List of Kashmiri People - Scholars and Educationists

Scholars and Educationists

• Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920 – 2009), Pakistani intellectual, archaeologist, historian, and prolific linguist
• Patañjali, compiler of the Yoga Sūtras, an important collection of aphorisms on Yoga practice
• Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983), Indian botanist, agricultural scientist, agronomist, and educationist
• Braj Kachru (1932- ), researcher in English linguistics
• Omkar N. Koul (1941- ), researcher in linguistics, language education, communication, and comparative literature
• Ravinder Kumar (1933–2001), historian
• Jaishree Odin, post-modern literary theorist, professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii
• Giridhari Lal Pandit, historian of science, professor of philosophy
• Lalita Pandit, poet, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
• Balajinnatha Pandita (1916–2007), Sanskrit scholar, expert on Kashmir Shaivism
• Saleem Ali (academic) (1973-) Pakistani American scholar, known for his work on environmental conflict resolution, profiled in Forbes magazine in September, 2009 as "The Alchemist."
• Salima Hashmi Pakistani artist, cultural writer, painter, and an anti-nuclear weapon activist