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KASHMIR UNDER THE SHADOW OF GUN BY RAO FARMAN ALI
Kashmir is to be understood in the broader perspective by the people of India and Pakistan in general – the world community in particular. The solution of this vexed issue should be tried in terms of choices not the pedagogies, sought by two warring nation as (India – Pakistan) – principle parties to the dispute but Kashmiris being the prime party rather sine quo non towards the solution. Several resolutions have been passed in United Nations Security Council, which are the bedrocks for defining the disputed nature of Kashmir and it is India who took the matter to United Nations but naïve Kashmiris (people of Jammu and Kashmir) had always been and are still the first causality to the oldest existing dispute in South Asia, which has pushed India and Pakistan to three conventional and similar number of non- conventional wars, including high altitude war of Kargil. No matter, solution to disputed Kashmir is just like a needle in the haystack but still structured dialogue is the only way forward.
India on 11 May 1998, Monday detonated three nuclear bombs at Pokhran (II), declaring itself as the nuclear capable state, which was treated as serious threat by its immediate neighbor (Pakistan). In Response Pakistan on Thursday, 28 May 19998 exploded five nuclear bombs at Chagai (Baluchistan) thus both commenced a new arms race in South Asia.
This book brings to the fore, the circumstances which shoved Kashmir is to come with an extreme and home – grown resistance struggles as nonconformists for demanding Independence. Henceforth, this book along with Case Study of AI Fatah has been attempted in an isolated political or ideological propensity to maintain the neutrality. This account is a useful reference for policy makers, students of Journalism, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political and Military Sciences, and above all for the students of history.
Rao Farman Ali, born in a village Hanji Danter, Anantnag, South Kashmir, is a professional journalist and Editor of English newspaper
“On The Track”
He is also a researcher and a wide awaked observer of
Kashmir conflict. He is credited to have authored a book on Kashmir under the
title – “Jammu Kashmir: Resolution through Reconciliation for Peace and
Dignity.” Applying game theory and giving a mathematical approach for the solution
of Kashmir. The author has presented over 20 papers in various seminars. And has
inherited element of political heritage because of taking birth from a family,
which has been the part of political resistance right from 1945. But the author
is a political in his approach.
Book: Kashmir Under the Shadow of Gun
Author: Rao Farman Ali
ISBN: 978-81-7658-073-1
Language: English
Author: Rao Farman Ali
ISBN: 978-81-7658-073-1
Language: English
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ADVENTURES IN GILGIT, HUNZA, NAGAR, CHITRAL AND HINDU- KUSH – THE MAKING OF A FRONTIER BY COLONEL ALGERNON DURAND
The book contains a faithful account of the policy pursued
on the Gilgit Frontier, of the steps taken to give it effect, and of the result
attained. The reader who expects to find cut and dried dogmatic opinions as to
the management of our relations with Frontier Tribes will be disappointed.
These, as a rule, can only be given, with their full effect, by men who know
nothing about the question.
Colonel Algernon Durand was the man who defined the western
frontier of the British Indian frontier, which now divides Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Durand’s struggle was too establish the authority of the British government in
apprehension of a threat from Russia. When Durand reached Gilgit, Durand found
utter chaos, intrigue and treachery in local politics resulting in his
appointment as Political Agent there to firmly establish British authority
there.
Major Algernon Thomas Marion Durand was born on 06 January 1900. He was the son of Colonel Algernon George Arnold Durand and Elizabeth Marjorie Bruce. He married Margery Underwood, daughter of J.S. Underwood on 10 March 1939. He died on 23 July 1961 at age of 61, without issue. He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, and Berkshire, England. He graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A).1 He fought in the Second World War. He gained the rank of Major in the service of the 5th City of London Rifle Brigade.
Book: Adventures in Gilgit,Hunza, Nagar, Chitral and Hindu - Kush
Author: Colonel Algernon Durand
ISBN: 978-81-8339-175-7
Language: English
Author: Colonel Algernon Durand
ISBN: 978-81-8339-175-7
Language: English
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A CRUSADER IN KASHMIR BY ERNEST F. NEVE
The Church of Great
Britain, using the word in its widest acceptation, at all adequately heard or
acted upon the call to go over and help India .? Taking India as a whole, the
Church of Christ is in contact chiefly with three great groups of people- the
Hindus, the Mohammedans and the depressed classes. It is common knowledge that
the last group is very accessible to Christian teaching.
