In his The City of Kashmir, Srinagar: A Popular History , Kashmir historian Sameer Hamdani gives a deeply-sourced and effortlessly readable story of the city that flows like Jhelum, writes Syed Shadab Ali Gillani Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

Kashmir’s architectural historian, Sameer Hamdani’s book on Srinagar city opens an unusually intimate door into the layered history of Kashmir. He moves across time with ease, beginning with the story of a Kashmiri ruler whose rise shattered the physical remoteness of his kingdom. The eighth-century king who “came to dominate the Indian plains from his Himalayan kingdom,” a figure whose name in Sanskrit strikingly means “the one whose diadem is taken off.”

Lalitaditya Muktapida appears in these pages not as a di

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