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"Like Indira Ghandi and her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sudha Koul was born a Kashmiri Brahmin. The Hindus, though a tiny minority of Kashmir's population, lived in great harmony with Muslims, leading lives intertwined in the same cultural fabric. Kashmiris were isolated in their valley, called "Paradise on Earth" by Moghul emperor Jehangir, and enjoyed a culture so dissimilar to any other in India that they were largely unaffected by what was happening in the world around them. In 1947, the year of Sudha's birth, the partition of India and Pakistan by the British and the first stirrings of fundamentalism in Kashmir ignited what would gradually become a religious and political inferno.". "Sudha grew up immersed in the colorful legends and rituals of Kashmiri life, now imperiled for Hindus and Muslims. Her story is that of a lost Eden, full of the textures, tastes, and magical tales of a distant, at times contradictory world. Though she attends school faithfully, along with her Muslim girlfriends, completing her graduate education and becoming a magistrate, she looks forward to the marriage her parents will arrange for her. She participates fully in the rites and rituals of Kashmiri c

Author

Koul, Sudha

Publisher

Boston : Beacon Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807059180

Subjects

History, Travel, Sociology

Rating

3.76 / 5 (136 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14