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| kashmir the vale: The Vale of Kashmir John Isaac, 2008-10-14 Charmed by the generous people and exquisite beauty of Kashmir, celebrated photographer John Isaac set out to honor this enchanting land that is unknown to so many. The 160 photographs in The Vale of Kashmir present the people and landscape of this remote and exotic region and the unique way of life that has developed on Dal Lake. Nestled in the lush area where India, China, and Pakistan meet, the Vale of Kashmir is a vast garden dotted with lakes, marshes, orchards, and terraced fields, surrounded by the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas. Isaac's spectacular photographs show us canals crowded with houseboats, floating gardens on Dal Lake, and the ancient city of Srinagar. The varied details of daily life-the harvesting of saffron, Hindu pilgrimages through the mountains, shepherds on the Himalayan slopes, and prayers at the mosque-come alive in these pages. In addition to capturing the breathtaking natural beauty of the Vale, Isaac also honors the private realm of family life in Kashmir, with images of the merchants, farmers, weavers, and fishermen who live on the lake. Though renowned for its abundance of superb handicrafts, including carpets, shawls, silks, woodwork, and papier-mache boxes, Kashmir and its people are largely uncelebrated; Isaac's tender portraits honor these hard-working families. This arresting view of the land and Kashmiri people is put into a historical and geographical context by author Art Davidson's insightful and sensitive introduction.--BOOK JACKET. |
| kashmir the vale: Kashmir: Behind the Vale MJ Akbar, 2018-02-08 MJ Akbar is among those who have made a significant impact on Indian society by their writing, whether as authors or editors. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the seminal newsmagazine, Sunday, in 1976 and The Telegraph in 1982, he revolutionized Indian journalism in the 1970s and 80s. In the 1990s he launched The Asian Age, a multi-edition daily that once again had substantive impact on the profession. He has also served as the Editorial Director of India Today, Headlines Today and as the editor of the Deccan Chronicle and the Sunday Guardian. MJ, as he is popularly known, first entered public life in 1989, when he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He went back to media in 1993 and returned to the political area in 2014, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and became the party’s national spokesperson during the 2014 campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In July 2016, he was named the Minister of State for External Affairs by Prime Minister Modi. His seven books have achieved great international acclaim: India: The Siege Within; Nehru: The Making of India; Riot-after-Riot; Kashmir: Behind the Vale; The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan and Blood Brothers, his only work of fiction. In addition, there have been four collections of his columns, reportage and essays. |
| kashmir the vale: The Valley of Kashmir Walter R. Lawrence, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, 2005 (Reprint London 1895 edn.) |
| kashmir the vale: How Green Was the Vale of Kashmir K Kuldeep Singh Jamwal, 2018-08-28 Kashmir, the ultimate tourist destination that attracts millions of adventurers and tourists from all across the world for more than a century, is much more than the well-beaten destinations like Dal Lake, Mughal Gardens, Gulmarg and Pahalgam. The uniqueness of the valley can only be fully appreciated if its mountains, lakes, temperate and alpine forests and its wildlife, which give the valley a special status, are considered in totality with interdependence between one another. This beautifully illustrated book written in real-life storytelling style will captivate the reader as it chronicles a journey spanning at least seven decades in the life of the Valley of Kashmir and its priceless natural bounty. A special feature of the book is that it introduces the reader to the diverse natural wonders of Kashmir with authoritative data and information with relevant colour photographs featuring Kashmir's: High-altitude lakes, Alpine forests and environment, Wildlife and migratory birds, Snow-fed streams and trout, And horticultural produce, to name a few. Ten well-researched chapters on the above topics, including Kashmir's saffron, capital city Srinagar and its changing scenario and the valley's agriculture scene with authentic data, shows that the Kashmir of today and 70 years ago are two worlds apart. |
| kashmir the vale: Death in Kashmir M. M. Kaye, 2015-12-01 Written by celebrated author M. M. Kaye, Death in Kasmir is a wonderfully evocative mystery ... When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains above the fabled Vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an entertaining but uneventful stay. But when she discovers that the deaths of two in her party are the result of foul play, she finds herself entrusted with a mission of unforeseen importance. And when she leaves the ski slopes for the Waterwitch, a private houseboat on the placid shores of the Dal Lake near Srinagar, she discovers to her horror that the killer will stop at nothing to prevent Sarah from piecing the puzzle together. |
