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January 15, 2014October 12, 2020

Human Welcome of Kashmiris by Achille Beltrame, 1925

Kashmir cover of Italian weekly newspaper newspaper ‘La Domenica Del Corriere’, 11 January, 1925. Illustration by Achille Beltrame.

The original photograph on which the illustration is based:

A photograph from ‘Our summer in the vale of Kashmir’ (1915) by Frederick Ward Denys.

Another inspired illustration:

An illustration from ‘Rhamon a boy of Kashmir by Heluiz Washburne, pictured by Roger Duvoisin’ (1939).

September 12, 2013October 12, 2020

music dies in Kashmir

“It is said that music is born in bengal, grows up in Outh, grows old in the Panjab and dies in Kashmir…”
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy

Shalimar Gardens.
William Simpson. 1823. About the performance he wrote,it was “the sweet delusion of a never to be forgotten night.”

Newsclip about Ratan Devi’s performance in New York
Vassar Miscellany News, Volume X, Number 18, 25 November 1925
Interesting note by Willain Buttler Yearts.

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Finally tracked down Kashmiri songs documented by the couple in 1911.
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