Encyclopaedia of Kashmir

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Book Details: Encyclopaedia of Kashmir; 10 Volumes. Sharma, S.K. & Bakshi, S.R. (Eds.) List Price: US$ Our Price: US$ You Save 20% + FREE DELIVERY WORLDWIDE Set PRODUCT DETAILS: Book ID: ISBN / The Children's Encyclopædia was an encyclopaedia originated by Arthur Mee, and published by the Educational Book Company, a subsidiary of Northcliffe's Amalgamated Press, was published from to Walter M.

Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S. under the name The Book of Knowledge (). Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts.

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Sheikh Abdullah and Kashmir. Volume 7 of Encyclopaedia of Kashmir [Sharma, S.K. And S.R. Bakshi, Editors] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sheikh Abdullah and Kashmir. Volume 7 of Encyclopaedia of KashmirAuthor: Editors Sharma, S.K. And S.R. Bakshi. THIS POEM IS THE ORIGINAL WORK OF SRIVIDYA SRINIVASAN and any misuse by you shall be considered as a violation of my copyrights and legally actionable.

This poem is dedicated to all those who have suffered in Kashmir and through Kashmir and to not be sliced and interpreted to each one's convenienceWeep softly O mother. Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent.

Claimed by both India and Pakistan, the region has remained a source of tension since the partition of and was the focus of two wars between them. The region is administratively partitioned along a de. Kashmir riots. In May riots occurred in Jammu and Kashmir in an area where Jamaat-e-Islami was gaining influence, ostensibly sparked by the discovery that The Book of Knowledge, which had been stored in a local library for decades, contained an image of Archangel Gabriel dictating portions of the Quran to Prophet Muhammad.

The riots left. KASHMIR, or Cashmere, a native state of India, including much of the Himalayan mountain system to the north of the Punjab. It has been fabled in song for its beauty (e.g.

in Moore’s Lalla Rookh), and is the chief health resort for Europeans in India, while politically it is important as guarding one of the approaches to India on the north-west frontier.

The history of Kashmir is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions, comprising the areas of Central Asia, South Asia and East ically, Kashmir referred to the Kashmir Valley.

Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered union territories of Jammu and Kashmir (which consists of Jammu and the Kashmir Valley.

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر ‎, romanized: āzād jammū̃ va kaśmīr, transl. 'Free Jammu and Kashmir'), abbreviated as AJK and commonly known as Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing jurisdiction, and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region which has been the subject of a dispute between Capital: Muzaffarabad.

Kashmir’s Culture The Region’s History Memoirs and Travelogues Religion and Art Kashmir’s Culture: The Region’s History. Kashmir and the British Raj Robert A. Huttenback ISBN (cloth) ISBN (cloth) Oxford University Press, G. Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Lord of the Five Rivers Jean-Marie Lafont.

KASHMIR. Introduction. Iranian influence in and beyond the region of Kashmir is a long-term phenomenon. Inscriptions in Sogdian, Parthian, and Middle Persian demonstrate pre-Islamic contacts there with Iranian-speakers (Jettmar, p. ; inscriptional material in Sims-Williams).

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This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. All books - fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, academic and scholarly works, on Kashmir. Score A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.

JAMMU, or Jummoo, the capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in Northern India, on the river Tavi (Ta-wi), a tributary of the (), 36, The town and palace stand upon the right bank of the river; the fort overhangs the left bank at an elevation of ft. above the stream. Encyclopaedia of India, Volume 1.

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Kashmīrī, or Koshur as it is called by the speakers, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about million people ( census) in the northwestern part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and in the Pakistani regions of Azad Kashmir, the Northern Areas, and, Pakistani speakers were reported to speak Kashmīrī (Eberhard et al.).

List of Peer Fazil Kamil of Azad Kashmir Books: Read online and free download all Urdu books by Peer Fazil Kamil of Azad Kashmir in pdf. Search for. KASHMIR, region in S. central association of Kashmir with Jews was first alluded to by the 11 th-century Muslim scholar Al-Bīrūnī in his "India-Book": "In former times the inhabitants of Kashmir used to allow one or two foreigners to enter their country, particularly Jews, but at present they do not allow any Hindus whom they do not know personally to enter, much less other people.".

