Tag: kashmiri
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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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Ghulam Rassul Galwan: The Kashmiri explorer Ladakh’s high altitude battlefield is named after
Galwan had a lot to say and had a fervent desire to write all of it in English for the world to know. Encouraged by one of his American employers, Mrs. Katherine Barret and her husband Robert Barret, Ghulam Rassul started writing an autobiography called ‘Servant of the Sahibs- To be read aloud’.
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Myths and misconceptions: Origin of name Kashmir
In this article, the author tries to go beyond the traditionally accepted etymologies behind the origin of the word Kashmir
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