Mahesh Kaul
Intolerance and communalism are interrelated .One breeds the other and these lead to the destruction of the original cultures that emerge after the interaction of the communities and societies with the bounties of nature present in their natural habitat. Intolerance towards the centuries old civilisational moorings and heritage by the forces who want to thrust the alien agenda based on totalitarian mindset wrecks the entire social structure and indulges in destruction of the place consciousness. That is what has exactly happened in Kashmir; where continuous onslaughts from the Jihadi forces based on communalism have unhinged the Sanskrit civilisational moorings of the Indian nation.
Subversion of the Vedic foundations of the Kashmir Valley was well designed by the Islamic radicalisation based on communalism much earlier than in any part of the world. When the communal assertion of Islam to over-run the Valley failed in their objective of completely annihilating the Sanskrit expressions and foundations of Kashmir; it adopted the nuanced strategy of proselytisation and named it as the Sufi movement. In reality, it was the radical arm of Islam propounded by Sayeed Sufis to eat the vitals of Hinduism in the Valley and render it ineffective from within.
Naturally, Kashmiri Pandits being the practitioners of the Vedic Sanskritic way of life were the prime targets. As the enemy knew it with much clarity than the present day mandarins of national policy in the Indian state that if Kashmir has to be taken away from the Indian national mainstream then a severe blow has to be thrust upon the Kashmiri Pandit community. It served to achieve all the objectives of the radicalism in Islam. It helped the Jihadis to prepare the breeding ground for the Nizam-e-Mustafa and initiate the process of Darul Islam in the Northern Frontier in the Himalayas. Enemy knew well from centuries that if Hinduism and the sense of Indian nation has to be destroyed then dismantling of the Himalayas is the foremost objective of the Jihadi operation.
Islamic Jihad launched a gradual campaign. In the initial years of its unholy advent in the Valley during the 14th century it indulged in sabotage and once it succeeded in disturbing the spiritual peace of the Sanskrit society, it took over the reins of power by indulging in wholesale proselytisation. The reason of its success in achieving the subversion of the Sanskrit Kashmir lies in the fact that people in rest of India could not gauge the ferocity of Muslim communalism in Kashmir. The reason being the lack of insight into the political undercurrents of the Abhramic religion based on subjugating the infidels.
This process didn’t end here but it continued ever after the Indian nation got independence from imperialist British at the cost of the partition of the motherland. On the contrary communalism based on Jihadi radicalism was accommodated by the Indian state in the nation building exercise that shaped the perception of Indian state that Jammu and Kashmir can only be part of the Indian republic when the sub nationalism and separatism of the Muslim majority of Kashmir is accommodated in the constitutional set up as the political imperative.
In a way in 1947 Indian state accepted Jammu and Kashmir as the separate sphere of Muslim influence, when already Pakistan was created as the Islamic nation to cater to the communal and separatist demand of the Indian Muslims. By agreeing to accept Jammu and Kashmir as the separate sphere of Muslim influence within the constitutional domain of India, Indian state accepted to nourish another Pakistan with special status under the aegis of Article 370 within the Indian body politic.
The fallout of this fallacy has turned to be of immense magnitude as it has weakened the so called secularism that is the guiding principle of the Indian state to govern India. It has created a political class in India that defends this anomaly without knowing its implications on the nation building. They have failed to realise that nurturing the seed of Muslim communalism in Jammu and Kashmir under the garb of so called special status is the recipe for the balkanisation of Indian nation. What is more alarming is that there is no left, right and centre in Indian politics when it comes to giving concessions to Kashmiri Muslim sub nationalism based on communalism. All political formations have failed to understand that it has subjected all the non Muslim minorities of the State as hostages to communalism based on Jihad.
It won’t be an exaggeration to say that what is happening in Kashmir or for that matter in Jammu and Kashmir under the garb of Azadi is the expression of Muslim communalism for another partition of India having tacit support of the vast Muslim populace in India. As it suits the Indian Muslims tactically. They may be a minority in rest of India but it is a significant minority. They have never challenged the Kashmiri Muslim separatism and its onslaught of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir. What they cannot achieve themselves in rest of India is being achieved by them in Kashmir through their counterparts. As they are a majority there and are safeguarded by the separatist provisions in the Constitution, so it can be said that what is happening in Kashmir is not only aided and abetted by Pakistan but has the blessings of the Indian Muslims too. The game becomes murkier when the global Jihadi operatives like ISIS have already infiltrated the rank and file of the Muslim societies.
It is in this back ground that the religious cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits should be analysed. Many myths and false notions were propagated to tarnish the microscopic community of Kashmiri Pandits that had no control over the power structure and administration of the State and country. The reason being that the Indian state bailed out Kashmiri Muslim communalism as ‘Kashmiriyat’- a misnomer for pseudo secularism and allowed the Muslim communalists to take refuge under its garb, which was in fact a sugar coated poison to persecute the already marginalised Kashmiri Pandits.
Year 1990 was the last nail in the coffin, when all masks used over the years to persecute the Kashmiri Pandits were thrown away and open war was decaled against this community as it represented the Sanskrit moorings of the civilisational Indian nation. Indian state failed to realise that religious cleansing of this Sanskrit community was basically an assault on the very existence of the Indian nation and the signal that dent was made in the Northern Frontier in the Himalayas.
Indian state to this day has not accepted that a continuous civilisational war is being fought in Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmiri Pandits are its frontline victims and soldiers who though unarmed; fought valiantly by acting as the ambassadors of the Indian nation in more than two decades of exile to expose the real intent of Jihad in Kashmir. This denial has cost Indian state dearly as this war of attrition is spreading in other parts of India as Jihadis are making national and international alliances to wreck India by eating the vitals of its body politic.
(To be continued)
