Cashmere Mis-Government: Robert Thorp was the son of a British army-man. Army man Thorp had come to spend his vacations in Kashmir. At the first sight he only

Cashmere Mis-Government: Robert Thorp was the son of a British army-man. Army man Thorp had come to spend his vacations in Kashmir. At the first sight he only fell in love with an extremely Kashmiri beautiful girl and there-of married her. This marriage was sternly opposed in Kashmir and eventually the two moved to England. They had a son named Robert. From his early childhood, he had heard the tales of Kashmir, especially from his mother. He wished to see the land of her mother. On arriving to Kashmir, he was very upset by the Maharaja's mis-governance and the misery of the masses. He wrote a book, 'Cashmere Misgovernment'. The Maharaja came to know about it. Fearing the consequences that his tales of mis-governance may reach to the British authorities, in haste, he ordered his men to kill Rober Thorp. This book was published posthumously. Robert Thorp gives a micro level study about Kashmir and all the mis-governance, oppression, miseries and all the fails of the government. He details the taxation system, the shawl industry, beggar system and all the non-justified oppressions Kashmiris faced.