Resistance literature has a prominent place in Kashmiri language. It begins with Lalla ‘Arifa's composition which she presented as an organized effort against the Brahmanism in 14th Century. Her poetry motivates people to live for high values shunning mundane gains at the cost of human dignity. Iqbal, Fauq, Mahjūr, Āzad and Manto enriched Kashmiri language with resistance literature. Kashmir is still in the shackles of slavery despite the departure of the British in 1947 from the sub-continent. Today, Kashmir is badly bleeding by the tyrant India. Presently, Amīn Kamil, Dina Nāth Nadim, Ḥusain ‘Ali, Tanha Ansari etc. are raising their voices through their verses against the illegitimate occupation of their mother land.

(1)               Yousuf Bukharī, Kashmīrī Zabān-o-Adab kī Mukhtāṣar Tārīkh, (Islamabad: Muqtadra Qaumi Zabān Pakistan 2012), p. 307.

(2)               Jia Lāl Kol, Lal Dīd, (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1984) p.271.

(3)               Burj Paraimī, Kashmīr Ke Mazāmīn, (Sirinagar: Tapasia Natīpura Kashmir, 1989), p. 152.

(4)               Jia Lāl Kol, Lal Dīd, p.70.

(5)               ‘Abdul Aḥad Azād, Kashmīrī Zabān aur Shā‘airī  (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1959), part.3, p. 356.

(6)               Yousuf Taing: Kuliyāt-i Azād, (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1983), p. 232.

(7)               Shafi’ Shauq, Najī Munavvar, Ka’āshar Zabān te Adbak Tavārīkh, (Srinagar: ‘Ali Muḥammad sons Kashmir 2012), p.418.

(8)               Amīn Kāmil, Ka’shra Asan Tarāye, (Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1966), p.103.

(9)               Yousuf  Bukharī, Kāshar Ghazal, (Lahore: Department of Kashmiriat, University of the Punjab 1994), p. 48.

(10)           Yousuf Taing, Shīraz (Dina Nāth Nadim Number), (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1989), p. 9.

(11)           Triloknath Raina, A History of Kashmiri Literature, (Delhi: Sahitya Academy, 2002), p.130.

(12)           ibid.

(13)           Shamīm Aḥmad Shamīm, Dag teh Dāgh, (Sirinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Kashmir 1989), p. 25.

(14)           Mīr ‘Abdul ‘Aziz, Ḥazrat Shaikh Nor al-Dīn Vali, (Rawalpindi: Markaz-i Adab-o-Sakafat-i Kashmir, 1980), p.35.

(15)           Mīr ‘Abdul ‘Aziz, Kashmīrī Zabān Shīkhane k li’e Ba’aẓ Rahnumā Usūl, (Rawalpindi: Markaz-i Adab-o-Sakafat-i Kashmir, 1980), p.34.

(16)           Ḥabib Kaifvi, Kashmīr meṉ Urdū, (Lahore: Markazi Urdu Board Pakistan 1979), p. 405.

(17)           Shafi’ Shauq, Najī Munavvar, Ka’āshar Zabān te Adbak Tavārīkh, p.441.