ALLAMA Muhammad Iqbal had a deep and lasting attachment to Kashmir, its geography and people. In his poetry, we come across references to Kashmiri personalities, such as Syed Ali Hamadani, Ghani Kashmiri, as well as places in Kashmir, such as Lolab Valley and Wular Lake. Iqbal affectionately recalls Kashmir on different occasions, calling it ‘Iran-i-sagheer’ (little Iran), ‘jannat-i-Kashmir’ (paradise of Kashmir) and ‘khitta-i-gul’, (the floral region). But, at the same time, Iqbal often sounds aggrieved in his poetry when he talks of Kashmir as Kashmir was enslaved by the Dogra dynasty and the entire subcontinent was under British colonial rule during the Iqbal’s lifetime.
One of the reasons for his emotional attachment to Kashmir was that
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