Tosa Maidan | |
|---|---|
Meadow | |
| The Tosamaidan Meadows | |
 Pirpanchal Guarding Tosamaidan | |
| Nickname: Bahak | |
  Tosa Maidan Location in Jammu & Kashmir, India  Tosa Maidan Tosa Maidan (India) | |
| Coordinates: 33°55′4″N 74°29′57″E / 33.91778°N 74.49917°E | |
| Country |  India |
| Union Territory |  Jammu & Kashmir |
| Division | Kashmir |
| District | Budgam |
| Tehsil | Khag |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Kashmiri, Urdu, Hindi, Dogri, English[1][2] |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 193411 |
Tosa Maidan (or Toshamaidan) is a tourist destination and a hill station in the Khag area of the Budgam district in the Kashmir Valley of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The name also marks the historic Tosa Maidan route into the Kashmir Valley from the Poonch Valley. In fact, the original name of Tosa Maidan appears to have been "Tosa Marg".[3] Mahmud of Ghazni and the Sikh monarch Ranjit Singh attempted to invade the Kashmir Valley via this route following the Battle of Shopian[4][5]
- ^ "The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 27 September 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ "Parliament passes JK Official Languages Bill, 2020". Rising Kashmir. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
- ^ Begley, Wayne Edison, ed. (1990), The Shah Jahan nama of 'Inayat Khan: An abridged history of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, compiled by his royal librarian, Oxford University Press, pp. 127–128, ISBN 978-0-19-562489-2: "In that vale resembling Paradise, there are besides several summer retreats such as no other region can boast of. One is called the Godi Marg, another the Tosa Marg; and the profusion of flowers and plants in both those places is so great that you can pluck at least 100 different kinds of blossoms off a single parterre."
- ^ Nalwa (2009), p. 45
- ^ Gupta, Hari Ram (1991). The History of the Sikhs Volume 5. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 128. ISBN 9788121505154.