Both the Hindu and Muslim religions are peculiarly resistant
to the impact of Christianity. This is well known for the continued
presentation of Christianity to Hindus and Muslims there is no more potent agency
than the work of medical Missions.
For the very beginning we have to go back to the year 1854,
when the late Rev. Robert Clark, a true missionary statesman, made an extended
tour in the Mountain Kingdom. It was not until the spring of 1864 that Mr Clark
really opened his campaign and started regular work in the valley of Kashmir.
This was done under circumstances of extreme difficulty. In 1879 Dr. Downes had
a record of just 5000 patients, with a considerable number of important operations
and during that year he admitted 703 patients.
Dr. Downes, whose health had been shattered by overwork, was succeeded by Dr. Arthur Neve, who remained in charge for more than a third of the century
Book: A Crusader in Kashmir
Author: Ernest F. Neve
ISBN: 81-8339-010-2
Language: English
Author: Ernest F. Neve
ISBN: 81-8339-010-2
Language: English
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OUR MOON HAS BLOOD CLOTS – THE EXODUS OF THE KASHMIRI PANDITS BY RAHUL PANDITA
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to
leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits:
the Hindu minority within a Muslim – majority Kashmir that was becoming increasingly
agitated with the cries of ‘Azadi’ from India.
The heartbreaking story of Kashmir has so far been told
through the prism of the brutality of the Indian State, and the pro-
independence demand of separatist. But there is another part of the story that
has remained unrecorded and buried.
Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the unspoken chapter in the
story of Kashmir, in which it was purged of the Kashmiri Pandit community in a
violent ethnic cleansing backed by Islamist militants. Hundreds of people were
forced to leave their homes and spend the rest of their lives in exile in their
own country.
Rahul Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and
unforgettable story of history, home and loss.
Rahul Pandita is the author of the bestselling Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India’s Maoist Movement, and the co – author of the critically acclaimed The Absent State. He has reported extensively from wars zones including Iraq and Sri Lanka and Kashmir and Bastar in India. In 2010, he received the International Red Cross Award for conflict reporting.
Rahul was born in the Kashmir Valley. In 1990, when his family was forced into exile, he was fourteen years old. He lives in a Delhi suburb and works as an associate editor with Open magazine.
Book: Our Moon has Blood Clots – The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandita
Author: Rahul Pandita
ISBN: 978-81-8400-087-0
Language: English
Author: Rahul Pandita
ISBN: 978-81-8400-087-0
Language: English
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DAUGHTERS OF THE VITASTA – A HISTORY OF KASHMIRI WOMEN FROM EARLY TIMES TO THE RESENT DAY BY PREM NATH BAJAJ
The book is to depict Kashmiri women as they lived through
different periods of history, to describe their past achievements, long days of
adversity and present struggle for emancipation. Contents of the book are the
vignettes of outstanding women who flourished from early times in any field of
social activity.
Though superficial reading of the book may give rise to
revivalist tendencies, I would like to say that it is none of my desires to
create a mythical golden age in which Kashmiri women achieved unsurpassable
glory.
Despite the imperfections of modern social life, there is no
gainsaying that today we live in a better world where both men and women find
vaster opportunities and greater freedom for the unfoldment of their potentialities.
Revivalism is by no means a healthy doctrine nor can its adoption contribute to
prosperity of a people.
This is a pioneer work in a particular domain of literature
and apt to suffer from the shortcomings usual to its kind.
Prem
Nath Bajaj was born in July 1905 at Srinagar. Educated in S.P. College, he took
his degree from Punjab University and entered public life in August 1930 by
joining the Women’s Welfare Trust. In 1931 he was elected President of the S.D.
Yuvat Sabha that year the Maharaja nominated him as a non- official member of
the Grievances Enquiry Commission and the Constitutional Reforms Conference. He
started the daily Vitasta in 1932 to advocate the cause of Secularism,
Democracy and Freedom.
Bazaz
is the author of several books including Inside Kashmir (1942), Azad Kashmir
(1951) and The History of Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir (1954). He has
written a number of treaties and booklets in English and Urdu on Economic,
Political, Cultural and social problems of Kashmir.
