I want to peruse a map of Kashmir which depicts the area of Kathaithum in the Kilian valley in Kashmir. I am not sure of the exact location of Kathaithum in the Kilian valley in Kashmir i.e whether Kathaithum is situate to the north or to the south of the Kilian Pass in Kashmir on the Kuen Lun Range in northern Kashmir.
The Maharajah of Kashmir considered the territory of Kashmir to extend up to the Kilian pass in the Kuen lun range in northern Kashmir wherein are the Hindu-tash and Sanju - la passes in northern Kashmir north of the Kashmiri town of Shahidullah which was virtually on the southern flanks of the Kuen Lun Range in northern Kashmir.
According to “The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London”, Volume 40 By Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain),
“It consists of a stone
fort and several ruined huts, originally built by the Ladak wazeer of the
Maharajah of Kashmir. The fort was occupied by a detachment of Kashmir troops
from 1863 to 1866, during the disturbances caused by the rebellion against the
Chinese in Eastern Turkistan; but on the invasion of Khotan by the Kush Begie
in the autumn of the later year, it
was evacuated by the Kashmir troops who retired across the Karakoram. The
Kush Begi sent a detachment of troops to occupy the fort, and it has since
remained in the hands of the Yarkand ruler”.
“The Maharajah of Kashmir, it is believed, considered his territory to extend up to the Kilian range, north of Shadula, doubtless from the fact of having had a fort built there; but the last habitation now met with in his territory is at the head of the Nubra Valley, in Ladak. The boundary line is given in the latest map of Turkistan as extending up to Kathaitum, in the Kilian Valley; but not only this valley, but the valleys of the Yarkand and Karakash rivers are frequented by the Kirghiz who all pay tribute to the ruler of Turkistan”! The stance of the author of this writeup in The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London is deceitful and treacherous and has to be contested. The Shahidullah fort was not "evacuated" by the Government of Kashmir, nor did the Kashmiri troops "retire" across the Karakoram, and nor did the fort remain in the hands of the Yarkand ruler since then! As late as 1885, the Government of Kashmir had in exercise of its sovereignty and territorial integrity wanted to renovate and restore the Kashmiri Fort of Shahidullah which was virtually on the southern flanks of the Kuen Lun Range in northern Kashmir, but the Government of Kashmir was intimidated and prevented from doing so by the colonial English who were hand in glove and in collusion with the Chinese! The Kirghiz were nomads who were robbers who did belong to the area. They were busybodies and nomadic robbers who hailed from distant Kirghizstan and the Government of Kashmir had in exercise of its territorial sovereignty built a fort in the northern Kashmiri town of Shahidullah which was virtually on the southern flanks of the Kuen Lun Range in northern Kashmir to command the Kuen Lun range and to regulate and control these vagabond and criminal thugs, But it was one treacherous and deceitful Ney Elias who was British Joint Commissioner in Ladakh and spying on the Government of Kashmir who raised objections and successfully prevented the Government of Kashmir from exercising her right of sovereignty over that area in Kashmir. So the author of the write-up,one notorious G.W.Hayward who has the chronic propensity to be wayward is clearly lying, cheating and suppressing and distorting facts and is indulging in Suppressio Veri Suggestio Falsi. Also, the fact that the Raskam Tract and the Taghdumbash and Mariom Pamir was a part of Kanjut historically since time immemorial is suppressed and not divulged by the author of the write-up.
This pertains to the period immediately prior to the commencement of the Constitution of India and the various maps published by the Survey of India prior to 1954 pertaining to the period immediately prior to the commencement of the Constitution of India in particular inter alia the official maps attached to the White Papers published in July 1948 and February 1950 by the Government of India's Ministry of States, headed, incidentally, by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, under the authority of India's Surveyor General G.F.Heaney. One notorious Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru had in 1954 in collusion with the Chinese published a bogus spurious map out of the blue in accordance with his perverted whims and fancies which illegally did not depict areas in Kashmir which hitherto had been depicted as integral part of India by Survey of India, Office of the Surveyor General of India, in the various maps published prior to 1954 pertaining to the period immediately prior to the commencement of the Constitution of India in particular inter alia the official maps attached to the White Papers published in July 1948 and February 1950 by the Government of India's Ministry of States, headed, incidentally, by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, under the authority of India's Surveyor General G.F.Heaney. The survey of W.H. Johnson established certain important points. Brinjga was the boundary post near the Karanghu Tagh Peak in the Kuen Lun in Ladakh, thus implying that the boundary of Kashmir lay along the Kuen Lun Range. Johnson’s findings demonstrated that the whole of the Kara Kash valley was within the territory of the Maharaja of Kashmir and an integral part of the territory of Kashmir. He noted where the Chinese boundary post was accepted. At Yangi Langar, three marches from Khotan , he noticed that there were a few fruit trees at this place which originally was a post or guard house of the Chinese. Ney Elias who had been Joint Commissioner in Ladakh for several years noted on 21 September 1889 that he had met the Chinese in 1879 and 1880 when he visited Kashgar. According to Ney Elias , “They told me that they considered their line of chatze, or posts, as their frontier” viz. , Kugiar, Kilian, Sanju, Kiria, etc.- and that they had
