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The Brahmin Pandits of kashmir refused to re-admit them into the Hindu fold (Ref Nehru's discovery of India).
Why are South Indians so smart? Steve Sailer 2002
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Kashmiri Hindu migrants, known as Pandits, present Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram, second left, with a traditional tea set as he arrives to inspect flats being constructed for the migrants in Nagrota, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Jammu, India,
WN.com - Articles related to PDP demands renovation of Hindu temples in Kashmir 2010
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Apart from official indifference, what angered the Pandits was the manner in which "Hindu" politicians had tried to exploit their plight.
Communalism Watch 2009
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Apart from official indifference, what angered the Pandits was the manner in which "Hindu" politicians had tried to exploit their plight.
Communalism Watch 2009
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Rangaswamy Muniappan Yona, GuamYour article "Surviving The Storm" makes no reference to the more than 300,000 Kashmiri Hindus ( "Pandits") forced out of their homes in the Kashmir Valley by armed Islamic separatists.
Letters 2007
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Between 1989 and 1991, nearly 99 percent of the Kashmir Valley's Hindus 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits were systematically and brutally driven from their homes through an orchestrated campaign of massacres, intimidation, pillage, rape and murder.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
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Adding insult to injury, she also suggested that the 70,000 to 80,000 Pandits who are stuck in squalid refugee camps, somehow remain there by choice.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
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Between 1989 and 1991, nearly 99 percent of the Kashmir Valley's Hindus 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits were systematically and brutally driven from their homes through an orchestrated campaign of massacres, intimidation, pillage, rape and murder.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
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But according to Roy, "... perhaps the most contentious issue of the Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir... there was an exodus from the Valley in 1989, at the time of the uprising, and the reasons for that exodus are seriously contentious."
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
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But according to Roy, "... perhaps the most contentious issue of the Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir... there was an exodus from the Valley in 1989, at the time of the uprising, and the reasons for that exodus are seriously contentious."
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Asia Society on Kashmir: Now Serving Foreign Policy Junk Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011
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