The loot this year:
Balti Phonetic Reader
by K. Rangan
Central Institute of Indian Languages
(1975. Rs. 8)
Hindi-Kashmiri Common Vocabulary
by Jawaharlal Handoo and Lalita Handoo
Central Institute of Indian Languages
(1975, Rs.20)
Rupa Bhavani
by S.L. Sadhu
Sahitya Akademi
(2003, Rs.25)
Early Terracotta Art of Kashmir
by Aijaz A. Bandey
Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar
(1992, Rs. 20)
Haba Khatoon
by S.L. Sadhu
Sahitya Akademi
(2003 (first published 1968), Rs.25)
Kashmiri-English Dictionary for Second Language Learners
by Omkar N. Koul, S.N. Raina and Roop Krishen Bhat
Central Institute of Indian Languages
(2000, Rs.80)
Khazir Malik Safai
by Shad Ramzan (Translated by Mohammad Aslam)
Sahitya Akademi
(1999, Rs.25)
This Kashmiri Sufi poet (d.1920), among other things came up with a version of Moulana Jalaludin Rumi’s Tota Nama.
Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir
by Chitralekha Zutshi
Permanent Black
(2003, Rs. 695)
History of Kashmir: Tarikh-i-Kashmir of Saiyid Ali
English translation with Historical Analysis by Abdul Qaiyum Rafiqi
Gulshan Books
(2011, Rs. 795)
The Stranger Besides Me: Short Stories from Kashmir
Edited and translated by Neerja Mattoo
Gulshan Books
(2007, Rs. 450)
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