Amarnath Yatra: A Local Tradition Supported By Kashmiri Muslims, Recalls Septuagenarian Pandit

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A septuagenarian Kashmiri Pandit reflects on the Amarnath Yatra's origins, highlighting local Muslim support and changes in security and other arrangements over the decades.

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00:30we are going to be able to do this.

00:33However, this is an interesting story.

00:36Today, we have a Kashmiri Pandit,

00:38Jitandar Peer,

00:40who is a retired government employee.

00:42Both years ago,

00:44he has been here in the planning department.

00:46He has been in 1968,

00:48when he was 7 years old,

00:50he has been his grandmother with him.

00:52So, this story,

00:54we will be able to do this.

00:56Sir, welcome to ETV.

00:58So, let me tell you,

01:00when you shared your story,

01:02I started your story in 1968.

01:04So, let me tell you about it.

01:06I was learning about it.

01:08My father told me about his mother

01:10to go to Amvarnath.

01:12At that time,

01:14it was a local journey.

01:16It was not so close.

01:18There were 2-4 departments.

01:20There were 2-4 departments.

01:22There were 1st-Aid,

01:241st-Aid,

01:251st-Aid,

01:27about 10-Aid.

01:28From Pint A up,

01:29A to Z.

01:30From Pint A up,

01:31a-2,

01:32either,

01:33haveersack,

01:34tent,

01:35goda,

01:36wood,

01:37water,

01:38they were all arranging,

01:39and there was no longer longer,

01:41not so much.

01:42It was not just a band idea.

01:43It was a local journey.

01:45It was a town and family journey.

01:47It was not enough.

01:48After that, when I graduated in the government, I was posting to the Department of Stress and Relation.

02:02We were talking about the job registration camp.

02:06Dr. Ali Jan's brother, Umar Jan, DC.

02:09We had an order for DC to open it.

02:19It was 10,000.

02:22This is 1983.

02:27So as it was during a meeting called the

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03:05I don't have to open the doors, but I don't have to open the doors, but I don't have to open the doors.

03:11However, there are 6 months here.

03:15There are no new ones.

03:19What was the connection of security today?

03:22At that time, it was so much?

03:24the local police, which were in the villages, the jurisdiction of the Kangan

03:32jurisdiction of Swanamara had two or four of them.

03:38It was more than the first time.

03:43The armed police and the other CRP and BRP.

03:47When was the security?

03:53From 1989, where we started our Palaion, this happened at that time.

04:01Was there a transit camp here?

04:04No, nothing.

04:06The only one camp was at noon one.

04:08At noon one, there was an ordinary registration.

04:11And the journey that was today, or at that time, is not possible.

04:17Our local Muslims are here.

04:20They are here.

04:23If you have a Pitu, or a Pala, or a Pala,

04:27they are here.

04:29They are here.

04:31They are here.

04:33They are here.

04:35So did you tell me that Kashmiri people are here?

04:38They are here.

04:41In other places,

04:44in India,

04:47international level,

04:49this has been more public.

04:53So,

04:54it has been more public.

04:55It has been more public.

04:57It has been more public.

04:59It has been more public.

05:01a country.

05:02It has been more public.

05:03It has been more public.

05:04It has been more public.

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05:34There was a tree, a jungle, a harabara, but today it is not Kashmir.

05:40At that time, how was the role of the government in this journey?

05:45What was the concern of the DC?

05:49The concern of the DC is not the concern of the Ganderpal.

05:52It is not the concern of the Ganderpal.

05:55The jurisdiction of the Gawara Tunnel is on the Sunwar Bridge.

06:00That is a small car.

06:03What do you see from the Gawara Tunnel?

06:06The views of the Gawara Tunnel are on the ground?

06:11What is the concern of the Gawara Tunnel?

06:17What is the concern of the Gawara Tunnel?

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06:51. . . . . .

07:21Thank you very much.

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