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Prof. Somnath Wakhlu has basically been a teacher of English literature but while working in the Amar Mahal Museum and Library, Jammu for the last two and half decades his mind got yoked to many devotions of Jammu and Kashmir art and architecture, history and culture, mysticism and literature. And he passes from one devotion to the other with athletic ease. The present book is divided into two parts: one is concerned with Jammu and the other with Kashmir. Then ...
This is the first comprehensive, detailed and bold biography of Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir. This authoritative and uniquely insightful biography explores the fascinating public and private life of this man of character in all its human complexity. He compels our admiration because even in the turbulent decades, he enthusiastically enough streamlined the whole government set up, cleared the aegean stables and brought improvement in all other aspects ...