Book: Daughters of The Vitasta
Author: Prem Nath Bajaj
ISBN: 978-81-8339-048-4
Language: English
Author: Prem Nath Bajaj
ISBN: 978-81-8339-048-4
Language: English
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POONCH – THE BATTLEFIELD OF KASHMIR BY K.D.MAINI
Poonch region of Jammu and Kashmir State is located in the
Southwestern foothills of Pir Panchal Range. The terrain of this region varies
from sub-tropic to temperate zone. The upper areas of Mandi and Surankote
touching the main Pir Panchal range resemble the climatic conditions of Kashmir
valley, while Mendhar and Lower Poonch Block fall under Sub-tropic zone.
Due to its natural beauty Poonch is also known as ‘Mini
Kashmir’, ‘Land of Sufi and Derwaishs’ area of warrior tribes and people of
good reputation. The district comprise snowcapped mountainous ranges, thick
belts of forest, sloppy land, attractive mounds, gushing streams, springs,
crystal clear lakes, Dhoks, Margs, valleys, gorges, glens, high pasture lands,
meadows, waterfalls, glaciers, torrential nallahs and rivers.
He author in the village Gundi, Tehsil Surankote district
Poonch on 01st October 1947, did M.Sc. in Mathematics and joined
government service. He served as Asst. Director Industries, deputy Director
Evaluation, Poonch, chief Planning Officer Poonch, Leh and Rajouri, retired as
KAS Officer in the pay scale of Additional Sectary. The author has written 21
books in Urdu, Pahari and English which includes history of Poonch in Urdu,
History of Rajouri in Urdu and English, history of Shahdara Sharief in Urdu,
History of Pahari Kabails in Urdu apart from Poonch the battlefield of Kashmir
in English. The author has also written short story books Chadar and Gappan in
Urdu, Britain, Ramzan, Udeekan and Tichkaran in Pahari. Poetry composition Chand
K Saath in Urdu and Sangan in Pahari
The author has written 19 TV serials and 152 documentaries
in Urdu, Pahari, Gojri and English which have been telecasted from Kashier
Channel, Doordarshan Jammu, Doordarshan Srinagar and Apna Channel England. The
author has written 275 radio talks, dramas and documentaries and got published
research articles in English, Urdu, Gojri and Pahari. Presently he is editing a
fortnightly peace and relation from Poonch, President Heritage Centre Poonch
and also associated through his invoice stories with current even Programme
Shairbeen broadcasted from Srinagar. The author has been awarded by State Award
for his contribution in the field of History of Poonch, Akashwani and award for
best documentary in Pahari and Cultural Academy Award for best Drama Script.
Book: Poonch – The Battlefield of Kashmir
Author: K.D Maini
ISBN: 978-81-8339-138-2
Language: English
Author: K.D Maini
ISBN: 978-81-8339-138-2
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KASHMIR DOCUMENTATION – PANDITS IN EXILE – BY PANUN KASHMIR MOVEMENT (PKM)
The National Human
Rights Commission has been finding itself called upon to play enlarging role in
the current situation. More than five years after the start of the militant
violence in Kashmir, the commission has been receiving a number of cases and
complaints involving the human rights violations there. This week, the Panun
Kashmir Movement (PKM) presented a pile of documents to the NHRC listing the
violations of human rights through acts of terrorism. The documents list the
social and psychological trauma their community has been put through as a
result of these happenings.
The PKM also took up with the Commission matters regarding
instances of alleged bias and discrimination demonstrated by the State
apparatus. This concerned cases of promotions, transfers and education of
children. Describing the National Human Rights Commission as a sacred product
of an Act of Parliament, it underlined the high expectations the affected
people had from the NHRC.
It was in 1994 that Panun Kashmir Movemnt (PKM), a frontline
organization began to work purposefully, and in right earnest, in different
field. Its multidimensional activities are documented in a voluminous material
collected over the years, which reflects the persistent efforts of the
organization in the human rights, socio- economic and political areas,
involving a vast spectrum of activities like political resolutions passed from
time to time; interactions through correspondence and interface sessions with
various organizations, political personages and individuals of consequence,
inside and outside the country, focusing
on the human rights violations of the Kashmiri Pandit Community: the genesis of
the forced mass exodus of 1989- 90 with its disastrous ramifications for the
community: series of communications with the National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC) and the latter’s positive responses: court cases fought; the callous
indifference and apathy of the State government; exposition of the violations
of human rights committed against the Kashmiri Pandits at various for a
nationally as well as internationally.
