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Many Kashmiri Pandit women were kidnapped, raped and murdered, throughout the time of exodus. [138] [121] The local organisation of Hindus in Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS), after carrying out a survey in 2008 and 2009, estimated 357 Hindus were killed in Kashmir in 1990. [139]
The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) [7] are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group [8] from the Kashmir Valley, [9] [10] located within the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Pandits fled en masse from the state after which their houses were burnt by militants and their artwork and sculptures were destroyed. [17] While cases of systematic rape of Kashmiri Muslim women by the Indian military are well documented, the details and scale of sexual violence against Kashmiri Pandit women remain yet to be researched. [18]
"Women in Kashmir have suffered enormously since the separatist struggle became violent in 1989–90. Like the women in other conflict zones, they have been raped, tortured, maimed, and killed. A few of them were even jailed for years together. Kashmiri women are among the worst sufferers of sexual violence in the world.
On 14 April 1990, a Kashmiri Pandit nurse from the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar was gang-raped and then beaten to death by terrorists. Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) took responsibility for the crime, accusing Bhat of informing the police about the presence of militants in the hospital.
The largest community within the Kashmiri Hindus are the Kashmiri Pandits (Kashmiri Brahmins), [8] [9] who are divided into several gotras, [10] such as the priests (gor or bhasha Bhatta), astrologers (Zutshi), and workers (Karkun). [11] The Wani are historically Banias, with subcastes, such as the Kesarwani. [12]
Behat Bibi and Dehat Bibi were daughters of a Kashmiri Pandit who was a village patwari by profession and had converted to Islam under the influence of the Sufi saint. The exalted state of their spirituality and the depth and breadth of their knowledge is testified by the fact that the two girls became the only known female khalifas of Nund Reshi.
Taranga (Kashmiri pronunciation:) is the typical headscarf worn by Kashmiri Pandit women until the late 1960s. [1]Now its only place is as a ritual and by tradition to be worn in a classical way on the bride's head as a bridal gear on her wedding day.