Tag: Iran
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Kashmir and the Abbasid revolution
What is often assumed is that medieval Kashmir was a land cutoff from the rest of the world owing to its topography. However, the historical analysis proves that it was one of the centres of civilisation shaping the history and politics of the whole world from time to time, the Abbasid revolution being one of…
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Persian and Kashmir: A story of poetics and power
With Persian becoming the court language, a new breed of functionaries was brought to fore who chose Persian over Kashmiri and Sanskrit to stay in the echelons of power. Even though there were mass conversions in Kashmir, and contrary to the popular belief, it were the Kashmiri Brahmans and a few elite Muslims who became…
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