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Kashmir: Its Aborigines and Their Exodus

Author: Colonel Tej K Tikoo

Publisher: Lancer Publishers LLC

Published:

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1935501585

Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in 1989 was their seventh such exodus since the arrival of Islam in Kashmir in the fourteenth century. This was precipitated by the outbreak of Pakistan-sponsored insurgency across Kashmir Valley in 1989. The radical Islamists targeted Pandits - a minuscule community in Muslim dominated society creating enormous fear, panic and grave sense of insecurity. In the face of ruthless atrocities inflicted on them, the Pandits’ sole concern was ensuring their own physical safety and their resolve not to convert to Islam. Over 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee en masse leaving their home and hearth. This was the single largest forced displacement of people of a particular ethnicity after partition of India. Pandits’ travails did not end with the exodus. The obstructive and intimidating attitude of the State administration towards the Pandit refugees made their post-exodus existence even more miserable. The Government at the Centre too remained indifferent to their plight. This book traces the Pandits’ economic and political marginalization in the State over the past six decades and covers in detail the events that led to their eventual exodus. In the light of ethnic cleansing of Pandits from the Valley, the book also examines some critical issues so crucial to India’s survival as a multi-cultural, liberal and secular democracy.

A Long Dream of Home

Author: Siddhartha Gigoo

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 938625025X

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Twenty-five years ago, in the winter of 1990, about four hundred thousand Pandits of Kashmir were forced to leave Kashmir, their homeland, to save their lives when militancy erupted there. Even today, they continue to live as 'internally displaced migrants' in their own country. While most Kashmiri Pandits have now carved a niche for themselves in different parts of India, several thousands are still languishing in migrant camps in and around Jammu. The stories of their struggles and plight have remained untold for years. The authors of the memoirs in this anthology belong to four generations. Those who were born and brought up in Kashmir, and fled while they were in their forties and fifties; those who lingered on in their homes in Kashmir despite the threat to their lives; those who got displaced in their teens; and those who were born in migrant camps in exile. These narratives explore several aspects of the history, cultural identity and existence of the Kashmiri Pandits.These are untold narratives about the persecution of Pandits in Kashmir during the advent of militancy in 1989, the killings and kidnappings, loss of homeland, uprootedness, camp-life, struggle, survival, alienation and an ardent yearning to return to their land. These are stories about the re-discovery of their past, their ancestry, culture, and roots and moorings.

The Odyssey Of Kashmiri Pandits

Author: Dr. M.L.BHAT

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2018-04-02

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1947586254

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This book The Odyssey of Kashmiri Pandits presents the pathetic life of Kashmiri Pandits in exile. The Mass Exodus from their homes in the year 1990, have left them as refugees in their own country. The original inhabitants of Kashmir, scattered all over the world, are now haunted by nostalgia of Paradise on Earth. They were hounded out, after inflicting taunts, physical abuse, miseries, loot, and selective killing. The exiled community hopes to go back to their home land some day. What could have been the reasons for all these miseries? Were the killers caught?

BOB KHATHING: Prevented China From Grabbing Tawang

Author: Col Tej Kumar Tikoo

Publisher: Lancer Publishers

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 8170623324

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This book tells the story of Maj Ralengnao (Bob) Khathing who, despite being born in a remote and under-developed part of the country, nearly a century ago, accomplished a great deal in his eventful life. He was a rare combination of a soldier, bureaucrat, politician, diplomat, and a minister, all rolled in to one. A highly regarded officer of the British Indian Army, decorated with MC, MBE and later with Padma Shri in independent India, Maj Bob Khathing carried out most difficult assignments of great significations with exceptional skill, energetic resolve, and tact. His timely expedition to Tawang in 1951 prevented China from grabbing NEFA (Arunachal Pradesh) after the latter had over-run Tibet and suppressed the uprising there with iron hand.

Indian Defence Review

Author: Bharat Verma

Publisher: Lancer Publishers

Published: 2013-01-19

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 8170622174

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'Indian Defence Review' is a quarterly publication which summarises opinions and strategic responses on the sub-continent. In addition to defence and security analyses, each issue also includes regular features on aerospace trends, naval affairs and army force developments, including the latest arms transfer and news.

Know the Anti-Nationals

Author: RSN Singh

Publisher: Lancer Publishers

Published: 2021-02-04

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 8170623308

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We live in an era of nation-states. Nationhood is predicated on shared sense of past and a common purpose of future. More than nation-state, India is a civilization, a complete civilization. To keep this civilization fresh and vibrant, winds from all directions are imperative for its nourishment. But, winds cannot be allowed to build into destructive storms, that threaten to uproot the civilization, the very basis of nationhood. Jihadism and Maoism are the two main destructive storms. Fueling these storms are India’s enemies as well as the forces of proselytization. They have to be crushed both at ideological and physical levels. We have been squeamish in dealing with the problems because of the misplaced notion that all ideologies are basically benign and beneficial, they are not. 73 years of our post-independence experience is testimony. This misplaced notion has caused at least a lakh lives in Kashmir alone, resulting in ethnic cleansing of Hindus from the Valley by the jihadists. Sardar Patel did crush the communist revolt in Telangana, but in the following years due to subversion of our political class, it grew into the ‘Red Corridor’, i.e. from Tirupati to Pashupati. These forces have to be vanquished to secure the internal or the third front. This book ‘Know the Anti-Nationals’ exposes these enemies within.