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Kashmir History and Politics (1697 words) |
 | Starting with Jonaraja (15th century CE), the author of the second Rajatarangni, and coming down to Jawahar Lal Nehru (20th century CE) it is an endless saga of sycophancy and kowtowing on the part of Kashmiri Hindus before the aggressors. |
| One has to read the songs which Jonaraja composed in praise of Zain-ul- Abedin and the panegyrics which Jawahar Lal Nehru has heaped on Mohammed Ghaznavi, Babar, Akbar and Sheikh Abdullah, his Sher-i-Kashmir. |
| Jonaraja had the decency at least to detail the brutalities committed by the Islamic sultans. |
| Baharistan-i-Shahi translated by Kashi Nath Pandita (6646 words) |
| Its author is unknown and the work covers 131 years of history given by Jonaraja. |
| This is a very faithful reproduction of Jonaraja's comment on the event.[1] This confirms that the Persian version of Jonaraja's Rajatarangini was used by the author. |
| The author also writes that if the stories and anecdotes of Sultan Shihabu'd-Din's remarkable bravery are fully described (as had been available to him), people would think them a result of his poetical exaggeration and as such would be taken as false.... |
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