The Kashmir Files
This is story of the most persecuted community of world.
A community that faced an exodus, not once or twice but seven times from their homeland in last 683 years and is still facing the same atrocities.
Its based on 100% truth
The origins of Kashmiri Hindus.
5000 years ago, Rishi Kashyap, in search of lone place for meditation reached to Himalaya.
(Rishi = Sage)
That time there were no human there, only mountains, lakes, rivers and mother nature.
Rishi Kashyap made that place his home and started to live there n that place called Kashmir (Land of Rishi/Sage Kashyap)
Slowly slowly Kashmir became land of intellectuals. Family of Kashyap Rishi got bigger.
They used to do meditation, used to write scriptures and used to live minimal life.
That community was called Kashmiri Pandit (Kashmiri Hindu).
Pandit means scholar in Hinduism.
Kashmiri scholars gave fantastic writers n scholars like – Kalidas, Vishnu Sharma (Panchtantra), Charak, Nagasena, Vagbhatt
During Ashoka (304–232 BCE), many stupas, shrines dedicated to Shiva, and the city of Srinagari (Srinagar) were built.
Kanishka (127–151 CE), established new city Kanishkapur.
In Karkota Dynasty (625–855 CE) Kashmir emerged as a center of culture and scholarship.
In Lalitaditya (724–760 CE) rule Kashmir produced many poets, philosophers who contributed to Sanskrit literature and Hindu religion.
Vasugupta ( 875–925 CE) wrote Shiva Sutras which laid the foundation of Kashmir Shaivism.
Kashmiri hindu gave only knowledge, art and happines to world. By doing this they lived their happily but their bad days started in fourteenth century.
Happy part of their lives ends here.
The year was 1313.When an eclipse “Islam” entered in Kashmir.
You might be thinking why compare a religion to an eclipse which is considered inauspicious in Hinduism. But as you read on, you will understand it clearly.
Suhadeva was king of Kashmir in 1313. He made a mistake by giving shelter to Shah Mir from Swat Valley. Shah Mir is considered to be descent of Partha (Arjun) from Mahabharat era. But as is common with Islam, the origins are muddled once again as they don't like to associate themselves with their original lineage and like to whitewash their lineage to prove themselves as 'original' that has nothing to do with other religions. They refuse to accept the fact that they are converts as Islam is merely 1500 years old where as Hindu religion is in existence for multiple yugas which is a well documented fact that can be verified by the multiple books written by divine Hindu Rishis and Sadhus.
Some believe Shah Mir to be of Swati origins of Shah Mir.
Swati are Afghans came to Dir Malakand region in time of Ghaznavi. But it doesn't really matter because at that time Afghanistan was also part of the great land of Hindustan.
Kashmir faced first attack from Turkey. War kept going and to stop the war Queen Kota Rani, widow of Suhadeva’s brother, Udayanadeva, offered alliance and married Shah Mir but surprise surprise, she 'happened' to die on the wedding night itself and the beneficiary of her death was none other than Shah Mir who became the first Islamic ruler of Kashmir.
Immediately secularism was thrown out of the window as Shah Mir issued Islamic rules in Kashmir. Even though he didn’t directly ask Kashmiri Hindus to convert or leave. The rules of his empire were pretty atrocious and racist leading to Hindus reducing to second class citizens in their own land. You can see for yourself and judge.
Not a thankful behavior from someone who was welcomed warmly and was given refuge by the peaceful, kind, loving Hindus.
First Exodus of Kashmir (1379)
Kashmiri Hindus who were living there happily from 5000 years became slaves in their own home and their first genocide started in 1379.
When after Shah Mir, Sikandar Butshikan (but-shikhan is destroyer of idols/temples - Pakistan had an army regiment in 1965 that earned this moniker by targeting Hindu temples. The members of this regiment were called but-shikhan.) became the King of Kashmir in 1379, he started to persecute Kashmiri Hindus vigorously.
Women were raped, men were killed, lot of Kashmiri Hindus converted and those who refused to convert left their homes. Temples were razed and were replaced by mosques as the religious landscape changed in the region.
Peaceful Kashmiri Hindus who lived there happily for thousands of years, never imagined they would face this fate but little did they know, it was just beginning of the atrocities they were to face in the coming times.
Second exodus of Kashmiri Hindus (1505)
Without any alternative, the benign Kashmiri Hindus started to live with their new rulers and next 125 years passed but then came another storm in the lives of Kashmiri Hindus.
Second exodus happened in 1505 to 1514 when Fateh Shah II became king of Kashmir and Kashmiri Hindus once more faced same fate that they had in 1379.
Third Exodus (1600-1700)
This time it was Mughals. Prominently Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.
Saha Jahan’s commander Sardar Itquad Khan, specialized in converting Kashmiri Hindus under extreme torture.
Aurangzeb and his governor, Iftekhar Khan, continued the 'legacy' of raping and killing unleashed by his predecessors.
Strangely, the hate flowed very easily from one generation of Islamic rulers to the next. It had to have been taught systematically, both inside the house# and outside the house.
#(At that time, and even now in many places, women are not allowed to study in Islamic countries as women don't have same rights as men in Islam).
Fourth Exodus (1752)
Durranis of Afghanistan attacked Kashmir and took control in 1752.
While the regime changed in Kashmir, there was very little that changed for the better in the lives of Kashmiri Hindus.
The Durranis were even more brutal than Aurangzeb.
Same story again. Rape, killing, conversions, exodus.
