Kashmir Valley
The Kashmir Valley, also known as the Vale of Kashmir, is a valley bounded on the southwest by the Pir Panjal Range and on the northeast by the main Himalayas range. It is approximately 135 km long and 32 km wide, and drained by the Jhelum River.
Quotes
[edit]- Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere,
With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave,
Its temples and grottos and fountains as clear
As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave?- Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), "The Light of the Haram"
- Kashmir, the rest is worthless.
- Jahangir on his death bed, attributed in M. J. Akbar, Byline (India: The Lotus Collection, 2008) p. 216
- The Sultan returned, marching in the rear of this immense booty, and slaves were so plentiful that they became very cheap; and men of respectability in their native land, were degraded by becoming slaves of common shopkeepers. But this is the goodness of God, who bestows honours on his own religion and degrades infidelity.
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Utbi, on slavery in the Kashmir Valley (AD 1014), translated by H. M. Elliot and John Dowson, The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, vol. 2 (1869) p. 39
- Kashmir was India’s paradise, an alpine “Switzerland” for the Moghuls.
- Waldemar Hansen, The Peacock Throne: The Drama of Mogul India (1972)
- Even now Kashmiris are the most expert craftsmen of the east; and it is not difficult to believe that the same people, who at present excel all other Orientals as weavers, gunsmiths and as calligraphers, must once have been the most eminent of Indian architects.
- A. Cunningham, "Essay on the Arian Order of Architecture", Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. 17, pt. 2 (September 1848) p. 243
