Parvez Dewan’s Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh

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Pervez Dewan can send you to sleep about Kashmir. If anyone has the Ultimate Dossier on this region, it is he, after years of running about India’s northernmost state, administering and adventuring his way around its valleys, peaks and rivers. Along the way, he discovered that Kashmir had its own school of miniature painting, followed a hunch about a second Amarnath cave from a shepherd’s report, studied the bedtime habits of black bears, explored myths about Jesus and Kashmir’s Jewish connection, listened to the Sufis sing (and translated the haunting songs of Habba Khatoon), dodged the leopards of Zaberwan, lived through the bombs and grenades of militancy, trekked through snowstorms and learnt to tell between good and badsilk carpets, shahtoosh and pashmina. Some of this was in the course of work. Between whiles, he managed to consume vast quantities of wazwan and trout, took copious notes on almost everything and, in particular, discovered deep, enduring bonds between Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus; Shias and Sunnis: Dogras, Sikhs, Afghans and Kashmiris-even between Kashmir and the Seven Konkans. In this first-of-its-kind encyclopaedic three-volume set on Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, one on each region, Parvez Dewan shares in detail his interest and excitement in the fabled land that has been the arena of his adult life: an up-to-date yet timeless guide to the magical trinity of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh that crowsn the sub-continent of India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Parvez Dewan

Parvez Dewan was educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and the University of Cambridge, and was elected a Visiting Research Fellow of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. He hitchhiked through Nicaragua to study its total literacy miracle and trawled Cambodia and Central Asia for their architectural links to Kashmir's temples and shrines. An officer of the Indian Administrative Service, he is currently the Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir. Two of his libretti were recorded as rock operas in Denmark, a third was telecast on Britain's Channel Four (and none of the three was ever heard of again). At St. Stephen's he was elected President of the College Union society and was awarded the L. Raghubir singh History Prize for ranking first in his B.A. (Hons.) class. At Cambridge, he was awarded the Jennings Prize in 1987 for obtaining the highest marks, and a distinction, in the Development Studies class. He was the Senior Treasurer of the Cambridge University (C.U.) Friends of the Earth and was also with the C.U. Green Party. Most of the publications that Parvez has written for had to fold up (Youth Times, JS, The Hindustan times Evening News, The Metropolitan on Saturday, Shama (Urdu) and such sections of The Times of India as he regularly contributed to). However, some survived (notably the Times of India, India Today, The Hindustan Times, The Statesman and Stardust).

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Title
Parvez Dewan’s Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8170491797
Length
723p., Tables; Plates; Maps; Appendices; Index; 26cm.
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