Human Rights Violations in Kashmir

✍ Scribed by Agnieszka Kuszewska; Piotr Balcerowicz

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

most comprehensive, monograph on the subject not yet another report on human rights violations, but an in-depth analysis of their structure, complexity and background of interest to experts in: human rights in general, South Asia, political science, international relations, peace and conflict studies providing comprehensive knowledge on recent dynamics (after India bifurcated its chunk into two Union Territories) of human rights violations in all parts of Kashmir

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figure and tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Biographical notes on the authors
1. Introduction
PART I: Violations of human rights in Indian-administered Kashmir
2. Human rights in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir: Introduction
3. Selected root causes and the structure of human rights violations
3.1. Majoritarian Hindu nationalism
3.2. Militancy and Islamisation
3.3. Militarisation and armed forces impunity
3.4. The legal tools of impunity
4. Documentation of the human rights abuses
4.1. International reports on human rights violations
4.2. Local reports on human rights violations
5. Selected manifestations of the human rights violations in the Valley
5.1. Violence against women and children
5.2. Mass graves
5.3. Pellet-firing shotguns
5.4. Fake encounters
5.5. Media crackdown
6. Human rights after Article 370 abrogation
6.1. A new chapter in Kashmir’s history
6.2. The international organisations and states’ response
6.3. Non-governmental organisations’ response
6.4. Demographic change, land control and hydel potential
7. Beyond the Valley
7.1. Some narratives from Jammu and Ladakh
7.2. Post-2019 era: Jammu and Ladakh in new UT’s
8. Concluding notes: Empower the people, expunge impunity
PART II: Violations of human rights in Pakistani-administered Kashmir
9. The frameworks of impunity
9.1. Monitoring human rights
9.2. Legal framework
9.3. Extralegal framework
10. The structure of abuse
10.1. Denial of political rights
10.2. The denial of freedom of expression and related rights
10.3. Freedom of religion and belief restricted
10.4. The denial of the right to a dignified life and related rights
10.5. Land rights restricted
10.6. Cultural and other rights violated
10.7. Concluding remarks: own the territory, disown the population
11. Epilogue
References
Index