Srinagar, Oct. 14 -- The history of Mirpur in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir(PoJK) is not merely the story of a region that became a major source of overseas migration to Britain. It is also the story of a once-prominent Hindu and Sikh population whose commercial life, religious institutions, homes and ancestral connections were profoundly disrupted during the violence surrounding Partition in 1947. Decades later, the construction of Mangla Dam submerged much of the old town, including historic Hindu religious structures, leaving an important chapter of the region's plural heritage beneath the reservoir.Before Partition, Mirpur was an important commercial centre in the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Hindu trading fami...