The Diplomat: ‘Who Will Be Killed Next?’: Kashmiri Pandits Consider Another Migration
Kashmiri people (Kashmiri pronunciation: [kəːʃirʲ]) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group [5] speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley region, which is located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
The Kashmiri people are identified in terms of their residence and/or point of origin within the Kashmir Valley, and by the language they speak. [1] The Kashmir Valley or Vale of Kashmir is flanked by the Pir Panjal range to the southeast, and to the northeast by the Himalayan range. The valley has a total area of 15,498 km², is 135 km long and 32 km wide, and is 1,620 meters above sea level.
Kashmiris LOCATION: Kashmir in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent POPULATION: Greater Kashmir c. 15 million (estimate) LANGUAGE: Kashmiri (including the Dardi, Shrinya and Khowar dialects) RELIGION: Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism INTRODUCTION Kashmiris occupy the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" referred only to the Vale of Kashmir ...
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Today Kashmiri Muslims write their language with the Arabic script, and Kashmiri Hindus used the Devanagari alphabet. Kashmiri is one of the official languages of India, and is taught in schools in the Kashmir valley. It is also used in literature, newspapers, on the radio, and in other media. Arabic script for Kashmiri Devanagari alphabet for ...
The Kashmiri words for these precise states of frozen water —tul-katur, shi’sher gaen’t, shine-mani, shrani — form a vocabulary of winter that no Persian or Arabic borrowing could have supplied. They are native, irreplaceable, and kept alive here solely because Lal Ded found them useful for a philosophical point.