Kashmiri Hindus, or Pandits, pray during an annual festival at a shrine in Khirbhawani, 30 km east of Srinagar. Every year thousands of displaced Kashmiri Hindus, known as Pandits in Kashmir, gather at the holy shrine in the restive Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to pray for peace and their early return home. More than 200,000 Hindus fled their homes when an armed rebellion broke out in the Himalayan region at the end of 1989. Kashmir, India. June 11, 2008.

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