300,000[1][2][3] to 600,000[4][5][6] (est. living in the Kashmir Valley prior to 1990)
Regions with significant populations
Historically: Kashmir Other communities: Jammu, National Capital Region • Ladakh • Uttar Pradesh • Himachal Pradesh • Uttarakhand • Haryana • Rajasthan • Indian Punjab
Languages
Sacred languages Sanskrit
Ethnic language Kashmiri
Other languages Hindi, Dogri, English
Religion
Hinduism
Related ethnic groups
Kashmiris (Kashmiri Hindus, Kashmiri Muslims), Saraswat Brahmins
The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins)[7] are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group[8] from the Kashmir Valley,[9][10] located within the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmiri Pandits are Hindu Kashmiris native to the Kashmir Valley, and the only remaining Hindu Kashmiris after the large-scale of conversion of the Valley's population to Islam during the medieval times.[11][12] Prompted by the growth of Islamic militancy in the valley, large numbers left in the exodus of the 1990s. Even so, small numbers remain.
^Singh, Devinder (21 November 2014). "Reinventing Agency, Sacred Geography and Community Formation: The Case of Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in India". The Changing World Religion Map. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. pp. 397–414. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_20. ISBN 9789401793759.
^"Protection Aspects of Unhcr Activities on Behalf of Internally Displaced Persons". Refugee Survey Quarterly. 14 (1–2): 176–191. 1995. doi:10.1093/rsq/14.1-2.176. ISSN 1020-4067.:The mass exodus began on 1 March 1990, when about 250,000 of the 300,000 Kashmiri Pandits fled the State
^Yong, Amos (2011). "Constructing China's Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou - By Nanlai Cao". Religious Studies Review. 37 (3): 236. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2011.01544_1.x. ISSN 0319-485X.
^Casimir, Michael J.; Lancaster, William; Rao, Aparna (1 June 1997). "Editorial". Nomadic Peoples. 1 (1): 3–4. doi:10.3167/082279497782384668. ISSN 0822-7942.:From 1947 on, Kashmir's roughly 700,000 Hindus felt increasingly uneasy and discriminated
against, and youth … from a variety of sources such as Islamist organizations, Islamic countries,
Kashmiri Muslim fund raisers in the West, and migrant labor from Azad Kashmir in the …
^Sarkaria, Mallika Kaur (2009). "Powerful Pawns of the Kashmir Conflict: Kashmiri Pandit Migrants". Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 18 (2): 197–230. doi:10.1177/011719680901800202. ISSN 0117-1968. S2CID 145137184.:… of the Centre of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University, and member of Panun Kashmir (a Pandit … the Valley in 1990, believes "it could be anything between 300,000 to 600,000 people
^PTI. "30 years on, return to homeland eludes Kashmiri Pandits". Retrieved 19 April 2019.
^Duchinsky, Haley (26 September 2013). "Survival is now our Politics: Kashmiri Hindu community identity and the Politics of Homeland". International Journal of Hindu Studies. 12 (1). academia.edu: 41–64.
^Brower, Barbara; Johnston, Barbara Rose (2016). Disappearing Peoples?: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9781315430393. Kashmiri Hindus are all Saraswat brahmins, known by the exonym Pandit (the endonym being Batta), a term first reserved for emigrant Kashmiri brahmins in Mughal service.
^Lyon, Peter (2008). Conflict between India & Pakistan: An Encyclopedia. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 99. ISBN 9781576077122.
^Essa, Assad (2 August 2011). "Kashmiri Pandits: Why we never fled Kashmir". aljazeera.com.
^Kaw, M. K. (2004). Kashmir and Its People: Studies in the Evolution of Kashmiri Society. APH. p. 183. ISBN 9788176485371.
^Siddhartha Gigoo, Varad Sharma (18 October 2016). A Long Dream of Home: The persecution, exile and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9789386250254.
The KashmiriPandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They...
The Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, or Pandits, is their early-1990 migration, or flight, from the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley in Indian-administered Kashmir...
heads the KashmiriPandit Sangharsh Samiti (Committee for the KashmiriPandits' Struggle). He had experienced the same threats as the Pandits who left...
districts. KashmiriPandits: Looking to the Future. APH Publishing. 2001. ISBN 9788176482363. The KashmiriPandits are the precursors of Kashmiri Muslims...
'Sheikhs'. KashmiriPandits are the precursors of Kashmiri Muslims who now form a majority population in the valley of Kashmir. Both the Kashmiri Hindus and...
'Sheikhs'. KashmiriPandits are the precursors of Kashmiri Muslims who now form a majority population in the valley of Kashmir. Both the Kashmiri Hindus and...
Kashmir, Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti claimed that 399 KashmiriPandits were killed by insurgents. Al Jazeera states that 650 Pandits were murdered by...
parts of the country. The largest group of Kashmiri Hindus are the KashmiriPandits. During the reign of Ashoka (304–232 BCE), Kashmir became a part of...
Kashmir, he had admitted to killing 42 KashmiriPandits. Dar later claimed that he hadn't killed any Pandits and that the statement was made under duress...
Sharada Peeth is one of the three holiest sites of pilgrimage for KashmiriPandits, alongside the Martand Sun Temple and the Amarnath Temple. Sharada...
1997, seven KashmiriPandits were killed in Sangrampora village in the Budgam district. Wandhama massacre – In January 1998, 24 KashmiriPandits living in...
organisation of Pandits in Kashmir, Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti after carrying out a survey in 2008 and 2009, claimed that 399 KashmiriPandits were killed...
Blood Clots : The Exodus of the KashmiriPandits is a 2013 memoir by Indian author Rahul Pandita about the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the late 1989 and...
of KashmiriPandits, except in the use of onions, garlic and shallots by Muslims in place of asafoetida. Lamb or Sheep is more prevalent in Kashmiri Muslim...
name by KashmiriPandits and Kashmiri Muslims native to the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It was a title given to the KashmiriPandits for their...
passage but had threatened to attack proposed resettlement colonies for KashmiriPandits, in opposition to an Israel-like solution, and colonies for armed forces...
title pandit of a classical musician and the pandit which is used as a title given to a knowledgeable person, is different. There are many pandits in Hindustani...
2003 Nadimarg massacre was the killing of 24 KashmiriPandits in the village of Nadimarg in Pulwama District of Jammu and Kashmir on 23 March 2003. The...
in India has the second-largest Kashmiri language speakers after Kashmir Valley and adjoining areas. KashmiriPandits migrated to this region over centuries...
festivals of the KashmiriPandits have Rigvedic roots. Some festivals of KashmiriPandits are unique to Kashmir. Some KashmiriPandit festivals are Herath...
Tanaav. Kaul was born on March 10, 1978, in Bombay, Maharashtra into a KashmiriPandit family that left Kashmir Valley in the 1990s. He started his acting...
Kashmiri Pandits to return to their homeland. He stated during a video released after the killing of Burhan Wani in 2016, "We request KashmiriPandits to return...
colleges for the children of KashmiriPandits in Maharashtra. At a meeting with them he supported the idea that KashmiriPandits could be armed for their...
discriminatory against the resident "Shias, Dalits, Gujjars, KashmiriPandits, Kashmiri Sikhs" in the state, according to India Today. Many protest demonstrations...
Delhi, 84 percent of people in Srinagar want to see the return of KashmiriPandits. A 2001 MORI survey of popular opinion in the then-state of Jammu and...
Retrieved 28 February 2019. Sharma, Shivani. "Paradise Lost - the KashmiriPandits". Retrieved 28 February 2019. Excelsior, Daily (11 January 2017). "Demographic...
Martyr, the convoy of KashmiriPandits who tearfully pleaded with the Guru at Anandpur were 500 in number and were led by a certain Pandit Kirpa Ram, who recounted...
with KashmiriPandits on exodus day". The India Today. Retrieved 21 January 2020. "Shaheen Bagh Observes 2-minute Silence for KashmiriPandits in Solidarity...
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