no concern with what lay beyond the mountains. The Chinese completed the reconquest of Eastern Turkistan in 1878. Before they lost it in 1863, their practical authority, as Ney Elias British Joint Commissioner in Leh from the end of the 1870s certain 1885, and Young Husband consistently maintained, "had never extended south of their outposts at Sanju and Kilian along the northern foothills of the Kuenlun range. Nor did they establish a known presence to the south of the line of outposts in the twelve years immediately following their return" , So, when the Government of Kashmir in 1885, at a time when the Chinese were least concerned of the alien trans- Kuen Lun areas in the highlands of Kashmir, beyond their eastern Turkistan dominion “and had literally washed their hands of it”, prepared to unify Kashmir and the Wazir of Ladakh , Pandit Radha Kishen initiated steps to restore the old Kashmiri out post of Shahidulla, Ney Elias who was British Joint Commissioner in Ladakh and spying on the Government of Kashmir raised objections. “This very energetic officer’ , he wrote to the resident, who duely forwarded the letter to the Government of India, “wants the Maharaja to reoccupy Shahidulla in the Karakash valley ….I see indications of his preparing to carry it out, and, in my opinion, he should be restrained, or an awkward boundary question may be raised with the Chinese
without any compensating advantage”. (italics mine to highlight) In the circumstances, since Elias had represented to the Supreme Government, it was a relatively simple matter for him to ensure that the plans were dropped. He told the Wazir that he had reported against the scheme to the Resident, and pretty soon the subservient Wazir succumbed and assured him that he did not intend to implement it. Elias was also promptly meticulously backed up by the Government of India. A letter dated 1st September was sent to the officer on Special Duty (as the Resident was called before 1885) instructing him to take suitable opportunity of advising His Highness the Maharaja not to occupy Shahidulla”. Elias had already killed the proposal. Thus,
the English after treacherously perniciously successfully preventing the reunification of Kashmir vis-à-vis the outpost in the Shahidulla area in Kashmir which was virtually on the southern flanks of the Kuen Lun Range in northern Kashmir and the natural and historic border of Kashmir on the Kuen Lun range and beyond, by vehemently opposing it at a time when the Chinese were least concerned or bothered of the alien trans- Kuen Lun areas in the highlands of Kashmir, beyond their restive eastern Turkistan dominion “and had literally washed their hands of it”, rather than as much as supporting the endeavour much less aiding it, prevented the unification of Kashmir.
One notorious certain Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru had in fact in collusion with the Chinese also arbitrarily, unconstitutionally and illegally published in 1954, a spurious and bogus map out of the blue in accordance with his perverted whims and fancies which illegally did not depict areas in Kashmir which hitherto had been depicted as integral part of India by the Survey of India in the various maps published prior to 1954 pertaining to the period immediately prior to the commencement of the Constitution of India in particular inter alia the official maps attached to the White Papers published in July 1948 and February 1950 by the Government of India's Ministry of States, headed, incidentally, by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, under the authority of India's Surveyor General G.F.Heaney.
I therefore in the light of the aforesaid information request your help in locating the position of Kathaithum in the Kilian valley in northern Kashmir. A detailed old and credible map of the Kilian valley in Kashmir published by the Survey of India prior to 1954 may be furnished to me for my perusal and scrutiny.
As per the spurious and bogus map of Kashmir published illegally by the Survey of India in 1954 at the behest of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru by the Survey of India, the Kuen Lun Border of India with East Turkistan from the Taghdumbash Pamir and Mariom Pamir, and the Kukalang ,Yangi Dawan, Kilian, Sanju-La, and Hindutash Passes in northern Kashmir, had been illegally restricted and illegally confined to only a section of the northern border of Aksai Chin pertaining to the small stretch of border in the area in Kashmir comprising Yangi, Cholpanglik Peak and Muztagh Peak, but now the shameless, wretched and spineless Babus in the Survey of India have obviously in collusion with the Chinese further perpetrated one more illegality over the earlier one of 1954 vis-à-vis Aksai Chin in north eastern Kashmir by further cartographically surrendering further inalienable parts of India in Aksai Chin to the Chinese occupying Tibet and East Turkistan by further illegally depicting areas comprising the headwaters of the Yarung Kash or Yurung-Kash in Aksai Chin as not part of Aksai Chin and by portraying a line to the south of the Kuen Lun ridge rather than on the Kuen Lun Range whereby illegally forfeiting the Kuen Lun range border in a section of the Aksai Chin and illegally surrendering the head waters of the Yarung Kash in Aksai Chin to the Chinese occupying East Turkistan and Tibet! Patriotic and nationalist Indians beware of the nefarious and diabolical game plan of illegally surrendering further areas in India to the Chinese. Be afraid , be very afraid!
