A rare newspaper report from May 1984 documents attacks on Kashmiri Pandit temples and communal violence in Kashmir, indicating that the minority community faced growing insecurity years before the disputed 1987 elections. The archival record places the 1986 Anantnag riots and the 1990 exodus within a longer, documented chronology of escalating events, offering an important historical perspective on the Kashmir conflict.
From Bhutto's execution in 1979 to the Al-Aqsa protests, the US bombing of Libya and the Salman Rushdie controversy, rare newspaper archives reveal how international crises repeatedly triggered unrest in Kashmir, with local minorities often bearing the consequences of conflicts far beyond the Valley.
(Kashmir Rechords Exclusive in Connection with International Women's Day)
Once again, we are celebrating International Women’s Day. The exclusivity of such celebrations associated with women...
(By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)*
February 13, 1990: Director Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar, Lassa Kaul is shot dead by terrorists who considered him a stumbling block in...
Kashmir Rechords Exclusive
A piece of tragic history lies buried under picturesque area of Kulgam, Kashmir district’s snow covered Houen Heng (Dog’s Horn) peak, 4200...
(By: Kanwal Krishan Lidhoo)
Kashmir Rechords in its previous four blogs had mentioned Englishman Mr. Winter Bedim’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir in 1847 recorded in the...
(From the Feudal Dogra State through Independent India to the Present-day Naya Bharat)
(By: Dr. S.N. Pandita*)
Introduction
From a State Subject to Permanent Resident and now...
(Records, Census figures speak everything)
If the records are to be relied upon, there has been a massive decline of Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir...