Srinagar, May 17 -- In Chanderhama, a sleepy village in Baramulla district, a group of farmers huddled under a walnut tree while a patwari stood before them with a smartphone. He zoomed in on a plot of land using Google Maps and asked an elderly man, "Is this yours?"

The man nodded and pointed toward a line of trees. "My father planted those in the seventies," he said.

The patwari clicked a photo, scanned an old deed using Google Lens, and marked the spot with GPS.

It was a simple exchange, yet one that marked a significant change in how Kashmiri villages are beginning to define ownership, possession, and memory-digitally.

For generations, land in rural Kashmir has lived in fragile forms: paper records, oral agreements, and government...