Independent Kashmir- An incomplete aspiration
✍ Scribed by Christopher Snedden
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 398 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1526156148
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✦ Synopsis
Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir’s troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and explores exactly why this aspiration has never been fulfilled. In a rare India-Pakistan agreement, they concur that neither J&K, nor any part of it, can be independent.
Charting a complex history and intense geo-political rivalry from Hari Singh’s rule in the mid-1920s to the present, this book offers an essential insight into the disputes that have shaped the region. Snedden asks a vital question: what might independence look like and just how realistic is this aspiration?