Rajouri

Rajouri, town, western Jammu and Kashmir union territory, northern India, in the Kashmir region of the Indian subcontinent. The town is situated in a deep valley of the southern flank of the Pir Panjal Range on the Tawi River. It was referred to as Rajpuri in Kalhana’s Rajatarangini (12th century ce). In 1947, at the time of the partition of British India between India and Pakistan, Pashtun tribesmen intervened in the region, and almost the...