Birbal Dhar submitted this entry 2 years ago
The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) 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 from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region located within the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. 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. Prompted by the growth of Islamic militancy in the valley, large numbers left in the exodus of the 1990s. Even so, small numbers remain.Birbal Dhar wrote this 2 years ago
Add your comments - Type in whatever you know about this term, name, place, food, word. You can type things that you know, ancedotes you have heard from people, your ancestors or whatever you would like to catalog for the generations to come