How a rare birch-bark manuscript from Kashmir solved one of the greatest mysteries of Vedic literature. Based on B.P. Sharma's archival research and the digitised The Kashmirian Atharva-Veda, this article retraces the remarkable journey of the Paippalada Atharva Veda from Srinagar to Tübingen.
A rare newspaper report from May 1984 documents attacks on Kashmiri Pandit temples and communal violence in Kashmir, indicating that the minority community faced growing insecurity years before the disputed 1987 elections. The archival record places the 1986 Anantnag riots and the 1990 exodus within a longer, documented chronology of escalating events, offering an important historical perspective on the Kashmir conflict.