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	Islamic Terrorism and Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits
		Ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus) from Kashmir valley is the crucial failure of Indian state to uphold its commitments to people of India as enshrined in Indian constitution which provides right to live with dignity and honour to every citizen irrespective of caste, creed, religion or colour.
		Kashmiri Pandits are progenitors of Kashmir Shaivism the philosophy of oneness of mankind.
		Kashmiri Pandits have contributed immensely to the evolution of human thought by contributing to almost all fields of creative human endeavour like literature (mainly Sanskrit), language, science and philosophy from times immemorial.
	www.kashmiri-pandit.org /sundry/genocide.html (1152 words)

	Faces of Glory: Kashmiri Pandit Personalities
		Pandits recognise ‘Vijyeshwar Jantri’ as one of the most important institutions for maintaining their identity during such times when pressures for dissolution of the same are multiplying.
		Pandit Prem Nath Shastri’s role during his life time did not remain confined to just carrying ahead a family tradition but in institutionalising it in such a way that its relevance in the social life of Kashmiri Pandits only increased with each day.
		Pandit Prem Nath Shastri through ‘Vijyeshwar Jantri’ and numerous other works endeavoured to protect Kashmiri Pandit identity and with his demise people feel as if a fulcrum around which they could rebuild their socio-cultural fabric in exile was lost.
	ikashmir.net /personality/pnshastri.html (964 words)

	Kashmiri Pandit Who Is Who, Kashmiri, Pandit
		The fundamentalist forces destroyed the peace loving community by killing / atrocities / intimidation and in the process they were forced to migrate to different parts of the country and the globe.
		There is, to my mind, no single document on population available on Kashmiri Pandits continent-wise that could reflect as to how many we are, how fast we grow and how far migration has changed our socio-cultural patterns.
		I request you for your kind cooperation in this endeavor with the request to you to further pass on the request to Kashmiri Pandit friends in the community there.
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/daisywheel/1285 (548 words)

	Kashmiri Pandit Wedding Rite and Ritual, Indian Wedding Rites : Global Wedding Invitations
		Kashmiri folk and marriage songs are played during the session.
		On this day, the floors of the Kashmiri mud houses are cleaned and treated with a mixture of cow dung, mud and water.
		According to Kashmiri folklore, the first to be able to pull out the engagement ring of the other will be the one to play a dominating role in the relationship.
	www.globalweddinginvitations.com /Rituals/Kashmiri_Pandit.htm (1169 words)

	Kashmiri Pandit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kashmiri Pandits were gradually forced to migrate to other parts of India over the centuries due to countless Muslim invasions which resulted in Kashmir becoming predominantly Muslim.
		Allegations of Ethnic Cleansing of Pandits from the Valley
		Kashmiri Pandits claim to have suffered crimes amounting to ethnic cleansing from the Kashmir Valley, coinciding with the onset of the Islamic separatist movement in 1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kashmiri_Pandit (399 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kashmiri Pandit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus) are the original inhabitants of the Valley of Kashmir.
		The Kashmiri Pandits have been driven from their homeland after a campaign of intimidation and harassment was launched against them by the military-wing of the Islamic secessionists.
		Kashmiri Pandits have suffered ethnic cleansing from the Kashmir Valley with the onset of the Islamic separatist movement in 1990.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kashmiri-Pandit (1208 words)

	Hizbul Mujahideen and the Pandits
		Kashmiri Pandits studying in colleges and university in Lahore at that time and the Kashmiri Pandit diaspora in that metropolitan city combined to initiate the movement.
		Kashmiri Pandit diaspora in Lahore was in close liaison with well-known Pandit families that had settled in other parts of the country especially in Allahabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Amritsar.
		If the HUM thinks that Pandits should join their anti-India movement and fight side by side with them, what has it to say about the millions of Muslims of the valley who have rejected the gun, taken part in democratic process and are engaged in building Kashmir of their dreams.
	www.kashmirherald.com /featuredarticle/hizbandpandits-prn.html (1168 words)

