Preserving the history, culture, and memory of Kashmir.
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A living repository of Kashmir's history, culture, and memory — built by the community, for the community.
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In January 1990, hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits — the indigenous Hindu community of the Kashmir Valley — were forced to flee their homes overnight, in one of the largest forced migrations in post-independence India.
They left behind temples, homes, land, and millennia of culture. Many fled with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The exodus was accompanied by violence, targeted killings, and the systematic erasure of a community's presence from their ancestral homeland.
In the decades since, the world has largely moved on. But the Kashmiri Pandit community — scattered across India, North America, Europe, and beyond — never forgot. And they should not have to carry this memory alone.
The Kashmir Archives was built so that their story — our story — is never lost. So that a child born in the diaspora can find a photograph of the street their grandmother grew up on. So that the record exists, undeniable and permanent.
We also welcome contributions from all communities of Kashmir. But we hold a particular duty to those whose voices have been most silenced.
This archive is an act of remembrance. And remembrance is an act of resistance.
Photographs, documents, audio recordings, video footage, personal diaries, letters, newspaper clippings, maps — in English, Hindi, and Kashmiri.
To get in touch: contact@thekashmirarchives.com