FOUNDATION OF J&K
Acquisition of Kashmir valley by Gulab Singh in 1846 and its incorporation in his vast Dogra Kingdom marked the beginning of a new and, from the point of view of the present study, a crucial phase...
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Shah Mir ascended the throne of kashmir under the name of Sultan shamas-ud-din in 1339.Shah mir though himself a Muslim,made no distinction ...
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The Sankaracharya temple is situated on the summit of the Takht-i-Sulaiman hill, to the south-east of Srinagar. Neither the hill nor the t...
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