The Way Forward?
The chapter highlights the importance of revisiting the history of Kashmir—pre- and post-1947—to understand the root of the Kashmir issue. It highlights the importance of reviving the literature, art and craft of Kashmir to preserve its unique cultural id
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The Exiled Pandits of Kashmir
Bill K. Koul
The Exiled Pandits of Kashmir Will They Ever Return Home?
Bill K. Koul Independent Author Perth, WA, Australia
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To my Mother Kashmir—Maej Kasheer—and my Kashmiri ancestors and to all those Kashmiris who selflessly work towards and pray for normalcy to return to their valley of Kashmir and long for Kashmiri Pandits to return to their home in Kashmir. To my mother, Rani (Jai Kishori Koul); my guru-mata, Shrimati Bimla Hakhu; and my guru, Shri Bansi Lal Hakhu (Bhaisahib) for their unconditional love and wisdom. Gar firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast … Mughal Emperor Jehangir (seventeenth century) on Kashmir (If there is a heaven on earth, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here…)
Abstract
The book attempts to answer why it is important for normalcy and sustainable peace in Kashmir, and its holistic progress and cultural survival, that both ethnic Kashmiri communities—Pandits and Muslims—permanently bury their past bitterness of 1989–1990 and forge one strong, composite Kashmiri community. It exhorts the Pandit community to reestablish personal relationships, on an individual basis, with their earlier Muslim neighbours and friends, and earnestly endeavour to cohere with their Muslim brethren just as they did before 1990. In the same vein, it sends an appeal to the Kashmiri Muslim community to wholehearte
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