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Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye" transcript

Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye"

Recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan reciting the popular poem "um ba Khudaye" in the Srinagar dialect.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem entitled "Dast-e-Khuda" transcript

Performance of a poem entitled "Dast-e-Khuda"

Recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan, a retired school teacher, reciting the poem "Dast-e-Khuda," in the Srinagar dialect.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of The Fox and the Rooster transcript

Retelling of The Fox and the Rooster

Recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan, a retired school teacher, reciting "the Fox and the Rooster," in the Srinagar dialect. This popular story tells of a hungry fox and a boastful rooster, and advises children to be aware of how they speak and act.
Date: June 2004
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Hira and Moti transcript

Retelling of Hira and Moti

Recording of Huma Safdar, a student, reciting "Hira and Moti," in the Srinagar dialect. This is a popular story told amongst Srinagar burushos.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of The Story of a Princess transcript

Retelling of The Story of a Princess

Recording of Mimi reciting "the Story of a Princess," in the Srinagar dialect. This is a popular story told to children, and tells the story of a Burusho princess.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative on family history by Raja Sakhawat Ali Khan transcript

Personal narrative on family history by Raja Sakhawat Ali Khan

Recording of Raja Sakhawat Ali Khan reciting a personal narrative of his family history in the Srinagar dialect. He recalls how his ancestry came to Srinagar. He tells of his fathers, and his brothers and their children, and his own children, and what they work as.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye" transcript

Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye"

Recording of Raja Tasleem Khan, a magistrate, reciting the poem "um ba khudaye," in the Srinagar dialect.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Maghlot and Girkits transcript

Retelling of Maghlot and Girkits

Recording of Raja Jamsheed Ali Khan reciting "Maghlot ke Girkits" ('weasel and rat') in the Srinagar dialect. In this popular story two boys are born conjoined, and are separated by a knife. The two brothers are raised by two separate clans, always meeting in constant contention with each other, giving them the nicknames Maghlot ('weasel') and Girkits ('rat') for their physical and behavioral traits. Knowing the brothers would create instability, the king separates the kingdom into two halves, creating the divide between the Hunza and the Nagar people.
Date: June 14, 2014
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library