20% of them left the valley due to 1950 land reforms of Sheikh Abdullah and by 1981 the Pandit population amounted to 5 % of the total. In 2016 only 3,445 pandits remained. The world slept when the massacre of the Pandits happened. The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community. They belong to the Pancha (five) Gauda Brahmana groups from the Kashmir Valley. They lived in the Kashmir Valley before Muslim influence entered the region after which large numbers converted to Islam. They are one of the only few remaining Kashmiri Hindu community native to Kashmir.
1950 land reforms - LAND TO TILLER When the land to tiller law of 1950 came into force, even the daughters of poor peasants were treated as part of the estate on which the landlords enjoyed absolute rights. The sweeping land reforms under the Big Landed Estates Abolition Act passed on July 13, 1950, changed the complexion of Kashmiri society.
The Kashmiri Pandits who were close to tyrannical regime had not got any land outside the Kashmir valley.
In 1950 when the constituent assembly of the Jammu Kashmir was constituted, it had to decide four points including whether compensation should be given to those landlords who have lost their land through the land abolition act.
On November 5, 1951 the then Revenue Minister Mirza Muhammad Afzal Beg refused to give compensation to landlords.
Exodus from Kashmir (1985–1995) The Kashmiri Pandits had been a favoured section of the population of the valley during Dogra rule (1846–1947). 20 per cent of them left the valley as a consequence of the 1950 land reforms and by 1981 the Pandit population amounted to 5 per cent of the total.
In the 1990s during the eruption of militancy, following persecution and threats by radical Islamists and militants they were forced to flee in greater numbers.
Events of 19 January 1990
On that day, mosques issued declarations that the Kashmiri Pandits were Kafirs and that the males had to leave Kashmir, convert to Islam or be killed. Those who chose to the first of these were told to leave their women behind. The Kashmiri Muslims were instructed to identify Pandit homes so they could be systematically targeted for conversion or killing
The exact numbers vary between 600,000 to 800,000 Kashmiri Pandits fleeing Kashmir, some led a life of refugees in the camps of Jammu.
Sheikh Abdullah referred Kashmiri Pandits as “mukhbir Islamization of Kashmir began during 1980's when Abdullah Government changed the names of about 2500 villages from their native names to new Islamic names. The Sheikh also started delivering communal speeches in mosques similar to his speeches in 1930's. Additionally, he referred Kashmiri Pandits as “mukhbir” or informers of the Indian government.
Sheikh's son Farooq Abdullah visited POJK and shared stage with JKLF leaders, though Abdullah asserted that he went on behalf of Indira Gandhi and his father, so that sentiments there could "be known first hand", few people believed him. There were also allegations that he had allowed Khalistan terrorist groups to train in Jammu province.
In February 1986, Gul Shah on his return to Kashmir valley retaliated and incited the Kashmiri Muslims by saying the famous dialogue , this led to the deaths of several Kashmiri Pandits and other Hindus.
Islam khatrey mein hey
This is also the time when the movement Nizam-e-Mustafa started, Pandits were the first to be targeted and killed since they represented India, the movement gained big support and an Islamic State was on its verge of being established, during this time loot and rape was normal.
On June 23, 1989, pamphlets were distributed in Srinagar. It was an ultimatum to Muslim women, by an organization that called itself Hazb-i-Islami, to comply with ‘Islamic’ standards within two days or face ‘action’. Pandit women were asked to put a tilak on their foreheads for identification.
On Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, on October 14, 1989 a massive crowd gathered near the Budshah chowk in the heart of Srinagar, and from there, it marched towards Eidgah to the graveyard that had been renamed the ‘martyr’s graveyard’. The onlookers cheered and showered shireen on the marchers as if to welcome a marriage procession. The crowd was shouting slogans that had shocked most of the Kashmiri Hindus and a few Muslim Nationalists,
Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa La sharqiya la garbiya, Islamia Islamia Zalzala aaya hai kufr ke maidaan mein, Lo mujahid aa gaye maidaan mein English Translation:
What will work here? The rule of Mustafa No eastern, no western, only Islamic, only Islamic An earthquake has occurred in the realm of the infidels, The mujahids have come out to fight Help for Pandits Some Hindus across India tried to help the Pandits. Bal Thackeray from Maharashtra got seats reserved in engineering colleges for the children of these Pandits. He was one of the first persons to help them after which Punjab also followed suit.
You will hardly see any mention of the then GOI doing any major works for the Kashmiri Pandits.
Oregon Legislative Assembly Resolution In 2009 Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to recognise 14 September 2007, as Martyrs Day to acknowledge ethnic cleansing and campaigns of terror inflicted on non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir by terrorists seeking to establish an Islamic state.
Numbers in 2010 808 Pandit families, comprising 3,445 people In 2010, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir noted that 808 Pandit families, comprising 3,445 people, were still living in the Valley and that financial and other incentives put in place to encourage others to return there had been unsuccessful. Hindus living in the Kashmir Valley in 1990 only 2,000–3,000 remain there in 2016.
What did the world do when this happened forget the world what did the GOI literally nil to nothing, the only one who stood and recongized that there was ethnic cleansing were the people of Oregon by passing a resolution in their Legislative Assembly .
And today the world is crying saying there is no internet in Kashmir , people can't call their loved ones, people are not able to express their views. Did anyone call for a UNSC meet for the Kashmiri Pandits ? Did the Government of India do anything when the Islamist asked them to put a tilak ont heir heads so they could be identified easily ?
Male Kashmiri Panits were asked to flee leaving behind their women and kids, the whole world including the Indian Govt slept when the ethnic cleansing of the Pandits took place.
This is exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews , but took close 2-3 decades for someone to do something and get justice to the Kashmiri Pandits.
I hope the current govt of India also does something in spreading this information of how the Kashmiri Pandits were looted , raped and killed and thrown out of their own homes. To show the world what they suffered was nothing less than what the Jews were suffered!
Militancy in 1990s They began to leave in much greater numbers in the 1990s during the eruption of militancy, following persecution and threats by radical Islamists and militants. The events of 19 January 1990 were particularly vicious.
On that day, mosques issued declarations that the Kashmiri Pandits were Kafirs and that the males had to leave Kashmir, convert to Islam or be killed. Those who chose to the first of these were told to leave their women behind.
The Kashmiri Muslims were instructed to identify Pandit homes so they could be systematically targeted for conversion or killing.
According to a number of authors, approximately 100,000 of the total Kashmiri Pandit population of 140,000 left the valley during the 1990s. Other authors have suggested a higher figure for the exodus, ranging from the entire population of over 150,000, to 190,000 of a total Pandit population of 200,000, to a number as high as 800,000. The nature of the planned exodus has remain controversial, with the involvement of then Governor Jagmohan in organizing a clandestine exodus been a subject of controversy. Many of the refugee Kashmiri Pandits have been living in abject conditions in refugee camps of Jammu. The government has reported on the terrorist threats to Pandits still living in the Kashmir region.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Pandit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Pandit#cite_note-exodus-28
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/more/news/from-sheikhs-land-to-tiller-to-azads-raj-tilak/
https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1953_5/37/the_kashmir_land_reforms.pdf