How do societies come to terms with dispossession, loss, nomadic existence, and protracted displacement? What does it mean to be a refugee in one's own state? Centring on these questions, the current volume seeks to explore the lives of the Kashmiri Pandits - the Hindu Pandit minority of Kashmir Valley - and their experience of forced migration and the conflict over Jammu and Kashmir. Since 1989, Jammu and Kashmir has been affected by conflict between the Indian ...