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For those who associate Kashmir with the violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, Koul's lovely elegiac memoir The Tiger Ladies shows that the isolated vale in the Himalayas was a heaven before it became a hell...Koul succeeds through sensuous detail in summoning the vanished Kashmir, the one of rainbow days and clear mountains and Hindus living peacefully with Muslims. —Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine (Asian edition)The first memoir about a woman's experience in Kashmir, one of the most volatile and alluring places on the globeThe Tiger Ladies presents Kashmir through the lives of four generations of women. Skillfully interweaving the story of her family with the story of the gods and goddesses, myths and history of this rich and unique society, Sudha Koul reveals how the women of her region have attained their extraordinary power and place in their culture—and what a fascinating culture it is.Like Indira Gandhi and her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, Koul is a Kashmiri Brahmin, traditionally the highest caste of Hindus. The Hindus, though a tiny minority of Kashmir's population, lived in great harmony with Muslims, leading intertwined lives in the same cultural fabric. Kashmiri

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Author

Sudha Koul; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Boston : Beacon Press, 2002.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807059203

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Travel, Fiction