On a cold December morning, Arshid is busy doing talim, a series of hieroglyphic patterns written on paper, which someone in the group reads out loud to guide the fellow workers on the handloom. It’s been just two months since Arshid and his associates returned back to work after being locked up at home on 5 August 2019. “I couldn’t get out of my house for two consecutive months,” said Arshid Ahmed Sheikh, 36, a carpet weaver who works in a workshop in Rainawari area of Srinagar,  Kashmir. On 5 August, the ruling Indian Hindu nationalist party, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), introduced a resolution in India’s upper house of the Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, seeking the revocation of Article 370 and Article 35A of the Indian Constitution that guaranteed the autonomy of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The BJP also presented the J&K Redistribution Bill, which…

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