| kashmir the vale: In the Vale of Cashmere , 2015-10-27 In the Vale of Cashmeremarks the culmination of acclaimed photographer Thomas Roma'sfour-year odyssey into a densely wooded, secluded corner of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where gay cruising dominates the footpaths and trails. The Vale ofCashmere, a name that dates back to the 1890s, has long been a meeting place for gay men. and currently, mostly Black men. However, encounters occur between men of all walks of life, as well as gender and sexual identities. With his large, tripod-mounted, hand-made camera, Roma stepped into the center of this community, an obvious but mostly ignored presence. Understandably, many of the menRoma approached to photograph in a formal portrait were not interested, butsurprisingly, many were. After they agreed to be photographed, Roma would offer themen time and the opportunity to show him something of themselves they might nothave the chance to otherwise. Although originally conceived solely as a portrait project, the more time Romaspent in the Vale of Cashmere, the more the physical beauty of the Vale becameinseparable from the portraits, and many landscape photographs were made to beincluded in the book. In addition to the landscapes, Roma utilized a custom modified miniaturecamera to provide sequential pictures depicting the steady march of themostly solitary men as they cruised the paths and roadways of the Vale. These candidphotographs, which run along the bottom of the pages of landscape photographs, arereproduced in small scale so as to make it impossible to identify any individual. Roma's motivation for doing the project camefrom his wish to honor the memory of a dear friend who died of AIDS in 1991, andwho introduced him to the Vale of Cashmere. |
| kashmir the vale: Metro Reads: Close Call In Kashmir Bharat Wakhlu, Bharat, 2010 |
| kashmir the vale: Landscapes and Landforms of India Vishwas S. Kale, 2014-05-23 The proposed monograph on 'Geomorphological Landscapes of India' will aim to describe and explain in simple words the geomorphological characteristics and the origin of the above-mentioned landforms and landscapes. The proposed monograph will provide the background information about the geology, climate and tectonic framework of the Indian region, as well as cover Indian climates of the present and the past. It will mainly cover the four main morphotectonic regions of India and about 15-20 distinct landforms of the Indian region as well as the major geomorphosites in India. |
| kashmir the vale: Kashmir Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, 1909 |
| kashmir the vale: Kashmir The Paradise Of Asia Parmanand Parashar, 2004 |
| kashmir the vale: Paradise at War Radha Kumar, 2018 |
| kashmir the vale: Kashmir Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, Hilal Bhatt, Angana P. Chatterji, Tariq Ali, 2011-10-24 Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world—and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the last two decades alone, over seventy thousand people have died. Ignored by its own corrupt politicians, abandoned by Pakistan and the West, which refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally, India, the Kashmiri people’s ongoing quest for justice and self- determination continues to be brutally suppressed. Exploring the causes and consequences of the occupation, Kashmir: The Case for Freedom is a passionate call for the end of occupation, and for the right of self- determination for the Kashmiri people. |
| kashmir the vale: Don't Tear it Down! , 2009 International heritage preservation consultant Langenbach makes the case for the preservation of the traditional domestic architecture that makes up the urban landscape of Srinagar and other cities in Kashmir. |
| kashmir the vale: Demystifying Kashmir Navnita Chadha Behera, 2007-05-01 The Kashmir issue is typically cast as a territorial dispute between two belligerent neighbors in South Asia. But there is much more to the story than that. The Jammu and Kashmir state, home to an extraordinary medley of races, tribal groups, languages, and religions, makes up one of the most diverse regions in the subcontinent. Demystifying Kashmir argues that recognizing the rich, complex, and multi-faceted character of Kashmir is important not only for understanding the structural causes of this conflict but also for providing opportunities to establish a just, viable, and lasting solution. In this remarkable book, Navnita Chadha Behera traces the history of Kashmir from the pre-partition India to the current-day situation. She provides a comprehensive analysis of the philosophical underpinnings and the local, bilateral, and international dynamics of the key players involved in this flashpoint of conflict, including New Delhi, Islamabad, political groups and militant outfits on both sides of the Line of Control, and international powers. The book explores the political and military components of India's and Pakistan's Kashmir strategy, the self-determination debate, and the insurgent movement that began in 1989. The conclusion focuses on what Behera terms the four P's: parameters, players, politics, and prognosis of the ongoing peace process in Kashmir. Behera also reflects on the devastation of the October 2005 earthquake and its implications for the future of the area. Based on extensive field research and primary sources, Demystifying Kashmir breaks new ground by framing the conflict as a political battle of state-making between India and Pakistan rather than as a rigid and ideological Hindu-Muslim conflict. Behera's work will be an essential guide for journalists, scholars, activists, policymakers, and anyone interested in how to avert a war between these nuclear powers. |
