• Mohammad Imran

This paper attempts to explore the comparative notion of home from the perspective of the old and new generations of Tibetans living in Kashmir for the last fifty years. The small group of people, the Tibetan Muslims in Kashmir, have been living in Hawal and Eidgah area of Srinagar and battling with the nuances, ambiguities, and inevitable ‘othering’ tags of dissimilar identities for quite long. The Kashmiris consider this community as Tibetans. However, before 1959 when they were living in Lhasa, they were considered Muslim foreigners. On the other hand, the community itself emphatically believes themselves to be Kashmiri and consider the Kashmir as their motherland. In Old generation some wishes go back to their homeland and considered Kashmir as their second home are less in numbers, and battling for identity more as compared to new generation who are on the road of development and moving forward shows getting assimilated into local culture as place of birth matters. But due to limited availability of assets and problem of un-employment are the biggest obstacles to their social mobility and identity as their identity mainly depends on policies of local government in terms of domicile rights, attitude and equal opportunity in all walks of life and less depends on how their ancestors reminisces the houses where they had once lived as political baggage of the past is not shared among the younger generation nor they are connected to Tibet and Tibetan political movement. With the equal opportunity in all walks of life and domicile rights the new generation can rebuild their lives and future and can resolve their identity crisis in Kashmir.

Tibetans, Exile, Kashmir, identity, Policies and unequal opportunities.

"TIBETANS IN KASHMIR; A COMPERATTIVE STUDY BETWEEN OLD AND NEW GENERATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.889-895, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U15.pdf

"TIBETANS IN KASHMIR; A COMPERATTIVE STUDY BETWEEN OLD AND NEW GENERATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp889-895, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U15.pdf