Identity, Religion and Difference in the Borderland District of Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir

This article (part of a special section on South Asian border studies) is an exploration multi-religious ethnic group in the borderland district Poonch Jammu and Kashmir, India. The work focuses Pahari ethnicity looks at how prominent religious identities within this have been continuously aligning themselves along lines post-partition era. Partition Indian subcontinent 1947 acted as major disruption construction identities. evolution national went hand with identities, latter being more pronounced than former. Such fixation socio-cultural political sphere led to changes everyday inter-community relations. Through oral histories other accounts, ethnography understands new set interactions that emerged which shaping while also analysing identity its impact social organisation space neighbourhoods general era.
 Key Words: Borderland, Border, Boundaries, Community, Communalism, Difference, Ethnicity, Identity, Inter-community interaction, Nation, Nation-State, Othering, Religion