Illustrations: 12 B/w Illustrations Description: Dr. S. C. Ray s Early History and Culture of Kashmir is an outstanding piece of research on a very important region of India. He brings out clearly the unique characteristics of Kashmir history. Not only does he give a connected narrative of Kashmir s political evolution based on all available sources, literary, archaeological, numismatic, foreign allusions etc., but brings out the cultural, religious and social development of the people of the valley. It s in my opinion a model of what such regional histories ought to be and I congratulate Dr. Ray on producing a work of great value on an area which should be better known to the people of India as a whole.