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Arnimal

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Arnimal
Born1737 CE
Palhalan, Kashmir (present-day Jammu and Kashmir, India)
Known forVatsun and loal poetry

Arnimal (Kashmiri pronunciation: [ərʲnimaːl]) was an 18th-century Kashmiri Brahmin poet.

Life

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Arnimal was born in 1737 CE in the Palhalan village near Pattan in northern Kashmir.[1] At a young age, she was married to Munshi Bhawani Das Kachroo from Rainawari in Srinagar. Her husband grew to be a poet and an erudite Persian scholar in the court of Jumma Khan, the Afghan Governor of Kashmir between 1788 and 1792. An emotionally distant husband while living together, he later abandoned her and went to Kabul to join the Afghan royal court there.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mattoo, Neerja (2019), The Mystic and the Lyric: Four Women Poets from Kashmir, New Delhi: Zubaan Books, p. 204, ISBN 9789385932717
  2. ^ Mattoo 2019, p. 204.
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