Kashmir Valley

"Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples and grottos and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave?"

"Kashmir, the rest is worthless."

"The Sultan returned, marching in the rear of this immense booty, and slaves were so plentiful that they became very cheap; and men of respectability in their native land, were degraded by becoming slaves of common shopkeepers. But this is the goodness of God, who bestows honours on his own religion and degrades infidelity."

"Kashmir was India’s paradise, an alpine “Switzerland” for the Moghuls."

"Even now Kashmiris are the most expert craftsmen of the east; and it is not difficult to believe that the same people, who at present excel all other Orientals as weavers, gunsmiths and as calligraphers, must once have been the most eminent of Indian architects."