Thread by @Aabhas24

1/n Thread on #TheKashmirFiles
#SadarPranam to Ishvara within you @vivekagnihotri for narrating one of the most painful genocide of last millenniums, which happens to be of #KashmiriPandits

As a keen History Researcher,I have been aware but you brought the zithers in my spine.

2/n Here I'm going to put across my takeaways from #TheKashmirFiles

A)@vivekagnihotri , it was very important to give the background of term "#Aazadi" & how it was highly sinister of the #JNU students to orchestrate it.

It only meant making Kashmir "Dar-Ul-Islam".

3/n One will never know it until they have cared to read the history of #Kashmir during the era of insurgency.

What freedom, those Islamic Gangs were talking of? It was an absolute freedom from "Dar-al-Harb" which was state of India.

4/n So it is important to understand that the #Aazadi gang or #TukdeTukdeGang is knowingly or unknowingly aspiring for complete Islamisation of Kashmir.

Indirectly any such calls of Aazadi are nothing but words of terrorists like Bitta Karate.

Any Aazadi slogan is RED FLAG.

5/n B)The role of "Krishna" by @DarshanKumaar brings forth the classic case of many youth of the day.

Specially it shows that how even whose ancestors have been persecuted, can be and have been brainwashed to become the foot-soldier of the persecutors.

6/n They aren't those who intend to harm Bharat but unfortunately are made to believe that "Humanism" lies in standing with narratives of those terrorists like Yasin Malik.

But the ilks of Umar Khalid actually intend harm to Bharat. Check this thread

https://twitter.com/Aabhas24/status/1040641115815198720?s=20&t=2twTXSeLn5K4k1elN7lxUQ

7/n The role of Krishna (@DarshanKumaar ) also establishes the power an awakened youth holds. It was @jkd18 who said that Krishna's monologue reminded her of me, but I would say he represents many youth who once fell in the trap of "Laal Salam".

https://twitter.com/jkd18/status/1502474319519121410?s=20&t=Maz5t_-R_Xw5jERqbVcw2w

8/n C) The role of Pushkar Nath (@AnupamPKher ) gave us one hell of a reality check.

It made us feel the agony of many such men who just vanished away carrying many tales of India's biggest religious genocides.

We know nothing of them.

9/n They are the people who only saw the "pen" as the sword to respond to the wrath of the real sword.

His performance in my eyes shall keep haunting us for long. It will haunt us for doing nothing.

10/n @AnupamPKher 's role on the deathbed,pushed multiple emotions through my cerebrum.

Lying on the Cinema Recliners, at once so many cries began to echo in my head. Indeed nothing can be more disheartening than being made refugee in own "Rashtra".

11/n That too when your ancestors are the one who gave to this "Rashtra" the best of intellectual capital.

The other part where @AnupamPKher gets out just to lick the biscuit to fight the hunger, & by the side an old lady dies singing memories of Kashmir just killed me.

12/n I was shaken to the core.

There would be so many who would have seen there daughters being gang raped, children slaughtered & what not, yet they would have not picked the gun, but only done the needful of writing 6000 letters.

& then we are told, insurgency was reaction.

13/n D) The system was so compromised at the hands of those Islamic Terrorists, that even those who desired to help through power they held could not.

#BrahmaDutt @mithunda_off , reminds us of that situation so well. He pulled too well the helplessness of those who could help.

14/n The case was very clear. Farooq Abdullah resigned a day before 19/1/1990 & Jagmohan could reach only after two days.

The Kashmiri Pandits were left indeed either of three:
a)Convert
b)Leave without there women
c)Be killed

15/n The press built the narrative to show the Islamic Terrorists as the oppressed and what happened to the #KashmiriPandits was inevitable.

Irony, and ironies are what bust out of this balloon of liberalism.

16/n E) It was so beautiful of @vivekagnihotri to pull in the glorious past of the land of Sharda.

While #Haider showed the great #MartandMandir as "Shaitan ka Gufa", Vivek takes the side of truth and says that it signifies the great architecture & happened to be hub of "Gyan."

17/n My chest swelled with pride, when @DarshanKumaar says that "Kashmir" was formed by the Tapasya of Rishi Kashyap.

The land was indeed called "Kashyapa-pura". The Greeks called it Kaspapyros (Hecataeus),Kaspatyros (Herodotus), Kaspeiria (Ptolemy).

18/n One who has read & understood RigVeda would also understand that the people who observed the sky, environment were the Brahmins.

That's were Vedanga Jyotisha comes from.

And later, the Kashmiri Pandits established institutions and took the path ahead.

19/n They gave brilliant philosophers Vasugupta, Utpala , Abhinavagupta, Kshemaraja, Anandavardhana.

Panini was a great Grammarian came from the land of Kashmir. Everyone knows that his system is most computer complaint.

