'Sikh presence in Kashmir has a long history'

On the absence of research on the community, and why Sikhs decided to stay back in the Valley in the early 1990s

- Majid Maqbool

Why has there been no scholarly research on the history and politics of Sikhs in Kashmir?

The very title of the book, Invisible Minority, stems from the complete absence of academic and scholarly engagement with the Sikh community in Kashmir. It highlights a larger issue in Kashmir: the choice of which communities are studied and how history is documented. The lack of substantial work can be partly attributed to the fact that there were no scholars from the community documenting their own history. In my case, it took a woman from the community to take on this task, which, in itself, was not easy.