ABSTRACT
It is thankless-and dangerous-to be a Muslim Kashmiri who wants to stay part of India, but a small minority of Kashmiris, mainly wealthy merchants and tourist operators who have seen their once-thriving businesses dwindle to nothing, distrust the mujahedin and prefer civic calm, even under Delhi’s harsh rule, to endless insurrection or an independent state that they fear would be run by erratic Islamic radicals.
