Kashmir and Sher e Kashmir: A Revolution Derailed By PL. D.

Parimoo ISBN: 978 93 6087 858 3(PB) 978 93 5087 859 0(HB) Publisher: Chinar Publishing (chinarpublications@gmail.com) Binding: Paperback and Hardcover.Pages :313 Estimated price: INR.600 (PB) INR.900(HB) The slogan that used to echo from the majestic Himalayan mountains of Kashmir-Ala kari ya waangan Kari-Sheikh kari,Sheikh kari translated roughly meaning whatever needs to be done (decided) Sheikh will do! Sheikh will do! Such was the absolute degree of trust of Kashmiri masses on one man, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, reverentially called Sher e Kashmir. How far the trust of people was rightly placed on him, the Sheikh, is written about with neutrality that leaves the choice of judgment to the reader. This book entails the lives of several enigmatic personalities of the sub continent that are inextricably entwined by their, beliefs, actions, and by fate. It analyses Gandhi's religious pluralism adopted by Sheikh Abdullah and moves on to talk about the fall in Sheikhs reputation, particularly after his death. National Conference and its founder Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah have long been praised and blamed for things they never did. Right from 1770s history was made for the flesh trade enforced by the ruling colonisers in Kashmir. The later rulers, Mughals who had named Kashmir as Baag-i-Khas (special garden) used the valley as a pleasure garden to entertain their guests in the Mughal gardensit also became a practice during their era to procure beautiful Kashmiri girls for their Subhedars, Mansabdars, and nobles of the court. The book unfolds in the small towns and the remote hamlets of Kashmir, before and following

the personal struggles of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah and lesser leaders through the swirl of the twentieth century. The places where In its greed, the State had stooped low to demeaning and dehumanized levels of promoting and enforcing of flesh trade under duress, a fact that sounds too horrible today. The author draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of the revolution NAYA KASHMIR. The result is a shimmering literary examination of the ghost of Naya Kashmir no longer Sheikhs specter to come but a haunting presence of the past. P.Parimoo has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming with fresh insights and revealing information, a masterly narrative drawn from a trove of letters, journals, diaries, and other documents. Kashmir and Sher e Kashmir spans from Kashmir to Delhi, moving from Lahore in Pakistans east through Algeria and leading Capitals of West. True he, The Sheikh, was neither a hotheaded Che Guvera nor a muzzle -of the- gun loving Mao Tse Tung. Nevertheless, serious students of statecraft cannot fail to take note of the startling fact that Sheikh the man with the dove on his broad shoulders, could achieve for his beloved peasants with the scribble of his pen what cost blood baths for Mao, Stalin and their ilk to achieve for their own people. Now, in this full one-volume history in modern times, Parimoo brings to life the volatile issues that pushed several Pakistani Premiers, Presidents and four Indian Premiers and all of South Asia with them repeatedly to the brink of disaster.