Anantnag: Difference between revisions

| settlement_type        = City administered by India.<ref name=tertiary-kashmir/>

| coordinates           = {{coord|33|44|07|N|75|08|52|E|display=inline,title}}

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| subdivision_type      = Administering country

| subdivision_name      = [[India]]

| demographics1_info1    = [[Kashmiri language|Kashmiri]], [[Urdu]], [[Hindi]], [[Dogri language|Dogri]], English

'''Anantnag''' (/ə'nʌntna:g/ or /-nɑːg/ {{audio|Anantnag̜ Pronunciation.ogg|listen}}), also called '''Islamabad''',<ref name="Bhat2017"/> is the administrative headquarters of [[Anantnag district]] of Indian-administered [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]] in the disputed [[Kashmir]] region.<ref name=tertiary-kashmir> The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of [[Kashmir]] and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the [[WP:TERTIARY|tertiary sources]] (a) through (d), reflecting [[WP:DUE|due weight]] in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (f) through (h) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (i) below). <br/>

(a) {{citation|title=Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Kashmir-region-Indian-subcontinent |accessdate=15 August 2019}} (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called the Northern Areas. Administered by India are the southern and southeastern portions, which constitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir but are slated to be split into two union territories.";<br/> (b) {{citation|last1=Pletcher|first1=Kenneth|title=Aksai Chin, Plateau Region, Asia|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Aksai-Chin |accessdate=16 August 2019}} (subscription required) Quote: "Aksai Chin, Chinese (Pinyin) Aksayqin, portion of the Kashmir region, at the northernmost extent of the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia. It constitutes nearly all the territory of the Chinese-administered sector of Kashmir that is claimed by India to be part of the Ladakh area of Jammu and Kashmir state."; <br/> (c) {{citation|chapter=Kashmir|title=Encyclopedia Americana|publisher=Scholastic Library Publishing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_cWAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA328|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7172-0139-6|page=328}} C. E Bosworth, University of Manchester Quote: "KASHMIR, kash'mer, the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent, administered partlv by India, partly by Pakistan, and partly by China. The region has been the subject of a bitter dispute between India and Pakistan since they became independent in 1947"; <br/> (d) {{citation|last1=Osmańczyk|first1=Edmund Jan|title=Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: G to M|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSIMXHMdfkkC&pg=PA1191|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93922-5|pages=1191–}} Quote: "Jammu and Kashmir: Territory in northwestern India, subject to a dispute betw een India and Pakistan. It has borders with Pakistan and China." <br/>(e) {{citation|last=Talbot|first=Ian|title=A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNg_CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|year=2016|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-19694-8|pages=28–29}} Quote: "We move from a disputed international border to a dotted line on the map that represents a military border not recognized in international law. The line of control separates the Indian and Pakistani administered areas of the former Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir."; <br/>  (f) {{citation|title=Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Kashmir-region-Indian-subcontinent |accessdate=15 August 2019}} (subscription required) Quote: "... China became active in the eastern area of Kashmir in the 1950s and has controlled the northeastern part of Ladakh (the easternmost portion of the region) since 1962."; <br/> (g) {{citation|last=Bose|first=Sumantra|title=Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ACMe9WBdNAC&pg=PA294|year=2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-02855-5|pages=294, 291, 293}} Quote: "J&K: Jammu and Kashmir. The former princely state that is the subject of the Kashmir dispute. Besides IJK (Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The larger and more populous part of the former princely state. It has a population of slightly over 10 million, and comprises three regions: Kashmir Valley, Jammu, and Ladakh.) and AJK ('Azad" (Free) Jammu and Kashmir. The more populous part of Pakistani-controlled J&K, with a population of approximately 2.5 million. AJK has six districts: Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Bagh, Kodi, Rawalakot, and Poonch. Its capital is the town of Muzaffarabad. AJK has its own institutions, but its political life is heavily controlled by Pakistani authorities, especially the military), it includes the sparsely populated "Northern Areas" of Gilgit and Baltistan, remote mountainous regions which are directly administered, unlike AJK, by the Pakistani central authorities, and some high-altitude uninhabitable tracts under Chinese control." <br/> (h) {{citation|last=Fisher|first=Michael H.|title=An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kZVuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-11162-2|page=166}} Quote: "Kashmir’s identity remains hotly disputed with a UN-supervised “Line of Control” still separating Pakistani-held Azad (“Free”) Kashmir from Indian-held Kashmir."; <br/> (i) {{citation|last=Snedden|first=Christopher|title=Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5amKCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-1-84904-621-3|page=10}} Quote:"Some politicised terms also are used to describe parts of J&K. These terms include the words 'occupied' and 'held'." 

