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| Kashmiriyat compassionate and Dogriyat… | | What An Irony | | Rustam
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 11: Kashmiriyat is compassionate. Kashmiriyat is unique. Kashmiriyat is something very rare. Kashmiriyat is accommodating and all-inclusive. Kashmiriyat is tolerant. Kashmiriyat believes in brotherhood and peaceful co-existence. The history of Kashmir is unique because it is an oasis of communal harmony. The history of Kashmir is unique because people professing different faiths have been living in Kashmir peacefully and sharing each other's happiness and grief since ages. Kashmiriyat is unique because it doesn't differentiate between man and man on the ground of language, religion, region and culture. Kashmiriyat, in short, means compassion, tolerance, accommodation, liberal ideas and genuine secularism.
Governor NN Vohra hails Kashmiriyat. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah hail Kashmiriyat. Mufti Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti hail Kashmiriyat. Geelani, Mirwaiz, Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah and who not in Kashmir hail Kashmiriyat. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and congress general secretary and Omar Abdullah's friend Rahul Gandhi hail Kashmiriyat. Home Minister P Chidambaram hails Kashmiriyat. Everyone in the Congress in Delhi and J&K hail Kashmiriyat. Former BJP national president Rajnath Singh hails Kashmiriyat. Senior Congress leader and former Sadar-e-Riyasat Karan Singh hails Kashmiriyat. The entire media hails Kashmiriyat. All the commentators, all the think-tanks, all the conflict-managers, all the human rights activists, all the academics and all the TV news channels also hail Kashmiriyat. On June 9, everyone hailed Kashmiriyat and the occasion was mela Kheer Bhawani, Kashmir.
"Mainstream" Omar Abdullah and separatists like Yasin Malik used the opportunity to urge the Internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus to return to their land of Vitasta. Some of them asked the displaced Kashmiri Hindus to return to the original habitat without waiting for the final resolution of the "Kashmir problem." Some of them said "Kashmir is incomplete without Kashmiri Hindus." Many of them have been saying that they would welcome the return of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus subject to the condition that they would join the anti-India and pro-Pakistan crusade they have launched.
That Omar Abdullah and the separatists alike had to make an appeal to the displaced Kashmiri Hindus to return to their homes and hearths explained everything themselves. They explained what Kashmiriyat had meant for the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus, who had been fleeing from the Valley at regular intervals since ages. Their exodus from Kashmir in the early 1990 was the final exodus. Right now, the number of Kashmiri Hindus still living in the Valley is not more than 5000. The number of Sikhs in Kashmir is also declining at a very rapid pace. Their number is not more than 30,000, according to the leaders of the Sikh community.
As mentioned, the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley commenced in the 11th and 12th century. Why because they had to exercise a choice between persecution, conversion and migration. The Kashmiriyat had confronted the Kashmiri Hindus with these three specific choices. This is what a peep into the history of Kashmir points out. The process continued unabated till 1819, when the Sikh rule was established in Kashmir. There was virtually no conversion in Kashmir between 1819 and 1846. The situation remained the same between 1846 and 1947, when the Dogras of Jammu ruled Kashmir. In fact, during the Dogra rule, several displaced Kashmiri Hindu families returned to Kashmir. The process of migration of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir again gained momentum in 1947, when the state power was transferred from the Dogras to Sheikh Abdullah of the National Conference. And, the process of migration that the state started witnessing since October 1947 got complete in April 1990. With the result, Kashmir, which was hundred per cent Hindu before 11th century, became the sole preserve of the followers of a particular religion in early 1990.
It is, however, a different story that everyone continues to hail Kashmiriyat. And, why not? After all, those who hail Kashmiriyat belong to a particular school of thought: Kashmiriyat means exclusion of all others. There is no need to further elucidate this point, as everything is crystal clear. (To be continued) |
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