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| It's unfortunate, elements in Kashmir creating a wedge between communities in Jammu | | | ET REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 3: ZG Muhammad criticizes those who have opined that the solution to the Kashmir issue must be acceptable to the people of all the three regions of the state - Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh - and asserts that those who have talked in such terms are not aware of the social composition of the ongoing secessionist movement. He also says that these "study groups and think tanks by giving political content to seven hundred years of great tradition of religious tolerance and brotherhood (in Kashmir) tried to colour political narrative of the state (read Kashmir) in a different shade" (Kashmir before 700 years was hundred per cent Hindu and today this community is conspicuous by its absence in Kashmir; this is the great tradition of religious tolerance and brotherhood in Kashmir) and that "some groups making cultural and ethnic diversity as fort of their studies strived hard to give ethnic, linguistic, religious and regional bias to political narrative of the state."
The grouse of Muhammad is that these study groups have been "guided by the common New Delhi discourse: that the political aspirations of the people of the state lack unanimity. There is a total discordance between people of different religious and ethnic groups in the state." In other words, he wants everyone in the state and outside to believe that the people in the state are one as far as their political aspirations are concerned or that the political aspirations of an overwhelming majority of the people of the state are identical and that they are part and parcel of the ongoing communal and separatist movement. This means he wants everyone to believe that the Muslims of Kargil and the Muslims of Jammu province are one with the people of Kashmir as far as the demand for independence from India is concerned and that different voices in the Jammu, Kathua and parts of Udhampur districts and Leh in Ladakh are just irrelevant because these are the voices of a microscopic minority.
What exactly has he said to make his politically and communally motivated point? He has, among sever other untenable assertions, said: "These conjured up discourses are being used to silence the international voices asking resolution of the dispute. These discourses about the people of Jammu and Ladakh region not having same political aspirations as that of the people in the Valley have found some takers at the international level…Most of these scholars are 'toddler-ignorant' about the hard demographic facts and history of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Many of them buying New Delhi discourse believe that Ladakh is a land of monks and entirely Buddhist and Jammu province just constitute Jammu, Kathua and some parts of Udhampur districts only. Many an important opinion maker in India also rely on the tinted and coloured narratives on demography. And while talking about regional political aspirations of the people of the state they mostly base their formulas on misconstrued religious divide between these regions. And believe with certainty that it was Valley based problem that could be resolved by giving some constitutional guarantees for assuring autonomy to people living in the lap of mountains. Most of these think tanks, including Kashmir Study Group (of Farooq Kathwari) USA in their formulas for the resolution of the problem have been ignoring ratio and complexion of population of Doda, Bhadrwah, Kishtwar, Poonch, Rajouri and Kargil areas. Besides, not making the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir as it stood on August 14, 1947 as part of their discourse these think tanks and study group have never analyzed the religious, ethnic and linguistic diversity of Jammu province and Ladakh regions but have been presenting these regions as religious monoliths of particular faiths…True the political aspirations of the majority of people in these hilly areas of Jammu and Kargil are in sync with the aspirations of the majority voice but these have got drowned in the cacophony of the religious divide discourse conjured up by some individuals and NGOs. It is only in political struggle, even electoral battles, that they have identified themselves with the political aspirations of people living in the Valley. I blame historians, intelligentsia and political leadership of the state for voices of Jammu Muslims getting lost in the din of discourses portraying the state as divided into regions on the basis of religion…No intellectual or writer has so far endeavoured to challenge the 'religious' discourse presenting Jammu province for being a religious monolith having political aspiration different than those in the Valley…The historians, intellectuals and political leaders need to work in tandem to defeat any political discourses based on the religious divide in the state." (To be concluded) |
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