Book: Kashmir Documentation - Pandits in Exile
By: Panun Kashmir Movement
ISBN: 81-85217-15-7
Language: English
By: Panun Kashmir Movement
ISBN: 81-85217-15-7
Language: English
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WE WERE AND WE WILL BE - STORIES ON KASHMIR BY PARINEETA KHAR
The present book is the manifestation of inundating currents
of ferocious magnitude ebbing in my own psyche. I have not chronicled the
history of atrocities meted out to Pandits, neither did I enumerate the
gruesome killings of the people of my community at the hands of terrorists.
My tales allude to circumstances of distinct nature, some
strange, others intriguing. These stories are an attempt to depict how
terrorism affected and influenced all of us, one or the other way
The last two stories were written for my own children,
almost bragging about with my siblings, which they have been deprived of.
My stories depict a celebration of life- a continuation of
like. We are the children of legendary eleven families who tenaciously refused
to accept anything, other than battagi (being a Kashmiri Pandit). I have an
uncanny belief: the tyranny of bigots will abate; the contempt and conceit will
end sometime, somewhere. The bruised and pulped up battagi will come out of the
debris of ruined mansions, peep out of the heaped up rubble and stand erect
again. Hence, “We were and we will be.”
Parineeta Khar nee Zutshi was brought up in an extended
family where joys and sorrows, even the illness and career of a child was a
shared affair. Although she is a science graduate, the penchant for English
literature stood in her stead. She came out with honors in English literature.
She further accomplished the same subject at the Kashmir University, Srinagar
in 1976.
Her restless existence had no time to grow as she got
married during her university days. Her husband’s career tossed her on to the
far off lanes in Paris.
With the peal rush of motherhood abating the demand for her
other roles getting fulfilled- she had time to reminisce. The stored up
memories gushed out in a deluge. She started writing short stories for local
newspaper. Her first book on The Shores of the Vitasta was published by the Writer’s Workshop Calcutta
in 1994.
Parineeta lives with her family in Hyderabad for last
twenty- five years. As a part time
teacher, she teaches English Literature at high school level.
Book: We Were and We Will be
Author: Parineeta Khar
ISBN: 81-85217-17-3
Language: English
Author: Parineeta Khar
ISBN: 81-85217-17-3
Language: English
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THE EXILED – STORY OF THE INDIGENOUS GROUP OF PEOPLE OF KASHMIR VALLEY BY BANSI LAL KOUL & OMKAR NATH PANDITA
In modern times Kashmiri Pandits have not made any serious
attempt to analyses the events in a systematic manner which was taking place
around them. These events were bound to have profound and lasting effect on
their living conditions in their native land – the valley of Kashmir. In fact
most of these events were conspicuously unidirectional in nature. This
indigenous group of people of Kashmir valley was on the receiving end, being a
minuscule minority, living in a dispersed condition. They were battered through
a series of violent waves in modern times which were caused by Kashmiri Muslim
majoritarianism in 1931, 1967, 1986, 1989- 90 and onwards. The net effect of
these events was the extermination of this indigenous group of people from its
land of origin. Now they are living a refugee life at various places outside
the valley within India and abroad.
Mr Bansi Lal Koul was born in Srinagar after his graduation
he joined state government. He worked in different departments and rose to
secretary in revenue and finance department in Jammu and Kashmir. He has an
in-depth knowledge of Kashmir’s cultural tradition and history.
Professor Omkar Nath Pandita was born in Baramullah in
Kashmir after his post graduation in political science; he joined Baramullah
Government College and became Professor of political science. He is well known
political thinker and political analyst of Kashmir.
