support of the British Indian Government as well as the British minister.
The Maharaja, ignorant of the feelings and aspirations of the people,did not take any initiative in winning back their good will and confidence,All these factors lead to the formation of Muslim conference .The most zealous and conspicuous among the young agitators was Sheikh Muhammad A dbullah.After obtaining a Masters degree from Aligarh university,he had returned to kashmir.Although he had received a advanced education.he could secure only the post of a teacher in a government school.Being frustrated the sheikh raised the voice of protest against the Maharaja's policy of denying high jobs in the state service to the Muslim and resigned his job in protest.
