Kashmiri society was organised somewhat differently from other areas of India in which Hinduism flourished, this being due to the influence that Buddhism came to have from the time of the reign of Asoka around the third century BC.
As landholders and agriculturalists, the damaras were the most important of the occupational classes and their power could be considerable.
[2] It was in part as a consequence of their many disputes with the kings of the Lohara dynasty, during a prolonged period of corruption, internecine fighting and misrule, that the region eventually passed into control by Muslim rulers.
[3] Mohibul Hassan described that The Dãmaras or feudal chiefs grew powerful, defied royal authority, and by their constant revolts plunged the country into confusion.
[4] Present day Kashmiri Dar tribe is considered the surviving descendant of Damaras.