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Central Asia and Kashmir

Posted by Afzal Tahir on Monday, September 7, 2009, In : Culture

The historic link between Kashmir and Central Asia

by Prof. Mushtaq A. Kaw

The Eurasian region was characteristic of a legendry East-West overland highway that dated around the 3rd-2nd century BC. Termed as the Shahra-i Abrasham or Shahra-i Caravan in medieval accounts, the given highway was named as the Grand Silk Route by a German geographer, Ferdinand Von Richthofen, in the 19th century. The said route was famous after the trade of a lustrous Chinese product, the silk, which, however, was s...