Discourses around the Kashmiri Pandits: Engaging with the ‘Fractured Identify’ and the ‘Politics of Deadlock’

Abstract

The Kashmiri Pandit community has largely been discursively presented and scholarly engaged with as a cohesive, single caste community with strong territorial and cultural roots in Kashmir Valley, with little discussion around the possibility of differentiated identities and multiplicity of experiences that might be present within the community. Against such an undivided background, their conflict induced mass migration from the Valley in 1990’s is seen as a major disruptive event that assumingly it into two separate eras of pre and post migration.