Are Guardians of Protected Mubarak-Mandi Monuments being misguided? Ajay Khajuria Over a century ago, the then-ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Pratap Singh, saw the need to enact the Jammu and Kashmir Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1920 (Samvat 1977), with the express purpose of “the preservation of ancient monuments, for the exercise of control over