20/n Charaka, one of the pioneers of Medicine was a #KashmiriPandit

The list is so so long. Now staying in ruins, Sharada Peeth was one of the most globally celebrated Educational Institute.

21/n There was a reason why Hiuen Tsang and Aukang, (visited Bharat 631- 751 AD), say in their memoir, that no learned person was considered academically mature till he had participated in debates and discourse with Pandits of Kashmir.

22/n Hiuen Tsang writes, “People of Kashmir are culturally acclaimed as well as lovers of Education. For centuries, Education and Knowledge have been a matter of reverence and honor.”

23/n Let me quote Al Beruni.

“Kashmir has been the most significant Education center of Hindu scholars. Knowledge seekers from far and wide,visit Kashmir to learn Sanskrit and many of them get attracted to the panoramic beauty and scenic landscape surrounding and settle here.”

24/n There was a period when it had even surpassed Kashi as center of learning for Sanskrit. The scholars from Kashi had to come to Kashmir to complete their education.

Today ,during the yagopavit ceremony in Kashi, child is made to walk 7 steps towards Kashmir’s direction.

25/n There existed a massive Sanskrit University run under guidance of Pandit Purshottamji Koul in Kashmir located a bit away from Shrinagar (14th century). Students from across the world would come here for learning Sanskrit.

26/n This university provided free Sanskrit Education to one and all,hence the symbol of Kashmir's dedication towards seeking & spreading Gyan. Shrichand, son of Guru Nanak Dev ji had acquired education here. Even Dara Shikoh had also learned Sanskrit from here.

27/n F) The other important point addressed by @vivekagnihotri was "the role of Sufis" in forced conversions in the valley of Kashmir.

I recall on two incidences. One was when @AnupamPKher explains @DarshanKumaar how the Hindus of Kashmir were forcefully converted by Sufis.

28/n The second instance is when Krishna @DarshanKumaar talks of "Mir Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Araqi" aka"Mir Syed Muhammad Musavi Isfahani."

He was part of the order of Twelver Shia Sufis in Jammu and Kashmir who largely brought Islamisation

29/n The likes of Bitta Karat did exactly the same thing in 1990 what those Sufis had done in 15th century. They also gave three options:
Convert, run or get killed. They raped thousands of Kashmiri Hindus, destroyed Mandirs and Learning Centers.

30/n It was so great that the Monologue of @DarshanKumaar had mention of primary source, which is his own biography, whose manuscript is available in the library of J&K Government ( @ extn number 551).

31/n The islamisation of Kashmir by force became the #MissionKashmir very extensively in the era of "Sikandar Butshikan – Sikandar, the Iconoclast". He ruled between 1389-1413 AD.

As his name suggests he was known to be destroying Vigrahas, Mandirs & make Hindus minority.

32/n As per the Kashmiri Historian Jonraja (15th century), no idol remained, even in the privacy of homes.

He tells us that Martand, Vijayesvara, Cakradhara , Suresvari, Varaha, and Tripuresvara Mandirs to have been destroyed by Sikandar.

33/n So the Martand Mandir which was addressed as "Shaitan ka Gufa" in #Haider by @VishalBhardwaj , was exactly the opinion of Sikandar Butshikan – Sikandar, the Iconoclast.

You need source right. Go through this paper: academia.edu/42710523/Kings…

34/n According to Hasan Ali, 3 more prime Mandirs were destroyed by Sikandar:
a)Mandir at Parihaspore
b)Tarapitha Mandirs at Iskander Pora
c) Maha Shri Temple

Read "A Chronicle Of Medieval Kashmir Kashinath Pandit" for details. Link: archive.org/details/AChron…

35/n Hasan Ali gives us details that those who refused to convert were massacred by Sikandar. Hasan Ali notes that "Janeu" of the slain Pandits of Kashmir weighed to around three ass-loads.

You can find all details in above mentioned sources.

36/n And hence that's how the land of Hindus was forcibly made into an Islamic State.

@DarshanKumaar 's monologue was absolutely correct where he talks of forced circumcision. All this have been spoken by Hasan Ali.

37/n And again the inspiration of this idol-breaker Sikandar was Mir Muhammad Hamadani, a big #Sufi of his time.

Hamdani aspired the creation of a monochromatic society based on Sharia & Islam being the common denominator.

There are various sources for same.

38/n Source 1: jstor.org/stable/24754113
Source 2: jstor.org/stable/41927246
Source 3: academia.edu/42709412/Brahm…

All of them have primary sources mentioned for Sufi Hamdani's anti-Hindu stands.

39/n It was Sufi Hamdani who along with fellow Islamic scholars of time pushed to Sikandar to put an end to the Hindu religious customs of Kashmir.

He wanted Sikandar to end them like how storms destroys woods, or locusts do to rice plants.

Read this academia.edu/42710523/Kings…

40/n Another inspiration of Sikandar was Suhaka Bhatt (Saifuddin after conversion).

Jonraja & Hasan Ali give all details about him too.