Archive for September 2013
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
