Authorities imposed a curfew in a city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday to prevent further protests by Hindu nationalists angered that the government revoked a land transfer to a revered Hindu shrine, a senior police officer said.

Jammu-Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, has been rocked by violent protests for two weeks, first by Muslims denouncing the land transfer and then by Hindus who learned the decision would be revoked.

On Tuesday, police used live ammunition as supporters of the Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janta Party threw rocks and clashed with police in Jammu, a predominantly Hindu city. At least 37 protesters and 20 policemen were injured in the clashes, said Kondaveeti Rajendra, the area’s police chief.

“We’ve clamped a curfew as a preventive measure to stop violent protests” in Jammu, Rajendra said.

The police officer said there were some protests on the outskirts of Jammu but no reports of violence as shops, businesses, government offices and schools remained closed for a third day in the city.

A curfew was also imposed in the mountainous Bhaderwah district, 125 miles north of Jammu, after an unidentified person lobbed a grenade at a Hindu protest there, said Khurshid Ahmed, a local administrator. The grenade injured 14 people, including a paramilitary soldier, Ahmed said.

Bhartiya Janta Party officials have vowed to keep protesting in the region.

Muslim separatist leaders called on Jammu residents to keep the peace on Wednesday.

“Our struggle is not against pilgrimages or any religion, but against India’s military occupation of Kashmir,” Syed Ali Shah Geelani, head of Kashmir’s main separatist alliance, told a news conference.

He also said a march would take place Friday to Hazratbal, a prominent shrine that houses Islamic relics.

Elsewhere in the state, businesses, schools and offices opened Wednesday after nine straight days of violent anti-India protests that killed at least five people and injured hundreds.

The unrest began two weeks ago when the state government transferred 99 acres of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, a trust running a Hindu shrine.

Muslim leaders led mass protests denouncing the move as a plot to build Hindu settlements in the area and alter the demographics in Kashmir.

Indian officials have dismissed the allegations, saying India has never tried to encourage Hindu migration to the region. The Indian Constitution also prohibits outsiders from buying land in Kashmir.

Authorities on Tuesday reversed their decision and said they would not transfer the land to the shrine. That sparked a new round of protests by Hindu nationalists in Jammu.

The shrine contains a large icicle in a cave that devout Hindus revere as an incarnation of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and regeneration.