Sapru

Sapru

Sapru (Kashmiri: सप्रू (Devanagari), سپرو (Nastaleeq)) is a clan of Kashmiri Pandits. The majority of the caste is now living in diaspora outside the Kashmir Valley. Most Saprus are Hindus while some are Muslims. Muslim Saprus use the title Sheikh. One of the most famous Muslim Sapru is Muhammad Iqbal, the Indian Muslim philosopher and poet.

Notable Saprus

References

  1. ^ Mohan Kumar. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru: a political biography. Vipul Prakashan. http://books.google.com/books?id=b7u1AAAAIAAJ&q=Sapru+Kashmiri&dq=Sapru+Kashmiri&hl=en&ei=O7UfTcCDAY3BnAeUuLT9DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCQ. Retrieved 2007–03–25. "Even now there are many distinguished scholars of Persian among the Kashmiri Brahmins in India. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Raja Narendranath to mention two of them." 
  2. ^ Lion M. G. Agrawal. Freedom fighters of India (in four volumes). ISHA Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=vnJ0MwbAsEAC&pg=PA266&dq=Sapru+Kashmiri&hl=en&ei=O7UfTcCDAY3BnAeUuLT9DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Sapru%20Kashmiri&f=false. Retrieved 2007–03–25. "Tej Bahadur Sapru was born on December 8th, 1875 in Aligarh, in what is now the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was born in a Kashmiri Hindu family. He was educated at the Agra College, Sapru worked in the Allahabad High Court as a lawyer where Purushottam Das Tandon worked as his junior." 
  3. ^ Jai Narain Sharma. Encyclopædia of eminent thinkers, Volume 17. Concept Publishing Company. http://books.google.com/books?id=sKMK9WY9OOsC&pg=PA13&dq=Muhammad+Iqbal+sapru&hl=en&ei=5bgfTYO4FsP9nAeN9pCSDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Muhammad%20Iqbal%20sapru&f=false. Retrieved 2007–03–25. "Mohammad Iqbal, the poet philosopher, was born on November 9, 1877 at Sialkot, and died at the peak of his glory and fame in the early hours of April 21, 1938 at Lahore. Sialkot is a border town on Pakistan side of the Punjab; only a few miles beyond the city on the Indian side begins the land man of Jammu and Kashmir. His grandfather, a Sapru Hindu, embraced Islam. He was the first cousin of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru." 
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