The Battle for Kashmir’s True Narrative || From Scholarly Forgeries to Intellectual Heist – Is Kashmir into A New Era of Ideological Conflict || By Bushan Parimoo || LIVE IMAGE
A century and a quarter ago (1900) the intellectual world was cheated by a Khotanese Muslim by passing the fraudulently prepared manuscripts in old and unknown scripts as genuine antiquarian objects discovered in the barren wastes of Khotan. His name was Islam Akhun. He duped many European Indologists, mainly Rudolph Hoernel who took them as…
