The Plague in Kashmir
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چکیده
Kashmir possesses a recorded history in Raj Tarangini of all important events which happened in the country for a long time past, but no record of any epidemic disease similar to plague is available. The fact that one of the common abuses used by the Kashmiri is " piyoi toun" or "plague take you " makes one think, however, that the people had previous experience of this dreadful disease. Nawab Mautamad Khan, one of the paymasters in Jeliangii's Army, aays in Ikbal Namah that plague raged in a severe form in Kashmir.
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دوره 42 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016