Arnimal

{{Short description|18th-century Kashmiri poet}} {{refimprove|date=February 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Arnimal | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = ks | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1737 CE | birth_place = Palhalan, Kashmir (present-day Jammu and Kashmir, India) | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = ''Vatsun'' and ''loal'' poetry }} '''Arnimal''' ({{IPA|ks|ərʲnimaːl}}) was an 18th-century Kashmiri Brahmin poet.

== Life == Arnimal was born in 1737 CE in the Palhalan village near Pattan in northern Kashmir.<ref>{{citation |last=Mattoo |first=Neerja |title=The Mystic and the Lyric: Four Women Poets from Kashmir |isbn=9789385932717 |location=New Delhi |publisher=Zubaan Books |page=204 |year=2019}}</ref> 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.{{sfn|Mattoo|2019|p=204}}

== See also == * Habba Khatoon *Lal Ded

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==External links== *[http://www.koausa.org/Poets/FourPoetesses.html Four woman poets including Arnimal]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arnimal}} Category:Kashmiri poets Category:Kashmiri people Category:Kashmiri Pandits category:Kashmiri women writers Category:18th-century Indian poets