THE CHARM OF KASHMIR BY V.C.SCOTT O’ CONNOR
The present volume entitled, The charm of Kashmir describes in detail the scenic grandeur of the splendid natural beauty of the land of Kashmir. The book gives a narrative, analytical and fundamental account of Kashmir in order to describe its historic and aesthetic value.
The author has given lively descriptions of the beauty and splendor with very precise fidelity.
The book gives the survey of the vast variety of the nature’s boundless beauty which adorns the glamorous valley in the form of the Water Gate, The Wullar lake, the Dal Lake, the Nishat Bagh, the Chasma Shahi, the Hazrat Bal, the Shalimar, Nagin Bagh etc. The bookwill thus be of great interest to the historians, the aesthetes, the travelers and the readers in general.
The book excels in its vivid depictions related to its fascination and original insight, the richness of its illustrations and paintings and its consummate grace and eloquence.
Author: V.C. Scott O’ Connor
ISBN: 978-81-8339-078-1
Language: English
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SOCIAL THOUGHT AND INDIAN SOCIAL SYSTEM - A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE BY SHABNAM ARA
This book stands primarily as a textbook for the students of Sociology at under graduate level. It is essentially composed of two parts, one deal with Social Thought and second is concerned with the Indian Social Systems. The first part of this book is composed of the chapters of introduction to Sociology, Sociology and related disciplines, Distinctive Sociological views of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Vilfredo Pareto, C H Cooley and R K Merton. Prominent views of these core sociologists have been presented in this part of the book. The second part of this book deals with the structure of Indian society. It looks at the structural and dynamic aspects of the Indian society. Its focus has been on the themes such as composition of Indian society, concept and features of caste, approaches to the study of Indian society and urban, rural and tribal societies in India. In this way, the book provides a comprehensive introduction of the important topics of social thought and structure of Indian society.
Dr Shabnam Ara is Assistant Professor in Sociology and is presently working in A.S College, Srinagar, J&K. She was born in a village Ruhu Anantnag. After completion of her graduation from University of Kashmir, in 1996 and post graduation in Sociology from AMU, Aligarh, in 1999 and did her Ph.D from Ranchi University, Ranchi, in 2008. Her first book “Impact of Militancy on women in Kashmir” is first serious and scientific attempt to analyze this complex phenomenon through empiricity. She has written many research articles in national and international journals.
Book: Social Thought and Indian Social System
Author: Shabnam Ara
ISBN: 978-81-8339-222-8
Language: English
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THE ORPHAN - A NOVEL BASED ON KASHMIR BY SHAHEEN MOHAMMAD ASHRAF
“Orphan” is a true story of three boys, who are brought up by their maternal aunt. It is a story of an average Kashmiri household. Although focus of the story is three boys, but I tried to depict life as it existed in early fifties. Details of Kashmiri culture, especially marriage ceremony etc. is described in lucid detail. Initial chapters of book were written in the late nineties, because of official engagements, I could not complete the book till 2005. Almost all events in the book such as Jana paying visit to her cousin in the country side are based on real events. Most of chapters especially initial ones were written with full feedback from main character of late Jana. I hope readers will like the book and that will be my greatest satisfaction.
Shaheen Mohammad Ashraf was born in Ganai Hamam Mohalla in old town Baramulla in December 1969. Studied in government school and passed matric examination from Government High School Dewanbagh, Baramulla. Graduated from Kashmir University in 1988. He was appointed as Teacher in 1990 and also worked as Free- lance writer for some time, before qualifying KAS, 1999; Examination. He has worked as Treasury Officer, Revenue Officer as well as District Fund Officer and is currently FA/CPA & OJKSPDC Srinagar.
Book: The Orpahn – A Novel Based on Kashmir
Author: Shaheen Mohammad Ashraf
ISBN: 978-81-8339-218-1
Language: English
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THE MARKHOR SPORT: IN KASHMIR BY COUNT HANS VON KOENIGSMARCK
We have left the Alps behind us-a long climb, but finished at last- and now here we are suddenly transplanted to that beautiful garden called Kashmir- the Indian Italy, a land breathing of Romeo and Juliet.
We have made our entry at Baramula, where the Jhelum, the Hydaspes of the ancients, leaves its silent, grassy banks to fall headlong into the plains of the Punjab, becoming ever wilder as it leaps from rock to rock. How quietly it flows here through the valley between its smiling banks! A feeling of warmth and peace steals over our senses. Sweet-scented carpets literally spread themselves out before our astonished eyes- the whole valley is one moving mass of bursting bloom in the June haze. What a sparkling, laughing, enticing world! Nature here draws her resources from the deep wells of life’s eternity.
These lines are written in the hope that, after their perusal, the visitor to “The Vale”, or to other parts of the Himalayas, may not feel himself so entirely at the mercy of his Shikari, who too often consults his own comfort and visits spots where he and the villagers can play into one another’s hands and neglects localities where the best bags are to be obtained.
The object, therefore, is not to write a book of adventures, but to give accurate measurements, the names of the best shooting grounds and such hints as are likely to prove useful to the inexperienced traveler in the hills and ravines of the Himalayas and amongst the sterile mountains and plains of Ladakh and Middle Thibet.
Book: The Markhor: Sport in Kashmir
Author: Count Hans Von Koenigsmarck
ISBN: 978-81-8339-206-8
Language: English
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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
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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
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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
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