Cultural Heritage Of Kashmir By Prof. K.L. Kalla, Presents A Panoramic View Of The Cultural History Of Kashmir Since The Days When Kashmir Was A Seat Of Learning Sharda Peetha And Buddism. It Also Details Its Eternal Charm And Glory, Important Events In History Of Kashmir, Festivals, Composite Culture, Language And Literature, And Impact Of English On The People Of Kashmir. The Reasons For Initiation Of Terrorism In Kashmir Also Find A Place In This Book. The Book Makes A Very Interesting Study On Kashmir In A Very Lucid Style.

Kashmiri Literature, With Poetry As Its Chief Mode Of Expression, Can Be Said To Have Begun With Lal Ded,ýThat Most Manly Of Women Seekers After Godý And The Other Outstanding Mystic, Sheikh-Ul-Alam.One Unique Thing About Kashmiri Letters Is The Total Absence Of Prose Till 1940 (Apart From The Language Of Speech). During The Last Six Decades It Has, However, Branched Out Into Various Genres Like Essay, Criticism, History, Drama And Fiction-And Kashmiri Literature Now Has A Pride Of Place In Indian Letters.

What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir explores these questions in relation to the birth of Kashmir and the discursive and material practices that shaped it up to the 12th century CE. Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri history, Kalhana’s Rajatarangini, this book argues that the text was history not despite being traditional Sanskrit poetry but because of it. It elaborated a poetics of place, implicating Kashmir’s sacred geography, a stringent critique of local politics, and a regional selfhood that transcended the limits of vernacularism.Combined with longue durée testimonies from art, material culture, script, and linguistics, this book jettisons the image of an isolated and insular Kashmir. It proposes a cultural formation that straddled the Western Himalayas and the Indic plains with Kashmir as the pivot. This is the story of the connected histories of the region and the rest of India.

A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri narratives, Kashmir’s Contested Pasts contends that these traditions drew on and influenced each other to imagine Kashmir as far more than simply an unsettled territory or a tourist paradise. By offering a historically grounded reflection on the memories, narrative practices, and institutional contexts that have informed, and continue to inform, imaginings of Kashmir and its past, the book suggests new ways of understanding the debates over history, territory, identity, and sovereignty that shape contemporary South Asia.