Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam
Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini,...
1948: A War Dairy
Lt Gen Brij Mohan Kaul, the Lahore-born Kashmiri Pandit soldier, was a young colonel when he was posted in Kashmir in 1948 spring to...
Bucher’s Kashmir Papers
Though accessible to people in England, the Government of India continues to restrict access to a set of documents, the Bucher Papers that have...
Kashmir: First Land Settlement
Two years after the British "took over" the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and appointed Sir Oliver St John, the first British Resident on...
Kashmir’s Hikmat and Hakeem
Till the early twentieth century, the entire healthcare system was run by the Unani system of medicine with Hakeem’s at the apex of the...
Kashmir’s Twentieth-Century Bazaars
Between the elite markets of SR Gunj, Mahraj Bazar and the Bund, the twentieth-century witnessed the rise of hundreds of Khatri traders and a...
Sir Marc Aurel Stein: An Introduction
One of the many Europeans who immensely contributed to exploring, understanding and recording Kashmir was Sir Marc Aurel Stein, the great Sanskrit scholar, who...
The Nehru ‘Trial’
After 75 years of Jammu and Kashmir’s accession, the ruling BJP is holding Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru of a series...
The Life Romance
A set of photographs showing the Srinagar romance of a couple – an American pilot and a British hostess, has been in circulation for...
Kashmir Gems
The costliest and most fascinating Sapphire from Padder Mountains continues to remain unmatched across the globe. Though the mining is halted for more than...
A Battle for Schooling Kashmir
The Christian missionaries had to fight a despotic ruler, a superstitious society and a looter bureaucracy for a long time before they succeeded in...
Kashmir’s Khadims’
In Kashmir’s last two centuries, history has recorded two Khadim’s who contributed in different fields. One Khadim was the scion of a migrant family...
Schooling In 1947
Educational institutions have existed in Kashmir in all eras for the last many centuries. However, they were less accessible to certain people in some...
Moorcroft’s Kashmir Days
East India Company’s veterinarian and stud manager, William Moorcroft is the most referred author about early nineteenth century Kashmir. While living in Srinagar between...
Subhan Hajam: Kashmir Barber Who Decimated Prostitution
When Kashmir's despots pushed women into prostitution to improve their tax kitty, a barber sacrificed almost everything in his crusade against the flesh trade....
