JAMMU or JuMMoo, capital of the state of Jammu and Kash mir in northern India, on the river Tavi (Ta-wi), a tributary of the Chenab. Pop. (1931), 38,613. The town and palace stand upon the right bank of the river ; the fort overhangs the left bank, at a height of iso f t. above the stream. The city was the seat of a Rajput dynasty. After conquest by the Sikhs, it formed part of Ranjit Singh's dominions. After his death it was acquired by
Gulab Singh as the nucleus of his dominions, to which the British added Kashmir in 1846. It is connected with Sialkot in the Pun jab by a railway 16 m. long.
The province of Jammu proper, consists of a submontane tract, the upper basin of the Chenab. Pop. (1931) 1,788,441.