In the long literary history of modern Kashmir there is no name which appeals more strongly than Stein. It was his judgement about the Kashmri scholars that Mukandram, Govind Kaul, Sahajabhatta, Nityanand and others were to collaborate with their European counterparts on vast literature of Sanskrit and Kashmiri texts. His keen interest in Kashmir and Kashmir’s past which he created could not fail to react on Kashmiris and Kashmir were the ancient learning was still preserved by the learned according to the inherited methods but without real progress, while the great masses took no interest in them. It was through his realizations that highly civilized minds and men of letters out side India looked on Kashmir’s literary achievements as important to them, as treasures that should be enjoyed by the world and a relationship of collaboration was thus established between Western and Kashmiri scholars.

And here the recognition of Europe’s appreciation about Kashmiri scholarship not only strengthened their faith in the high standard of Kashmiri erudition but also led to conviction that Kashmir was a great seat of learning and knowledge and formed the fountain head of ancient Indian mind. The fruitful collaboration between the Western and Kashmiri scholars served the best interest of Kashmir and Europe. This contact and mutual respect also marked on one hand an event of the promotion of universal peace and on the other hand of the understanding of the importance of the preservation of the cultural treasures of Kashmir . The interface in scholarship thus initiated by Aurel Stein establishes one of the finest records of oriental history and duly deserves him the recognition as the greatest western patron of Kashmiris.