Memoirs

Memoirs
Author: India. Archaeological Survey. Jammu and Kashmir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 14
Release: 1924
Genre: Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN:

Kashur The Kashmiri Speaking People

Kashur The Kashmiri Speaking People
Author: Mohini Qasba Raina
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1482899450

Kashur-The Kashmiri Speaking People is the out come of a dedicated research where in the author on the basis of geological, archeological, chronological and linguistic evidences has presented a truthful and unbiased account of the group she herself belongs to. She projects, and rightly so, that the Kashur from the ancient eras possessed highly developed spiritual and intellectual caliber that helped these people per se to evolve into one of the richest social, religious and literary cultural linguistic group. In this effort she has analyzed and given clarification to certain commonly held misconceptions. She explains that legends created by primitive ancestors are not myths made up as entertaining stories but are based on reality and are representations of the living truth that has been perceived by the compilers. Those interested in the rich cultural heritage of the Kashur, their architectural acumen, their proficiency in historicity, their mastery in languages, their zeal as torch bearers of various religions, and their ever-changing social order inclusive of their faults and foibles will find this book a great help and a guide. This book even records the excesses, hardships and tyrannies that the Kashur has had to face under the rule of various invaders and usurpers in their long political chronology of almost 5,000 years and the struggles they have had put in, to survive these onslaughts bravely and at times even slyly.

Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
Author: Alice Albinia
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393063224

“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.

5000 Years of Kashmir

5000 Years of Kashmir
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1997
Genre: Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN:

Contributed papers presented at the seminar organized by Institute of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs held at Srinagar on 22-24 Sept. 1989.