The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c19.110

Language: English

c19.110

Kashmir was the only region in ancient India which developed the art of historiography at all. Besides Kalhaṇa there were a few other chroniclers. On one of them, Ratnākara Purāṇa, Hasan based his Persian History of Kashmir which is abstracted in the Kashmiri writer Ānand Kaul’s History of Kashmir. But it adds little to the foregoing information on administration.

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