Literature and Society of Ancient Kashmir

The relation between literature and the society in which it is created eludes an easy definition or even description. In different periods, different aspects of the life of society constituted the relevant historical background of literature. What is the relation between history and literature there are many political, philosophical and literary ideas about it. From last three decades, connections have to be made not only across a long-time span, but also between the different literary modes which these astonishingly versatile thinkers are doing. As a great English writer Sartre said, “literature is a reflection of the world”. Through this research paper I will try to illustration this relation through ancient history of Kashmir and its dependency on literary evidences of that particular period.