Kashmir’s rich historical traditions, replete with stories and folklore drawn from a multilingual tradition of historical composition in Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri, get glossed over when its past is neatly divided into Hindu and Muslim periods.
Kashmir's Narratives of Conflict: Identity Lost in Space and Time by Manisha Gangahar (Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study) 2013; pp x + 173; Rs 450 (hardback).
Many Secrets Travels in Kashmir: A Popular History of Its People, Places, and Crafts by Brigid Keenan; Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2006 (first published 1989); pp ix + 226, Rs 350 (paperback).
