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Kashmiri short story

The Kashmiri short story is a prose fiction genre in the Kashmiri language, emerging in 1948 amid the political upheaval of 1947 and the Progressive Writers' Movement.

Kashmiri style in Himalayan art

The Kashmiri style is an artistic idiom from the Kashmir Valley, lasting from the seventh to the fourteenth century and serving both Hindu and Buddhist religious art.

Kashmiri Sufi poetry

Kashmiri Sufi poetry is mystical verse in the Kashmiri language, begun in the fifteenth century by the Rishi Sufis, most notably Nund Rishi, and still sung at devotional gatherings.

Kashmiris (Koshur) are the people of Kashmir in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, mostly Sunni Muslims with Hindu Pandit, Buddhist, and Sikh minorities; Kashmiri-speaking, divided since 1947 between Indian and Pakistani administration.

Oct 21, 2026

Kashmore District

Kashmore District (Sindhi: ڪشمور ضلعو), also written Kashmore-Kandhkot, is a northern Sindh district created in 2004 from Jacobabad, headquartered at Kandhkot, with three tehsils, 1,233,957 people in 2023, and the Guddu Barrage on the Indus.

Kashrut (כַּשְׁרוּת)

Kashrut (כַּשְׁרוּת), the Jewish dietary laws, defines kosher food: permitted animals, blood prohibition, meat-dairy separation, shechita slaughter, rabbinic certification in Israel and abroad.

Kashshaya

Kashshaya, also spelled Kaššaya, was a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and a daughter of King Nebuchadnezzar II, known only from cuneiform economic tablets, chiefly from Uruk, and proposed as the wife of Neriglissar.

Kashshu-nadin-ahhe

Kashshu-nadin-ahhe (Kaššu-nādin-aḫḫē) was a king of Babylon of the Second Sealand dynasty, the fifth dynasty in the Babylonian king lists, reigning briefly around 1006–1004 BC during a recorded famine.

Kashta

Kashta was a king of Kush, ruling from Napata in the mid-eighth century BC, and the first Kushite king whose power reached into Upper Egypt.

Kashta's intervention in Thebes

Kashta's intervention in Thebes was the peaceful extension of Kushite rule into Upper Egypt in the eighth century BC, through installing Amenirdis I as God's Wife of Amun.

Kashtiliash III

Kashtiliash III, also written Kaštiliašu III, was an early Kassite ruler of Babylonia of the 16th or 15th century BC, known from king lists and a canal inscription.

Kashtiliash IV

Kashtiliash IV, also known as Kaštiliašu IV, was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned around 1232–1225 BCE and was defeated, captured, and deported to Assyria by Tukulti-Ninurta I.

Kashubia

Kashubia (Kaszëbë, Kaszuby) is a cultural region in northern Poland within Pomerania, homeland of the Kashubs and their West Slavic language, Poland's only recognized regional language since 2005.

Kashubian language

Kashubian (Kaszëbsczi jãzëk), also spelled Cassubian, is a West Slavic language spoken mainly in Kashubia in northern Poland, the only language Poland recognizes as a regional language.

Kashubians

Kashubians (Kaszëbi), a West Slavic ethnic group of Pomeranian descent in northern Poland; Kashubian-speaking, Catholic, dual Polish identity; Kashubian is Poland's only regional language since 2005.

Kashyapa (कश्यप)

Kashyapa, also known as Kashyap Muni, is a Vedic sage, father of the gods, asuras, and serpents in the Puranas, and head of a principal Brahmin gotra.

Oct 10, 2026

Kasī Bhāradvāja

Kasī Bhāradvāja (कस्सी भारद्वाज), "Bhāradvāja the Farmer," is a brahmin farmer at Ekanāḷā, Magadha, remembered for the Kasībhāradvāja Sutta, in which the Buddha describes faith as seed and freedom from death as harvest.

Kasi Khandamu

Kasi Khandamu (కాశీఖండము) is a Telugu court epic by the poet Srinatha, a rendering of the Sanskrit Kasi Khanda glorifying the holy city of Kashi, composed around 1440 CE.