Rare Kashmir Images

1940s Gulmarg Bazaar.
Those days 99 % of natural beauty was intact, now it has turned into a commercial town.

1894-1959 Famous Kashmiri Poet Samad Mir.
Sammad Mir was born at Narwara Srinagar in the year 1894 and at the age of 65 he died in the year 1959. He is burried at Agar, near village of Nambalhaar Budgam.

Padh Padh Ke Gaya Pather, Likh Likh Ke Gaya Chhur

Jiss Padney Sey Sahib Miley Who Padna Hai Aur 

(By studying one turns to stone and by writing got crashed

By which CREATOR can be known, that Knowledge is different)

Kad Choonei Wuchh Meh Bala, Ya Muhammad Mustafa (SAW)

Had-o-Lahad Arsh-e-Aala, Ya Muhammad Mustafa (SAW)

Naam-i-Paak Choon Heun Tchu Dushwaar, Nishi Bo Aataar Ga’s-ha

Sad Hazaar Bar Ziev Bo Chal-ha, Ya Muhammad Mustafa (SAW)

Har Saba Durood-o-Salwaat Tchen Ma Kar Aikh Chuh Ti Saath

Paneh Sozaan Haq Talla, Ya Muhammad Mustafa (SAW)

(I saw you most eminent, Ya Muhammad Mustafa (SAW)

You are beyond the bounds of skies and eternity, Ya Muhammad Mustafa (SAW)

I must go to perfume seller, before reciting you Noble Name,

Thousands of times I shall rinse my tongue, Ya Muhammad Mustafa (SAW)

In every breath keep reciting Durood and Salaam

Never halt for a fleeting moment

Allah (SWT) with his angels invoke blessings and greetings on You 

Ya Muhammad Mustafa (SAW).

1970s View from old Zaina Kadal.
I might have criss crossed this bridge many times, watching how the depth at Zaina Kadal bridge was reduced to just a feet at the centre pillar of the bridge, by throwing the heaps of garbage daily by municipal Karamchari's, and by this act polluted the pious River Jehlum.
Remember water in the river Jehlim used to be so clean that the worshipers at Hazrat Ameerikabir (RA) Shrine used to perform wuzu with that water.

Early 20th century Houseboats in Nallah Sind below Duderhama Ganderbal Kashmir.
In good old days tourists mainly Britishers used to go for down river jehlum cruise upto Shadipur then up river Sindh upto Beehama Ganderbal. From where they used to proceed towards Ladakh ( Chota Tibet) on mule carvan. In later years Devotees used to go in Dongas for Kamer Sahib's (RA) Urs.

1968 Vegetable vendor Srinagar Kashmir.
The left side has fruits and right side has vegetables.

Early 20th century Mission hospital Drugjan ( Present day Chest disease hospital ).

Photograph taken by Dr. Earnest E Neve showing patients & their attendants in the Upper Verandah of Downes Ward ( named after Dr. Edmund Downes who had arrived in Kashmir in 1877 to serve patients in here under the Kashmir Medical Mission) at The Mission Hospital Drugan .