The Kashmiri Pandits are his descendants and have named the valley after him, in his honour.

The Muslims and Hindus of Kashmir lived in relative harmony, since the Sufi-Islamic way of life that Muslims followed in Kashmir complemented the Rishi tradition of Kashmiri Pandits, and Sufi saints such as Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali were thought of as Muslim Rishis.

The Kashmiri Pandits, the only Hindus of the Kashmir valley, who had stably constituted approximately 4 to 5 % of the population of the valley during Dogra rule ( 1846 – 1947 ), and 20 % of whom had left the Kashmir valley by 1950, began to leave in much greater numbers in the 1990s.

* Pogrom against Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990

Kashmiri Pandit food is elaborate, and an important part of the Pandits ' ethnic identity.

* Kashmiri Pandits

Birbal Dhar the kashmiri pandit pleaded with Maharaja Ranjit Singh to save Kashmiri Pandits from Pathans when Kashmir governor Muhammad Azim heard of this he ordered his men to abduct Dhar's women who were abducted and sent to Kabul hearing this Dhar committed suicide however furious by this act of Durrani, Ranjit Singh ordered his most able general Diwan Chand to mount the expedition of Kashmir, he was assisted by Raja Gulab Singh Jamwal a Hindu dogra rajput of Jammu.

This script however, is not in common use today, except for religious ceremonies of the Kashmiri Pandits.

The Muslims and Hindus of Kashmir lived in relative harmony, since the Sufi-Islamic way of life that ordinary Muslims followed in Kashmir complemented the Rishi tradition of Kashmiri Pandits.

* History of The Kashmiri Pandits Race

The 500 years of Muslim rule in Kashmir coupled with the missionary work of sufis led to the conversion of the majority of the population to Islam, leaving only a small population of Kashmiri Pandits

The Kashmiri Pandits, who had stably constituted approximately 4 to 5 per cent of the population of the valley during Dogra rule ( 1846 – 1947 ), and 20 per cent of whom had left the Kashmir valley by 1950, began to leave in much greater numbers in the 1990s.

The estimated population of Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir Valley in 2011 was around 2, 700-3, 400.

Kashmiri Pandits are chiefly followers of Shiva.

Harmukh is traditionally revered by Kashmiri Pandits and in 2009 there was an attempt by them to revive pilgrimages to the site. The Mata Khirbhawani temple shrine in Srinagar, considered one of the holiest Hindu shrines, saw the largest gathering of Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir valley in 2012. The shrine is located in Tullamulla village, 24 km from Srinagar in Ganderbal district.

Some holy sites of Kashmiri Pandits include the Martand Sun Temple at Mattan, Mahakali shrine in Srinagar on the banks of vitasta, & above all the Amarnath cave shrine, the pilgrimage to which is conducted during shravan purnima.

The Kashmiri Pandits share many of their festivals with other Hindu communities. and some with Zoroastrians and Shin of Hindukush, and other Persian and Central Asian peoples, the pre-Islamic elements of whose cultures are derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian religion.

Shivratri or Herath as it is known in Kashmir is one of the major festivals of Kashmiri Pandits.

* List of Kashmiri Pandits

* Official Website of Kashmiri Pandits ' Association, Mumbai

* Indo-American Kashmir Forum – a U. S. based political advocacy group for the Kashmiri Pandits

Kashmiri music (, Urdu: ) reflects the rich musical heritage and cultural legacy of the Jammu & Kashmir region in India.

Hizbul Mujahideen (, Ḥizb al-Mujāhidīn, meaning " party of holy warriors "), founded by Ahsan Dar in 1989, is a Kashmiri militant group active in the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir since 1989.

There are also claims that Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi was of Kashmiri origin from the Northern region of the Indian Subcontinent.

The official language of the Union of India is Hindi, with 21 other regional languages holding co-official status, including: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Some of these include Arabic, Assamese, Azeri, Bengali, Farsi, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer ( Cambodian ), Lao, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese, amongst others.

Translations of " Big Eid " or " Greater Eid " are used in Pashto لوی اختر Loy Akhtar, Kashmiri Baed Eid, Hindi and Urdu Baṛā Īd, Malayalam Bali Perunnal, and Tamil Peru Nāl.

Along with other regional languages mentioned in the Sixth Schedule, as well as Hindi and Urdu, the Kashmiri language is to be developed in the state.

Some Kashmiri speakers frequently use Hindi as a second language, though the most frequently used second language is Urdu.

Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Sindhi, Telugu and Urdu language divisions maintain their own stacks.

The library has separate Indian language divisions for Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

The local names include titeeri ( Hindi ), tateehar ( Sindhi ), titodi ( Gujarati ), hatatut ( Kashmiri ), balighora ( Assamese ), yennappa chitawa ( Telugu ), aal-kaati ( Tamil, meaning " human indicator ").

Khowar uses the word buum for earth ( Sanskrit: bhumi ), Pashai uses the word duum for smoke ( Hindi: dhuan ) and Kashmiri uses the word dod for milk ( Sanskrit: dugdha, Hindi: doodh ).

Punjabi and Western Pahari share the epenthesis tendency also, though they are non-Dardic ( e. g. compare Hindi dekho / look to Punjabi vekho and Kashmiri vuchiv ).

Mani Kaul ( 25 December 1944 – 6 July 2011 ) was a Kashmiri Pandit film director of Hindi films.

Amar Nath Kak ( 1889 – 1963 ) was a prominent Kashmiri lawyer and author who's most important books are Hamara Vrittanta and the Gayatri, both written in Hindi.

The influence of Persian language moreover may be seen in the considerable proportion of loan words absorbed into the vernaculars of the north and north-west of the subcontinent including Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri and Pashto.

She earned fame singing Kashmiri ghazals and songs, and has recorded in Kashmiri, Urdu, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Hindi, Persian, Bhaderwahi, Pahari and the Kannad languages.

Being part of the Indo-Aryan dialect continuum Kumauni shares its grammar with other Indo-Aryan languages especially Garhwali, Hindi, Rajasthani languages, Kashmiri and Gujarati.

The Dogras ( Dogri, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu: ڈوگرا / ड ो गर ा / dogra ; Tibetan, Ladakhi: ས ྀ ན ་ པ / sin-pa or ཤ ྀ ན ་ པ / shin-pa ) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group in South Asia.

Being part of the Indo-Aryan languages, Garhwali shares its grammar with other Indo-Aryan languages especially Hindi, Rajasthani, Kashmiri and Gujarati.

It was used to write Punjabi, Hindi, Sindhi, Saraiki, Balochi, Kashmiri, Pashto and various Punjabi dialects like Potwari.

Cooper also played perhaps the first ever double roles in Hindi films-Patni Pratap ( 1923 ), where she played two sisters and Kashmiri Sundari ( 1924 ), where she played mother and daughter.