From 1752 onwards, the Valley slipped into the terrible misfortune of being ruled by Afghans for almost seven decades. In his book The Valley of Kashmir, Walter R. Lawrence writes of one of the Afghan governors, Assad Khan: It was his practice to tie up the Pandits, two and two, in grass sacks and sink them in the Dal lake. As an amusement, a pitcher filled with ordure would be placed on a Pandit’s head and Musalmans would pelt the pitcher with stones till it broke, the unfortunate Hindu being blinded with filth. During the rule of another governor, Atta Muhammad Khan, Lawrence writes: Any
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