Kashmir Pages

Rumi's lyric poems, written in the name of his spiritual companion Shams of Tabriz, are among the greatest love poetry in any language. This was Nicholson's first book: a selection of the odes…

A short, clear introduction to Sufism by one of its greatest Western scholars: the path and its stages, illumination and ecstasy, the knowledge and love of God, saints and miracles, and union with…

The 'Rose Garden of Mystery', written in 1317 by the Persian Sufi Mahmud Shabistari, answers fifteen questions on the Sufi path in about a thousand verses. This edition gives the Persian text with…

A slim book of English verse inspired by Kashmir, its chenar trees, lakes, mountains and seasons, written by the wife of the art historian Percy Brown.

Frederic Drew, a geologist, spent ten years in the service of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, and for a time governed Ladakh. This shorter, popular version of his great survey describes the…

A writer's portrait of Kashmir in all its seasons: Srinagar and its waterways, the Mughal gardens, the lakes, the mountain valleys and the people, illustrated with colour plates and photographs.

The journalist E. F. Knight travelled through Kashmir to Ladakh, Baltistan and Gilgit in 1891, and found himself caught up in the British expedition against Hunza and Nagar. His account of the journey…

Dr Ernest Neve worked for decades at the mission hospital in Srinagar. His book describes the valley and its mountains, the people who came to the hospital from every corner of Kashmir, and…

A doctor's sketches of Kashmir in the 1870s: the journey into the valley, Srinagar and its river life, the lakes, gardens and shrines, and the customs, trades and character of the Kashmiris, written…

William Moorcroft, a veterinary surgeon to the East India Company, travelled from 1819 to 1825 through the Punjab, Ladakh and Kashmir on his way towards Bukhara. His journals, edited after his death by…