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KASHMIR – THE LAND OF STREAMS & SOLITUDES BY P. PIRIE
THERE are other roads in Kashmir; roads like colonnades between serried ranks of poplar trees, the tall, slim, silvery pillars of the beautiful populous alba, or the somber stateliness of the dark poplars of Lombardy; roads bordered by willows, or leading through marshy meadow – land, or carpeted with snowy petals from the blossoming branches of apple and pear and cherry trees, which make fragment archways overhead; many and lovely are the roads of the Valley; but the road par excellence of Kashmir is the River, the Veth as the Kashmiris call it, which is an abbreviation of Vitasta, its Sanskrit name, the fabulous Hydaspes of the classic historians.
Up and down the wide and placid river go the flat-bottomed, slow-moving boats of the country- the wide grain-barges, the doongas with their roofs and sides of matting, the deep- laden market boats, and the little fishing –boats so often drawn up near the bank with a wide net outspread, its wet meshes glittering in the sunshine like a dragon-fly’s wing.
Book: Kashmir – The Land of streams & solitudes
Author: P Pirie
ISBN: 978-81-8339-151-1
Language: English
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Up and down the wide and placid river go the flat-bottomed, slow-moving boats of the country- the wide grain-barges, the doongas with their roofs and sides of matting, the deep- laden market boats, and the little fishing –boats so often drawn up near the bank with a wide net outspread, its wet meshes glittering in the sunshine like a dragon-fly’s wing.
Book: Kashmir – The Land of streams & solitudes
Author: P Pirie
ISBN: 978-81-8339-151-1
Language: English
Price: INR 895/ USD $ 27 (Shipping/Courier Charges Extra)
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HANDBOOK OF THE PUNJAB KASHMIR AND UPPER SINDH BY JOHN MURRAY AND EDWARD B EASTWICK
This fourth volume, with the preceding Handbooks of Madras, Bombay, and Bengal, completes the Handbook of India. The reader, who may detect inaccuracies, will it is hoped be good enough to consider the vast amount of labour required by so extensive a work. When the subject was mentioned to Lord Lytton, he observed that such a work in point of magnitude was like writing a Handbook of Europe, and it may be said that in addition to the time occupied in preparing the first editions of the Handbooks of Madras and Bombay, the Author has devoted six years to visiting all parts of India, and to the studies required for the whole undertaking.
This volume is intended to guide the traveler to and through a great part of Rajputana and those northern provinces of India, which are directly or indirectly ruled by the Lientenant –Governor of the Panjab. They cover an area several thousand miles greater than that of Germany. No territory in the world of equal extent possesses so great a variety of scenery, beginning from the vast plains round Delhi, and bordering the Five Rivers, and ending with the towering heights of the abode of snow, where for example the Nanga Parwat, one of the highest mountains known to man, rises to an altitude of 26, 629 ft. or more.
John Murray (1808 – 1892) continued the publishinh business of his grandparents which was one of the most influential Publishing House in Britain. He started the Murray Handbook series in 1836, a series of travel guides from which modern day guides are directly descended.
His successor Sir john Murray IV (1851-1928) was publisher to Queen Victoria.
Book: Handbook of the Punjab Kashmir and Upper Sindh
Author: John Murray and Edward B Esatwick
ISBN: 978-81-8339-168-9
Language: English
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KASHMIR & KASHGHAR BY H.W.BELLEW
The region lying immediately beyond the northern frontier of our Indian Empire and comprehensively designated Chinese Tartary, has during the last quarter of a century, from time to time, attaracted the attention of Europe, owing to the steady extension of the Russian dominion upon its northern borders.
This attention, at no time very fixed upon the mind of the public, received a fresh impetus by the events and issues of that remarkable revolution which in 1862-63 severed the connection of this region from the rest of Chinese Empire and in the following years led to the conquest of its southern portion by a successful adventurer from an adjoining principality.
It has now for us acquired special interest, no less by reason of the intercourse which, in the efforts to develop a trade in that direction, has sprung up between us in India and ruler of this newly –constituted state of Central Asia, than by that of the peculiar relations in which he stands to his Russian neighbor. And the questions naturally arise – what is the new principality of Kashghar ? And who is its founder Atalik Ghazi?
