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According to folk etymology, the name "Kashmir" means "desiccated land" (from the Sanskrit: ka = water and shimīra = desiccate). [2] In the Rajatarangini, a history of Kashmir written by Kalhana in the mid-12th century, it is stated that the valley of Kashmir was formerly a lake.
The Kashmiri spoken in Muzaffarabad is distinct from, although still intelligible with, the Kashmiri of the Neelam Valley to the north. [22] In Neelam Valley, Kashmiri is the second most widely spoken language and the majority language in at least a dozen or so villages, where in about half of these, it is the sole mother tongue. [22]
In 1961, there were 10,000 refugees of Kashmiri origin in Pakistan, who had voting rights in elections of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. They were given an equal amount of representation in the election as the 109,000 Jammu refugees. [29] [30] In 1990, there were 400,000 refugee voters, compared to 1.2 million Azad Kashmir residents. The refugees ...
Nonetheless, historical accuracy increases drastically from the fourth book onward, and the narrative of the Karkota dynasty in the Rajatarangini has been heavily used to reconstruct Kashmiri history. [7] [16] [13] [15] Michael Witzel notes the fourth book to be accurate in its chronology (down to day) in that it aligns perfectly with ...
Kashmiri or Koshur (کٲشُر, कॉशुर, 𑆑𑆳𑆯𑆶𑆫𑇀) [15] is a language from the Dardic subgroup of Indo-Aryan languages, spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris, primarily in the Indian administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
[4]: 311–312 Some scholars state that Shah Mir arrived from the Panjgabbar valley (Panchagahvara), [13] which was populated by Khasa people, and so ascribe a Khasa ethnicity to Shah Mir. [14] [15] Older sources by contemporary Kashmiri historians, such as Jonaraja, state that Shah Mir was the descendant of Partha of Mahabharata fame.
People in Jammu speak Hindi, Punjabi and Dogri, the Kashmir Valley people speak Kashmiri, and people in the sparsely inhabited Ladakh speak Tibetan and Balti. [ 1 ] The population of India-administered union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh combined is 12,541,302; [ 80 ] that of Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Kashmir is ...
Kashmiriyat, with the Hindu-Muslim unity it encourages, was promoted by Kashmiri sultan Zain-ul-Abidin; the story of the Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded (also called Lalleswari), in which her body turned into a mound of flowers that was buried by both Hindus and Muslims, serves as an emblem of Kashmiriyat that keeps it alive today.