After 70 years, Kashmiri Hindus again got some happy days. In 1819, the Kashmir went into the hands of Sikhs.
After Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Dogra king Gulab Singh became king of Kashmir. The original Kashmiri culture flourished once again.
Its pertinent to note that under the Sikh and Dogra rule, Muslims of the Valley did not suffer any discrimination. This peace lasted till 1931 and then happened 5th exodus of Kashmiri Hindus.
Fifth Exodus (1931)
In 1319 Kashmir was 100% Hindu but by 1931 It had become Muslim majority.
A British officer’s cook Abdul Qadeer was facing sedition charges for his fiery remarks against king Hari Singh in 1931.
His trial stirred up sentiments among the Muslims and protests were being held against the Dogra ruler. Things became ugly after the protesters were fired upon by local governor Trilok Chand.
This firings triggered communal violence and Kashmiri Hindus were once again targeted, attacked and Killed, properties of Kashmiri Hindus were looted, and the community had to once again flee from the valley they established centuries ago in 1319.
Sixth Exodus (1947 - 1980)
India got independence in 1947 but Kashmir could not.
Due to Mistake of Jawaharlal Nehru, Half of Kashmir was captured by Pakistan and the half that was IN India went into a limbo due to article 370.
Article 370 allowed Pakistanis migrants to settle in Kashmir and allowed them to be called natives. They could purchase land, build houses, marry Hindu women. An Indian moving into Kashmir was not given the same benefits and he could not buy land as he was not given a local status in Kashmir. He remained a migrant even in the Indian side of Kashmir and he could not enter the Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Strangely, Pakistani were allowed to settle in Kashmir. How can any sensible person sign upon such a biased and lop sided agreement? But we are talking about Nehru who not only blundered in Kashmir, but also happily gave away 660,000 Sq kms of Aksai Chin to China, refused to take Nepal and Tibet into India, etc. Sane logic and decisions that favor India could not be expected from this man.
ISI started radicalization in Kashmir and from 1950 -1980. Kashmiri Hindus kept facing discrimination under the Abdullah govt and a lot of Kashmiri Hindus once again had to flee from Kashmir during 1947 to 1980.
In 1971 Indira Gandhi got golden opportunity to free Kashmir from Pakistan but she wasted it. Power hungry Congress was never in favor of reclaiming any lost Indian territory.
Seventh Exodus (1990)
Most brutal exodus happened not in some middle age Islamic era but in modern democratic India.
On 19th Jan 1990, targeted killing of Kashmiri Hindus started, women were raped on road, kids were shot in eye. Over 5 lakh Kashmiri Hindus left Kashmir Valley and could never return till now.
It was during this exodus that Islamic reporters like Barkha Dutt openly whitewashed the brutal killings of Kashmiri Pandits on religious grounds by Islamic terrorists, many of whom were neighbors of Hindus living together for many decades by blaming the Pandits for "taking away the jobs from Muslims". You can watch her video on YouTube here where she shamelessly victim blames the peaceful Kashmiri Pandits as if they had it coming. It's very surprising that such a shameless reporter went on to become a prominent journalist in India under Congress Raj and further continued to remain a journalist who went on committing many more internal hit jobs against India while staying in the country. Her misgivings against India deserve its own separate post.
Such was the toxic political environment in India under Congress Raj that no political leader came forward to give a safe harbor to the Kashmiri Pandits. It was at this time a lone voice arose from the west and Balasaheb Thackeray spoke up in support of Kashmiri Pandits and offered them refuge in Mumbai.
In 2014 when BJP'S Modi became PM, he started 'operation All Out' in which radical terrorist were neutralized in large number,
In 2019 GOI revoked article 370 and took Kashmir out from limbo and Kashmir truly and fully became a part of India once again. Indians could purchase land in Kashmir and the discrimination imposed by article 370 was finally removed by the Bhartiya Janata Party's government under the able. Leadership of Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi.
but still, Kashmir remains a largely Islamic region and the original inhabitants of Kashmir are unable to go back to their mother land due to constant threats to their life.
Kashmir was 100% Hindu in 1319.
60% Muslim in 1947.
And almost 100% Muslim by 1991.
No community in the world faced so much persecution as KH faced n still facing from last 683 years.
19th Jan is considered as Holocaust day of Kashmiri Pandits and observed as a black day in the modern history of India.
Conclusion.
You can see for yourself, how difficult things can get for non Muslims under Islamic rule.
Once the religious demographic of a region changes, Islamic rule is inevitable.
Sharia laws are swiftly implemented.
Secularism goes out of the window.
Tolerance is non existent.
Population of other religions decline under Islamic occupation as the existence of non-Muslims itself becomes questionable. This can be seen and verified by observing the steady decline of the Hindu population in the recently formed Islamic countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
While the minority Muslims have thrived in a Hindu majority India, the same rights and freedom is not given to minorities under Islamic rule. That's why many Hindu leaders often say that India is secular only because Hindus are in majority. This is not based out of any bigotry or Islamophobia but because of these easily observed and verifiable facts.
It's then obvious why all countries fear the demographic change in their country as Muslim population grows and the political landscape changes both organically thru multiple marriages, large number of kids and inorganically thru population jihad, love jihad, infiltration, illegal migration etc.
The heart really goes out to Kashmiri Pandits and like the jews, I can only hope they are given the justice they deserve and their genocide is not mocked upon or laughed at.
The world needs to be very kind to this persecuted community as they have suffered far too much and for far too long. They need to be given kindness to heal.
Jai Shri Ram 🚩 and Jai Hind 🇮🇳
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