Prem Nath Dogra

Prem Nath Dogra (24 October 1884 – 21 March 1972) was a leader from Jammu and Kashmir who worked for total integration of the state with India.^[1] He is commonly referred to as Sher e Duggar. He was a leader of the state's Hindu Sabha when Jammu and Kashmir was a princely state, and later, of Jammu Praja Parishad after the state's accession to India. Praja Parishad served as a key opposition party to Jammu and Kashmir National Conference in the state, and agitated for the full integration of the state with India. Dogra was later elected as the president of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1955 for a brief period.

Prem Nath Dogra was born on October 24, 1884, in Smailpur, Jammu, as the only child of Pandit Anant Ram, in a Dogra Brahmin family. Dogra spent his early life in Lahore for his academics. He graduated with a BA in 1908.^[2]

As president of the Jammu and Kashmir Praja Parishad in 1949, Dogra was arrested along with hundreds of members of the party for demanding for the abolition of the flag of Jammu and Kashmir, and the adoption of the Indian flag in the region. He was arrested again on 26 November 1952, during a demonstration against the hoisting of both the state and the national flag in Jammu. The arrest, alongside further developments, led to the Praja Parishad agitation spreading to other parts of Jammu and Kashmir.^[2][3]

• Ikkjutt Jammu
• Jammu and Kashmir Workers Party
• Bharatiya Janata Party
• Syama Prasad Mukherjee
• Girdhari Lal Dogra

• Behera, Navnita Chadha (2007), Demystifying Kashmir, Pearson Education India, ISBN 978-8131708460
• Jaffrelot, Christophe (1996), The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, ISBN 978-1850653011