It is not my purpose in these pages to enter on the theme pages to enter on theme of Central Asian politics, nor to attempt an investigation of the causes which have conduced to the successful establishment of a new Muslim state on the ruins of the Chinese rule in this part of the Asiatic Continent: nor yet to inquire into the motives for the revival of a decayed Islam in this extreme limit of the Muslim polity of Central Asia.
Neither is it any part of my purpose in these pages to discuss the merits, or question the wisdom of one line of policy over another, in respect to the relations we are force of neighborhood involved in with the several states of Central Asia.
Book: Kashmir & Kashghar
Author: H.W. Bellew
ISBN: 978-81-8339-209-9
Language: English
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THE GARDEN OF MYSTIC ROSE TRANSLATED BY ABU NAYEEM ULLAH ALI MOHAMMAD
SELECTED POEMS OF SHEIKH NOOR – UD - DIN- NOORANI
To translate the complete poetical works of the Saint Scholar as well as the enlightened one is a challenging task. This sort of creation is classical in nature. Its language is not altogether easy and to the tone of present day Kashmiri language. Contextual substance is quite mystic, spiritual, moralistic and ethical.
Experiences and observations of the Saint Scholar are subjective and idealistic. Hence to translate in English vis-à-vis Abu Nayeem Ullah’s version in Urdu, is a serious task to be done with regard to Kalami Sheikh-ul-Aalam (RA) in present day of world of literacy advancement.
Master Ali Mohammad, born in old Kala-e- Bazar,Charari Shrief, was raised in the vicinity of the Shrine of Sheikh-ul-Aalam (RA).
He belongs to an intellectual family. As an outcome of his years of study on the life and teachings of Sheikh-ul-Aalam (RA), he wrote two books, which as expected were accepted by people with an overwhelming response.
Book: The Garden of Mystic Rose
Translated by: Abu Nayeem Ullah Ali Mohammad
ISBN: 978-81-8339-234-1
Language: English
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ADVENTURES OF A LADY IN CHINA, LADAKH & KASHMIR BY HERVEY
The book traces the routes that the author adopted from Seharunpore, Ambala, Ludhiana, Dharamshala, Munda, Lahoul, and Ladakh finally to reach fine and famous vale of Kashmir. It depicts the hardship faced and places visited during her travels in and around the entire North India.
Written in a day to day manner makes this book very articulate and interesting travelogue.
Book: Adevntures of a Lady in Ladakh & Kashmir
Author: Hervey
ISBN: 978-81-8339-204-4
Language: English
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Book: Adevntures of a Lady in Ladakh & Kashmir
Author: Hervey
ISBN: 978-81-8339-204-4
Language: English
Price: INR 1395/ USD $ 35 (Shipping/Courier Charges Extra)
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THE BRITISH DOMINIONS OF INDIA – BY VICTOR JACQUEMONT TIBET, LAHORE AND KASHMIR
LETTERS FROM INDIA
In giving an English translation of Victor Jacquemont’s
letters to his family and friends, during his travels in India, we shall
endeavour to supply a great defect in the French edition of this work, by
stating a few particulars of the life of this interesting young victim to
science, prior to his departure for those shores where he was doomed to find a
premature grave. We shall also add those documents which we consider necessary
to complete his correspondence.
Victor Jacquemont was born at Paris in 1801. His
father, man held in the highest
estimation, is a philosopher of the Tracy school, and a writer of no ordinary power on those
psychological speculations to which a long intercourse of friendship with
Destutt de Tracy had probably directed his mind. He has two sons besides
Victor: the lder in the army, the younger a merchant at Hayti. The three
brothers received an excellent education: such a one, in short, as may be given
in the public institution of France, where instruction is not limited to
knowledge of the ancient classics, but combines with them that practical and
scientific information which renders a man a useful member of society.
Jacquemont travelled to India in 1828, and remained there
for the rest of his life. He Visited Amber in Rajputana, met with the Sikh
Emperor Ranjit Singhat his capital of Lahore, and visited the kingdom of Ladakh
in the Himalaya. He also visited Bardhaman (Burdwan) in Bengal in November
1829. He died of disease in Bombay on December 07,1832.
Book: The British Dominions of India
Author: Victor Jacquemont
ISBN: 978-81-8339-164-1
Language: English
Author: Victor Jacquemont
ISBN: 978-81-8339-164-1
Language: English
Price:
INR 2495/ USD $ 60 (Shipping/Courier Charges Extra)
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