Grain of history: Exiled 200 years ago, Afghan royals introduced basmati to Doon

Their ancestors founded the last dynasty of Afghanistan, were exiled to India by the British and lived out their days in the Doon valley. Now, in a quiet pocket of Dehradun, seven descendants of the Afghan royals, who introduced Basmati to Dehradun, live as a family of farmers.

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