Umar Masoodi

Excellent book. An eye opener. Makes one critically analyse India's struggle for independence

🌺 Written by Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, The valley of Kashmir was published in 1895, the year his work on the land settlement of Kashmir finished. He was the first settlement commissioner of Kashmir. This book is the first and the last of it's kind in the huge mass of literature written on Kashmir. It is a great treasure of authentic observations and information on almost all important and even apparently unimportant aspects of the history, geography, Economy, flora and fauna and culture of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a must book that is widely read and referred to by almost all scholars and writers who have written and will write in Kashmir. It has rightly been called "The Encyclopaedia of Kashmir" 🌺