Kashmir’s sale to Gulab Singh was disapproved by a section of the British. The London newspapers, which did not like the sale, attributed every kind of treachery and ingratitude to him. Even Hardinge, who had transferred Kashmir to the Dogra…
The spring of 2020 in the Kashmir Valley is beautiful. It is the rainy season when almonds blossom amidst verdant greenery punctuated with swathes of narcissus and dancing daffodil, tulip in full flower, the bulbul hopping and playing in the…
On 5 and 6 August 2019, President Ram Nath Kovind issued two orders removing Jammu & Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. Three days later, India’s parliament passed the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which divided…
At a time when the State is sought to be shrunk to a revanchist monochromatic unity, it is gravely myopic to think that issues around Article 370 of the Constitution of India concern just the one territory of Jammu &…
Narendra Modi’s fantasy about undoing the asymmetric annexation of Kashmir with India is an old one. In an undated video he claimed to have led a march from Kanayakumari to Srinagar and unfurled the tricolour at Lal Chowk in 1992…
It was the call of azadi that first brought us out of our homes. All of us – women, men, the young and the aged – came out from villages and towns in support of it. My mother also rallied…
The wide swathe of land called Kashmir has, from time immemorial, been imagined as a heavenly setting, a spiritual space with parallels drawn with the ultimate of divine creation, heaven. Located at the crossroads of civilisations like the Aryan, Chinese,…
Kashmir has not always been the way we know it today. Till recently it had its own state flag, red in colour with a white plough at its centre. This flag represented the past struggles of its people and their…
In a little over six months, two outstanding teachers-researchers in the field of Economics have left us. N. Krishnaji, 83, passed away in Hyderabad last year on 6 November and A. Vaidyanathan, 89, in Coimbatore on 10 June this year.
Shama Mitra Chenoy (edited, translated and annotated), Delhi in Transition, 1821 and Beyond Mirza Sangin Beg’s Sair ul Manazil, Oxford University Press, 2018, 320 pages, Rs 995 In the discipline of history, working with primary sources in Persian is a…