Kashmir: Behind the Vale

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Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8193600967
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Kashmir: Behind the Vale by : MJ Akbar

Download or read book Kashmir: Behind the Vale written by MJ Akbar and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MJ Akbar is among those who have made a significant impact on Indian society by their writing, whether as authors or editors. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the seminal newsmagazine, Sunday, in 1976 and The Telegraph in 1982, he revolutionized Indian journalism in the 1970s and 80s. In the 1990s he launched The Asian Age, a multi-edition daily that once again had substantive impact on the profession. He has also served as the Editorial Director of India Today, Headlines Today and as the editor of the Deccan Chronicle and the Sunday Guardian. MJ, as he is popularly known, first entered public life in 1989, when he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He went back to media in 1993 and returned to the political area in 2014, when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and became the party’s national spokesperson during the 2014 campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In July 2016, he was named the Minister of State for External Affairs by Prime Minister Modi. His seven books have achieved great international acclaim: India: The Siege Within; Nehru: The Making of India; Riot-after-Riot; Kashmir: Behind the Vale; The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan and Blood Brothers, his only work of fiction. In addition, there have been four collections of his columns, reportage and essays.

Kashmir, Behind the Vale

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Total Pages : 232 pages
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The Vale of Kashmir

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393065251
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vale of Kashmir by : John Isaac

Download or read book The Vale of Kashmir written by John Isaac and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charmed by the generous people and exquisite beauty of Kashmir, celebrated photographer John Isaac set out to honor this enchanting land that is unknown to so many. The 160 photographs in The Vale of Kashmir present the people and landscape of this remote and exotic region and the unique way of life that has developed on Dal Lake." "Nestled in the lush area where India, China, and Pakistan meet, the Vale of Kashmir is a vast garden dotted with lakes, marshes, orchards, and terraced fields, surrounded by the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas. Isaac's spectacular photographs show us canals crowded with houseboats, floating gardens on Dal Lake, and the ancient city of Srinagar. The varied details of daily life-the harvesting of saffron, Hindu pilgrimages through the mountains, shepherds on the Himalayan slopes, and prayers at the mosque-come alive in these pages." "In addition to capturing the breathtaking natural beauty of the Vale, Isaac also honors the private realm of family life in Kashmir, with images of the merchants, farmers, weavers, and fishermen who live on the lake. Though renowned for its abundance of superb handicrafts, including carpets, shawls, silks, woodwork, and papier-mache boxes, Kashmir and its people are largely uncelebrated; Isaac's tender portraits honor these hard-working families. This arresting view of the land and Kashmiri people is put into a historical and geographical context by author Art Davidson's insightful and sensitive introduction."--BOOK JACKET.

Trailblazer

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Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1626346461
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Trailblazer by : Farooq Kathwari

Download or read book Trailblazer written by Farooq Kathwari and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farooq Kathwari’s extraordinary life began in politically divided Kashmir, where his family was separated by government decree. He had to leave home as a refugee, helped his mother survive shock therapy, joined student activists in street demonstrations, and faced down a gun-wielding security officer—all by the age of seventeen. Forced to become self-reliant, Kathwari journeyed to the United States, talked his way into a bookkeeping job, and earned a degree from NYU graduate school. He launched his first entrepreneurial venture selling Kashmiri crafts out of his Brooklyn apartment. When Kathwari’s best customer, the iconic furniture maker Ethan Allen, needed fresh leadership, he was asked to become its president. He transformed the company and become one of America’s most successful—and admired—CEOs. Meanwhile, spurred by the tragic loss of his teenaged son in war, Kathwari dedicated himself to the cause of peace in Kashmir and around the world. He hosted meetings with diplomats, shuttled messages between heads of state, and worked with global leaders on issues from human rights to refugee resettlement. Brimming with drama, insight, and unexpected humor, Trailblazer recounts a unique life story, offering readers not just an engrossing journey but also the wisdom of an exceptional leader. ​From Trailblazer— "When the American journalist told me he hoped to report the truth about the Kashmir uprising, I decided to help. “The government people won’t let you see what is really happening,” I said. “Why not let me take you around?” It was foolish of me to make such an offer. I knew I was risking retribution by the security forces. But I was a headstrong, independent young man. I wanted the truth to get out, and I would do what I could to help that happen."

The Valley of Kashmír

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Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Valley of Kashmír by : Sir Walter Roper Lawrence

Download or read book The Valley of Kashmír written by Sir Walter Roper Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Green was the Vale of Kashmir

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Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1644291762
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Book Synopsis How Green was the Vale of Kashmir by : K Kuldeep Singh Jamwal

Download or read book How Green was the Vale of Kashmir written by K Kuldeep Singh Jamwal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmir, the ultimate tourist destination that attracts millions of adventurers and tourists from all across the world for more than a century, is much more than the well-beaten destinations like Dal Lake, Mughal Gardens, Gulmarg and Pahalgam. The uniqueness of the valley can only be fully appreciated if its mountains, lakes, temperate and alpine forests and its wildlife, which give the valley a special status, are considered in totality with interdependence between one another. This beautifully illustrated book written in real-life storytelling style will captivate the reader as it chronicles a journey spanning at least seven decades in the life of the Valley of Kashmir and its priceless natural bounty. A special feature of the book is that it introduces the reader to the diverse natural wonders of Kashmir with authoritative data and information with relevant colour photographs featuring Kashmir’s: § High-altitude lakes, § Alpine forests and environment, § Wildlife and migratory birds, § Snow-fed streams and trout, § And horticultural produce, to name a few. Ten well-researched chapters on the above topics, including Kashmir’s saffron, capital city Srinagar and its changing scenario and the valley’s agriculture scene with authentic data, shows that the Kashmir of today and 70 years ago are two worlds apart.

