No special privileges. Only an extension of the provisions of the Ranbir Code, that were put in, in the first place, to protect Dogras and Pandits from being dispossessed by entrepreneurial Punjabis and eased out of their jagirs. The Muslims were not even in the picture.
Is anyone here aware that identical provisions apply in Himachal, in Sikkim, in Arunachal Pradesh, in total, about half a dozen states in India? I just don't feel like doing the legwork for ill-informed posters any more.
I confess, I am not an absolute expert on the Ranbir code but from what I know it is based on and is more or less the IPC with a different name with some provisions here that's not there and vice versa.
Also, if I am not wrong, Andra Pradesh does have some parts of the IPC ammended, they just call it the IPC. Tamil Nadu and UP too have a few different provisions set in their version of the IPC.
Some differences between IPC and RPC off the top of my head.
Threatening a person to give false evidence isn't punishable in the RPC.
Carrying arms in mass gatherings is not punishable in the RPC as it is in the IPC.
Something about dowry.
Anyways.
Clearly, what a privilege the RPC is/was for its enacters, seeing as how it couldn't even prevent the eventual persecution and exodus of the Kashmiri pundits.
How nice it would be if people did their homework. Women are deprived of these rights, if they marry non-Kashmiri men; settling anywhere has nothing to do with it. A man can marry outside, and can settle outside and retain his land-owning rights.
I knew about it, I just didn't feel I needed to expound on it for some troll.
But let's for argument's sake say that I didn't know and I was rightly schooled. So what?
Your "correction" still doesn't refute my initial statement, i.e. kashmiris having the unjust
RIGHT to reject assimilation.
Which other state forces its people to stay within in such a fashion?
Just imagine.
Donald Trump has been a member of this forum all these years, and we never even guessed.
Sir, I didn't expect you of all people to resort to ad hominems.
Is it wrong for an Indian to expect every other Indian to follow the same constitution for which we as Indians celebrate the Republic Day?
Extracted at gunpoint, presumably, from a Central Government kicking and screaming every millimetre of the way.
What a big and pointy nose you have, Grandpa.
The point is, it is extracted. Why does the "how" matter?
All the ensuing nonsense could be easily avoided if one just chooses to assimilate but no, apparently that's just too much to ask.
What was that about "Physician, heal thyself"?
Of course, we have been to Kashmir ourselves, and we say what we say from actual knowledge of the ground realities.
In reference to the troll I initially replied to, I believe the saying should go more like, "Neem Hakeem, Khatra e Jaan".
It's the information age sir.
The Kashmir issue has been covered ad nauseam. Anyone can gauge what the ground realities are in Kashmir provided one does not suffer from confirmation bias and is actually willing to learn.
It is definitely not necessary for one to first stand on Kashmiri soil and eat a pakistani mortar shrapnel on the face to "know the ground realities".
True.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
What is "right", sir?
At this point, I doubt anyone is in the right; the side which is the least wrong is maybe, probably the closest to right.