Gujjar Personalities

Veteran Gojri writer, poet and researcher Ch. Bashir ud Din Naseem Poonchi . Naseem Poonchi was author of about one dozen Gojri books and as translator he had translated many world classics into Gojri. He was the first author of the Gojri language who’s book was adjudged as best in State level a competition organised by J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages in 1977. In 1978 he was appointed as founder Editor of Sheeraza Gojri in J&K Cultural Academy. He remained head of the Gojri wing of Academy for 17 years. Later he was retired as Deputy Secretary Culture in 2000. His main Gojri books are Nain Sulakhna, Khechal, Kalaam e Naseem, translation of Rubaiyat e Khayam, Gulistan e Saidi, Bostan e Saidi, Kalaam e Roomi, Karwan e Madina, Masnavi Maulana Roomi six volumes into Gojri. As head of the Gojri wing of the Academy he compiled first ever Gojri-Gojri Monolingual Dictionary comprising of six volumes wherein around one lack Gojri words are collected with their meanings in G...

Baba-e-Gojri, Haji Rana Fazal Hussain, born in 1931 in the most turbulent period in the history of Jammu & Kashmir. Rana Fazal Hussain was destined to see two other disturbing periods of 1947 and 1965. In the early 1930s the Dogra rulers had imposed undue taxes on the zamindars, who were in overwhelming majority in Rajori and Poonch. The political movement in the valley had already started and the movement or agitation of 1931 was its second phase. The area people under the leadership of Haji Sakhi Muhammad, Malik Naimatullah, Raja Ata Muhammad, A.R Saghir and Mirza Muhammad Hussain refused to pay the land revenue. This agitation was also supported by writers and Journalists like Mirza Matiullah Ra’ana, Maulana Abdul Aziz and Maulana Isma’eel Zabeeh. It was sort of replay of the famous Punjab movement popularly known as “Paggri Sambhal Jatta”. The Dogra government was forced to declare the bania bankers non-agriculturists who were not entitled to buy agrarian land under any pre...