The Exiled Pandits of Kashmir

The Exiled Pandits of Kashmir
Author: Bill K. Koul
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811565376

This book discusses all the questions related to Kashmiri Pandits and their relation and current issues regarding their return to Kashmir. The book explores the importance of return of Kashmiri Pandits for Kashmir and both major Kashmiri communities, especially those who really want to return home, out of their own volition and for all right reasons. The book shows how to bring about a reasonable and realistic degree of practical and sustainable reconciliation between the two communities, whilst trying to make them stand in each other’s shoes, understand each other’s perspective and pain and then self-introspect sincerely, so that a bridge of mutual trust and acceptance is rebuilt between the two communities, which can then allow those Pandits who genuinely want to return cross over and be home.

The State in Medieval Kashmir

The State in Medieval Kashmir
Author: Rattan Lal Hangloo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000608700

This book provides a lucid, informative and comprehensive account of political processes and their varied foundations in medieval Kashmir. It examines some of the principal ways through which the region’s social and religious life interacted with the then, current political formations to produce peculiar structures of power and domination. The book also analyses in detail problems that the medieval state faced in Kashmir, while evolving its ideological apparatus and legitimational tools. The author has put together varied Sanskrit, Persian, and other sources on this region’s history and passed them through a theoretical lens to ensure a vivid focus and a long historical perspective. The book is a major contribution to medieval Indian history, particularly in Kashmir region. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE

Warfare in Pre-British India - 1500BCE to 1740CE
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317586913

This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralised bureaucratic states have been underemphasised in the history of India.

Al-Hind: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th-13th centuries

Al-Hind: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th-13th centuries
Author: André Wink
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780391041745

During the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, Islamic conquest and trade laid the foundation for a new type of Indo-Islamic society in which the organizational forms of the frontier and of sedentary agriculture merged in a way that was uniquely successful in the late medieval world at large, setting the Indo-Islamic world apart from the Middle East and China in the same centuries.