Zain-ul-Ābidīn (Budshah)#Zain
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#Zain
Zain-ul-Ābidīn (Budshah) · 1395–1470
In the books · 1 chapter
Who this is
Kingship — the Shah Mir sultanate of Kashmir; patron of crafts, letters, engineering and an experiment in tolerance a century ahead of its time.
“A Muslim sultan paid Hindu pandits to keep writing Kashmir's Sanskrit chronicle of kings — knowing it would record, forever, what his own father had done — and they wrote him into it as the king who undid it.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“He inherited a throne his father had used to break temples and drive out Kashmir's Hindus — and spent fifty years doing the opposite: recalling the exiles, abolishing the tax on unbelievers, and importing the crafts Kashmir still lives on.”
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