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The poem first appeared in Hope's first collection of poems, The Garden of Kama (1901), also known as India's Love Lyrics. The following year, when Amy Woodforde-Finden set to music Four Indian Love Lyrics , "Kashmiri Song" emerged as the most popular, quickly becoming a drawing room standard and remaining popular until the Second World War .
The title poem has been cited by cultural and political figures in the years since its publication. The reasons for the work being cited vary. From the poem being critically and universally praised, [23] [21] to it becoming one of the most famous poems to be written about Kashmir, it was a poem that connected to the land and the people of the ...
In 1877, after sketching the royalty of the Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir, while on his way back, at Thanna Mandi, a place near Rajouri, in the afternoon of 13 June, V. C. Prinsep (1838-1904) met a traveling Kashmiri bard, a singing fakir, who regaled him with Kashmiri songs for hours while they walked. Prinsep made some notes, and later got two ...
"Watan Hamāra Āzād Kashmīr" (Urdu: وطن ہمارا آزاد کشمیر), officially known as the Anthem of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, is the regional anthem of the state of Azad Kashmir, administered by Pakistan. [a] It is based on a poem of the same name written in the mid-1960s by Hafeez Jalandhari. [1]
Literature of Kashmir has a long history, the oldest texts having been composed in the Sanskrit language. Early names include Patanjali, the author of the Mahābhāṣya commentary on Pāṇini's grammar, suggested by some to have been the same to write the Hindu treatise known as the Yogasutra, and Dridhbala, who revised the Charaka Samhita of Ayurveda.
Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad (August 1885 − 9 April 1952), known by his pen name as Mahjoor, was a poet of the Kashmir Valley. [2] [3] [4] He is especially noted for introducing a new style into Kashmiri poetry and for expanding Kashmiri poetry into previously unexplored thematic realms. [5] Mahjoor is recognized as father of Kashmiri language.
Habba Khatoon (Kashmiri pronunciation: [habɨ xoːt̪uːn]; born Zoon Rather (Kashmiri pronunciation:) ; sometimes spelt Khatun), also known by the honorary title The Nightingale of Kashmir, [2] was a Kashmiri Muslim poet and ascetic in the 16th century.
In these songs they describe their hardships of leaving their homes and moving from hills to plains in winters and back to hills in summers. They are in their own local Gojri language. Songs of Jammu division are mix of Dogri Lok geet, Punjabi Geet, Pahadi geet, Bhadarwahi geet and Gojri Geet.