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Zinda Kaul

زيندا كاول

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Kashmiri poet, writer and teacher who composed in Persian, Hindi, Urdu and Kashmiri, was known to his students as Masterji, and in 1956 became the first Kashmiri poet to win the Sahitya Akademi Award, for his devotional collection Sumran.

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Roles
Poet · writer · teacher
Region
South Asia
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Life in time

1850187519001925195019752000 c.
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani · Abdullah bin Isa Al Khalifa · Alauddin Khan · Sayyid Ali al-Mirghani · Ali Fuat Cebesoy

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    hindu (documented)

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    Sources

    • Zinda Kaul — English Wikipedia
    • Zinda Kaul — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Zinda Kaul — Wikidata
    • Zinda Kaul — Koshur (Braj B. Kachru)
    • Zinda Kaul — Saarang magazine (Kashmiri literature essay)
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    islam.museum contributors. “Zinda Kaul”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/zinda-kaul/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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