	ALL STATE KASHMIRI PANDIT CONFERENCE
		This is apparent from the historic resolution of All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference at Shitalnath, Srinagar under the Presidentship of Dr SN Peshin in July 1982.
		The Kashmiri Pandits of the State greatly resent the delaying tactics and indifferent attitude of the Revenue authorities of the State government in issuing State Subject Certificates to the members of the minority community though they are the permanent hereditary State Subjects of this State.
		As a result, most of the Kashmiri Pandits living in villages having been deprived of their lands, have had to move out from their ancestral villages and settle in the city or outside the State, as the government did not provide them with alternate avenues for supporting themselves.
	www.kashmirsentinel.com /junejuly1999/6.14.html (2254 words)

	Kashmir: Wail of a Valley
		A Kashmiri Pandit lady in thirties serving as a staff-nurse in a government hospital was whisked away and stripped stark naked and pushed out on the highway for every passer-by to witness her humiliation and dismaying as it is the incident that did not cause horror to the guardians of law and order.
		A bullet was shot at a Kashmiri Pandit lady killing her on the spot and in the ensuing whirlwind of confusion most of the Pandit ladies crossing the Habbakadal bridge were ruthlessly mauled and molested.
		A Kashmiri Pandit in budding youth was killed by a Muslim killer in broad daylight and the authorities hush-hushed the whole case and posed the killer as an insane despite his confession that he was paid money to kill any Pandit who came his way.
	www.kashmir-information.com /WailValley/B2chap4.html (868 words)

	Satisar Foundation
		Kashmiri Pandits celebrate NAVREH on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada or the first day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra and it follows the Saptarishi Samvat institutionalised by our ancestors more than 5000 years back.
		NAVREH for the Kashmiri Pandit community has been a harbinger of hope, happiness and spirituality and also marks the end of harsh winter and the onset of spring which brings with it joy and happiness.
		Even though the Kashmiri Pandit community is in the twelfth year of the forced exile imposed on it, the occasion of NAVREH gives the community an opportunity to identify with its roots and energize it for endeavours in the coming year.
	www.satisar.org /navreh.html (1005 words)

	Kashmir Sentinel
		It is a collection of biographies of eighty Kashmiri Pandits who made exemplary contributions to the whole nation in general and the community in particular for about last three centuries.
		Kashmiri Pandits were scattered all over India but these were the most important places from where they made their mark.
		Kashmiri Mohalla Lucknow and Sitaram Bazar Delhi, the power centres of KPs lost their lustre as the KPs residing there sold their houses to the members of other communities and went away.
	www.kashmirsentinel.com /mar2003/6.html (1539 words)

	A History of Kashmiri Pandits
		Pandit Kidar Nath, an ancester of Hon'ble Pandit Ajudhya Prashad Kunzru, became the Diwan of Mir Jaffar.
		Pandit Ganga Ram having risen very high in the estimation of the Sikh ruler was appointed as the Finance Minister.
		In view of the fact that Raja Dina Nath and other Kashmiri Pandit notables had succeeded in winning the confidence of the British conquerers, the latter meted out to them great encouragement, and made them recipients of many posts of trust and honour which were till then kept closed to Indians.
	www.kashmir-information.com /Kilam/chapter27.html (1004 words)

	AN INTERNALLY DISPLACED KASHMIRI PANDIT’S VIEW OF KASHMIR
		The gory mayhem of 1989-90 notwithstanding, a majority of displaced Kashmiri pandits still remember their ancestral homeland with fond nostalgia.
		Kashmiri muslims, overwhelmingly, continue to hold Jagmohan responsible for their so called miseries and the displacement of Pandits.
		Kashmiri muslims have consolidated their suspicion for India as a result of which all social, political, economic and cultural mishaps that routinely occur in any city and are purely local in nature, are seen as acts of Indian repression.
	www.kashmirherald.com /featuredarticle/viewofkashmir.html (1343 words)

