Download or read book Explore Kashmiri Pandits written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Moon Has Blood Clots written by Rahul Pandita and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits-the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of 'Azaadi' from India. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the story of Kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave their homes by Islamist militants, and forced to spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.
Download or read book The Odyssey Of Kashmiri Pandits written by Dr. M.L.BHAT and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book The Odyssey of Kashmiri Pandits presents the pathetic life of Kashmiri Pandits in exile. The Mass Exodus from their homes in the year 1990, have left them as refugees in their own country. The original inhabitants of Kashmir, scattered all over the world, are now haunted by nostalgia of Paradise on Earth. They were hounded out, after inflicting taunts, physical abuse, miseries, loot, and selective killing. The exiled community hopes to go back to their home land some day. What could have been the reasons for all these miseries? Were the killers caught?
Download or read book Kashmir The Eternal abode of Kashmiri Pandits written by Deepashu Reshi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Kashmir and Kashmiri Pandits is a story of love and loss, of hope and despair, of pride and pain. It is a story that spans from the ancient times to the present day, from the golden age of Hindu civilization to the dark era of Islamic invasion, from the peaceful coexistence of different religions to the violent conflict of ideologies, from the prosperous and happy life in the valley to the tragic and forced exodus from their homeland. It is a story that needs to be told and heard, to understand the past and shape the future. It is a story that celebrates the spirit and resilience of Kashmiri Pandits, who have not given up on their dreams and aspirations, and who have not forgotten their roots and identity.The book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating community that has a unique connection with India’s most disputed region.
Download or read book A History of Kashmiri Pandits written by Jia Lal Kilam and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Provides A Valuable Source Material On The Past History Of Kashmir With Particular Referens To The Kashmiri Pandits. Also Provides Background To The Current Turmoil And Giving Accent Of The Struggle Of This Community In The Course Of History.
Download or read book A Long Dream of Home written by Siddhartha Gigoo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, in the winter of 1990, about four hundred thousand Pandits of Kashmir were forced to leave Kashmir, their homeland, to save their lives when militancy erupted there. Even today, they continue to live as 'internally displaced migrants' in their own country. While most Kashmiri Pandits have now carved a niche for themselves in different parts of India, several thousands are still languishing in migrant camps in and around Jammu. The stories of their struggles and plight have remained untold for years. The authors of the memoirs in this anthology belong to four generations. Those who were born and brought up in Kashmir, and fled while they were in their forties and fifties; those who lingered on in their homes in Kashmir despite the threat to their lives; those who got displaced in their teens; and those who were born in migrant camps in exile. These narratives explore several aspects of the history, cultural identity and existence of the Kashmiri Pandits.These are untold narratives about the persecution of Pandits in Kashmir during the advent of militancy in 1989, the killings and kidnappings, loss of homeland, uprootedness, camp-life, struggle, survival, alienation and an ardent yearning to return to their land. These are stories about the re-discovery of their past, their ancestry, culture, and roots and moorings.
