Those Cholera Carnage’s
Unlike many other epidemics, the Cholera has been Kashmir’s resident killer for most of the nineteenth century when the bacteria would come with the...
Kashmir’s Map Shawls
Shawls woven in Kashmir were fashion statements on Paris streets early nineteenth century. But it took a long time for the buyers to understand...
Those Pock Marking Viruses
Battling diseases has been one of the few constants in life. One scourge was yet to be tackled that another appeared. In this long...
A Hundred Years Later
The Spanish Flu that brought the world on its knees by killing almost five crore people exactly a century earlier has visited Kashmir also. Though...
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and a superstitious clergy, reports...
The Urdu Umpire
More than 130 years of being the official language of Jammu and Kashmir, Urdu’s fate hangs in balance as the downgraded state inches towards...
Hanging An Imposter
In 1859, the East India Company hanged a Jammu Faqeer in Sialkot for claiming to be a prophet. Its details were published by Lahore...
Gandhi And Kashmir
In order to imagine how Mahatma Gandhi would have responded to Kashmir’s present situation, it is important to understand Gandhi’s long Kashmir story first...
1853: A Tourist On Foot
An unknown Englishman has penned in his peculiar language his long trek from Shimla to Srinagar via Tibet on foot in the summer of...
The Accord Cable
After G Parthasarthy and Mirza Afzal Beg signed the accord for their political masters on February 24, 1975, the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira...
Costly Land Reforms
In the history of Kashmir, land to tiller is the biggest intervention that lacks parallels. But these proved very costly for Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah,...
Delimitating Debate
Powerful Modi government is reportedly toying with the idea of a fresh delimitation for Kashmir assembly by undoing a legislative freeze. While there is...
Muslim Conference Conversion
One of the landmark decisions in Kashmir’s history was the conversion of the Muslim Conference into National Conference in 1939. Why and how this...
Like Father, Like Son
A decade after Amir-e-Kabir’s departure, his son came with 300 preachers. But his nearly two-decade-long sojourn in Srinagar witnessed a chain of events, still...
Srinagar Fires 1892
Kashmir was always interesting and enigmatic. Charles Adolphus Murray, the 7th Earl of Dunmore was in Srinagar in May 1892, when it went up...
