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Thrones, Passes and Empires: Power, Routes, Courts and the Political Making of Kashmir
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Series: The Kashmir, Book 5
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ISBN13: 9798259147287
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Kashmir's history was never shaped by beauty alone. In this fifth volume of The Kashmir Series, Darpan Murly examines Kashmir as a political civilization formed by thrones, guarded passes, dynastic ambition, strategic roads, courtly ceremony, sacred legitimacy and the pressure of neighbouring powers. This is not only a history of rulers. It is a history of how a mountain valley learned to govern itself, defend its thresholds, organize authority and remember power through chronicle, patronage and political intelligence. Inside this book, readers will discover:
- how the basin-and-pass geography shaped Kashmir's statecraft
- why monarchy mattered as a symbol of centered order
- how succession crises repeatedly tested the kingdom
- why roads, caravans and garrisons were instruments of sovereignty
- how temple patronage strengthened legitimacy
- why Kalhana's historical writing belongs inside political history
- how larger imperial desires encountered an older Kashmiri political world Atmospheric, readable and analytically grounded, Thrones, Passes and Empires restores the political depth behind Kashmir's beauty and shows how the valley fashioned one of the subcontinent's most distinctive mountain polities.
- why monarchy mattered as a symbol of centered order
- how succession crises repeatedly tested the kingdom
- why roads, caravans and garrisons were instruments of sovereignty
- how temple patronage strengthened legitimacy
- why Kalhana's historical writing belongs inside political history
- how larger imperial desires encountered an older Kashmiri political world Atmospheric, readable and analytically grounded, Thrones, Passes and Empires restores the political depth behind Kashmir's beauty and shows how the valley fashioned one of the subcontinent's most distinctive mountain polities.
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