Historicity

In this paper the researcher will highlight the economic policy of the state with special reference to traditional sources of wealth with special refrence to handicrafts during 19th and first half of the 20th century. Kashmir since ancient times has rema

• Dogra
• Shawl
• Namdha
• Gubha
• Silk
• Pottery and wood work

1. According to Abul Fazal, this industry was taking great strides under Akbar, Blochmann, Trs. Ain–i-Akberi, Vol. I, p. 98.
2. Beriner, who visited who visited Kashmir as a foreign traveller wrote in his travel account. But what may be considered peculiar to Kachemira and the staple commodity that which particularly promotes the trade of the country and fills it with wealth is th
3. AnandKoul, Geography of jummu and kashmir state, Reprint Delhi: Light and Life publishers, 1978, p. 52.
4. According to AbulFazal, this industry was taking great strides under Akbar, Blochmann, Trs. Ain–i-Akberi,Vol. I, p. 98.
5. Since the times of the Afghans the shawl trade had been under the control of a department called Dagshwal, which was responsible for the supervision of raw-material, settlement of disputes among manufacturers and the fixing of state seal on finished produ
6. Moorcroft, Travels in the Himalyan provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab:In ladakh and kashmir, in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz and Bokhara,( New Delhi: Sagar Publications, 3Vol., 1971) Vol. II, p. 194.
7. Lal, Kishen Dewan, A short Account of Kashmir B.C 3rd March, 1848, No. 67.
8. P.N.K. Bamzai, Socio-Economic History of Kashmir, 1846-1925, New Delhi, Metropolitan, p. 688.
9. Panikar K. M., The Founding Of The Kashmir State, A Biography of Maharaja Gulab Singh, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1930, repr.1953, p. 199.
10. Biscoe, Tyndale,Kashmir in sunlight and shade, New Delhi, Mittal, first published 1921, rep. 1995., pp. 115-116.