#India-Kashmir

[esha-kode]

ceasefire! 🇵🇸

[strathshepard]

Weavers showcasing their intricately handwoven work, Kashmir, 1961 by Slim Aarons

[3025-jasmines]

because I am also Indian, I want to also point this out. freedom for colonized people everywhere also means freedom for Kashmiris that are under a brutal Indian occupation. the right to self-determination for all colonized people everywhere, from Palestine to Kashmir to Ireland

a good book to read to learn more about the relationship between Israel and India is “Hostile Homelands” by Azad Essa. India is looking to Israel treatment of Palestinians as a blueprint for its own crimes against Kashmiris, Muslims and Dalits. India is also complicit in furthering Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine - the Port of Haifa is currently partly owned by Adani Ports & SEZ, the founder of which is one of the wealthiest men in India, Gautam Adani (won’t come as a surprise that Adani is also very close to Modi and the BJP)

[bauliya]

here's the caravan's 42 page report on the murder and torture of civilians in Kashmir by the Indian army that the Indian government has asked them to take down as of 13/02/24. Please read and download and circulate.

[timetravellingkitty]

KASHMIR MASTERLIST

Background

History of Kashmir from 250 BC to 1947 [to understand Kashmir's multi religious history and how we got to 1947]

Broad timeline of events from 1947 to the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in 2019 (BBC) [yes, BBC. hang on just this once]

Human Rights Watch report based on a visit to Indian controlled Kashmir in 1998 [has a summary, background, human rights abuses and recommendations]

Another concise summary of the issue

Sites to check out

Kashmir Action - news and readings

The Kashmiriyat - independent news site about ongoings in Kashmir

FreePressKashmir - same thing as previous

Kashmir Law and Justice Project - analysis of international law as it applies to Kashmir

Stand with Kashmir - awareness, run by diaspora Kashmiris (both Pandit and Muslim)

These two for more readings and resources on Kashmir: note that the petitions and donation links are from 2019 and also has explainers on the background (x) (x)

To read

Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? - about women in the Kashmiri resistance movement and the 1991 mass rape of Kashmiri women in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora by Indian armed forces

Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir - a compliation of writings about the lives of Kashmiris under Indian domination

Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation - how Kashmir was made "integral" to the Indian state and examines state-building policies (excerpt)

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir - about the social and legal dimensions of India's occupation

On India's scapegoating of Kashmiri Pandits, both by Kashmiri Pandits (x) (x)

Of Gardens and Graves - translations of Kashmiri poems

Social media

kashiirkoor

museumofkashmir

kashmirpopart

posh_baahar

readingkashmir

standwithkashmir and their backup account standwithkashmir2 (main account is banned in India wonder why)

kashmirlawjustice

kashmirawareness

jammugenocide (awareness about the 1947 genocide abetted by Maharaja Hari Singh and the RSS)

To watch

Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom parts 1 and 2 - a documentary about the Kashmiri freedom struggle (filmed by a Kashmiri Pandit)

Paradise Lost - BBC documentary about how India and Pakistan's dispute over the valley has affected the people

Kashmir - Valley of Tears - the exhaustion with the conflict in the post nineties

In the Shade of Fallen Chinar - art as a form of Kashmiri resistance

Human rights violations (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Land theft and dispossession (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

A note: I know annoying Desis are going to see this and go "Oh but Kashmir is Pakistan's because-" and "Kashmir is an integral part of India because-". I must make my stance clear: Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris, the natives, no matter what religion they belong to. Neither Pakistan nor India get to decide the matter of Kashmiri sovereignty. The reasons given by both parties as to why Kashmir should be a part of either nation are bullshit. The United Nations itself recognises Kashmir as a disputed region, so I will not entertain dumbfuckery. I highly encourage fellow Indians especially to take the time to go through and properly understand the violence the government enacts on Kashmiris. I've also included links to learn more about Kashmiri culture because really, what do the rest of us know about it? Culturally and linguistically Kashmir differs so much from the rest of India and Pakistan (also the amount of fetishization of Kashmiri women...yikes). This is not just a bilateral issue between these two nations over land, this actually affects the people of Kashmir. And if you're still here, thank you for reading