</ref>  It is located at a distance of 53 kilometres (33 miles) from the union territory's capital [[Srinagar]]. It is the third largest city in Jammu and Kashmir after Srinagar and [[Jammu]] with an urban agglomerate population of  159,838  and a municipal limit population of 109,433.<ref name=Census2011-town_pop/><ref name="Census-2011">{{Cite web|title=Anantnag City Census 2011 data |url=http://www.census2011.co.in/census/city/2-anantnag.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505071750/http://www.census2011.co.in/census/city/2-anantnag.html |archive-date=5 May 2012 |url-status=live |df=dmy}}</ref>

The town has been called by both the names Islamabad and Anantnag. The latter is characterised by [[Marc Aurel Stein]] as its "Hindu name".<ref name=Stein>{{citation |first=M. A |last=Stein |authorlink=M. A. Stein |title=Memoir on Maps Illustrating Ancient Geography of Kashmir |year=1899 |publisher=Baptist Mission Press |location=Calcutta |url=https://archive.org/details/MemoirOnMapsIllustratingAncientGeographyOfKashmir |page=178}}</ref>

"Anantnag" derives from the name of the spring at the southern end of the town, whose Sanskrit name {{transl|sa|Anantanāga}} was mentioned in the ''[[Nilamata Purana]]'' and other texts.<ref name=Stein/> According to the ''Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak'', it is named after [[Ananta Shesha|Ananta]], the great serpent of Vishnu and the emblem of eternity.<ref>{{citation |title=Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43256 |via=archive.org |publisher=Superintendent of Government Printing |location=Calcutta |year=1890  |page=170}}</ref>

{{citation |last=Snedden |first=Christopher |title=Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s5KMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 |year=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-1-84904-342-7 |page=8}}

The local body for Anantnag is called Municipal Council Anantnag.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Municipal Council Anantnag {{!}} District Anantnag, Government of Jammu & Kasmir {{!}} India|url=https://anantnag.nic.in/public-utility/municipal-council-anantnag/ |access-date=5 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Anantnag has 25 wards.<ref>http://ceojammukashmir.nic.in/pdf/municipal%20Election/MUNICIPAL%20COUNCILS%20AND%20COMMITTEES.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> The local body elections in Anantnag took place in 2018 in which the party Indian National Congress won 20 wards and BJP won 3 wards.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-10-20|title=J&K municipal polls: Congress wins Anantnag, sweeps Leh, BJP makes its mark in Valley|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/j-k-municipal-polls-congress-wins-anantnag-sweeps-leh-bjp-makes-its-mark-in-valley/story-spGcmH2CI4hP1QLkEab4FO.html |access-date=5 September 2020 |website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref> The President and Vice President are the elected heads of the Municipal Council. The elections are indirect elections. Hilal Ahmed Shah is the President of Municipal Council Anantnag.<ref>{{Cite web|title=President Municipal Council Anantnag awarded for his fight against COVID-19|url=https://fastkashmir.com/2020/08/president-municipal-council-anantnag-awarded-for-his-fight-against-covid-19/ |access-date=5 September 2020 |website=Fast Kashmir|language=en}}</ref>

[[Anantnag railway station|Anantnag]] (ANT) is a station on the 119&nbsp;km (74&nbsp;mi) long [[Jammu–Baramulla line|Banihal-Baramulla line]] that started in October 2009 and connects Baramulla (BRML) and Srinagar to Banihal (BAHL), Qazigund. The railway track also connects to [[Banihal]] across the [[Pir Panjal]] mountains through a newly constructed 11&nbsp;km long Banihal tunnel, and subsequently to the Indian railway network after a few years. It takes approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds for a train to cross the tunnel. It is the longest rail tunnel in India. This railway system, proposed in 2001, is not expected to connect the Indian railway network until 2017 at the earliest, with a cost overrun of 55 billion INR. The train also runs during heavy snow across the Kashmir Valley.

* [[Government Degree College for Boys, Anantnag]]  

* [[Government College for Women, Anantnag]]

* Government Boys Model Higher Secondary School, Brakpora, Anantnag

* [[Government Polytechnic College Anantnag]]

 

 

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