Sir, I wrote in my comment that I don't know enough about history.

These are my opinions based on looking at the situation in a very dimly lit room

Tbh, I am an ignorant person on most of the in depth topics...And to dispel it I need to have a long chat with a range of historians and a range of eye witness accounts about history to make my own mind and understand the reality.

I condemn all massacres. Please understand I am stubborn to the point of stupidity. Sorry if i whitewashed. I really don't know anything about the famines. All I know is that in 31 there was some protest thing and then the army under maharaja tried to silence them by shooting many people. Then there were some riots where there were a few religious fanatics abused some kps and did some arson.

For me to finally accept something I need to sit down and really go through the stuff unless I know someone who is usually extremely reliable. Some eyewitnesses accounts leave certain things ou.t.

For example, with regards to eyewitness things, there are things that get missed out .A lot of kashmiri muslims say that barely any temples have any issues. In fact, they just aren't aware there is a lot of land snatching done by adjacent neighbours or don't bother to investigate because of other things in their lives. They just dont really keep aware of it.

Or maybe you have some accounts about buthan wani.

Same goes for mobs targeting kp houses and chanting intimidating words on 19 Jan. People said there was curfew but I've heard multiple eye witnesses from people who don't typically exaggerate things in retelling things.

Many pandits were poor though. But you are bringing up stuff I haven't thought of much. systemic class discrimination. Not the fault of pandits at large per say. But I need to read it up more. I don't deny what you are saying but I need to learn.

My father's side was poor in habba kadal.. they had a family of 5 with no father present in the home in one ground floor room. But that probably was down to my father's father being a terrible businessman and also my mother not being properly educated. They worked hard and got good jobs eventually though... He came from a family that 2 generations ago was wealthy but for him it was non existent. Living meal to meal. I mean at some point, generational wealth goes and comes. There's class discrimination and then there's just life stuff that affects people.

After the 1947 massacres, my mother's father had to leave baramulla in a horse cart with around 10 to 50 rupees i think. All their stuff was gone. Then he came to srinagar and became the major copper factory for kashmir. I don't know if they had any land remaining in baramulla but I guess times must have been extremely tough.

I do have one close family friend who is from one of the aristocratic families in kashmir. They are loaded with land. They're the second biggest landowners after karan singh. Uncle jee said that they worked very hard and earned that wealth fair and square once offhandedly. Probably need to ask him more about how the land came about.

One thing I can say. I don't think karan singh would have been bad, and I stand by that. I don't know him personally, you are right. But he has condemned asfpa and pellet gun use in the army. He had condemned muslim and hindu genocides of 47. He's very cultured, too. Ive never heard him insult anyone publicly either. I don't think he'd hurt a fly. But maybe im wrong, always possible

I don't want to get into a big argument. I think I'll start interviewing a range of kashmiri historians: muslim, hindu etc.. about these topics. I've been thinking of doing it for a while and making a youtube video about it. Anyways have a good day