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Kashmir: Looking Back in Time ( Politics, Culture, History )

by Khalid Bashir Ahmad
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788126932405
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: History
  • Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 432
  • Original Price: INR 995.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 530 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historiography

The book reconstructs the 20th century’s turbulent years of Kashmir and offers a closer view of the people and events that influenced the course of its history. It is an absorbing commentary on the flipside of the politics of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah who ruled the political scene of Kashmir for five decades and, in the course, changed his goalposts. Allowing a peek into the Kashmir of yesteryears, the book guides a reader on its social and cultural pathway, throwing up individuals and developments that made up its recent history. It is also a story of the loss of intellectual tradition of Kashmir and gradual emptying of its cultural opulence. The book presents an authentic and lucid description supported by thorough research and indisputable sources including archival literature, published works, travelogues, and eyewitness accounts.

Khalid Bashir Ahmad is an author, poet, and former Kashmir Administrative Service officer. He has served as Head, Departments of Information & Public Relations, Libraries & Research, and Archives, Archaeology & Museums, and, before he hung his boots in 2014, as Secretary, Jammu & Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture & Languages. His authored books, Kashmir: Exposing the Myth Behind the Narrative and Kashmir: A Walk Through History blow away the long accumulated fog over Kashmir’s historical spread by twisted narratives. His earlier work, Jhelum: The River Through My Backyard was credited with having added the Jhelum factor to the history of Kashmir. His two works of Urdu poetry and prose have won him the State’s highest literary award in 1984 and 2010, respectively.

  • Prologue
  • POLITICS
  • 1. Muslim Conference to National Conference: Anatomy of a Conversion
  • 2. A Loyal Rebel
  • 3. The Plebiscite Ruse
  • 4. A Letter to New York
  • CULTURE
  • 5. Tale of a Mammoth Loss
  • 6. The Celluloid Years
  • 7. Kashmir to Ka’ba
  • 8. Changing Place Names
  • 9. Story of an Uptown Quarter
  • 10. Of Prices and Fares
  • 11. Romance with Rumours
  • HISTORY
  • 12. Sir Mohammad Iqbal: The Untold Story
  • 13. The Temple Agitation
  • 14. Through the Dogra Rule
  • 15. A Bowl of History
  • 16. Dateline Kashmir
  • Appendixes
  • Telegram of Chairman of the Iranian Parliament to Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.
  • Reply of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah to Chairman of the Iranian Parliament.
  • Letter of Maharaja Hari Singh to the President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • References and Endnotes
  • Index

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