Janet Rizvi, freelance writer and researcher graduated with a Ph.D. in History from Cambridge. She has spent many years in Jammu and Kashmir. She has contributed the chapter The Asian Trade in Kashmir Shawls to Textiles from India, The Global Trade (Rosemary Crill, ed., ); and is a contributor to The Encyclopaedia of World Dress and Fashion(forthcoming) Cited by: 2.

According to the "Nilmat Puran," the oldest book on Kashmir, in the Satisar, a former lake in the Kashmir Valley meaning "lake of the Goddess Sati," lived a demon called Jalodbhava (meaning "born of water"), who tortured and devoured the people, who lived near mountain slopes.

Hearing the suffering of the people, Kashyap, an Indian rishi, came. The emotionally charged debates and discussions following Vishal Bharadwaj’s adaptation of Shakespearean play Hamlet – Haider— has once again brought to the fore how little we know about the State that has far more people outside of it speak of it.

About the Book The 'Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture' comprises a vast research on the architectural features of Indian temples spread all over the Indian subcontinent. This encyclopaedic study is divided into forty- five chapters which delineate the various characteristics of temple architecture starting from the Gupta period (4th C.A.D.) to the Kashi Visvanatha temple rebuilt by.

In the first half of the 1st millennium, the Kashmir region became an important centre of Hinduism and later of Buddhism; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose.

[1] InShah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the Salatin-i-Kashmir or Swati dynasty. [2] For the next five centuries, Muslim monarchs ruled Kashmir, including the Mughals, who ruled.

The Children's Encyclopædia was an encyclopædia originated by Arthur Mee, and published by the Educational Book Company, a subsidiary of Amalgamated Press of London. It was published from to Walter M. Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S.

under the name The Book of Knowledge (). Kashmir. likes talking about this. Kasper Eistrup (vocals and lead guitar) Mads Tunebjerg (bass) Asger Techau (drums) Henrik Lindstrand (keyboards and guitar).Followers: K.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF KASHMIRI CULTURE: Project to be launched soon by NSKRI. Yet another pioneering work of great importance is being undertaken by N. Kashmir Research Institute shortly in the shape of preparation of an encyclopaedia of Kashmir culture.

A major project of the Institute, the enclyclopaedia will cover the whole gamut of Kashmir's. The Jammu and Kashmir conflict (Hindi: कश्मीर विवाद, Urdu: مسئلہ کشمیر ‎) is a dispute over the territory of dispute is between India and claims all of the region that was once a princely currently controls about 43% of the territory, including most of Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh, and the Siachen Glacier.

The view from Lumba Sumba pass towards Kangchenjunga is the cover image of Tales from the Himalaya. The title may sound a bit prosaic for a personal encyclopaedia of the Himalaya spanning everything from the politics, geopolitics, geo-tectonics, geography, geology, cartography, history, adventure, culture and religion of these mountains.

About the Book Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to- date, this three-volume reference work covers the story of music spread across years. From entries on classical, folk, film, and other forms of music to details of all forms of dance, raga, tala, gharana, treatises, technical terms, and instruments as well as short biographies of vocalists, musicologists, saint poets, gurus.

The following are the list of books although it is not a complete list. Prem Nath Bazaz – History of Struggle For Freedom in Kashmir The Valley of Kashmir by Walter Lawrence Sheikh Abdullah – Aatish-e Chinar [Flames of the Chinar; English] The Kas.Kashmir (kăshmēr´, kăsh´mēr), region and former princely state, 85, sq mi (, sq km), NW India, NE Pakistan, and SW r is bordered on the west by Pakistan, on the south by India, and on the north and east by China.

The region is divided between the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir ( provisional pop. 10,), 39, sq mi (, sq km), with its summer.