| kashmir the vale: India and Pakistan Stanley Wolpert, 2010-09-13 Stanley Wolpert's new book, India and Pakistan, represents another major contribution to his analysis of the subcontinent. In this work, he provides a hopeful yet realistic solution to the tensions between these two neighbors. MICHAEL D. INTRILIGATOR, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Milken Institute -- |
| kashmir the vale: SAIVISM AND THE TANTRIC TRADITIONS , 2024 |
| kashmir the vale: Kashmir, Behind the Vale M. J. Akbar, 2002 |
| kashmir the vale: The Crisis in Kashmir Šumit Ganguly, 1997 Contents. |
| kashmir the vale: Beyond the Pir Panjal Ernest Frederic Neve, 1915 |
| kashmir the vale: Beyond the Pir Panjal Ernest Frederic Neve, 1914 |
| kashmir the vale: The Country Without a Post Office Agha Shahid Ali, 2000 Here Is A Haunted And Haunting Volume That Establishes Agha Shahid Ali As A Seminal Voice Writing In English. Amidst Rain And Fire And Ruin, In A Land Of `Doomed Addresses`, The Poet Evokes The Tragedy Of His Birth Place, Kashmir. |
| kashmir the vale: Languages of Belonging Chitralekha Zutshi, 2004 Using local language sources and every important archive, this major history of the formation of Kashmir shows precisely how the Kashmir Valley assumed the position it has come to occupy in postcolonial South Asia.--Jacket. |
| kashmir the vale: Hello Bastar Rahul Pandita, 2022-10-24 With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms as India's biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised. It offers rare insight into the lives of Maoist guerillas and also of the Adivasi tribals living in the Red zone. Based on extensive on-ground reportage and exhaustive interviews with Maoist leaders including their supreme commander Ganapathi, Kobad Ghandy and others who are jailed or have been killed in police encounters, this book is a combination of firsthand storytelling and intrepid analysis. |
| kashmir the vale: Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir Nyla Ali Khan, 2018-01-14 This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years. The volume is designed to enable a student of South Asian politics, and the politics of Kashmir in particular, to analyze the ways in which experiences have been constructed historically and have changed overtime. |
| kashmir the vale: Film, Media, and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia , 2022 |
| kashmir the vale: Riot After Riot M. J. Akbar, 2003 This book discovers the reasons behind communal and caste violence that have taken place in India after Partition. M.J. Akbar's journalist's eye for the revealing instance as also a historian's sense of the deeper treds, resulting in an illuminating study of the violence on the surface and beneath the land of Gandhi. A timely collection of reports of violence in a land formally pledged to the Mahatma's philosophy of non-violence. |
| kashmir the vale: The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir , 1993 Historical background 3. The scope of the conflict and the |
| kashmir the vale: Breeding Birds of Kashmir Richard Sydney Patrick Bates, Ernest Herbert Newton Lowther, 1952 |
| kashmir the vale: Education in Kashmir Under Dogra Rule (1880-1947) Suhail wani, 2017-01-12 This book is about, Historical Background of education in Kashmir, Contribution of Dogra Rulers Towards Education in Kashmir, Contribution of Socio-religious Reform Movements in the Educational Health of Vale (Kashmir), Colonial Intervention And Educational Reforms in Kashmir |
| kashmir the vale: The Book Of Gold Leaves Mirza Waheed, 2014-10-30 *Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016* Mirza Waheed's extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite Papier Mache pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning to slip into night when he sets off for the shrine. There he finds the woman with the long black hair. Roohi is prostrate before her God. She begs for the boy of her dreams to come and take her away. Roohi wants a love story. An age-old tale of love, war, temptation, duty and choice, The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking tale of a what might have been, what could have been, if only. 'I loved it. The voice is lyrical, to match the beauty of Kashmir, and yet it is tinged with melancholy and grief, as is the story it tells' Nadeem Aslam (on The Collaborator) 'Waheed's prose burns with the fever of anger and despair; the scenes in the valley are exceptional, conveying, a hallucinatory living nightmare that has become an everyday reality for Kashmiris' Metro (on The Collaborator) Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel The Collaborator was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhat Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. It was also book of the year for The Telegraph, New Statesman, Financial Times, Business Standard and Telegraph India, among others. Waheed has written for the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, Al Jazeera English and the New York Times. He lives in London. |
