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Karnah is a tehsil of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It has 58 villages and is 78 km away from the main town of Kupwara.

Geography [link]

Karnah lies in the most northeastern part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. On a 78 km long difficult mountain range to the north-east of Kupwara at a height of 10,000 feet is situated Sadhna Gali {Shams Bri mountain range}. After crossing the pass (Sadhna Gali) there lies the small valley of Karnah situated at the foot hills of Shams Bri and Krannu mountains. Before partition this valley comprised the valley of Drav, Lipa and Karnah. Its border reached ahead of Farkiyan to the east up to Damaar Gali and to Nalla Qazinaag to the west extending up to the confluence of river Kishan Ganga and Nallah Qazinaag at Jaradah.

Karnah is now a tehsil of Kupwara and remain cut off for 3 months from the entire state due to avalanches at the Sadhna Pass. Most of the govt.offices and main market of the tehsil are at Tangdar village. It has 5 government higher secondary schools and 1 government degree collage at Kandi village. The population of this tehsil is above 80,000. It has two hospitals but one at Chitterkote awaits inauguration. This small tehsil suffered the most in the earthquake of October 8 2005 in which more than a 100 people were killed. The main language spoken in this tehsil is Pahari which is followed by Gujari and Kashmiri. About 70% of the population speaks the Pahari language and the rest speak Gujari, only three villages speak Kashmiri. All the population of this tehsil is muslim except for one village, which represent its secularity. This one village is Sikh

History [link]

During the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, it was given the status of Tehsil with headquarter at Teethwall. Karnah valley suffered the most as a result of partation of the state in the attacks of 1947.Its fertile areas Drav, Sharda, Mirpur,Falakaan in the north and Lipa, Ashkot, Qazinaag to the south were separated from the state and are now known as Landi Patti meaning narrow strip. Thereafter Karnah valley was deteached from it and finally Karnah valley shrunk to an area of 11 squares miles comprising the valley of Teethwall and Gabra. Thera are indication of human sattlement in Karnah valley going back to 3000 years of history. Among the habitats of the valley, the more knowns are Sharada Shahkot, Phungi Raja, Helwaat, Ashkot,Falakan and Mirpur. Excavation near Dildar village yielded lance, mace, sward and pick-axe which shows the local people were warriors. All these weapons are made of stone. The ancient people of the locality are reported to be the sun-worshipper. Like Sati Sar, Karnah valley is also said to be a large lake of water. The present day village of Nichian, Kandi Tangdar, Dildar, Chamkote,Chitterkote and Khaworpara and many more villages adjoining these all remain sub-merged under water. In olden days Karnah valley was given the name of BOR. Among its areas JARLA was of much importance and situated at the foot of Sadhna Gali. As it was a vast lake, early human habitation took place along the mountain heights. Even today excavation in the heights yield icons, stone status, stone mill, stone weapon and utensil. In 2009 a person named Khushnaseeb Khan found earthen pots at NAKA of Chitterkote.

Once upon a time a Raja named Karan dwelt on the mountain Krannu located in the middle of Karnah valley, his palaces with its ruins still remaining. This mountain was 7500 feet above sea level. Local people call the ruins as "Raja Karan Diyan Shaheriyan".

External links [link]

• https://www.ikashmir.net/tourism/karnah.html