14 Facts About Kashmiri Pandits

Kashmiri Pandits are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India.

Kashmiri Pandits are Hindu Kashmiris native to the Kashmir Valley, and the only remaining Hindu Kashmiris after the large-scale of conversion of the Valley's population to Islam during the medieval times.

Kashmiri Pandits respected the learning of these Pandits, to whom he gave land as well as encouraging those who had left to return.

Kashmiri Pandits operated a meritocracy and both Brahmins and Buddhists were among his closest advisors.

Kashmiri Pandits had been a favoured section of the population of the valley during Dogra rule.

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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.

The Kashmiri Pandits Muslims were instructed to identify Pandit homes so they could be systematically targeted for conversion or killing.

Many of the refugee Kashmiri Pandits have been living in abject conditions in refugee camps of Jammu.

Kashmiri Pandits was one of the first persons to help them after which Punjab followed suit.

Scholar Christopher Snedden states that the Kashmiri Pandits made up about 6 per cent of the Kashmir Valley's population in 1947.

Harmukh is traditionally revered by Kashmiri Pandits and in 2009 there was an attempt by them to revive pilgrimages to the site.

Kashmiri Pandits festivals include Shivratri which is one of the major festivals of Kashmiri Pandits.

Navreh or the Kashmiri Pandits lunar new year is an important Pandit festival.

Kashmiri Pandits have a tradition of consuming meat, including mutton and fish, but they obey restrictions laid down by the shastras of not eating the meat of forbidden animals such as beef and pork.