Download or read book Hindus of Kashmir A Genocide Forgotten written by Bansi Pandit and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present-day Kashmir valley, according to Nilmat Purana, the sixth century Sanskrit Classic, was a large lake called Satisar surrounded by gigantic snow-peaked mountains. Geological findings confirm that the Valley was once submerged underwater. There is a tradition that the lake was drained by an ascetic, named Kashyapa Rishi (sage) by cutting the gap in the hills at Baramulla (Varaha-mula). Hence the reclaimed land was called Kashyap Mar. In the people's language over a while, Kashyap Mar became 'Kashmir, ' the present name of the Valley.The Hindus of Kashmir Valley, popularly known as Kashmiri Pandits, are the aboriginal people of the Valley. Their ancestors (Saraswat Brahmins) settled in the Valley over five thousand years ago after the original lake was drained and the land became habitable. The Valley inhabitants were principally Hindus until the 14th century when Islamists entered the Valley and began converting Hindus to Islam. Seven mass exoduses of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley have occurred in the past 600 years. In the mid-1980s, the Islamist radicals, with the help of the local Muslim majority, began a militarized crusade to Islamize the Valley. Throughout the summer of 1989, armed radical Islamists intensified their jihad in Azadi's name (freedom) to Islamize the Valley. Explosive and inflammatory speeches broadcast from the loudspeakers installed on the mosques became frequent. Thousands of audio cassettes, carrying similar propaganda, were played all over the Valley to instill fear into the already frightened Kashmiri Pandit community. There were open calls for the establishment of an Islamic order. Various Islamist groups like Jamat-i-Islami and its militant wing Hizbul Mujahedeen, women's wing Dukhtaran-i-Millat, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, Allah Tigers, Jamiatul-Ulemmi Islam, etc. proclaimed the objective of their struggle as Islamization of the Kashmir valley and its merger with Pakistan. The Islamic extremists launched a malicious campaign against the Kashmiri Pandits through sermons in mosques and via the local Urdu newspapers by publishing materials derogatory to Pandits and by denigrating their history, customs, and traditions, with an object of spreading hatred and disinformation about this ancient indigenous community amongst the ordinary Muslim masses in the Valley. On January 4, 1990, a local Urdu newspaper, Aftab, published a press release issued by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, asking all Pandits to leave the Valley immediately. Another ultimatum was given to the minority Pandit community through the local press on April 14, 1990, asking them to leave the Valley within two days or face death. This announcement was published in a popular local newspaper Alsafa, Srinagar, on April 14, 1990. These warnings were followed by Kalashnikov-wielding masked Jehadis carrying out military-type exercises openly. The elimination of the entire Pandit community was deemed necessary to rid the Valley of its un-Islamic elements. To achieve their goal, Islamists began a campaign of killing Hindus in cold blood. From late 1989 to mid-1990, over 1000 Hindus were massacred - a genocide forgotten. The Hindus' atrocities led to the exodus of the entire Hindu population from the Valley to Jammu and other cities in India. Over 350,000 Pandits became refugees in their own country and are still waiting to return to their homeland. The account given here is an abridged description of the ethnic cleansing and the subsequent exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in 1989-90, who became refugees in their own country. Not only has this human tragedy been forgotten by the world community, but a campaign of disinformation coupled with misguided and misinformed narrative has been perpetuated for years by Pakistan, Muslims, and the media. The author, whose family has been a victim of this human catastrophe, hopes that this text sets the record straight for future generations of the uprooted Pandits.
Download or read book Kashmir Its Aborigines and Their Exodus written by Colonel Tej K Tikoo and published by Lancer Publishers LLC. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in 1989 was their seventh such exodus since the arrival of Islam in Kashmir in the fourteenth century. This was precipitated by the outbreak of Pakistan-sponsored insurgency across Kashmir Valley in 1989. The radical Islamists targeted Pandits - a minuscule community in Muslim dominated society creating enormous fear, panic and grave sense of insecurity. In the face of ruthless atrocities inflicted on them, the Pandits’ sole concern was ensuring their own physical safety and their resolve not to convert to Islam. Over 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee en masse leaving their home and hearth. This was the single largest forced displacement of people of a particular ethnicity after partition of India. Pandits’ travails did not end with the exodus. The obstructive and intimidating attitude of the State administration towards the Pandit refugees made their post-exodus existence even more miserable. The Government at the Centre too remained indifferent to their plight. This book traces the Pandits’ economic and political marginalization in the State over the past six decades and covers in detail the events that led to their eventual exodus. In the light of ethnic cleansing of Pandits from the Valley, the book also examines some critical issues so crucial to India’s survival as a multi-cultural, liberal and secular democracy.
Download or read book From Home to House written by A Gigoo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of a community reduced to being tourists in their own homeland.It has been twenty-five years since around 3.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits were uprooted from their homes in the Kashmir valley due to militancy and changed circumstances. Many of them had to face the ignominy of living in tents, then in one-room tenements or flats, as refugees in their own country. They felt let down by both the state and central governments and by Indian society as a whole -- as well as by the Muslims of the valley. There was to be no going back for them.From Home to House is an anthology of short stories, essays and writings by Kashmiri Pandits in exile, vividly bringing out their nostalgia for Kashmir, their sense of betrayal, their attempts to pick up the pieces and carve a new life for themselves. These are the reflections of a lost and scattered people in what for them is an alien land. The writings show both their vulnerability -- their helplessness as they see their culture and way of life getting eroded -- and their resilience -- as the younger generation of Pandits spreads its wings and builds a whole new life for itself. This anthology holds a mirror to the troubled valley of Kashmir, a mirror from which the reflection of a section of its population is now missing.
Download or read book On Uncertain Ground written by Ankur Datta and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1989, Jammu and Kashmir is affected by conflict between the Indian state and an Independence movement. Among its many casualties are the historically prominent Hindu Pandits of Kashmir who became displaced from their homes.
Download or read book Cultural Heritage of Kashmiri Pandits written by Śaśiśekhara Toshakhānī and published by Pentagon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmir is not merely a geo-space, but is the geo-cultural matrix from which thoughts and concepts embedded in the depths of the consciousness of its people have emanated, giving shape to their civilizational ethos. The history of Kashmiri Pandits has been synonymous with the core of values derived from the intimacy between man and nature.
Download or read book Kashmiri Pandits written by M. L. Pandit and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Arises Out Of A Seminar Held In 2001. Papers Collected In The Volume Cover A Wide Range Of Social, Cultural Scholastic And Artistic Aspirations Of Kasmiri Pandits - And The Topics Of Interest To Them. Quite A Few Relate To Kashmiri Pandits In Delhi. (8 Chapters - Figures.)
Download or read book Kashmiri Pandits written by M. K. Kaw and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at the National Seminar on "Kashmiri Pandits: Looking Ahead" held on March 12, 2000; on various facets of the cultural, spiritual, and other aspects of life of Kashmiri Pandits.
Download or read book The Odyssey of Kashmiri Pandits written by M. L. Bhat and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Exiled Pandits of Kashmir written by Bill K. Koul and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses all the questions related to Kashmiri Pandits and their relation and current issues regarding their return to Kashmir. The book explores the importance of return of Kashmiri Pandits for Kashmir and both major Kashmiri communities, especially those who really want to return home, out of their own volition and for all right reasons. The book shows how to bring about a reasonable and realistic degree of practical and sustainable reconciliation between the two communities, whilst trying to make them stand in each other’s shoes, understand each other’s perspective and pain and then self-introspect sincerely, so that a bridge of mutual trust and acceptance is rebuilt between the two communities, which can then allow those Pandits who genuinely want to return cross over and be home.
Download or read book The Ten Departures of a Kashmiri Pandit written by Sham Misri and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ten Departures of A Kashmiri Pandit" is a book with messages, wrapped in stories and sprinkled with wit, bound together by the themes of religion, torture, plunder and loot of Kashmir Pandits. The book has dealt with ten migrations of Kashmiri Pandits, their departure, evacuation and finally exit from the valley. The time line shows how a small community gets dispersed slowly and is now on the line of disappearance. They find themselves completely lost from the roots of their ancestors. Their roots cut, their thousands of years of culture ruined, and their traditions now nowhere seen. The exit of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley of Kashmir was arranged in a unique and innovative way. Presenting the observations on their past religion, culture, and dress, while being wonderfully entertaining, the community feels that their kith and kin being harassed by religious zealots over the period of time. It has created a brilliant satire on the rulers of Kashmir as it sends its message of ethnic cleansing.During these twenty five years of forced exile Kashmiri Pandits have been roaming from place to place in search of their livelihood. While the Kashmiri Pandits a God fearing race believed on peaceful means and dharma, the fundamentalists took advantage of it and snatched away our ancestral land. The last exodus of the Pandits from the valley has been a great blow to them. The whole community has been shattered. Today, they are scattered all over the globe. As in the past, they have survived the torment under the most trying conditions.This is a dark, funny story about various kinds of tortures undergone by Kashmiri Pandits all along during various times of migrations.
Download or read book Kashmiri Pandit Community written by Triloki Nath Dhar and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles chiefly on social life and customs of Kashmiri Pandits of India.
