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AbstractThese field notes present personal reflections and observations from the author's visit to Srinagar in June 2017, where he was working as an intern with the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons. The author's nascent understanding of India's attempts to assimilate the Kashmir Valley into the Indian Union was heavily influenced by the 2016 uprising in the Valley following the death of the Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Muzzafar Wani. The paper argues that the spatial manifestations of Indian occupation stimulate resistance among Kashmiris rather than engendering submission.

In this article, I describe my public history project seeking to transform a street in Connaught Place, New Delhi, into a militarised Srinagar marketplace. Through this phenomenological project, I aim to make Hindu, middle- class, upper-middle-caste Indians realise that the Indian presence in the Kashmir Valley is a colonial, military occupation. Through this, I want them to reconsider India's claims of being a secular, liberal-democracy. To contextualise my intervention, I briefly represent the mainstream Indian narrative on Kashmir, both in academia and the wider public space, in the first section of this article. Thus, by highlighting the 'silences' in the general understanding of Kashmir, I will demonstrate my project's contribution to Kashmir's historiography. KEYWORDScolonialism; exhibit; phenomenology; India-Occupied Kashmir; historiography; Museum