	Vitasta Annual Number: A Kashmir Sabha, Kolkata Publication
		It is also historical fact that a very large number of Kashmiri Pandits migrated from the Kashmir Valley during the Afghan rule (1753-1819 A.D.) especially in the period of Lal Khan Kattak, Faqir Ullah and Jabbar Khan to avoid religious persecution and other barbaric acts against them.
		It used to have a population of about 500 Kashmiri Pandit families due to which it soon became a very strong nerve centre for the social, cultural, educational and political activities of Kashmiri Pandit migrants.
		For example the displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmiri Mohalla, Lucknow until the late 19th century used to celebrate an annual caste festival with great devotion and fervour known as.Rishi Pir Ka Jag to honour a Kashmiri Pandit Saint of the 17th century in Bhola Nath Ki Baghia.
	www.vitasta.org /2000/5.2.html (1756 words)

	Project ZAAN: Information Digest - Vol. 1
		Pandit Govind Kaul, who rendered most valuable assistance to Aurel Stein in translating Rajatarangini, is today almost a forgotten man. There are hardly a handful of Kashmiri Pandits who may be aware of his great erudition and the range of his scholarly pursuits.
		His grandfather, Pandit Taba Kaul, too was a reputed scholar, having family ties with the famous Pandit Birbal Dhar who persuaded Ranjit Singh to free Kashmir from the tyranny of Afghan rule.
		Kashmiri Pandits are known to have have a penchant for producing works of grammar, as is proved by the several grammatical treatise they authored on Sanskrit.
	www.zaan.net /vol4/3.html (1304 words)

	CC Feb 2003 -- Cover Story
		The two—day visits were aimed at meeting the Kashmiri Pandits living in far—flung areas and gathering first hand information about their local situation.
		Basically,the Pandits are asking for the assurance of physical and economic security, imperative to their survival.
		Many Kashmiri Muslims have personally told me that they would like the Mufti government to provide jobs for the Kashmiri Pandits just as they are being provided to members of victim families.
	www.sabrang.com /cc/archive/2003/may03/spreport.html (2736 words)

	World Affairs Board - Kashmiri Pandit says "BLAME JAGMOHAN FOR MIGRATION"
		The Kashmiri Pandits had formed a kind of elite in the valley; they had a large presence in the bureaucracy, both in the valley and in Delhi, where government policy on Kashmir often came to be dictated by the fears and concerns of this tiny minority.
		This led to the migration of 4,50,000 Kashmiri pundits from the Valley.
		Kashmiri Pundits are themselves saying that Governor Jagmohan was responsible for the mass exodus of Pundits from the valley and not the Millitancy or Kashmiri Muslims...
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=6725 (5633 words)

	Vitasta Annual Number: A Kashmir Sabha, Kolkata Publication
		Kashmiri Pandits over the centuries have been often at the receiving end of persecution and maltreatment at the hands of rulers and the powers that be.
		Pandit Kashyap Bandhu as is evident from the plethora of published material on him as well as his own writings, was a star in the firmament of the Kashmiri Pandit community.
		Section IV highlights the general reform movement initiated by Kashmiri Pandits within and outside Kashmir together with two important movements in Kashmir - the Rishi movement and the Parameshwari movement.
	www.vitasta.org /2000/editorial.html (657 words)

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		Jammu, September 13:Plan of the Mufti-led coalition government for the return of the Kashmiri Pandits to their homeland in the Kashmir valley is likely to be delayed as the Centre is learnt to have advised the state government to be cautious in the matter.
		The Kashmiri Pandits fled the valley 16 years ago in December 1989 when there was a spurt in terrorist activities and their lives and honour was not safe.
		Pointing out Malhotra's own assertion that the Kashmiri Pandits in thousands had to leave the valley back in 1989 and 1990, Patil said it is the UPA Government which is alive to their problem and had provided Rs 32 crores in 2004-05 and Rs 30 crores in 2005-06 for relief and rehabilitation of these migrants.
	www.kashmirwatch.com /pandits.htm (13643 words)

	Kashmiri Pandit youth fight back
		It is an initiative to protest and increase the awareness of human rights violations against the Kashmiri Hindu community, who have been languishing in refugee camps and elsewhere in their own country.
		The Kashmiri Hindu community is the one community that has lost its own identity because it stood for India's identity in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
		It's not only the kashmiri pandits and but an average kashmiri is being harassed by the terrorists along with local dirty politicians.
	www.rediff.com /news/2006/dec/11koul.htm (1122 words)

