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Jammu and Kashmir has always been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan since partition. Insurgency which began during the early 1990s as a movement demanding complete autonomy to the state, later attained its bloody face with the over involvement of Pakistan in motivating the Kashmiri youths in the name of religion. India’s refusal to grant autonomous status to the state further facilitated the use of arms by the militants against the Indian state. Pakistan extended its support to the violent youths by instigating aggressive religious feelings and financially assisting the militant youths. As a result the whole population living in the Kashmir valley began to be regarded as terrorists and a huge threat to India’s security by the outsiders of the valley. The native writers thus began to produce a handful of literature resisting the abjectification of the natives by the outsiders of the valley. The act of writing thus modified into a way of resisting the homogenization of the natives as religious extremists by the outsiders. The three primary texts taken for the study including, In the Valley of Shadows (2011) by Abhay Narayan Sapru, The Collaborator (2011) by Mirza Waheed and Curfewed Night (2009) by Basharat Peer clearly exhibit this tendency of resisting the homogenization of the natives as religious fundamentalists.