MARGDARSHAN-91 THE ONLY VIABLE FRAMEWORKK FOR RETURN

I RECOGNITION OF GENOCIDE: A FOUNDATIONAL IMPERATIVE

 1. TRUTH BEFORE RETURN: No exiled community can heal or return without ac knowledgement of its trauma. Recognizing the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus is not just a moral obligation, it is the foundation of justice. Without this, return and rehabilita tion become acts of denial and tokenism.

2. VIOLATION OF CIVILIZATIONAL RIGHTS: T he forced exodus was not just ethnic cleansin, it was an attack on a civilizational identity rooted in Kashmir for millennia. Genocide recognition affirms the historical continuity and rights of Kashmiri Hindus in their home land.

3. CORRECTING THE NARRATIVE: The refusal to acknowledge the genocide has enabled historical revisionism and mainstreaming of perpetrators. Only when the truth is formally recognized can the Indian state’s moral legitimacy in addressing Kashmir be restored.

4. LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL IMPERATIVES: Without genocide recognition, policy measures will remain bureaucratic welfare gestures, not rights-based restitutions. Recognition opens pathways for justice under international and Indian law, and places the issue in the domain of transitional justice.
 

II. THE RETURN AND REHABILITATION QUESTION 1. NOT JUST SHELTER, BUT HOMELAND:

 The return of Kashmiri Hindus cannot be reduced to housing projects. It demands a restoration of demographic, political, and cultural presence, backed by security and sovereignty guarantees.

2. COMMUNITY-CENTRIC REHABILITATION: Dispersed rehabilitation equals cultural erasure. Only through clustered, self-administered, and constitutionally empowered settlements in a well demarcated area, can the community survive as a collective entity.

3. SECURITY THROUGH SOVEREIGNTY: T he same forces that caused the genocide are still active. Without institutionalized political power, local security apparatus, and a stake in governance, returnees will remain perpetually vulnerable.

 III. STRATEGIC AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MARGDARSHAN-91

1. MARGDARSHAN-91 AS CIVILIZATIONAL COMPASS: geo-political solution that balances strategic national interests with the community’s survival and rights. of Kashmiri Hindus to live in Kashmir with dignity, security, and self-governance, on the soil of their ancestors.

2. REJECTION OF APPEASEMENT POLITICS: It offers a counter-narrative to the politics of appeasement, pseudo-secularism, and denialism. It places civilizational rights above vote-bank politics, demanding state accountability.

3. STRATEGIC REORDERING OF KASHMIR: Margdarshan-91 envisions a Union Territory within Kashmir, geo-political solution that balances strategic national interests with the community’s survival and rights.

4. TEMPLATE FOR JUSTICE-ORIENTED SOLUTIONS: Unlike fragmented rehabilitation policies, Margdarshan-91 is a vision document that integrates truth, justice, return, and sovereignty into one cohesive framework—making it strategically viable and ethically grounded.

CONCLUSION

Without genocide recognition, there is no justice. Without justice, there can be no real return. Without return, there is no reversal of genocide. The viable return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Hindus is not a logistical challenge, it is a civilizational test for India. Margdar shan-91 offers the only roadmap rooted in reality, righteousness, and national interest. It is time for the Indian state, political class, and civil society to rise above denial and tokenism, and engage with the truth, however inconvenient. Because genocide ignored is genocide continued.

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Courtesy:  SHAILENDRA AIMA   and  Spade A Spade-July 2025