Acknowledgements

Thanks go to the sponsors of the conference-Awards for All, Kashmir Charitable Trust (UK) and the Kashmiri Elders Association held at the Woodsley Road Multicultural Centre. The conference was hosted by the Aalami Pahari Adabi Sangat which was formed in Leeds in 2000 but is currently working in Azad Kashmir (Pakistani occupied area) and Indian occupied Kashmir to promote the Pahari language and help to support and encourage writers and artists in this language. The organisation came about through a series of meetings between (but not exclusively) members of the UK Kashmiri community. A big thank you to members of the Aalami Pahari Sangat, particularly Daalat Ali and Sajaad Raja (Chair of Aalami Pahari Adabi Sangat, Leeds) for their efforts in organising this conference a special thanks to all the presenters and conference participants for their contributions and to the chairs Dr Sewan Singh Kalsi and Mohsin Zulfiqar for the smooth running of each session. Last but not least thanks to Abid Hussain for his comments on an earlier version of this document.

*This report was written by Dr Nasreen Ali ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and supported by Daalat Ali ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Papers from the conference can be obtained from Daalat Ali at the above email address.

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Purpose:

The purpose of this paper is to inform all concern about the Pahari Language, its journey through the history, survival under ever changing political and religious conditions and recent revival including UK.

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The purpose of this report is to provide some background to the presence of Pahari language in Birmingham and its implications for service provision to its speakers

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