	Sabrang Alternative News Network
		We are shocked and horrified by the news of the inhuman and unconscionable massacre of 24 innocent Kashmiri Pandit children, women and men in Pulwama district of Kashmiri Valley late last night.
		Our hearts go out to the survivors of the carnage in particular, and the Kashmiri Pandit community in general, the overwhelming majority of whom have been condemned to live the life of refugees in their own country because of Pakistan-aided terrorism in the Valley.
		We demand an urgent review of the security arrangements for Kashmiri Pandits throughout the Valley and immediate and adequate compensation for the families of those killed by the JandK government.
	www.sabrang.com /news/kpandit.htm (206 words)

	Transcript of live chat with Ashok Pandit
		Ashok Pandit > On 19 Jan, 1990 the world's biggest human tragedy happened when all the mosques in Kashmir played an audio cassette asking the Kashmiri pandits to leave their homeland, but leave behind their women folk.
		Parents and various Kashmiri pandit organisations are working towards preserving this culture.
		Ashok Pandit > The Gujarat problem is what we experienced in Kashmir 13 years back and the world remained silent on the atrocities committed on us till today because we were Kashmir pandits.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0502/39.html (1491 words)

	Nityanand Shastri Kashmir Research Institute (NSKRI)
		The process was set into motion with the Institute calling a meeting of Kashmiri Pandit scholars, authors, intellectuals and connoisseurs of art and culture on August 9, 1998 at India International Centre, New Delhi to elicit their views and suggestions on the methodology, format and feasibility of the project.
		The displaced Kashmiri Pandits should at least try to know who they are before their cultural traditions are wiped away altogether from their collective memory and they become the forgotten people of history.
		Among the Kashmiri scholars of Sanskrit whom Maharaja Ranbir Singh respected greatly was Pandit Saheb Ram Kaul (SRK), a deeply learned man whose study of the Shastras had impressed even the veteran Pandits of Varanasi.
	www.unmesh.com /aug98.html (4293 words)

	Milchar: Jan-Mar 2002 Issue
		I think it is the third film in Kashmiri, since Manziraat in the early fifties and Mahjoor in the sixties.
		Not much is said about Kashmiri Pandit food, which has an identity of its own - but usually not known outside.
		Kashmiri Pandit identity receives another support with Kashmiri Pandit Food Festival - for food is an essential part of our cultural life.
	www.milchar.com /Mar2002/9.html (987 words)

	Cultural Heritage of Kashmir - Region and People
		The irresistible stamp of Buddhist compassion, Hindu tolerance and Muslim Zest for life is most unmistakably discernible from the attainments of Kashmiri mind and intellect.
		In Kashmir, some people consider her a poet, some consider her a holywoman and some consider her a sufi, a yogi, or a devotee of Shiva.
		Their books, some of them already published, is the result of their firsthand experience, as well as their revised opinions and rethinking on many vital subjects that deeply concern and influence our contemporary life.
	ikashmir.net /culture (415 words)

	Amardeep Singh: More on Kashmir (debating a Kashmiri Pandit)
		First, the pragmatics of J&K. Most Kashmiris (and here I mean those who speak Koshur as their mother tongue) do not want a dismemberment of Kashmir.
		In addition there are, of course, Kashmiri Pandits as well.
		The LOC does correspond to an ethno-religious divide, with native Kashmiri speakers (who are very influenced by Sufi Islam) in the valley vs. native-Urdu & native-Punjabi-speakers (the latter immgrating to PoK in increasing numbers, post-Partition) predominant on the other side.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/06/more-on-kashmir-debating-kashmiri.html (1807 words)

	Kashmiri Pandit Wedding Rite and Ritual : Creative Wedding Crads
		Kashmiri folk and marriage songs are played during the session.
		On this day, the floors of the Kashmiri mud houses are cleaned and treated with a mixture of cow dung, mud and water.
		The women invited for this occasion are served a delicious Kashmiri meal prepared by the waza.
	www.creativeweddingcards.com /Rites/KashmiriPandit/PreWeddingRituals.htm (463 words)

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