The return of the Kashmiri Hindu population which fled in the 1990s should not turn into a colonisation of Kashmir.

Dr Mona Bhan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies at Syracuse University. She is the co-editor... of HIMALAYA, the journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. Bhan has authored Counterinsurgency, Development, and the Politics of Identity: From Warfare to Welfare? (Routledge); and co-authored Climate without Nature: A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene (Cambridge). She co-edited a book on Kashmir, Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (UPenn), with scholars from the Critical Kashmir Studies collective of which she is a founder member. She has also written extensively on issues of resource and territorial sovereignties, military and corporate humanitarianism, environmentalism, gender, race, and tourism.
The return of the Kashmiri Hindu population which fled in the 1990s should not turn into a colonisation of Kashmir.