Maj General Goverdhan Jamwal

About Me

Many times, I have been asked about my life story. I wonder what to include in my story which can be interesting and meaningful. I was born in September 1928 in a village called Suchani in District Samba. It is almost halfway between Jammu and Samba, about 10 kms off the National Highway where there was no road up to 1947. So, you can imagine my 19 years of childhood, school, and college days, had no road, no school, no post office, electricity, even water. The ponds used to dry up by the end of May. Life was very hard, though we never felt it. Life was simple; we had no real possessions, and whatever was available in the villages, that was used.

Nothing from outside came except some essential commodities or occasionally medicines, etc. Otherwise, all was grown in the village.

Since my father was in the Judiciary, he was transferred quite often, and occasionally I would go with him along with my mother. I had spent some time in Udhampur and in Jammu and also in Mirpur, which is now in Pakistan. There, I studied two classes, 2nd and 3rd primary, during the days when the Muslim uprisings were initiated by the Muslim Conference and Sheikh Abdullah in 1931, immediately after the 1931 Round Table Conference held in London.