[molkolsdal]

Arsalan Khan

[himejoshibutch]

to all Indians on this website, just because the trade union has refused to load and unload weapons to Isr*el from Indian ports doesn't mean the fight is over. we still need to pressurize the government to demand permanent ceasefire and to stop funding Isr*el in every way possible. so keep protesting, keep boycotting, keep donating to Palestinians. and remember we still need to fight for decolonization of Kashmir. so please dont stop talking about this!!

[anarchistin]

We desperately need to reconsider our West versus non-West understanding of the geography of colonialisms. The years 1947 and 1948 mark the creation of the nation-states of India and Israel. These years scar Kashmiris and Palestinians.

Palestinians have been dispossessed of territory and many forced into exile. Kashmir was handed over from an unpopular ruler without the legitimacy of popular vote to the Indian state on October 26, 1947.

A condition of that accession is the United Nations resolution of 1948 for referendum or plebiscite, never facilitated by the Indian state. Israel and India thus inaugurate the colonial occupations of Palestine and Kashmir.

[loveisinthebat]

Teeny

[zegalba]

Steve McCurry: Jammu and Kashmir, India (1999)

[secondwheel]

Pahadon mein (2024)

[mahoutoons]

hello and welcome to "rebecca's s@nghi chronicles" where i talk about the tine i fought s@nghis on twitter dot com.

it started when i posted this tweet speaking up on the indian army's atrocities against kashmiris

s@nghis somehow found this tweet and started camping on it. below are their greatest hits

baby's first anti national allegation.

"go to pakistan" very original

"b-b-but what about x??" also if the second person found out i'm an indian christian they'd bring out the ricebag allegations. but sure, continue to pretend to care about pakistani christians.

tagging the fucking police like that's supposed to do anything like bro i don't even live in india. i'd love to see delhi police try to arrest me from all the way in australia

and when i make fun of them they start talking like anime villains.

today has... certainly been a day. i spent the day before my birthday fighting s@nghis which is.. pretty productive. but yeah, i guess my first major twitter controversy was... speaking up for kashmir.

btw, free kashmir. and if you disagree feel free to block me.

[workersolidarity]

🇮🇳🇵🇸 🚨

KASHMIRI INDIANS RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE ON INTERNATIONAL AL-QUDS DAY

📹 Scenes from a rally held in solidarity with Palestinians under siege and bombardment in the Gaza Strip in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, in far-northwestern India, on Friday April 5th, 2024, celebrating International Al-Quds Day (occupied Jerusalem).

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[chaiaurchaandni]

if u wanna learn more about kashmir + it's resistance against indian occupation + kashmiri struggles for an independent state, might i recommend @ kashmirarchive on instagram

+ @ kashmirawareness for news updates on kashmir

[kailash-se-birha]

Islamic invaders raided and burned down a Buddhist University destroying centuries of knowledge accumulation and slaughtering monks.

The Dalit Voice: How do I indict Brahmins for this and twist it into Hindu v/s Buddhist

The twitter user in the attached tweet quoted some primary sources from Tibetan Buddhist texts and historical records:

Her sources: A Note on the Antiquity of Chittagong, Tibetan works Pagsam Jon-Zañ of Sumpa Khan-po and Kahbab Dun-dan of Lama Tara Natha.— By Sarat Chandra Das, C.I.E., Rai Bahadur.

The cultural continuum between Trika Shaivism and Tibetan Buddhism resembles two rivers converging, sharing their currents and wisdom. These traditions echo a parallelism of non-dualism, inner realization, and the path to transcendence, weaving a tapestry of spiritual resonance across time and space.

[molkolsdal]

Franz Aberham

Padum, Zanskar, India - August, 15, 1994: To celebrate the independence of India on 12 August, all of Padum are dressed in festive clothes, and the young women are wearing brocade cloaks.