Book: The Exiled – Story of the Indigenous group of
people of Kashmir Valley
Author: Bansi Lal Koul & Omkar Nath Pandita
ISBN: 81-85217-18-1
Language: English
Author: Bansi Lal Koul & Omkar Nath Pandita
ISBN: 81-85217-18-1
Language: English
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ICONS OF KASHMIR IDENTITY BY ZAHID G. MUHAMMAD
Kashmiryat a new cliché
was added to the political lexicon of Kashmir in early nineties of the past
century. This word that sounds alien to etymology of Kashmir language found
some ready takers in the government and made it look as subnationalism and some
projected it as syncretism of Sufism and Shaivism . Many used it as one word
substitution for Kashmir identity and many others preferred to use it as a
synonym for Reshi tradition of Kashmir. In their enthusiasm some have been
making efforts to project great missionaries like Mir Syed Ali Hamadni who
played pioneering role in the spread of Islam and bringing socio- economic
revolution in Kashmir as a hermits. The book
based on papers presented by the author in various seminars is not an in
depth study into Kashmir identity bit it provides a perspective that would help
in understanding the socio – political dimensions of what is termed as Kashmir
identity. The book also provides slits to peep through at the cultural and
literary traditions of Kashmir that have waxed emperors and soldiers lyrical.
The book also provides an insight into the urges and aspirations of people of
this fabulous land. It also provides an understanding into economic
potentialities of this land that has given the subcontinent like Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru a scholar like Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri, a poet like Iqbal
and politician like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. It also opens windows to look into
a various facets of changes that occurred in Kashmir after the advent of Islam
and that gave Kashmir as identity of its own. The book also looks into the
literary and cultural heritage of Kashmir.
Zahid g. Muhammad born in Srinagar, graduated from the
Islamia College of Science and Commerce. Had his masters in Literature from the
University of Kashmir. He has been writing from his student days. He started
writing in Urdu newspaper the Daily Aftab and Daily Hamadard, Srinagar during
school days. He contributed articles on politics, literature, culture and history
to various newspapers within and outside country. He wrote for the Radiance,
the Statesman, the Onlooker, Bombay, the Sunday Calcutta, free Press Journal,
Bombay, the Kashmir Times, Jammu, the Greater Kashmir, and the Kashmir
observer, Srinagar and the Journal of Peace Studies, New Delhi. He contributed
a weekly column for the Press Asia International New Delhi, reviewed scores of
books on Kashmir history, literature and politics. He organized number of
seminars on socio- cultural life of Kashmir. He is a script writer and wrote
scripts for number of documentaries on life, culture, architecture, fauna and
flora of Kashmir.
Book: Icons of Kashmir Identity
Author: Zahid G Muhammad
ISBN: 978-81-8339-065-X
Language: English
Author: Zahid G Muhammad
ISBN: 978-81-8339-065-X
Language: English
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WITH PEN AND RIFLE IN KASHMIR BY OTTO ROTHFIELD
More than half of this book was written with no idea of
publishing. According to the author it was meant only to inform his wife of
what he was doing and seeing and thinking during a journey in search of support
and health. The book is therefore without ornament or elaboration. All it can claim
is to be genuine.
The province of Kishtwar, situated between Kashmir and
Chamba on the way to Simla, and rules by H.H.the Mahyaraja of Kashmir and Jammu
is not only very little known, but is in itself extremely interesting. Its
scenery is almost unique, it’s in habitations are undeciphered and its support
is exceptional. Therefore, that a record not only of facts but also of
reflections not merely of support but also of impressions, may be of interest, especially
to those who know and love the Himalayas. The ethnological remarks which the
author have included in this book may prove of some little value to future
students.
Book: With Pen and Rifle in Kashmir
Author: Otto Rothfield
ISBN: 978-81-8339-163-4
Language: English
Author: Otto Rothfield
ISBN: 978-81-8339-163-4
Language: English
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KASHMIR CONVOLUTED HISTORIES BY AMIT SRIVASTAVA
The book emphasizes that understanding others viewpoint is
as important as asserting owns. The solution to Kashmir dispute is possible if
all parties agree that their stakes should build up without anyone’s dilution.
It requires the modernity and innovation to formally resolve the dispute and it
is possible and easier than resolving the Middle East dispute.
Amit is a graduate from Indian Institute of technology,
Kanpur. He writes for the World Affairs, The Northlines and Merinews. Earlier
he wrote for Rising Kashmir too.
