Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1228

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Author: Victoria Schofield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755619757
Category : India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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"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.

Author: India office libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: Christopher Snedden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1849043426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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The seemingly intractable Kashmir dispute and the fate of Kashmiris throughout South Asia and beyond are the twin themes in Snedden's meticulously researched book.

Author: Derek Waller
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813149045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller's efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten.

Author: Henry D'Oyley Torrens
Publisher: London Saunders, Otley 1862.
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Sunil Chandra Ray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788187221135
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Dirom Grey Crawford
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Kulbhushan Warikoo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788182747975
Category : Geopolitics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Deals with the historical, cultural, geopolitical, strategic, socio-economic and political perspectives on the entire Karakoram-Himalayan region. The book is based on papers contributed by area specialists and experts from the region - Gilgit-Baltistan, Mirpur-Muzaffarabad and Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir - and academics and strategic analysts.