City of Kashmir offers readers a journey into the 2000-year history of Srinagar, exploring its written history, legends and oral traditions to take a living pulse. In exploring the citys geography, it maps the daily rituals of life and the accompanying material culture, as well as the crafts for which Srinagar is justly famed worldwide. Based on twenty years research in Srinagar as a heritage consultant, Sameer Hamdanis narrative is shaped and populated by glimpses of the historical built environment and other rich personal reflections, as well as selected translations of Sanskrit, Persian and Kashmiri poetry from the medieval and early modern periods.
