Why Women’s Property Rights in Kashmir remained Unaltered?

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Anyone who has spent time observing the social and legal landscape of property in Kashmir becomes familiar with a quiet but persistent truth. Women stand at the margins of land ownership. The data only formalises what many of us have encountered for decades. Barely 2 percent of agricultural land is held by women while men control majority. In rural landowning households only 26.9 percent of women possess land individually or jointly while men stand at 72.7 percent. Where women do own property it elevates their social position and provides a measure of stability yet their presence in land records remains rare.

Despite this long-standing pattern public discourse continues to frame women’s inheritance through the lens of Articles 370 and 35A. The claims often move confidently y