Studies that prioritize verbal sources of information over other nonverbal sources to retrieve the past often overlook the entirety of what transpired. Documents do not encompass the lives of people, particularly those who were victims of traumatic events such as the insurgency of 1989 in the Kashmir valley. Minority communities from Kashmir were then forced to flee as a result of violence and brutal killings, and mute artifacts became their loyal companions and the last tangible connection to the lost homeland. In looking at the discourse of these silent artifacts, this article focuses on the objects that were carried by internally displaced Kashmiris, to show how these people have preserved their lost home, endangered culture, and identity by carefully carrying away such Kashmiri artifacts. We also examine how different generations of survivors perceive these objects and the memories held within them. By focusing on these tangible objects and the material memory they invoke, we highlight how alternate sources become reservoirs of untold histories and preserve fragments of the past that were not narrated earlier due to the marginalization of communities and the politics of publishing in India.

将口头信息来源优先于其他非语言来源以检索过去的研究往往忽略了所发生的全部情况。文件不包括人们的生活，尤其是那些遭受创伤事件的受害者，例如i1989年克什米尔山谷的叛乱。来自克什米尔的少数民族社区随后因暴力和野蛮杀戮而被迫逃离，无声的文物成为他们的忠实伙伴，也是与失落家园的最后有形联系。在审视这些无声文物的话语时，本文重点关注国内流离失所的克什米尔人携带的物品，以展示这些人如何通过小心携带这些克什米尔文物来保护他们失去的家园、濒临灭绝的文化和身份。我们还研究了不同世代的幸存者如何看待这些物体以及其中的记忆。通过关注这些有形的物体和它们调用的物质记忆，