In April, I acquired this piece of Kashmir from France
Scene at Mar Canal, Srinagar.
Journal des Voyages. May, 1892.
in bits and pieces
Scene at Mar Canal, Srinagar.
Journal des Voyages. May, 1892.
– A Snake Charmer in the New Bazaar, Srinagar, Kashmir, 1892
from Illustrated London News. [found it here at Columbia.edu]
[Update: It was the work of J. E. Goodall]
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‘[They] are good-looking…but they are crafty’.
wrote Buddhist pilgrim from China, Huen Tsang who arrived in Kashmir in A.D. 631 as a state guest and stayed for two years. The exact words,”light and frivolous, and of a weak, pusillanimous disposition. The people are handsome in appearance, but they are given to cunning. ‘They love learning and are well-instructed.”