"kashmir only kashmir"

The ceremony in the brilliantly illuminated durbar hall of the maharaja of Kashmir in Srinagar was the climax of one of the most ancient feasts in the Hindus calendar  every year at the raising of the October moon  Hindus marked the legendary nine-day struggle of the  goddess Durga the  wife of lord shiva with the minotaur mahishasura by a nine-day festival as his ancestors had for a century hari sing maharaja of Kashmir close  the 1947 festival on the evening of allegiance from the October by receiving a  ritual pledge of allegiance from the…