The history of Kashmiri literature may be divided into the following three periods,
paralleling what we have in most other languages of India, both Aryan and Dravidian :
(1) Old Kashmiri, from 1200 to 1500 A.D.
(2) Middle Kashmiri, from 1500 to 1800 A.D.
(3) New or Modern Kashmiri, after 1800 A.D.