Kashmiri Pandits
Hindu community native to the Kashmir Valley
Kashmiri Pandits
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, located within the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri Pandits are Hindu Kashmiris native to the Kashmir Valley, and the only remaining indigenous Hindu population in the region after the large-scale conversion of the Valley's population to Islam beginning in the medieval period, comprising about 6% of the total Kashmiri population on the eve of Indian independence. Prompted by the growth of Islamic militancy in the valley, large numbers left in the exodus of the 1990s. Even so, small numbers remain.
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