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P. N. K. Bamzai was born in 1910 into a Kashmiri Pandit family of scholarly traditions, and received his first lessons in historical research from his father, Anand Koul, who was a pioneer of research on the history and folklore of Kashmir.
His books were widely read across the educated folks of Srinagar and at his honour , a area near "Jawahar Nagar" and "padshehi bagh" in Srinagar was named as "Mahjoor nagar" [9] In 1972, a bilingual film named Shayar-e-Kashmir Mahjoor was released with the Hindi version starring Balraj Sahni. A square in Srinagar is named after him. [10]
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.
Gifted with the wisdom from people living in Kashmir about resilience and the role of culture in sovereignty, I hope that Call Her Freedom creates healing tributaries that allow us to create a ...
The story of Himal and Nagaray is considered to be a "well-known tale", representative of the Kashmiri region. [8] [9]Indian scholarship states that the tale has existed in the oral repertoire of the Kashmir region, [10] with multiple renditions appearing in both Persian and Kashmiri in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A review in the South Asia Research found Zutshi's to be pioneering scholarship that would be a must-read for any scholar working on Kashmir. [3] [5] [6] [7] Her second monograph was Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies and the Historical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014). [2] It was reviewed over multiple journals.
Ghulam Nabi Gowhar (born Ghulam Nabi Muqeem; 26 June 1934 – 19 June 2018) was a multilingual Kashmiri author, novelist, poet, columnist and a retired sessions jurist.He wrote about sixty books in Kashmiri, Urdu, and in English languages on various subjects such as politics, literature, history and on Sufism.
These tribes, often tied to specific regions within Kashmir, have historically played key roles in the social and cultural fabric of the area. While some of them have migrated to different regions of the Indian subcontinent the tribes of Kashmir still have unique languages, social structures, and professions that contribute to the rich cultural ...