Book: Kashmir Convoluted Histories
Author: Amit Srivastava
ISBN: 978-81-8339-165-8
Language: English
Author: Amit Srivastava
ISBN: 978-81-8339-165-8
Language: English
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RAJATARANGINI OF JONARAJA – TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH BY JOGESH CHUNDER DUTT
Jonaraja’s Rajatarangini is the second in the series of
Kashmir chronicles, next to the work of Kalhana. The Kashmirian tradition of writing,
chronicles was not discontinued at the death Kalhana but was carried further by
his disciples. The Rajatarangini of Jonaraja covers the period from 1150 A.D to
1459 A.D of the Kashmir History. This period witnessed the advent of the
Muslims in Kashmir and conversion of the majority of Hindus into Isalm.
Jonaraja who was a historian to the true sense of the term and a Sanskrit poet
of very high order has vividly described the decline of Hindu civilization of
Kashmir. He describes without any prejudice , the Muslimes regimes, mentions
the contributions of the good among them and fearlessly criticizes the
oppressors and persecutors. He does not even try to conceal the degeneration among
the contemporary Hindus. His work is a valuable source book of the history of
medieval Kashmir. The present publication is the only complete English
translation of Joanaraja’s work, made available after a long time.
Book: Rajatarangini of Jonaraja
Translated in English by Jogesh Chunder Dutt
ISBN: 81-212-0037-7
Language: English
Translated in English by Jogesh Chunder Dutt
ISBN: 81-212-0037-7
Language: English
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FAITH & FRENZY BY K.L CHOWDHURY
Faith & Frenzy is a collection of short stories that
brings to the reader the intimate details of forgotten Kashmiris of al hues,
caught in the quagmire of terror and murky politics, and weighed down by the
historical burden of a long confrontation between India and Pakistan. Their
stories have remained untold, submerged as they remain under layers of shady
rhetoric and politics of deceit.
Most, but not all, stories take place in a background of
escalating militancy that brought terror, insecurity and mayhem into the lives
of people and dealt a deathblow to the tradition of amity, tolerance and
peaceful living that had defined Kashmiri life over significant period of
history.
These are stories of reconciliation and reaffirmation of
religious diversity and of how thousands of Kashmiris, mostly Pandits, were
forced into exodus from the valley to the plains of India- their lives before
and after the exodus and their identity crisis.
A unique feature of many of these stories is that they are
discovered and revealed through the lens of a doctor who is also a keen
observer of a society in flux. The author himself is the narrator of the stories. More importantly, he is also involved as one of the key participants
in most of them. His initial contact with the main characters often begins in
his role as a physician. He receives
them as patients and while providing his professional services, he finds
himself entwined into the intricacies, uncertainties and struggles of their
lives. The stories peep deep into their lives, and probe inside their souls.
Above all, these stories of the universal human circumstances
Born in Kashmir, Kundan Lal Chowdhury is a physician, poet
and writer. He has four published anthologies including a travelogue and was
conferred the Best Book Award for Excellence in Literature by the J&K
Academy of Arts, Culture and Language for The Enchanting World of Infants.
Book: Faith & Frenzy
Author: K.L Chowdhury
ISBN: 978-93-80828-79-4
Language: English
Author: K.L Chowdhury
ISBN: 978-93-80828-79-4
Language: English
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KASHMIR SHAVAISM – A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY, LITERATURE AND SHAIVA PHILOSOPHY OF KASHMIR BY JAGADISH CHANDRA CHATTERJI
The first beginning of what has been called Kashmir
Shavaism’, to distinguish it from other forms of Shavaism known and still
practiced in different parts of India, may have to be the Shiva Sutras. Its
teachings and practices are given, in the literature of the system, the
distinctive name of Trika – shasana, Trika – Shastra or simply Trikas and are
often referred to as the Rahasya- Sampradaya while Shavaism in general is
spoken of as Shiva – Shasana or Shivagama.
Although the Trika form of Shaivaism would seem to have made
its first appearance in Kashmir at the beginning of the ninth or perhaps
towards the end of the eighth century of the Christian Era, Shiva Shasana or
Shivagama that is Shavaism as such, is far older than its date. Indeed we may
have to trace its beginnings in the Vedic Revelations. In Kashmir itself- where
even the most orthodox followers of the Shivagama admit that the Trika –
Shasana first appeared (or as they out it, reappeared) abou the beginning of
the ninth Christian century- Shivagama is regarded as of high antiquity, indeed
of eternal existence like the Vedas.