Death in Kashmir

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Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250089247
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Death in Kashmir by : M. M. Kaye

Download or read book Death in Kashmir written by M. M. Kaye and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by celebrated author M. M. Kaye, Death in Kasmir is a wonderfully evocative mystery ... When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains above the fabled Vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an entertaining but uneventful stay. But when she discovers that the deaths of two in her party are the result of foul play, she finds herself entrusted with a mission of unforeseen importance. And when she leaves the ski slopes for the Waterwitch, a private houseboat on the placid shores of the Dal Lake near Srinagar, she discovers to her horror that the killer will stop at nothing to prevent Sarah from piecing the puzzle together.

The Shade of Swords

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134452594
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis The Shade of Swords by : M.J Akbar

Download or read book The Shade of Swords written by M.J Akbar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shade of Swords is the first cohesive history of Jihad, written by one of India's leading journalists and writers. In this paperback edition, updated to show how and why Saddam Hussein repositioned himself as a Jihadi against America, M.J. Akbar explains the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Placing recent events in a historical context, he tackles the tricky question of what now for Jihad following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. With British and American troops in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and once again in Iraq, the potential for Jihadi recruitment is ever increasing. Explaining how Jihad thrives on complex and shifting notions of persecution, victory and sacrifice, and illustrating how Muslims themselves have historically tried both to direct and control the phenomenon of Jihad, Akbar shows how Jihad pervades the mind and soul of Islam, revealing its strength and significance. To know the future, one needs to understand the past. M.J. Akbar's The Shade of Swords holds the key.

Riot After Riot

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ISBN 13 : 9788174362827
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Riot After Riot written by M. J. Akbar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discovers the reasons behind communal and caste violence that have taken place in India after Partition. M.J. Akbar's journalist's eye for the revealing instance as also a historian's sense of the deeper treds, resulting in an illuminating study of the violence on the surface and beneath the land of Gandhi. A timely collection of reports of violence in a land formally pledged to the Mahatma's philosophy of non-violence.

Kashmir

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Total Pages : 602 pages
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Book Synopsis Kashmir by : Sir Francis Edward Younghusband

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Paradise at War

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ISBN 13 : 9789388292122
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (921 download)

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Book Synopsis Paradise at War by : Radha Kumar

Download or read book Paradise at War written by Radha Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tiger Ladies

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Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807059197
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (591 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tiger Ladies by : Sudha Koul

Download or read book The Tiger Ladies written by Sudha Koul and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting in her grandmother Dhanna's kitchen, surrounded by the aromas of mint and the smoke of a hookah, warmed by the kangri tucked beneath her thighs, young Sudha Koul listened to tales of She Who Fears Nothing: The Tiger Lady, stories Sudha would repeat to her own daughters in time, though in a kitchen many thousands of miles away from her beloved Kashmir. This is a magical memoir of a land now consumed by political and religious turmoil, a richly detailed story of a girl's passage into maturity, marriage, and motherhood in the midst of an exquisite and fragile world that will never be entirely the same.

Kashmir

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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Book Synopsis Kashmir by : Alastair Lamb

Download or read book Kashmir written by Alastair Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

India

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ISBN 13 : 9788174362681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (626 download)

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Book Synopsis India by : Muhammad J. Akbar

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The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir

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Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781849041508
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)

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Book Synopsis The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir by : Christopher Snedden

Download or read book The Untold Story of the People of Azad Kashmir written by Christopher Snedden and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azad (Free) Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)) is that part of Kashmir within Pakistan, separated by a Line of Control from Indian territory. This book is a rarity: it offers a fresh interpretive history of the largely forgotten four million people of Azad Kashmir. The author contends that in October 1947, pro-Pakistan Muslims in south-western J&K instigated the Kashmir dispute-not Pashtun tribesmen invading from Pakistan, as India has consistently claimed. Later called Azad Kashmiris, these people, Snedden argues, are legitimate stakeholders in an unresolved dispute. He provides comprehensive new information that critically examines Azad Kashmir's administration, economy, political system, and its subordinate relationship with Pakistan. Azad Kashmiris considered their administration to be the only legitimate government in J&K and expected that it would rule after J&K was re-unified by a UN-supervised plebiscite. This poll has never been conducted and Azad Kashmir has effectively, if not yet legally, become a (dependent) part of Pakistan. Long disenchanted with Islamabad, some Azad Kashmiris now favour independence for J&K, hoping that they may survive and prosper without recourse to either of their bigger neighbours. Snedden concludes his book by assessing the various proposals to resolve Azad Kashmir's international status and the broader Kashmir dispute.

Our Summer in the Vale of Kashmir

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Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis Our Summer in the Vale of Kashmir by : F. Ward Denys

Download or read book Our Summer in the Vale of Kashmir written by F. Ward Denys and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kashmir in Conflict

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ISBN 13 : 9780755619757
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Kashmir in Conflict by : Victoria Schofield

Download or read book Kashmir in Conflict written by Victoria Schofield and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why has the valley of Kashmir, famed for its beauty and tranquillity, become a major flashpoint, threatening the stability of a region of great strategic importance and challenging the integrity of the Indian state? This book examines the Kashmir conflict in its historical context, from the period when the valley was an independent kingdom right up to the struggles of the present day. Located on the borders of China, Central Asia and the Sub-Continent, the insurgency in the valley has also created serious tensions between India and Pakistan. Drawing upon research in India and Pakistan, as well as historical sources, this book traces the origins of the state in the 19th century and the controversial "sale" by the British of the predominantly Muslim valley to a Hindu Maharaja in 1846. Through an exploration of the implications for Kashmir of independence in 1947, it gives a critical account of why, for Kashmir, self-determination may seem a more attractive option than affiliation to a larger multi-racial whole."--Bloomsbury Publishing.