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The book is to depict Kashmiri women as they lived through different periods of history, to describe their past achievements, long days of adversity and present struggle for emancipation. Contains of the book vignettes of outstanding women who flourished from early times in any field of social activity. Last reading of the early part of the book gives rise to revivalist tendencies, I would like to say that it is none of my desires to create a mythical golden age ...
This book is different from so many that have been written on Kashmir. It is not a globe-trotter’s book; it does not describe Kashmir as a sportsman’s paradise or as an ideal ‘beauty spot.’ It is not a delineation of the natural beauty of the ‘Happy Valley’, enlivened by funny character-sketches of ‘Hatos’, as the Punjabi likes to call Kashmiri coolies, or by anecdotes about an interesting trek. Nor, in order to make it readable and amusing ...
Kashmir problem is much older than the accession issue which cropped up in 1947. Ever since the British imperialists sold the Valley to Maharaja Gulab Singh in 1846, the problem has presented itself in one shape of another. For over eighty years the Dogra Hindu rulers could contrive to conceal the hideous truth that their subjects, predominant majority of whom was Muslim, were unhappy under their harsh rule. But when in 1931 the Kashmiris rose in open rebellion ...
Their conception of Azad Kashmir is un doubtedly quite different, basedas it is on the high principles of Radical Humanism and democratic Socialism, I venture to suggest that if this truth is widely known much of the bitterness would lessen and possibly such a knowledge would contribute to the solution of the most difficult and intricate problem of Kashmir. The slogan of Azad Kashmir was raised, for the first time, in the plenary session of the Party gathering of ...
No other state in the indian union poses a problem beset with enormous difficulties as jammu & kashmir constitutionally & legally the state is an inalienable part of the union but the dispute with pakistan over possession remains unresolved to this day as has been tacitly admitted by both the countries in the simla agreement arrrived at in 1973. The kashmiri muslims dismayed at the army rule & denial of civil liberties in pakistan, had rallied under ...