Book: Kashmir Shavaism
Author: Jagadish Chandra Chatterji
ISBN: 978-81-8339-077-4
Language: English
Author: Jagadish Chandra Chatterji
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LADAKH THE MOONLAND BY FIDA MOHAMMAD KHAN HASSANAIN
Ladakh has been thrown open to the tourist traffic and the
number of tourist, trekkers, travelers and antiquarians to this Moonland on
earth has been increasing steadily every year. Some like to see its rich
culture, some visit this roof of the world for meditation but many more come to
meet the cheerful and charming people of Ladakh.
It has fascinated many a traveler and visitors form far- off
lands. Some are fascinated by its unique geographical position, as the highest
elevated land in the world. Some want to trek on its barren mountains, which
had been under the sea during ancient periods of the earth’s history. Some of
the experts want to study its geology, ethnology and anthropological antiquity.
Some of them are of the opinion that this roof of the world was the earliest
habitation during pre- historic times. Many come to study Buddhism here, a few
to learn Tantric rituals and many more for meditation, away from the busy life.
But numerous visitors, only come to Ladakh to receive the hospitality of
people.
Sufi mystic Haji Fida Mohammad Khan Hassnain was born in the
year 1924 at Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Having graduated from the University of
Punjab, Lahore he completed his post graduation in history and law at the
Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He
started his career as a Professor of history in S.P College, Srinagar, Kashmir,
1947. Later he joined national archives of India, New Delhi and obtained
diploma in archives. He was promoted by government of India as the Director of
Archives, Archaeology, Research and Museum in 1953 and continued as such as
till his retirement in 1983. He is credited with the having salvaged hundreds
of manuscripts in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and Urdu by preserving this
heritage in the oriental research libraries and the three archives repositories
at Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Srinagar.
Book: Ladakh The Moonland
Author: Fida Mohammad Khan Hassanain
ISBN: 978-81-8339-198-6
Language: English
Author: Fida Mohammad Khan Hassanain
ISBN: 978-81-8339-198-6
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TRAVELS IN THE HIMALYAN PROVINCES OF LADAKH & KASHMIR BY WILLIAM MOORCROFT & GEORGE TREBECK
In 1811 Moorcroft travelled extensively among the northern
sub- continent in serach of better breeding stock. To Lucknow, the capital of
Oudh, and to Benares (then still part of Maratha Territory), but Moorcroft
failed to acquire the ideal breeding horses that he sought. In Benares he
learned that Bukhara was rumoured to
have “ the greatest horse market in the world.” Moorcroft recruited a Persian
named Mir Izzat- Allah to make a scouting trip to Bukhara and map out the
route. He also learned that fine breeding horses might be found in Tibet.
Moorcroft continued his journeys; Kashmir was reached on 03
November 1822, Jalalabad on 04 June 1824, Kabul on 20 June, and Bokhara on 25
February 1825.
At Andkhoy, in Afghan Turkestan, Moorcroft was seized with
fever, of which he died on the 27 August 1825, with Trebeck surviving him only
a few days. But according to the Abbe Hue, Moorcroft reached Lhasa in 1826, and
lived there twelve years, being assassinated on his way back to India in 1838.
In 1841, Moorcroft’s papers were obtained by the Asiatic
Society and published, under the editorship of H.H Wilson, under the title of
Travels in Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab, in Ladakh and
Kashmir, in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz and Bokhara, from 1819 to 1825.
William Moorcroft (1767 – 27 August 1825), English explorer,
was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, the illegitimate son of Ann Moorcroft,
daughter of a local farmer. He was Baptised in 1767 in St Peter & St Paul
the Parish Church of Ormskirk where there is a commemorative plaque to his
life.
While employed by the East India Company Moorcroft travelled
extensively throughout the Himalayas, Tibet and central Asia, eventually
reaching Bukhara, in present day Uzbekistan.
Book: Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Ladakh
& Kashmir
Author: William Moorcroft George Trebeck
ISBN: 978-81-8339-176-2
Language: English
Author: William Moorcroft George Trebeck
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