Kings of Kashmira

Kings of Kashmira
Author: Fl. 1148 Kalhana
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781342223098

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The Making of Early Kashmir

The Making of Early Kashmir
Author: Shonaleeka Kaul
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-01-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019909330X

What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir explores these questions in relation to the birth of Kashmir and the discursive and material practices that shaped it up to the 12th century CE. Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri history, Kalhana’s Rajatarangini, this book argues that the text was history not despite being traditional Sanskrit poetry but because of it. It elaborated a poetics of place, implicating Kashmir’s sacred geography, a stringent critique of local politics, and a regional selfhood that transcended the limits of vernacularism.Combined with longue durée testimonies from art, material culture, script, and linguistics, this book jettisons the image of an isolated and insular Kashmir. It proposes a cultural formation that straddled the Western Himalayas and the Indic plains with Kashmir as the pivot. This is the story of the connected histories of the region and the rest of India.

Kashmir

Kashmir
Author: Khalid Bashir Ahmad
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789386062802

The advent of Islam in medieval Kashmir gave birth to a narrative that describes forcible mass conversion of Hindus, eviction of local people and wanton demolition of religious symbols. A minority of Kashmiri Brahmans and their progeny who did not convert to Islam built and successfully perpetuated this narrative over the centuries. Following the eruption of armed insurgency in Kashmir and mass migration of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, this community narrative has turned into the Indian mainstream view on Kashmiri Pandits. Kashmir: Exposing the Myth behind the Narrative challenges the existing narrative. It exposes many fallacies used to uphold this narrative and dissects the work of historians that has sustained ahistorical perceptions over a long period of time. By linking history to the present, the book facilitates an understanding of the situation today.

Nehru's 97 Major Blunders

Nehru's 97 Major Blunders
Author: Rajnikant Puranik
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2016-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781718072022

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.--George SantayanaBut for a series of major blunders by Nehru across the spectrum--it would not be an exaggeration to say that he blundered comprehensively--India would have been on a rapidly ascending path to becoming a shining, prosperous, first-world country by the end of his term, and would surely have become so by early 1980s--provided, of course, Nehru's dynasty had not followed him to power. Sadly, the Nehru era laid the foundations of India's poverty and misery, condemning it to be forever a developing, third-rate, third-world country. By chronicling those blunders, this book highlights THE FACTS BEHIND THE FACADE.This 'Revised, Enlarged & Unabridged, June-2018 Edition' of the book comprises (a)123 Major Blunders compared to 97 of the first Digital Edition of July 2016; (b)over twice the matter, and number of words; and (c)exhaustive citations and complete bibliography. Blunders is used in this book as a general term to also include failures, neglect, wrong policies, bad decisions, despicable and disgraceful acts, usurping undeserved posts, etc.It is not the intention of this book to be critical of Nehru, but historical facts, that have often been distorted or glossed over or suppressed must be known widely, lest the mistakes be repeated, and so that India has a brighter future.

The Hindu History of Kashmir

The Hindu History of Kashmir
Author: Horace Hayman Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2000
Genre: Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN:

Based on the Kalhana's Sanskrit work "Rajatarangini".

Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris

Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris
Author: Christopher Snedden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1849043426

The seemingly intractable Kashmir dispute and the fate of Kashmiris throughout South Asia and beyond are the twin themes in Snedden's meticulously researched book.

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves
Author: Ram Nath Kak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1995
Genre: Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN:

Autobiography of a veterinarian from Jammu and Kashmir, India.