"Survival Is Now Our Politics": Kashmiri Hindu Community Identity and the Politics of Homeland

Duschinski examines the construction of Kashmiri Hindu collective identity through community discourse in the 1990s, focusing on how this discourse framed the issue of return to the homeland. Kashmiri Hindu community discourse articulates with Hindu nationalist discourse by emphasizing the superiority of Hindu religious and cultural tradition, the decline of Hindu culture, the loss of Hindu homeland, the fear of encroachment by Muslims and other poor and plebeian classes, and the desire for special recognition by the state.