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| kashmir the vale: Tinderbox M J Akbar, 2017-08-16 Indians and Pakistanis are the same people: why then have their nations moved on different trajectories since 1947? The idea of India is stronger than the Indian, and the idea of Pakistan has proved weaker than the Pakistani. Pakistan was not born across a breakfast table. It was the culmination of a search for 'Muslim space' that began during the decline of the Mughal Empire, by a north Indian elite driven by fear of the future and pride in the past. The father of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who wanted a secular nation with a Muslim majority, did not realize there was another claimant to the nation he had delivered, Maulana Maududi, founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the godfather of Pakistan. In Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan, M.J. Akbar embarks on a historical whodunit to trace the journey of an idea, and the events, people, circumstances and mindset that divided India. The investigation spans a thousand years, and an extraordinary cast: visionaries, opportunists, statesmen, tyrants, plunderers, generals and theologians. There could be no better guide to the subcontinent's past, and a glimpse into its future. |
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Kashmir - Wikipedia
Kashmir (/ ˈ k æ ʃ m ɪər / KASH-meer or / k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər / kash-MEER) is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir …
Kashmir | History, People, Conflict, Map, & Facts | Britannica
5 days ago · Kashmir is a region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. Claimed by both India and Pakistan, the region has remained a source of tension since the partition of 1947 and was …
Kashmir: Why India and Pakistan fight over it - BBC
May 7, 2025 · Kashmir is an ethnically diverse Himalayan region famed for the beauty of its lakes, meadows and snow-capped mountains. Even before India and Pakistan won their …
What's behind India and Pakistan's conflict over Kashmir, and why …
May 10, 2025 · A war between India and Pakistan erupted over the Himalayan region, and in 1949, the two countries agreed to establish a ceasefire line dividing Kashmir, which is highly …
Kashmir: What to Know About the Disputed Region
Aug 7, 2019 · Kashmir is at the heart of rising tensions between India, Pakistan, and China. Here’s a quick explainer on the disputed area.
An Engineering Marvel, Decades in the Making: A Rail Line to Kashmir …
Jun 6, 2025 · Passengers traveling from Srinagar, the capital city of the Jammu and Kashmir region, to New Delhi will have to get off the train in Katra, 170 miles south of Srinagar, for …
Intro to Kashmir - StandWithKashmir
Kashmir is a Himalayan region that refers to the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir before 1947 and the Partition of the Indian subcontinent. It is renowned for its exceptional …
Kashmir - WorldAtlas
Apr 27, 2021 · Kashmir is often referred to as the “Switzerland of the East” for its breathtaking beautiful mountain scenery. The exquisite beauty of the place truly makes Kashmir a …
Kashmir - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pahalgam Valley in Kashmir. Kashmir, previously spelled Cashmere, is a region in South-central Asia. Historically, the name Kashmir referred to the valley just to the south of the …
Kashmir conflict - Wikipedia
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. [1] [2] …
Kashmir - Wikipedia
Kashmir (/ ˈ k æ ʃ m ɪər / KASH-meer or / k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər / kash-MEER) is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir …
Kashmir | History, People, Conflict, Map, & Facts | Britannica
5 days ago · Kashmir is a region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. Claimed by both India and Pakistan, the region has remained a source of tension since the partition of 1947 and was …
Kashmir: Why India and Pakistan fight over it - BBC
May 7, 2025 · Kashmir is an ethnically diverse Himalayan region famed for the beauty of its lakes, meadows and snow-capped mountains. Even before India and Pakistan won their …
What's behind India and Pakistan's conflict over Kashmir, and why …
May 10, 2025 · A war between India and Pakistan erupted over the Himalayan region, and in 1949, the two countries agreed to establish a ceasefire line dividing Kashmir, which is highly …
Kashmir: What to Know About the Disputed Region
Aug 7, 2019 · Kashmir is at the heart of rising tensions between India, Pakistan, and China. Here’s a quick explainer on the disputed area.
An Engineering Marvel, Decades in the Making: A Rail Line to Kashmir …
Jun 6, 2025 · Passengers traveling from Srinagar, the capital city of the Jammu and Kashmir region, to New Delhi will have to get off the train in Katra, 170 miles south of Srinagar, for …
Intro to Kashmir - StandWithKashmir
Kashmir is a Himalayan region that refers to the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir before 1947 and the Partition of the Indian subcontinent. It is renowned for its exceptional …
Kashmir - WorldAtlas
Apr 27, 2021 · Kashmir is often referred to as the “Switzerland of the East” for its breathtaking beautiful mountain scenery. The exquisite beauty of the place truly makes Kashmir a …
Kashmir - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pahalgam Valley in Kashmir. Kashmir, previously spelled Cashmere, is a region in South-central Asia. Historically, the name Kashmir referred to the valley just to the south of the …
Kashmir conflict - Wikipedia
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. [1] [2] …
