Budgam district

{{About|the district|its eponymous headquarters|Budgam}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}

{{More citations needed|date=October 2012}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Budgam

| native_name = Badgom

| native_name_lang = Koshur

| other_name = Badgam

| nickname = Jackals Cave

| settlement_type = District of Jammu and Kashmir administered by India

| image_skyline = File:Doodhpathri pastures Jammu Kasmir India May 2014.jpg

| image_alt = A flock of sheep on a green meadow, with woods in the background

| image_caption = Doodhpathri pastures in Budgam district

| image_map1 = Kashmir region. LOC 2003626427 - showing Kashmir division administered by India in neon blue.jpg

| map_alt =

| map_caption1 = Budgam district is in Jammu and Kashmir in the Kashmir region It is in the Kashmir division (bordered in neon blue).

| coordinates = {{coord|34|1|12|N|74|46|48|E|region:IN_type:adm2nd_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline,title}}

| image_map = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-width=300|frame-height=170|frame-align=center|zoom=4|type=point|title=Budgam district|marker=district|type2=shape|stroke-width2=2|stroke-color2=#808080}}

| map_caption = Interactive map of Budgam district

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = India (Indian Administrated J&K)

| coor_pinpoint = Budgam

| subdivision_type1 = Union Territory

| subdivision_name1 = Jammu and Kashmir

| subdivision_type2 = Division

| subdivision_name2 = Kashmir

| established_title = Established

| established_date = 1979

| founder = Aga Syed Yousuf

| named_for = Large Village

| seat_type = Headquarters

| seat = Budgam

| parts_type = Tehsils

| parts_style = para

| p1 = {{olist |Budgam |Beerwah |Chadoora |Khan Sahib |Charari Sharief |B K Pora |Khag |Narbal |Magam }}

| government_type = District Development Council of Budgam

| unit_pref = Metric

| area_footnotes =

| area_rank =

| area_total_km2 = 1,370

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_m =

| leader_title = DDC Chairman

| leader_name = Nazir Ahmed Khan

| population_total = 753,745

| population_as_of = 2011

| population_rank =

| population_density_km2 = 537

| population_demonym = Badgaime

| population_footnotes =

| demographics_type1 = Languages

| demographics1_title1 = Official

| demographics1_info1 = Kashmiri, Urdu, Hindi,

Dogri, English{{cite web |url=http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2020/222037.pdf |title=The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020 |publisher=The Gazette of India|date=27 September 2020 |access-date=27 September 2020}}{{cite news | title=Parliament passes JK Official Languages Bill, 2020 | work=Rising Kashmir | date=23 September 2020 | url=http://risingkashmir.com/news/parliament-passes-jk-official-languages-bill-2020 | access-date=23 September 2020 | archive-date=24 September 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924141909/http://risingkashmir.com/news/parliament-passes-jk-official-languages-bill-2020 | url-status=dead }}

| timezone1 = IST

| utc_offset1 = +5:30

| postal_code_type =

| postal_code = 191111

| registration_plate = JK04

| blank1_name_sec1 = Sex ratio

| blank1_info_sec1 = 1.13250283 ♂/♀

| blank2_name_sec1 = Literacy

| blank2_info_sec1 = 57.98%

| blank_name_sec2 = Villages

| blank_info_sec2 = Ichgam, Khan Sahib, Dooniwari, Ompora, Beerwah, Gariend KhurdKandooraKandoora Chadoora, Parnewa, Wahabpora, wadwan bandgam (famous for its karewa, naarwuder bajmarg haren nandwuder it is a "valley inside the valley"

| website = {{URL|budgam.nic.in/}}

| footnotes =

| official_name =

| governing_body = District Development Council

| leader_title1 = District magistrate

| leader_name1 = Akshay Labroo (IAS)

}}

Budgam district is an administrative district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary sources (a) through (d), reflecting 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).

(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.";
(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.";
(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";
(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."
(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.";
(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.";
(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."
(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.";
(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'."

Created in 1979 with its headquarters at the town of Budgam, it is the district with the largest population of Shia Muslims in the Kashmir valley.{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/are-kashmiri-shias-the-next-pandits/|title=Are Kashmiri Shias The Next Pandits?|date=14 November 2013|access-date=21 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621185324/http://www.tehelka.com/are-kashmiri-shias-the-next-pandits/|archive-date=21 June 2015|url-status=dead}}